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You cannot pressure can Sage. It turns bitter and makes meats taste off.
Can you can on a glass top stove without damage to the stove top? I'm concerned about the weight of everything.
I did the exact same thing with our shelving for seed starting. That's today's project.
I love your channel!
How difficult are ducks to raise?
It's not the USDA that thinks we are stupid, it's the oligarchs. Businesses don't want you to know you can be safely self reliant. It will greatly cut into their bottom line.
I want to can so bad but I’m terrified that I’m going to poison us 😆
After Hurricane Sandy, I am always messed up ( and always BUSY…) canning , drying and bottling are always on the agenda … Much like yourselves… there's always something on the go lol… Thank you guys SO much for your knowledge sharing… Be well 🙂
That's funny, 10 years ago I dug my first garden in my backyard as a 4x4ft square using a large wooden kitchen mixing spoon, it was a beautiful spring day and I wanted to be outside but I had to harvest my tomatoes on Farmville the Facebook game… And I said out loud this is ridiculous, all this time spent growing digital tomatoes stuck in the house, I could be outside enjoying the beautiful day growing and harvesting Real tomatoes.. so I grabbed the kitchen spoon and ran outback and dug up a square before heading in to town to try to buy some seeds.. my first 2 years of gardening I even found myself planting as though I was still playing Farmville, but I traded playing that game for watching homesteading videos on YouTube eo I could learn how to best do things!! 10 years later I now grow more than half of our food and I have a small flock of layer chickens, and am so glad I had received the soul calling to begin this lifestyle change before all the chaos started 2 years ago!! You guys are an awesome inspiration. I have learned so much, thank you!! Many blessings to you and your family..
A prayer for roses, and a fruitful year.
When you're talking about the expense of food preservation not necessarily being expensive, it brought to mind that a few days ago, I asked on a local Facebook giving group if anyone had any canning jars they no longer use, and a lady gave me about 30 jars. Some were still brand new in plastic and some were dirty from her shed, so I will have to carefully check them over for any chips around the rims, but they were all free to me. Freecycle and giving groups can be a great resource to help you save money.
Pressure canners are very difficult to find outside of the US. Some countries do waterbath can everything though, even meat. I've seen it done by adding acetic acid for example.
Spices in canning- I have heard that sage is safe to can with but the flavor changes and doesn't taste good?
A old disk blade provides 6 8 different sized hoe heads. Weld a neck on, polish up and it will last for decades
I looked around and got a Presto 23 qt pressure canner for $109. They average $155. Purchased a separate 5/10/15 weight because it was a major stress saver. I also got extra rack and a water bath rack that fits it too. So I use it for both types of canning. Since August I've canned over 900 jars of food 😀 It's my favorite tool
Another great video packed with wonderful information. Lessons learned here 💯 💐💙🙏🇺🇸
I really need a bean tunnel revamp video because 4 inches of snow is a very common winter storm for most of the country…
How did that break?
Also curious about what a 40 pound turkey looks like lol
How many canning jars is a hood supply for a family of 9 (7 small kids)?
Great video as always! What do you think of steam canners?
Also, I've been given quite a few canning jars by older folks that know I can. Put the word out and maybe ask older folks as they may have canning equipment that they no longer use.
A deep large pot will work as a water bath canner. If you don't have a rack you can place a doubled up kitchen towel on the bottom. The purpose is to keep the jars from rattling and potentially breaking. Also although I have an Excalibur dehydrator, I have often used washed window screens to dehydrate herbs. I place them in an unused car ☺. I've even dehydrated some fruit this way but be sure and place some kind of protection over your seats as the fruit can drip. But in the summer it can speed up processing your garden produce.
Listening to your chit chat while I'm starting tomato seeds. I love having you guys on in the background
Thank you for sharing this very informative video. We sell land mostly near rural areas and we'd like to share it with our clients especially those who wants to start homesteading so that they'll be ready 😊
Awesome!!! Love it.
My husband works out of town 28 day's out of the month do you have any quick canned meals I can make to send with him?
I'd love to get a few preservation tools such as a dehydrator!
What altitude are you guys at?
You can dehydrate food in a pretty clean, bug free environment by placing produce on a cookie sheet, then placing it on a vehicle dashboard. Lots if sun and heat, even on cooler days. You can also put your produce in a screened box and place outside. As always, pay attention to weather and keep it dry.
Totally had a fangirl moment when you read my question, lol! 🙂 (pronounced Car-others).
Thanks for the info. I might plant those seeds in a porch planter for easier access and to be absolutely sure they don't get mixed up.
I have learned SOOO much from you guys! Thank you for sharing your wealth of information! God bless!
Can you recommend a high quality, heavy bottom stock pot? Brand? Help? There is so much crap out there that it is hard to find a good one.
As far as the pressure canner goes, with the correct length of time is one can process even meat without a pressure canner. Again, it takes more time but if funds are low enough, it can be done.
Story, I’m not her or half the woman she was, but my Mom would take her old fashioned 25 gallon pot with a fire under it and cook the ribs and bones from what ever animal the family were working up, for like an entire day then let it cool over night and then she would sit and take all the bones out and cann the meat and broth in the same pot she cooked the bones/meat in. Idk how she did it. But she did. She canned in half gallon jars and qts and she somehow stacked the jars on top of each other and kept hot water boiling when it boiled too low.
This was a process that I will be bringing back to do deer in deer season if needed.
Our household is just my husband and me. I preserve largely to save money on large purchases. I can pork because to buy a pork shoulder, I often had trouble knowing what to do with all the cooked meat, now I just open a jar and have a two-person meal.
On food storage, I have started buying spaghetti sauce and when I do, I buy the brand according to the jar. Of course I make sure they have the mouth that would fit the rings I have. The sauce doesn't always taste great but I'm buying for the jar. We can't always find canning jars where I am. Thank you for all your info guys!
Had -30F here a few years ago (pinky of Michigan)all my roses made it. Cut those puppies down in fall and you'll be fine. Fine even if you don't. Rose's are tough. You find out right away if they're weak or not.
A couple of years ago we raised dinosaur sized turkeys. Our's were only 32lb dressed out and skinned (we were running out of time). When we were ready to eat them, we pieced them out, which turned out great for our family of 5. One turkey breast provided 2 meals for us. Without the skin, we wrapped them in bacon and were still juicy and tasty.
Look for canning jars at garage sales. Check them. for cracks and the rims for chips, but sometimes people decide it isn't the thing for them. I've gotten some good jars for cheap this way!
I wish Australia was more inclined to make homesteading not so cost prohibitive, a single quart size mason jar costs $5-8 each, and if you want to order more than 12 they are special order from less than 5 australian suppliers and around $50-80 and we dont really have an equivalent that is available readily. Same with pressure canners and freeze dryers. As a comparison the electric water bath canner that was recommended in a previous video is $149 US, in australia from amazon it is $600. So many skills food gathering / preserving skills are being lost here due primarily to cost and availability (even pre covid). Its almost as if "they" dont want you to survive by making, building, growing, preserving your own.
Thank you so much for your great videos. I could watch them all day. I live in the UK and canning just isn’t a thing over here. I’m able to water bath but the cost of importing a pressure canner from the States (and I can only find a Presto canner) is more than the cost of the actual canner. So I’m starting with all the other methods of preservation and hopefully it will pick up momentum over here enough to be able to get one at some point in the future.
I am so poor I can't afford to buy cheap stuff. I will save before I buy an inadequate tool.
“The reason that the rich were so rich, Vimes reasoned, was because they managed to spend less money.
Take boots, for example. He earned thirty-eight dollars a month plus allowances. A really good pair of leather boots cost fifty dollars. But an affordable pair of boots, which were sort of OK for a season or two and then leaked like hell when the cardboard gave out, cost about ten dollars. Those were the kind of boots Vimes always bought, and wore until the soles were so thin that he could tell where he was in Ankh-Morpork on a foggy night by the feel of the cobbles.
But the thing was that good boots lasted for years and years. A man who could afford fifty dollars had a pair of boots that'd still be keeping his feet dry in ten years' time, while the poor man who could only afford cheap boots would have spent a hundred dollars on boots in the same time and would still have wet feet.
This was the Captain Samuel Vimes 'Boots' theory of socioeconomic unfairness.”
― Terry Pratchett, Men at Arms: The Play
If you buy cheap you pay twice.
Would you post the code for Homestead Iron Please?
When investing in canning jars, check second hand stores and garage sales or estate sales. You can get jars at half the cost that you can new. Used jars work as well as new, just make sure they are not cracked or chipped and are legit canning jars from a reputable company like ball, kerr, or mason. Beware cheap chinese knock offs because they will break during processing. This way you can spend your money on new rings and lids.
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My sister raised turkeys for 4H and we had 40+ lb birds more than once! I recall the halved turkeys on several occasions.
This was so valuable, and you address financial limitations so sensitively. I have experienced both the feeling of needing to store up for my family and having few tools as well as little knowledge. Then I tapped in to my step mom, mother in law and my own mom. I was amazed at the amount of jars, lids, labels and even two water-bath canners they didn't need any more. That freed me to purchase a presser canner one year and a dehydrator the next year. Now I'm set and I share the food with them.
Johs I wish you would stop
Interrupting Carolyn constantly. One of the reasens
I sometimes stop watching.
She is a good teller
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