PANTRY CHAT EPISODE 38: VIEWER Q & A – HOMESTEADING FAMILY
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You mentioned okra not thriving and not ready to try it in a greenhouse, but perhaps an indoor head start (maybe longer than traditional indoor starts).
The storage of seeds? Do not forget wheat seeds were found in the pyramids. A few seeds were planted and they grew. That makes those seeds over 2500 years old. (Wish I grew that old. LOL) It is totally how they are stored. A good temperature is between 50 & 55 degrees and they must be kept as dry as possible. If you live in the dessert fantastic. If not, as Carolyn said perhaps dehydrate them slightly and store in a plastic bag that the air has been removed. But just to keep seeds for a few years, dry and cool. Plus do not forget insects could also be a problem.
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Wound love to see how you roast your own coffee beans and where do you get your green coffee beans.
As always lots of great info- wondering if you could do a deep dive into "microclimates" – natural ones to look for, how to utilize, how to create them with various natural materials that people might have on hand, things to watch out for or avoid, trouble shooting, etc THANKS!
Do you have a sourdough bread recipe?
I love your back drop! New fan here ☺️
I couldn’t find an email for you Carolyn but I opened my 10 month eggs I preserved with you back then. Two out of three had broken yokes. What did I do wrong?
I use a 3lb coffee can with the lid. every other day out it goes and then rinse.
The property we purchased for our future Homestead has a long entry (75'X650') before opening up to the main field. To not waste the land use, we started to establishing our Food Forest on either side of the driveway.
The 1st year we planted a grass & clover blend plus a couple of pounds of Red Wiggler Worms.
Then we planted a variety of Apples, Plum, Pear, Cherry Trees in cross-pollination groups plus have added special Flowering Crabapple trees as backup pollinators for the Apples Trees in the 2nd & 3rd years of the FF development.
Last year we started adding bushes & shrubs while rebuilding the soil health with wood chips and compost around the Fruit Trees.
This year we plan to start establishing the Asparagus, Blueberries and Perennial Herb beds.
Friends and family ask "Why we are planting all this stuff when we don't even have a house there?"
The simply answer because "We're too old to wait for my 1st apple until years after we build a house on the Homestead."
The long answer, we've stacked the end results to the FF from the soil up. Worms to work the soil. Natural composting in place of the quick start annual grass for worm food & erosion control. The long term blends of perennials grasses, Red & White Clover (bee food). Followed by Fruit trees to feed the bees. Fruit trees then provide shade, weather protection and microclimates for the Fruit Bushes and so on, each additional plant establishing a place for the next food plant addition.
Caroline I’ve seen some of your videos about canning outside in the snow. I basically have the same set up. And I haven’t done any caning Outside yet. ButI I was wondering how do you get those hot jars out of the canner back into the house in such cold weather without them breaking.
I would also love to see your parents in videos too!
Please look up Richard Perkins' YouTube channel before diving into the permaculture food forest style of growing. There are certainly limitations.
Can you please teach us pressure can in a pressure cooker
I have an inkling …
Can you take frozen precooked sausage patties and pressure can them?
Be cool to add an amazon affiliates web link to all your favorite tools in the kitchen , grains , food items you have used and recommend , pots , pans , knives , cast iron , you use it give us a link to all of them ..even ones not found on amazon . Or where to get deals on bulk seeds , bulk food , Amish made equipment ( like Lehman’s )
I really love you guys but you talk over each other so much that it's frustrating to watch. I really love your channel. I just feel like you should let each other talk lol.
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Where did you live in TN?
Love the list of pdf files in the description, I had missed it before.
Compost always used to be made inside the barns. My Father was a farm boy so he knew he would be warm if he bedded down for the night on any manure pile when he was being force marched between POW camps at the end of WWII.
Okra grows great in indiana😍
Is there a fee for the membership?
Cant wait for the garden tools. And kitchen tools.
I look forward to listening to you every chance I get. What a beautiful life. It was my dream at one time
She also used flannel lined inside with old wool suits for genuine products. Gross buy they didn't have sanitary pads/knap-kins.
Hi All,
Flannel work well for rags, old flannel past it prime a little thin in the middle, Grandma used to square them up and see together for wash rages and dish rages. Love YA'LL