Please tell grandma I said "Thank You" for her brief appearance... I understand her being camera shy... Her sitting there and snapping beans reminded me of my mom, that was her favorite job. I appreciate that warm memory...

As a grandma gardener I have learned that prior to any big rain.....pick your tomatoes that are blushing. Let them ripen in the house. Better than having them split.

It always tickles me to hear Meg say "Bye" so cheerfully at the end of the videos (... and now Buggie) after she's been working from sunrise to sunset. Can a woman maybe 30-40 years her senior say "When I grow up, I want to be just like Meg Hollar!"?

Thank you for not going to the dark side. Love that you are keeping your channel a real homesteading channel. So many others have gone more corporate or a look at all I have! Keep up the good works.

When canning season is over Ben you guys owe Meg spa day.

Can I wish Buggy a very happy 3rd Birthday - my goodness how those 3 years have flown and what a beautiful little person Lilyanne is (I hope ive spelt her name right) Sending love to you all xxxxxxx

Your Mimi must be so proud of you, Meg ! Y'all rock the homestead life !!!!!!

Meg and Ben, you have absolutely no idea how much enjoyment you give your viewers !!! I feel confident in saying your combined family values and work ethic displayed in every video is a blessing to watch!!! Thank you for sharing your family with us !!!!

Your grandmother don't look old enough to be a grandmother. Watching her snap greenbeans reminded me of my grandmother. It is also nice to see everyone working together to make short work of jobs. I also like seeing a husband who isn't afraid to help his wife in the canning process, you two just feel my heart with joy. Love your content.

I understand we have to preserve it or lose it this time of year but take some time and enjoy Meme. Happy birthday Buggy!!! The cutest 3 year old on KZfaq.

Abbondanza is the Italian word for abundance which is what comes to mind when I see those baskets full of the beautiful produce you’ve grown. I love seeing the whole family helping Meg in the kitchen. It’s a lot of work but it fills the pantry with abbondanza! ☺️

A big kitchen building with windows that you can open all around. Big enough to put a big extra freezer and a big stove where you could do canning and food prepping. That way, your home stays cool and uncluttered from the produce.

Just discovered the Hollar Family recently; now I'm a fanatic about all of you and binge-watching every day. I so admire you and your family and the life you have chosen. I grew up on a farm and loved it tremendously; however, you are a fine homesteading crew! I finally tried to bake bread like you do; after 60 years, I can finally bake a loaf of bread and I make killer buttery soft biscuits like my mother did...finally. I cannot get my loaves to brown, even with the broil on high. My family has fallen in love with the bread. Thank you, thank you, Meg!!

Y'alls garden and homestead are by far the most beautiful to me than all of the other homesteading channels combined. I love everything about it. No fancy built beds or gardens; just beds built with scrap wood, compost that Ben worked his butt off to make, hard work, and love. It gives us viewers hope that we can create something similar without breaking the bank or having to have paid help to get it accomplished. Absolutely gorgeous!!!

Grandma has to be so proud of watching Meg can all the harvest!

Watching you two work together is very beautiful. I have never had that with my spouse. I love watching you bring your kitchen alive over and over again. Great to see your grandma, I bet she is loving it there. Great video. God bless

Lol, I'm in the same boat in regards to beans😊 my neighbor is begging people to go pick her beans. She is tired of picking beans. I'll go over when it is cooler this afternoon. Right now, I'm canning peaches 🍑 😋 I may need a vacation when harvest is all in😊

You guys have such a beautiful relationship with living a life of homesteaders.

Oh yeah! You’re back!🎈

I had 8 gallons bags of frozen tomatoes that turned into sauce in December last year. Meg you are phenomenal! Hello Gramma! Buggie is singing! Your family gives me hope!

Meg is definitely in her element in the kitchen . Great job .

I'm so glad you're back !!! I hope you're having a wonderful visit with Mimi 💕❣️❣️ That's so nice that she is helping process your bountiful harvest. You're the best Mimi ❣️❣️❣️

Always happy to spend a day in Buggy's kitchen! Especially when there's Halla-pene-lows! Good heavens I'm gonna die from the cuteness overload! 😁😍 Glad you had a great visit with your Grandma!

Meg needs a canning kitchen. Her foods always look amazing ❤

So glad you’re enjoying your time with Meg’s grandma😘. There was an unbelievable amount of crop preservation going on in the Hollar kitchen today🤗🤗! Continue to enjoy your time together with Meg’s grandma💜💜💜!

Meg you are an amazing woman. Your children shall rise up and call you blessed. Truly a Proverbs 31 wife and mother 🙏🏻💕🙏🏻

Looks like a whole lot of magic happened in that kitchen! GO GIRL!

All of you work HARD…however, NO ONE WORKS HARDER THAN MEG!

This brings back memories for me, while we didn’t live on a tiny farm like yours, we lived on a large and my father planted a huge vegetable garden. We would sit around the table and snap beans. Sometimes our friends would come over and my mom would enlist their help, paying us all in ice cream. She used our onions and bell peppers to make tomato sauce. Shes just put it all in the blender them dump it into a big pot to reduce. Then into glass jars and canned. They froze our corn, and cucumbers became dill pickles.and that was just the produce we didn’t have for dinner. My dad like to put everything from the garden on the table. One year my mom decided to learn how to can potato’s because we had so many small potatoes that year. She figured they be good in stew and pot roast. But once she took a jar out and made fried potatoes with them and they were so good! Of course there were also plenty in the freezer. Those were good days when I was a kid. My grandparents had a couple of acres, they raised their own beef and had gardens like yours in the North Idaho panhandle. We Loved going there we had our cousins and played with frogs in grandma’s window wells. We raced them. Grandma said it was okay as long as we put them back in the basement window wells. I love to see children raised with all this.

Sweet Buggy singing in the background. I know y'all are enjoying your time with Mimi.

Grandma, I'd love to see you. I've lost both of my Grandma's who I was VERY close to. 😢please 🙏🏻 let them film you. I want to cry 😢

Great video! Poor Meg! She is so busy and diligent.

Y'all have the safest house in the whole area. Ain't no Vampire coming that place, gosh!

Have you ever tried cutting the tomato suckers off and planting them?

I must say, by far, you are my favorite homesteaders to watch. Your teamwork is amazing between husband, wife, and children. You all work so hard. You will help each other when the moment arises. The best thing is that you enjoy the benefits of your hard work and you are a family that has a purpose and you do it together ❤️ I love that you are not trying to be materialistic and continue to appreciate what God has provided. You are a beautiful family.

Just starting the video so I just want to say I hope you had a great visit with your grandmother glad your grandmother can still be there

Glad you’re have a nice visit with grandma but so happy to see you back!

Thank GOD. You have no idea how much I missed you.

Meg you are wonder woman in the kitchen! Awesome day in the garden and kitchen! And Happy 3rd Birthday to Lily Anna🎉❤🎂

I bet the bees helped with the great harvest,and Happy Birthday Buggy!! 🍅🫑🥰

I bet you grandma is very proud of you Meg

Little Meg Singin'!! She's learnin' to "slide" her notes. That's where a lot of the feelin' comes from. It comes from her heart. I'm not sure you can really teach that, certainly not at her age anyway. They either have it or they don't. ❤❤

I love how things keep getting added to Meg’s kitchen list and Ben says, “that’s Ok, just a day in the kitchen”. 😂 That lady works hard!! Warrior woman.

She is such a happy little buggy.... always singing and singing and singing.... LOVE IT!

Freeze dryer is needed!

Aah, this is awesome! I have seriously stalked y’all, on all your videos, I was about to run out, because I’ve binge watched for a week! I’m caught up now, and you just posted this video! Absolutely love your content and family! I’ve been canning nonstop all summer, y’all are a great inspiration to manyZ, much love and prayers from East Tennessee! 💞

Yellow wax beans in white sauce over mashed potatoes with butter, salt, pepper. Yummmm 🕊

My mother in law used to ask what could she do to be helpful. I always told her just sit there and look pretty.

I think your family, is by far, my absolutely favorite homestead video to watch. Thank you so much for sharing.

Things have gone full circle. Meg at Buggy’s age helped Mimi, now Mimi helps Meg . 🌻🌻💕💕

Roasted garlic in a pan with oil then Jared up for freezing or canning is something you will thank yourself for later. Use it on pizza, spread it on a roast, add it to a stew etc. The flavor of the roasted garlic is so much more than plain garlic. You have to try it out. Mimi will have to plan on visiting every year during harvest time to keep the tradition of canning and preserving with not only her granddaughter but her great-granddaughter too. What awesome memories you are creating!

Happy Birthday Buggy!!!

TIP: .... soak the garlic before shaking to peel! ...a few hours to overnight. A much more pleasant and shorter experience!!! ❤

thanks for sneak sharing Mimi with us!

When you don't have enough hot peppers to make something big, you can still make relish. I think it's important to recognize that you both have talents. While your planning and planting the garden and looking after the critters, your better half is looking after the happiness of the reast of the family while planning how to keep you in meals. You both rock.

Paste are the best for canning. I've switched to determinant tomatoes because I live in Kentucky and blight is a big thing. Do not regret it!

It would probably help a lot if the weigh station also had a washing area. ♥️👍🙏🤓

Buggy sure keeps track of what you are doing!

Glad you guys had a great visit with grandma. Have a Wonderful Wednesday!!

Just discovered this channel and I love it!!! Love the fact that you are real!! Have a good one!

What an absolute blessing to have the visit from family. I just love seeing how your family runs the homestead as a team. Our homestead isn't quite the team as I would like. Your gardens have done really well. Even with the things that fail, there is still plenty.

Everything looked so good.nice to see your grandma.

You are great at learning your soil and what produces best‼️ Love the good minds.

I made a batch of dilly beans following your recipe and man are they delicious! I have never had them before and am so glad I decided to try it. I ate half the jar in one sitting. Best lunch ever! Thanks so much for walking us through how to make them.

Such a nice harvest! You're very blessed to have Megs grandmother with you to help and share stories of Meg as a child I'm sure❤

Meg is always busy in that kitchen! She makes everything she cooks look so delicious😊

They have splatter screens at dollar tree, I use them all the time they work real good

I love that Buggy has a song for everything.

My goodness, what a harvest!!! You have a bumper crop of beans, peppers, and tomatoes! It's great to see your Grandmother visiting!!! Tomato jam and pepper jelly looks delicious...plus it's pretty in the jars!!

I busted out laughing when Ben said,”look at the stove, Lady” so love the kitchen time and listening to Buggy

I love how Ben says..."I'd really like to try... (insert any preserved food or other here)" - and Meg goes..."Sure, I can do that." You guys SO rock!

You just need to make a summer kitchen. For all the canning you do. Everything looks so delicious 😋.

You should build a root cellar for your abundance 😊

What a wonderful harvest!

Really happy for you folks, your garden production is growing exponentially, all that hard earthwork is starting to pay off.

Busy, Busy, Busy. Amazing to see, and enjoyable, with Buggie on they floor singing and keeping busy herself.

Yum hot pepper jelly pair with cream cheese on either a cracker or on grilled crusty bread also marinade on chicken or pork loin. Have to say never had tomato jam sounds interesting. Grandma is a sweetheart so nice she can come visit for a bit. Always enjoy the preserving with the family involved. And if Meg is like the rest of us love to reap our harvest, but can't wait till it's all done. Ben, don't comment to often on the Podcast, but you three are doing a good job, continued success. Blessings to you and your families. 😊🇺🇲

Seems everyone is enjoying grandmas visit! She sure went to town on snapping those beans. Busy kitchen, so many wonderful things being made.

y'all need a couple of little silicone tubes for pealing garlic. They are made for that and in the kitchen section at stores. I am thrilled with how well and fast they work.

Love watching you harvest and can everything.

peppers green beans and potatoes ,add eggs and a frittata or omelette sounds like one meal. then add chicken or other meat for others. that jam could be used with coriander, cilantro to you and basil with black pepper. An amazing harvest and as a later stack of green beans that is such a bonus. the homestead life is constantly busy and no place for slackers, seeing the six of you doing the beans while Meg is as always doing so much is heartwarming. garlic, tomatoes and peppers and beans base of so many delicious meals.

Your Grandma must be so very proud of you and the family, enjoy your visit. I love your channel and sweet family. Thank you.

Megs amazing!

What a Blessing..I’m waiting on my beans to come in .. on A Good Note my “ good morning beautiful people “shirt came in yesterday and I am proudly wearing it 👍🌱

You all amaze me at what all you accomplished in one day. Well done you all!!!

That mess on the backsplash is how you know its good.

Beautiful garden,happy family

Oh, Meg, you look so tired!!! No rest for Moms, it's a 24/7 job:)))

Jet Star tomatoes are my favorite variety to grow here in mid-Missouri. I also grow Early Girls and Rutgers. I have had my best garden ever this season.

Meg, you can peel,chop and make little pucks and freeze them and they are great, just pull out what you need.😊

Hi Mimi!! Tomato jam looks yummy and so do the peppers!!!! Gosh all of it does!!!

Just a thought, you haven’t built a deck off the patio doors, you might consider building an outdoor kitchen for prep and preserving. Maybe one wall could be and pantry for canned goods you have made.

Wonderful day in the kitchen! Good to see you.

I don’t understand how with so much land and needed improvements Ben and the boys are always in the kitchen with mom.

Oh my goodness! This all looks delicious! I miss having a garden and I think that is why I enjoy your videos. Meg is an awesome cook. I don’t think there is anything that she can’t cook. I was wondering how her herb garden is coming along. All the gardens her in Texas are burned up! It’s just so HOT HERE! God bless you and yours!

What a Busy Day... Hello Meg's Grandma.

I was watching your video at 9pm and suddenly thought "Beans! I harvested green beans and then didn't bring them inside!". I had to run out back and rescue my day's bucket o' beans. At least the raccoons didn't get them first. 😂

Your energy amazes me!!!

Yay we finally get to see what Mimi looks like. She looks like a mimi.

When we have extras, we take them to church and give to neighbors.