I would not be embarrassed about your “messy” freezer, I would be PROUD!!!

This challenge has really shifted how I think about how to preserve smaller batches and just doing what I can consistently rather than feeling pressure to do huge projects or nothing at all. Still love my big batch days but I’ve gotten so much done even on days I work or can’t be at home all day. Thank you!

Thank you for respecting your daughter’s wish not to eat meat! Hate to hear children who are forced to do things that doesn’t sit right with them ethically

My grandmother taught me to take my green tomatoes and wrap them in newspaper and put them in a paper bag. She said put the bag in a cool space like a basement or someplace in your house it’s cool and then in the winter time when you want a fresh tomato you will have one. They will write them in the paper bag with the newspaper on them. My friends and girls thought that was really cool because they were so surprised that we could have fresh tomatoes in the middle of winter. I love watching your channel it’s very

always loving my Sunday morning with Jessica and her crew!!!!! Have a happy home church day Jessica!! thanks for being authentic and open with all of us!!!!! xoxox

Just what I need to finish off my weekend. I love that your videos come Sunday night. I end the week positively rather than thinking about all the things I have to do this week. You are a blessing.

You sound so much like my own mother. Her focus was feeding her 13 children. We preserved everything. Our table always look like a banquet for a king. There I was on the bench beside my daddy.He sat on one end of table and my mommy on the other side next to daddy. On the memories are flowing. T u for sharing your precious family with us!!

Swinging the chard like a bat, boys can turn anything into a sport 😋 and the girls practicing their back flips takes me back to my childhood with my sister. You have a lovely family. I have some peach pits in the fridge. They aren’t enough to bother with jelly but I figured I could find a use for them so I think I will start some peach pit vinegar. Thanks for the idea!

You are so full of knowledge of nutrition and food preservation. I am 70 and I learn something new every time I watch your videos. Thank you for sharing! I love your sweet voice.

👍👍👍👍👍👍👍 Hi Jessica, great video, thank you so much for tagging us along and the editing must of taken you a long time. I'm glad the challenge is over for you because you look really tired. Your kiddo's are adorable as well Jessica and you must feel blessed to have them

You are the nicest way to begin my week. Every Sunday morn I have my coffee with you. What a joy to see you and your family and learn something. Thank you for taking the time. I’m so happy to see your pregnancy progressing so beautifully. God bless.

You keep things progressing very well & organized with a large family! I ❤️ the way you incorporate such healthy foods into everyone's diet with all of the allergies.

So glad you showed the meat side of preservation. We raise our own meat too, and it's an important part of homesteading. Great work with this challenge.

Always enjoy your videos. Your #everybitcounts collaboration was wonderful. It introduced me to so many great KZfaqrs and taught me some terrific things about saving, storing and generally just not wasting food. I have been on a mission lately to better manage my food and the collab was a great boost. I even bought a food dehydrator! I don't love spending time in the kitchen but - in the last month I have dried bread for breadcrumbs, made pie filling from apples and cherries that needed to be used, cooked down some extra tomatoes for sauce, used my freezer to save leftover lemons, grapes and milk, dried orange and lemons peels and the skin of apples and peaches for tea, saved seeds from flowers and vegetable plants and dried herbs. My next experiments will be making refrigerator pickles, dehydrating some hot peppers that I got from a buy nothing group and making pesto., dehydrating some tomatoes from the farmers market and using the dehydrator to make zucchini chips. I'm on a roll. Thanks for the inspiration.

Hey ! New subscriber here. I enjoy your content, it is practical and authentic. I have learnt a lot from binge watching your videos.

Very healthy attitude about not treating livestock as pets. Your mixed fruit sauce sounds yummy. All of your hard work will pay off , especially when the new baby comes 🤗🍃🍂🍁🍎🍏☕💗✝

The freezers weren't as messy as I was expecting. I have so much trouble keeping our one big deep freeze as organised as possible. Milk crates are my best friend in there. What a beautiful accomplishment having so much home raised, well loved protein in your freezers . Thank you for sharing lovely 💚

I love the way you narrate your videos. It makes it much more clear with none of that "squirrel" action going on lol. Would love to see the progress you've made on your freezer space.

Video is perfect for a rainy Sunday morning.

Hi this is Christine. Since we live in Arizona I juice my oranges and base my ham with orange juice. Family favorite for even the fussy meat eating grandchildren. I just love your KZfaq videos. God Bless you and your family

I DO SO ENJOY YOUR VIDEOS. I LEARN SO MUCH. I AM TOO OLD NOW TO DO CANNING/FREEZING FOOD, BUT I STILL LOVE TO SEE OTHERS DOING SO. BE SURE TO WRITE DOWN HOW/WHAT YOU ARE DOING FOR YOUR CHILDREN WHEN THEY DECIDE TO START IN THEIR OWN LIVES.

You are such an inspiration to me. I am experienced food preservationalist, but every time I see your work, I learn many new things. Thank you so much for sharing your life and being my star.

Great video. Just something to consider that may make loading easier in the future, is to allow the animal access to the alleyway. Also, feed her in the trailer for a few days before you need to get her loaded. This can help desensitize them and can make the whole process easier.

Absolutely a brilliant,teaching video. What a beautiful way you described the sacrifice and gratitude for your animals🌺❤️

Thank You for your amazing videos just came across them from another channel - Faraway Prepper - another newer channel in the prepping community! 💫👍🥂

I am a new subscriber.. i just want to say that i have so much respect for the way you and your husband are raising your children! It is wonderful that you are teaching them self sufficiency! God bless you all!

Take care and be blessed.

Thank you for respecting your daughter.

Another great job preserving for your family. Nothing can go to waste these days thank you for sharing. God's blessings

You are one hard working mumma! ❤

We are having a cow processed in 2 months. It's raised by someone we know as we live in town. But my freezers look just like yours so I have been busy busy canning and not putting any of our garden in the freezer so we can make room. It's time fir a freezer challenge here!!!

Your food always looks so yummy! Thankyou! As a school project for one of the children you should get them to make a cook book of your ideas and sell it!

Good Sunday Morning all Busy Busy! Love watching your start to finish on the freezer clean out! Have a wonderful week all!

I have ulcerative colitis and have been really unwell lately. I've been watching your videos back to back for the last 2 days and they have really helped. Thank you so much. Blessings to tou and your family

Jessica thank you for the motivation to get something stored away, everyday. You are a blessing. I stuck with it, and I am trying to do more into September, everyday.

Love watching your videos Jessica, you are such a motivator. I really enjoy seeing how you take advantage of everything you have and nothing goes to waste. I pray blessings over you and your family and I thank you so much for sharing your preservation tips!!!

Good morning, I have enjoyed this challenge this year. I wasn’t able to preserve every day, but still have managed a lot of items for my pantry! Also have found some interesting channels to follow.❤️

Wow ,Im so happy for you,!! many food for the next Winter ,greetings and blessings for you from Maja in the nederlands.

Look forward to Sunday morning getting to watch your videos. Blessing to you and your family!

You're living out the dream life of my soul! Thank you for sharing everything that you do.

Jessica, I've just recently found you and your channel. I'm so inspired by all you accomplish. Thank you so much for all that you do. You're absolutely amazing!!

I love that your channel is catching on! So many followers, now! The more people who are inspired to grow, preserve, and cook homegrown food, the better!

Thank you for sharing all of these details so honestly with us, Jessica! I have really enjoyed preserving food this fall and have looked forward to your weekly videos. You inspire me. God bless you and your family.

Wow, you did a lot of work! Great job! Thank you for the inspiration & God bless you and your beautiful family x

Jessica, this challenge has really helped me to effectively use the produce coming from my garden as well as using what I've found at local produce markets, farm stands and the farmer's market. I've been picking cucumbers from my garden and slicing them for my lunch. One of my students (non-verbal with autism) has been loving eating my cucumbers every day at lunchtime. I figure cucumbers aren't nearly as bad for him as chips or soda or pastries! I'm also working on clearing space in my freezers as I have another 1/2 cow arriving at the end of the month. I figure that I really need to make oatmeal cookies with my students to get some frozen oats out of the freezer. A year ago, I bought 50#, which got repackaged into gallon bags. Then I went back to work at a job where the commute is too far for me to eat oatmeal daily. I'm guessing that if we don't add raisins, the boys would eat oatmeal cookies. Since I teach a class of kiddos on the spectrum, we have a LOT of food aversions. If they cook the item, they are more likely to eat the item. Last week we made chocolate cupcakes from scratch. The staff were impressed that they didn't come from a mix. I even taught my good friend how to water bath can pickles so they didn't turn into mashed cucumber. I have enough dried herbs to cook for the next six months and somewhat of a supply of tomato sauce and pickles. I'm hopeful that I can get my tomatoes to produce enough for a couple more batches of sauce before the season is over. I've frozen a couple batches of stuffed peppers, and I'm going to try to use up the rest of the stew meat by canning homemade stew for the shelf for the winter. Good luck finding space in your freezers for the packaged cow.

Your farm is so nice! Well kepted. Love how you make sure everything has a purpose! No waste!👍🤗

What a shiny, beautiful heifer! You gave her a good life before she blesses you all with food.

As always, enjoy my Sunday morning listening to your video. You are so creative in your cooking, I appreciate your ideas so much. Thank you. Gods blessings 🙏

I did enjoy the challenge but did not do it everyday. I was able to preserve 3x a week tho, so I was happy w/that. Thanks for the challenge

I try to use something up or preserve something each day. At the moment, I have yellow summer squash in the dehydrator. In the last week, I've used up leftovers by recycling them into different meals, dehydrated citrus peels to use in simmer pots this winter, and dehydrated fresh ginger root. I also found a really good sale on ground beef and busted it down into small 3/4 to 1 pound packages (depending on what I am going to use it for). Next up is to dehydrate some cabbage and then some potatoes. I also have a bunch of green onions to use up and two tomatoes to use before they go bad. We are a family of 7 with a pack of dogs and some cats, so nothing here goes to waste either. We recycyle old clothes into cleaning rags and we plan to start making rugs from them as well. We use everything until there is no other uses left for them and then they finally get thrown away.

Thank you Jessica. Love watching this day. You have so much knowledge about everything. I did the August challenge. Loved having something to put in the freezer or canning jars. We still have okra. Also potatoes to dig. We are blessed to be able to enjoy your ways to preserve our foods.

i love liver and onions,slow cooked in a brown gravy,with mashed potatoes,delicious xx

Thank you for interesting videos. Hoping you have a wonderful Sunday and week ahead.

I love spending sundays with your family...God bless you all.

I am so thankful I found your channel. Watching your progress with your preservation challenge and sharing your methods is so very helpful. It helps me feel hopeful and that my own goals are achievable.

You are so amazing! I love to eat Beef Liver, but freeze drying it and sneaking it into smoothie’s is genius! Thanks! God bless you all!

I'm impressed your place is so clean and organized also it has been a joy getting to know you and your children.

great job using everything! Hope you are feeling well, and getting rest.

We did all. Your garden is still absolutely beautiful and productive.

I'm a new subscriber. Last year other people I watch were doing your challenge. So in June when my garden started. Small garden I started preserving. I found you in aug. But it was you that inspired me to do smaller more frequent canning. I've got a year of beans, corn, relish, pickles. Tons in freezer. Now it's wood season. Thank you for inspiring me to do Small projects that add up. It's easier than trying to do huge sessions that wear me out.

Another beautiful video. You inspired me to get much more put up this year than ever before. I still have my herbs and tomatoes coming out of my garden. Looking forward to continuing the harvest and more of your videos!! We didn't get much after the deer jumped our fence and ate all the cabbage, greens, and bean plants.

I absolutely love your channel. Thank you for the inspiration!

As someone who grew up on a cattle farm, it’s hard to move individuals, but it was made harder because you guys were trying to move the cow towards where people were standing.

Good morning Three Rivers Homestead. Thank you so much for the freezer and garden tour. Happy Labor Day.

I literally just stumbled upon this channel through watching my daily homestead channels. I really love it. I am binge watching your channel today.brand new subscriber here! All the canning and food you have put up, it's so awesome.

Thank you so much for all the hints and tips, after following your videos I feel a lot more confident in beginning to process small batches 😃

You are amazing! I was exhausted just watching the video 🤣

Loved this!!!! Love to see what homeschool stuff you are deciding on!

That is so funny (we had a cow to pick up from the butcher this week)- I just had to pull out all the tomatoes and get working on them, several small bags of leftover fruit, peach juice that got turned into jello, and a ham 🤣

I am using the corn on the cob cutter you recommended while listening/watching your video. I love it! My 10 year old does too!! Thank you. God bless

Love watching your channel. You have so much knowledge about food storage. I'm 85 and have canned most of my life, but I couldn't lead anyone in how to. They have changed so much info.

Thank you so much for another fun challenge -- I enjoy your weekly recap videos.

Liver and onions are soo yummy!! Thanks for all of your inspiration

I truly look forward to your videos. After church, I put up 7 pints of sweet/hot/spicy corn relish from my CSA sweet corn. Thank you again for your encouraging videos.

PS... Congrats on the new trailer!! It's beautiful

I just cleaned out my freezers yesterday. I need to put zucchini in everything this winter. The main goal was to see if I needed to do pumpkin this year. I did two big pumpkins in 2020 and I still have plenty. Lots of rhubarb to use up this winter as well. Feels good to get it organized. I’m trying to spend as little as I can at the grocery store and work on using the food I have.

We just did this. It took about 8 hours. Definitely learned a lot of lessons. Thankfully our butcher is super flexible otherwise we would have been in a heap of trouble.

Very busy time for you and your family, thank you for sharing some time with us and helpful hints, rest when you can and take care, God bless

I didn't know freezer envy was a thing until I saw your commercial beast! 😄

Getting my new freeze dryer this week. Can’t wait to start using it. 🥰

Excellent video Jessica. Love your little ones as you know. I have some fats I going to render on the crock pot. We had family visit and lots of pork meat I need to preserve, so I will be canning those today (with God's help). That fruit blend looks great so does the lemon-aid. Thanks again, I always look forward to your videos. HUGS!

Levi looks like he is a budding artist. Just from the short clip, he looks very focused and precise with his drawing.

I'm gonna have to try my hand at the peach pit vinegar (peaches are my fave fruit). Thanks for the easy to follow ideas because I am a novice at food preservation!❣️

Thank you so much for sharing! Glad to know we aren't the only ones with several freezers. :) (We have two chest freezers and the fridge one)

Love your Anatolian!

I love hearing your voice. Makes a Sunday happy for me. Are the girls still sewing? I hope so 🙏. God bless your family. And keep safe 🙏

You inspire me to do more preserving, thank you 😊

The porkbones can be used for in a pea soup. Her in the Netherlands we called it "snert". Its a delicious winter soup that warms your body when its cold outside! 😄 But your puppies love them also!! 😂😋

I'm also pregnant and have 2 kids under 2 but I managed to do a little every day with you this month. Thanks for the motivation! Although my big harvest here is in September so... I'm in for a lot more work!

Love your videos, beautiful family and blessed life!

Absolutely loved this video

This was one of my favorite little bit counts videos, I often have little bits and pieces in my freezer and this was so encouraging! As far as liver, especially while pregnant, you can buy a gelatin capsules filler and make your own liver capsules!! Very good for you, shelf stable (though keeping in the fridge keeps the smell away!!) And so easy to take a few with each meal!!

Great way to repurpose that sink strainer I've done the same with mine! Great video as always.

Your freezer was not messy. You have A Lot of clearing out to get ready for your cow. We pick up ours tomorrow. Blessings to you and your family.

U r sooo inspiring to me. I’m doing everything almost that u teach me in the videos

Thankyou for ALL YOU share xxx

Very interesting and diverse video today. You covered so much, garden tour, a very patient cow loading. Freezer clean out and live stock dogs. My mum would make lambs fry and bacon. This is made with lambs liver, skinned, fried in butter with bacon. A gravy made from pan juices. Served with mashed potatoes and green beans.

We’re currently roasting bones for broth and I just finished up a big batch of tallow this past week and I’ll be canning up a bunch of meat soon. I’m in a similar situation, we will have more beef coming and we really barely started on the last one ( and my hog freezer is already packed full ) but the butcher has limited openings right now and we had to take what opening we could get. I’m grateful to him and I remind myself that this is a blessing.

This was such a great video Jessica. Ty. I love your videos. You seem tired as I know you are. Please take care of yourself. You are so precious. Love your sweet family. I can't wait till next week.

Just want to add that I am jealous of your creativity in using every bit of the food you prepare. I tore my rotator cuff in the spring and I can't raise my left arm forward which makes many jobs in the kitchen difficult if not impossible. I'm not willing to have the total shoulder replacement surgery that my orthopedics doctor said was my only option. So I'll continue to watch and dream. I'm 71, so the surgery with no guarantee of regaining my former dexterity is not worth it to me. I'll just continue to enjoy your family and your creativity.