Thank you for showing your STORE BROUGHT stuff because for people who can't garden it gives them license to buy what they need to feed their families. Yes, FRESH is best; Yes, GARDEN FRESH is better BUT FEED YOUR FAMILY according to your pocket and circumstances! Amen? Amen!

My name is Jo-Anne Miner (I go by Jojo.) I've never posted here b4. I thought I would tell you a bit about myself. I will be 65 next month. I'm in a wheelchair and have a lot of health issues. I live in an apartment and have the assistance of PSWs to help me to live my life to the fullest. I love the ideals behind having a Homestead and a large family. It's the life I wish I could have had. It's why I love watching channels such as this. Ladies, your root cellar is magnificent. You have put so much work into it. Congrats! Your family will be benefiting all year from your work. I thought I would share what I'm doing to preserve up food. I began in the spring to can up some homemade soups. I finally got myself a pressure canner and just love being able to can so much more than I ever have b4. I began buying things from the grocery store (I am unable to access fresh farm food,) however I do the best I can. I have canned potatoes and carrots, pickled beats, pickles, cowboy candy, salsa, tomato sauce, corn, beans and so much more. My friend and I bought beef roasts on sale and we canned that. It's so delicious. We have also canned turkey. I baked an extra turkey at our Thanksgiving and baked it. Then I took all the meat off the bones and canned that with a little chicken broth. It turned out so yummy and goes so well with the cranberry sauce I also canned. Now I can have Thanksgiving dinner whenever I want. We also bought chicken breasts on sale and canned that raw. I had no idea it would turn out so good. I have also canned chili and beef stew. Then of course there is the jams... and the pie filling... Blueberry, cherry, apple and peach. All so good. In all, we figured that I have about 800 jars or more. Keep in mind I live in a 1 bedroom apartment. I have to be very strategic about where I put my jars. My best friend Carole; my canning buddy, even made a shelf for me in my room where I have some of it displayed. The rest I have in my closet. It is a work in progress as I come up with new ideas for canning this or that. At first Carole thought I was crazy, now she's my partner in crime. lol.... I am so grateful for your channel and others like yours that encourage this lifestyle. I like to be prepared for anything. I know that I can also share with my friends and family should the need arise. You have encouraged me to do what I do, so thank you. I really appreciate it. I love it that me watching your channel benefits you and your family by providing you with an income which again encourages you. What an amazing system! This allows you to take your food preservation to the next level. This is amazing. I love KZfaq! Jojo from Mississauga Canada

Wonderful things to teach your daughters! Smart young women! I love canning and preserving! Wonderful family ❤

Not to echo everyone else, but super impressed by Julianne. What a good team!

What a proud mama, you've done well!

I want to thank you for posting valuable info. I've always prepped "alittle ". About a year ago, I stepped up my game. With world upside down now, I am glad I did.

Julianna, will be a wonderful homesteader and wife one day. Glad to see how involved she is with the preserving and prepping.

Love seeing the younger generation continue to keep up with wise /good preservation skills! Besides the basics(flour, sugar, beans, canned goods of all sorts), I like to stock up on chocolate chips, cocoa powder, yeast, baking powder, baking soda, specialty candies/snacks! Have a wonderful Thanksgiving day!

You've raised wonderful kids, that's for sure! What a great video, thanks!

We live in a 2 bedroom trailer. I am a disabled 66 y old women and i live with my son and two daughters. I have been teaching my youngest daughter the fun of canning. We canned carrots, beans, ground beef, chicken, pork butt, pork chops, turkey breast, bone broth, chuck roast, pineapple,potatoes,sweet patatoes. We froze sweet corn. We have fruit in the freezer for jam. I know we've done more, but i went blank. We dont have a pantry. All my canning is in boxes on the floor of an a addition. We have to get shelving, just waiting for a sale. I too have alot of food from the stores i keep in totes. I do have a large and Small book cases that are packed full. And were not finished. Thats some of what we have put up. Love watching your hauls. Also love watching all the kids having such respect for their parents. And y'all working together. Its a good thing, so refreshing. Great job mom and dad.

So Great!!! We love this!!

Julianne makes me think of my firstborn who is 13 and has her own canning shelf. I can envision her continuing in this and your daughter is an inspiration.

We have a Michigan root cellar, but the stairs are just to steep and dangerous for me or my mom to be climbing. I wish we could remodel the stairs. It once was used for storage back in the 70's, but such a long time ago. I LOVE your root cellar, it's beautiful. It's obvious, you all took the time and care to create a usable space for all your canned goods. Thank you so much for sharing.😀

Great job Mom, teaching your children these lost ways... it has to be a great peace of mind knowing your children can do this

If it's eatable I've canned, or dehydrated. Impressed with your cellar

I used to watch another homesteader, star something, but I was just getting into stock piling foods, esp. canned goods from the garden. I had never gave it much thought, but she said ( and it stuck with me ) never put all your eggs in one basket, meaning freeze some foods, cann some foods, freezer dry some stuff. Her husband was on her channel, and I guess fry what she said he told her he was tired of kicking a can down the road, they divorced, she kept her channel up for a while, but then it turned, and she never talks about food, how to store etc. I'm Thankful for y'alls family.

I wish I had a root cellar. My mother taught me to can and freeze home grown vegetables. I grew up on a cattle farm and we had pigs, too. I miss those days. Lots of work but good healthy food. It makes me happy to see a family teaching their kids the way to survive on what you grow and raise on the farm.

Your children are awesome!!!!!!! We live in Louisiana and there are no basements or cellars. I order a lot from Azure. We have a freezer filled with purple hull peas, baby lima beans, crowder peas and cream peas we got from a local farmer this summer. Canned a lot of tomato products, potatoes, jams, beans and beef. Getting ready to can more beef and venison. Have a freezer filled with two huge 8 point bucks we had processed that filled a freezer. We get almost all of our beef, chicken and pork from a local farmer. We have bulk wheat berries, flour, corn, oats, sugar, beans, etc. from Azure. Turned an extra bedroom into a huge walk in pantry and it is filled to capacity with store bought food and home canned food. I feel certain we have a year supply of almost everything. Such a comforting feeling especially with the status of our world. Your food supply is great too!

Love it! Great job.

Can I borrow Julianne for awhile?? Love her and how how much she helps out. She has so much knowledge! Beautiful family.

Julianne knows just what's going on-- she must be like your right hand! I wish we had such a beautiful root cellar! I did a lot of canning from my garden this year: salsas, tomatoes, tomato sauce, pickles, relishes, cranberry sauce, and jams.... We just store it where we can. At least the home canned jars look so pretty and even decorative!

I wished I had the space and the know how to do , what you all have done!!! It's nice to have family members working together . *Job well done Julianne, keep up with the good work* ! We have an very old home 1880 from what I was told. *You all live up North and we live southwest of the state, 4 hours away* Cold and Windy today !!!!

Your pantry/root cellar is a testament to your hard work both in the garden and the kitchen - good job ladies. I’m an avid baker and maker of jams, preserves, pickles etc. and I love the process of making my own food.

Girl ❤❤❤ I made my very first Ketchup 👏 I halved the recipe. It is so delicious 🤤 and awesome ❤ ❤️ I am back for another round! Thank you so much for sharing your recipes and experience’s with us! Keep up the great work!

I have a big basement with about 1/4 of it unfinished. That’s where my pantry is. It’s overflowing now and that’s okay with me.

🙂 I need to organize my pantry

Love your root cellar! Your food preservation is on another level and so inspiring

Y’all need a NAP! Impressive Wisdom! ❤

I just found you today … it popped up on my feed . Great job -awesome family !! Can’t wait to catch up on all the videos 😉

Thank you!soooo encouraged

“Where are we gonna put it” is a struggle I know all too well 🤣😂🤣😂🤣 it is a blessing to have that problem but it is a problem none the less 🤣😂🤣

I really enjoyed this video. I was raised to pantry stock from an early age. My Mom and Dad were raised during the depression and they instilled this in me and my brothers. At my age I don't do much gardening anymore, but I do get produce from family members and farmers markets to put away for the winter. Years ago my husband lost his job and we lived off what we canned and froze until he got another job. That was the year I canned 180 quarts of green beans. We also had potatoes, tomatoes, squash, okra, and greens. I always keep dried beans too. May God continue to bless your wonderful family. ❤

I really enjoy watching your videos I think that you have such a wonderful family. You and Josh are doing a great job teaching your girls ond boys how to be sustainable in this world. I have 6 daughters and I am doing everything I can to teach them the ways of old and being hard workers In life. Anyhow I am inspired whenever I watch your channel. God bless.

Great as always thankyou alll and love to you all👍🏻

I love your farmhouse! I live on 5 acres in Southern Wisconsin. I've canned the majority of my meat but still have some in my little 5 cubic foot freezer. I only buy meat that's on sale. I have a few chickens for eggs. They are americaunas. It's the only kind I've ever had but plan on getting some barred rock chick's in the spring, maybe a few more americaunas too. I'm 65 years old, and I'm planning the largest garden of my life in the spring. I have all of my seeds already. From the time I was a child I helped in the garden and canning as well.

So lovely! Just a small (hopefully helpful) note: the stuff in the floor leeches into the food through the plastic, so it’s advisable to put cardboard down, or a tarp, or even stack it in thin wooden pallets. I was taught this years ago from a dear friend who has been storing and preserving food much longer than I have been. Sending hugs from Michigan.

Made some Roselle jam today from home grown roselle. It is exciting preserving your home grown produce for long term use!

An idea for yous. If you cook & eat lobster or shrimp. Save your shells, to make broth from for stir fries, or soups. Just boil again. If you cook your shrimp, such as boil the shrimp with the shells still on save & can the broth.

We turned the closet under the stairs into a pantry. We’ve been stocking up on everything when it goes on sale. We also have things that we have canned ourself. I have purchased dry beans, and then we can them so they’re ready to eat.

Thank you for this video. You do a great job organizing everything. I live in East Tennessee and do not have a cellar. My Granny had a cellar and canned everything. She was still canning in her 90s. My Dad is 88 and canned up until last year. Happy Thanksgiving!

You are so lucky! I am constantly battling criticism for my storage and preparedness from family. I wish I could get support like you have. Hoping someday I do!

Beautifulness

I’m so inspired! We have a couple hundred pounds of wheat berries and oats. I just started getting into canning a month ago in anticipation of my own first harvest out of our massive new garden area for 2023. So I’ve been canning broth, butternut squash, beans, and lots of green tomatoes goodies like salsa verde and green tomato relish.

That's amazing! Love the organization of it and the satisfying rows and rows of jars :) Nice work!

I'm in England been canning venison goose pheasant also putting duck in the freezer lookig a great root cellar

Great video 😁

Hello Dear Family!!! I wanted to share that I’ve never made apple butter. It wasn’t till I saw the apple butter video, that I shared with my husband that I wanted to try. Oh Goodness, it came out so good! My daughter came home and she immediately went to try some, and her reaction was so priceless. Thank You for all you share. 💛

You should give us tips how you teach your kids to be responsible in the big job, like responsible in canning and manage it

We just processed a deer so we have lots of that in the freezer, plus we canned some in chunks for stew too. We also bought half a beef this summer so we have lots of beef too. As far as canning I canned lots of different tomato things, apple butter, we blanched and froze fresh corn, and I froze lots of blueberries and also made strawberry jelly. We bought some food grade buckets and I've been buying dry goods when I find a good deal and store in them. So so thankful to have it all! 🙏 ❤️

What a wonderful pantry. My bulk is kept in my basement on shelves. There is just 2 of us, so I don’t have that much. My pantry is filled with home canned tomatoes from whole tomatoes to pasta sauce and everything in between, a lot of pickles and relishes, sauerkraut, pumpkin, jams and jellies, green beans, juices, applesauce and pie filling. I have a variety of items. I now can in pints instead of quarts. Jellies and jams are in the little jelly jars. I don’t can the large volume of food I use to and I try to can for 2 years.

I just got an electric roaster oven and an electric pressure canner so I can start canning meat, broth, and veggies. I've done water bath canning for years

Fabulous content. Thank you for sharing. Watching from Australia.

Love the cellar. We have a walk out basement that I think we could do something like this in. Great job!

Would love a root cellar. Yours is very nice. Ty for sharing. I'm learning to can. I love it. I have the presto electric canner that you have. It really makes canning so much easier. Be blessed.

I’d love a root cellar. But living on clay and limestone so pretty much not gonna happen. But I do have a very secured and temp controlled 10x20 room. But I’m outgrowing it. And fast. I used pallets to build my compost area. Free wood! I’d leave the jars up on top simply because if you put heavy things up there you could get hurt getting them down. Though maybe you could add an additional shelf over the jars if you can and store them more condensed! The things that take so much of my space is cases of water and empty jars. Oh and dog food. I keep no less than 100 pounds for our German Boxer. I bought a huge very sealed rolling trash can to seal dog food in. And treats of course! That tomato sauce just reminded me I have gallons of puréed tomatoes in freezer bags full in the freezer I need to get out and cook it down to sauce and get it canned! I do wish at my advanced age I had the amazing help you have. It often falls 100% on me. At 65 with health issues I do the best I can. With some grandchildren with autism and prefer to provide organic foods from my garden. But still always open to sales at the stores as well. I have learned to adjust my pace and try to except my limits now.

Love ur root cellar. In our last place we had a hatch in the kitchen floor to access our root cellar, ours looked a lot like yours before you fixed it up. It worked great and I miss it. Now in this place we have a cold room it works great too. Great video 🇨🇦💕

Fantastic job! It is definitely hard work. So very rewarding too. SPECIAL NOTE: Any of my squash or pumpkins that lose their stem, I process immediately. Those tend to rot quickly. Sadly, it then spreads to the others fast. I've also found that single layer storing offers the longest storage time. Airflow around all vegetables and fruits is the goal. Summed up in the previous sentence. God bless! Happy Thanksgiving!

amazing

Beautiful bless family ❤ thank you for sharing! 😊

Love your pantry!

Glad to find you. From east Tennessee. I don’t have a root cellar. But working on places to put up things. Been canning and preserving like crazy 🤪 the last year and a half. Thanks for the videos

I wish I knew how to do this so I can teach my children. This is awesome! I’m definitely a new subscriber… I’m a city girl but now we live in country so I hope to learn some things from you guys! Thanks!

Looks wonderful Ladies! You have all done well. Good job! Everything is sitting in my dining room right now because I have to fix up the cellar (grandma's cellar door in floor opening to a sand cellar) and the floor of the house. But have big plans! Garden was a surprise this year as it was abused, but with what it produced and some items that I was gifted, I feel very blessed. Still doing chickens and have turkeys to do as well. Then after Christmas I will be doing up some convenience meals for the pantry shelves...or more boxes in the dining room dependent on if I get cellar done. Thinking I may try a few jars of chicken and turkey the way you do it. I have trouble growing butternut squash (too short season) but found a miniature version to try next year - my spaghetti, Canada Crooked necked, butter cup and pumpkins are all curing (and ripening for some) nicely in the entry way...I did well with only 89 days growing time. Thanks for sharing.

I am very impressed!

Very nice video. I know many only show the home canned\processed foods on their videos. I don't feel its wrong to show store bought as well. We live in a world that mainly buys foods in the store. We don't have a farm but go to Sam's and buy bulk meat and can those. The one thing we have the most of is hash. I feel that if the grid went down or things got tough we could cook the hash on our wood stove. We LOVE cowboy candy and have lots of peach salsa. (also have lots of Aldi fruit).

Love seeing videos like these. I wish we had a root cellar. I’ve been learning to can over the last few years. Have really been working on our families food storage over the last year. So thank you for always sharing so much great info!

Canning up venison and turkey this week.

Wonderful ! 🥰👍

I absolutely love your house!! So great. I canned chicken this year. Please show us canning your beef : )

We have a root caller as well my dad built it and it cement underground. I love it cause most of my pantry Stuff is in cool dry space.

I’m putting up cranberry juice and dehydrating tomatoes (still) as they ripen.

I am new here. I love what I am seeing so far. I am stocking up on can foods. I live in a small town and our grocery store shelves are pretty bare.

Oh loving all your videos, will watch this later on for sure, great job you guys. 😊❤️

Thanks ladies for sharing this with us! I gained some inspiration for my own cellar revamp!

We don't have root celars in south Mississippi because of the rain and moisture but up north Mississippi they have some houses that have them but I would love one

Love your root cellar!! I am stocking up on very similar items that you have . We don’t have room to raise our own meats but we do have chickens for eggs and I have about 15 dozen water glasses eggs this year! I had to laugh when you talked about stocking up on tuna, we eat a lot of tuna and I got in the habit several years ago of buying no less than 10-20 cans every time I grocery shopped. Anytime something g is on sale, I stock up! We can lots of green beans, tomatoes and other vegetables. We have a cellar room that looks much like your root cellar. Happy Thanksgiving to your family😊🙏

Another great video and I love your tours they're fantastic are you going to show us when you do the lamb and the cow?

Great video. Could you give us some ideas on recipes for using up the butternut squash. I too ended up with lots and haven't found more than a couple of ways to use up. Thanks.

Right now turkey was able to get some good deals

We are unable to get anything from Azure as they don't come to our area. I depend mostly on Aldi and a local store called Marcs for our groceries and to fill our pantry in the basement. I do not canned so everything is bought. Still trying to find the buckets to store our pastas, bags of beans, flour, brown and white sugar. Your root cellar reminds me of the one we had in the house I grew up in. I come from a family of 7 and it was completely full during the winter. We have been unable to find beef or ham to buy from a farmer for our freezer we just bought so watching for sales and buying ground beef, roasts, pork chops, sausage when on sale.

That looks so full of good things. I love that most of it is home grown . It's late spring here and so preserving every bit is my goal. Currently lots of things are small and developing on plants but I decided to let every self sown cherry tomato that sprouted ,totally alone to grow themselves. I'm absolutely floored by their loads. So far ive pulled in 15kg of tomatoes... thats incredible. I've dehydrated 7 kg to powder and the rest are rinsed and in the freezer waiting for enough of them or of our tomatoes that will produce soon , I'll do tomato puree with most of those. I'm hoping this year to get much closer to having our main tomato needs met. I met our pizza sauce and tomato salsa with a few jars of sauce and plenty for fresh eating. I'm realising how many tomato bushes might be needed by our largish family. Lol. It's a lot ...of just tomatoes. Great job everyone. Thank you for sharing 💜

Love your cold storage. I found hit pepper pickle's with mixed veggies in them we blow threw more if a coughing comes on and next year we grew so many zucchini but relish and sweet pickle zucchini took up and then I made my first pineapple zucchini and so next year we're doing lot's lot's of it why I started talking the chunk's out and dehydrated it tell dry flexible also do it on plastic mesh your going to pill off after put one tablespoon of powdered sugar and one tablespoon of corn starch mix in bag then drop dehydrated pineapple zucchini and you have candy. Oh my smake the hands that take two hand fulls oh it's so good. Yep learning how to make candy out of veggies.

Delicious and if it moves Can it!

I did make the apple butter! It is so good. I bought an apple bread at Aldi's and when you toast it and put the apple butter on it, WOW!

I just canned up a bunch of cranberry juice. So good . Looks amazing girls GODBLESS all

got a 12 pack of baby clams on a sale my brother thought I was crazy but he loves clam chowder and I try to have evaporated milk and skim milk powder on hand as we sometimes have to use these in our cooking as fresh milk goes fast and we shop only when we have to

What on earth is the benefit of creeping charlie!? I spent all summer trying to get rid of it in my little garden. All the while thinking " there's so much of this stuff. I bet it's some miracle cure!" 😜

I made the apple butter and can I say delicious!

I am wondering about expirations dates/ year canned- if you are concerned about rotating, also what is the temperature in the root cellar? SOOOOO nice to have a "cool, dry" place to keep things. Time for another "using your stockpile😁" recipes!!

Awesome ❤❤😊😊

Well done! I'm focusing on storing potatoes, onions and sweet potatoes that I've gotten from the Thanksgiving sales right now. And I bought quite a few McIntosh apples that were $0.99 for 3lbs. I'm dicing those and making them into apple pie kits for the freezer. Definitely worth the freezer space to have apple pie ingredients ready throughout the year!

I made tons of your apple butter recipe! It was awesome!

I'm new here i really enjoyed this video thanks for sharing.

Oh what's in my stockpile ? Tons of beans, rice, I canned beef, broths, tuna in water, chicken in a can, all sorts of oils, sugars, veggies from right before COVID hit, I'd buy 2-3 cases of stuff back then, my freezer was in my outdoor building, two of them, someone broke into my home and stole a bunch of stuff, mostly crazy stuff, like a used toilet brush lol, but what we didn't know, they cut the wire that put power in my buildings, so needless to say I lost everything in two freezers 😭😭😭😭. God will make a way for me, he always does.

I really want to invest in outdoor canning equipment. Sometimes after canning chicken or turkey (if siphoning of the juices has occurred and mixed with the vinegar water 🤢) as soon as I open the canner, my family across the house starts the blame game of who delt it. Don't get me wrong the end product is delicious and worth all the work, but the smell is very displeasing ..So 2 weeks straight of that?! Kudos to you all!

Have you done a home tour? I love your house!

I loved. Kisses from Azeitão Lisbon Portugal 😍🏡🇵🇹🇵🇹💖🌲🌲🌲🌲

Just did some beef ❤❤❤❤

Do you guys date your canning products as far as when it was processed to keep the turnover or the use of consistant📝?

Eggs preserved in lime? Can't can pumpkin? Please tell how/ why. Trying to learn. Thank you so much!