You keep saying that this year the harvest is poorer... I beg to differ..... this year you grew a BABY!!! A million times wonderful :)

Nothing wrong with filming the first time, keeps it real. Elizabeth is Beautiful. Love your family.

Corbin looks so handsome with his haircut

I love seeing the big boys holding that baby girl! so sweet!

My grandmom would put her garlic up in mason jars with olive… when she opened those jars the aroma would fill the house. We knew something special was about to be cooked when she opened the garlic… miss her everyday, she was 90 years young when she left us

That elephant garlic that looks like an onion, is called a "round", it's the first year growth from a bubule/corm. If you replant, it will form regular cloves next year.

Meg, I have to say, you look fantastic. I would never guess you'd just had a baby, let alone birthed 6. Such a beautiful family, living the way we were meant to live. Keep on keeping it simple!😊

I love that you’re keeping it real by filming a recipe you make for the first time

You've got yourself on the record saying "we needed to clear our seed bank, we have a baby on the way, we're not too worried about our yield." Getting harvestables on a shot like that is well worth the time and effort. And you'll start fresh with a new seed bank next year.

Corbins new haircut looks great, awesome seeing those first grins from Elizabeth, all your boys will be great Dads since they have an awesome Example.

I planted hot mustard all around everywhere as a cover crop and to deter root worms... It has worked so far

Thanks for showing BOTH the good and the bad... that's how we all learn what works and what doesn't. 😊

Is that our Corbin peeking out from the new haircut? 😮 Looking soooo grown up. Gosh time flies! Stay cool everyone. Elizabeth wants to sing 🎶🎶🎶. Love and light. 🕊🙏🤸‍♀️

I love the realness that it didn’t work the first time!!! THANK YOU for filming the trial 😍😍😍

Fascinating how the elder children are addressed and referred to by their given names while the two youngest are addressed and referred to by generics. God said, I called you by your name . Something to ponder. May the Lord bless you and your family ! Thank you for sharing your homestead life !

Elizabeth is so pretty like her momma and sister

Elephant garlic has a 3 year lifespan….the small cloves turn into big cloves, the big cloves will grow into a huge head, and then they split and produce the baby cloves again… keep planting. Also, it’s actually part of the leek family and when dried, makes a great garlic powder.

Buggy you look really cool. Elizabeth looks just like her big sister I think. Great family.

Love that yall show the stuff that doesn’t work AS PLANNED too !!!! keepin it real 👍

Your son's haircut is so cute, you can tell how handsome he is!!❤ The baby is gorgeous .

No vampires in the Hollar Homestead this year.....25 lbs of garlic! Nice harvest.

So proud of your older boys' willingness to take care of baby sister Elizabeth so that you all can get some work done. Good job guys.

Hey guys, that is the onion fly maggot. We’ve battled it for years in PA. This year we sprayed spinosad preventively every week and we had a fantastic harvest. Previous years, the onion fly wiped out our entire onion crop and damaged our garlic. Wiped out our leeks as well. Spinosad is key.

I love ALL The Hollar Homestead videos!

Wow, you're youngest boys hair cut looks GOOD!! Looks like a new boy !! Probably alot COOLER as well ! Once again ,I love how everyone pitches in on the farm chores too ! ❤Thanks for sharing 👍 🙏

Little Buggy telling us that’s good. lol. 😊

The patient perseverance in the kitchen while figuring out the cooking, encourages me. your perseverance and patience helps me when I am in my kitchen. Thank you.

For a fluffy toum it’s best to remove the germ from the clove and add lemon juice and oil gradually. If it breaks take a small amount in the processor add an egg white and start whipping and then gradually pour back the liquid garlic which has been removed. 😊

I love the smell of garlic, well I love garlic period. Love Corbin's hair cut, I bet he feels so much cooler!!

corbins haircut looks great he looks so handsome and cool for the summer.

Elizabeth is such a good baby. I never had one of those I had a colicky baby, a busy busy baby and a very needy baby. But I do love all three of them. They are grown now with families of their own. My grandbabies are perfect.

Keep filming all the first!!! Keeps it real and authentic! Love that about you all. You keep it authentic and real. We all have failures because life is not perfect. It is perfectly imperfect! Blessings to your family.

My garlic was full of worms last year. This year I moved the bed , but it was so wet this spring that the Music garlic never even got scapes and the Susanville just rotted in the ground. The elephant garlic got rust but did produce so very large cloves. Some years things just don’t produce well. 🤷‍♀️every year is different. You did good.

just had to drop a comment to say how amazing this video was.

Oh man sorry to hear about the garlic! I just harvested mine, first time I did something right after 4 years! Have a great night Hollar family ❤

Thank you for sharing that beautiful baby. Your amazing children bring a smile to my heart!

Sometimes if you plant really small elephant garlic cloves or it doens't get cold enough during the winter , or some other unknown reason, elephant garlic will produce a round but if you plant it, it should produce cloves the following year.

I have been loving seeing the boys in the background with baby girl ❤ its so sweet.

Hi Hollar Family, I’m glad that you love Simple Living Alaska too. I’ve been following them since before they made their move to Alaska. I adore both of them and I love that they work hard to achieve their dreams. Along with Simple Living Alaska, Lumnah Acres, Sow the Land, Trent and Allie and your channel whereby you are all young people lol (I’m 67 yrs old and hubby is 72 years old). So when we get to watch your videos I call out to hubby and say come on the kids are on lol. You have all become our honoured family members. I’ve been watching all of you since each of you started just about. So much growth, laughter and joy from all of you makes you all a pleasure to watch. I just finished watching yesterday’s video from Eric and Ariel where they did their yearly catch of sockeye salmon. Some of my fav videos to watch along with their growing and harvesting of their vegetables. Keep up the great work Hollar Family xxx. Michelle

And she’s holding her head up!! Love her baby stage quick. Bless your family

I'm glad you filmed it the first time.... Encourages me to keep trying things when they don't work out the first time.

As you were finishing with the garlic "sauce" and thinking of what you could use it for, first thing I thought of was garlic butter. Soften some butter and whip that in. Just the idea made me hungry. Lol

Seeing big brother holding holding the little one is so sweet! I big to differ about filming the first time, you showed us what happened and when you next work out the kinks and you film it again we will know what you had to do to fix it. It looks good any how and thank you for sharing and I think I am going to give this a try as well. Have a lovely day Holler family.

You guys always brighten my day!

Beautiful daughter you have there,so chilled❤

I infuse some of my garlic with honey for a cough syrup and immune booster. I just leave it on the counter and burp the jar every once in a while for about 2 weeks. Then it lasts for about a year, but I will usually use it up before that. This is my very first year of harvesting home grown, so I am rather excited to get to experiment with other options too. Thanks for the great ideas. See you on the next one.

I hate that rule. It shows you're just like the rest of us. No worries. We still love and accept you guys. As well as learned an awesome garlic sauce or salad dressing. Had you obeyed the rule, we wouldn't have that. 😊❤

Blessings on the Hollar Family Homestead! 🌻🐛🌿💚🙏💕

I enjoy your videos so very much I watch them over and over. Congratulations on the new baby she is so beautiful. You both work so very hard everyday so don't feel bad when you have some downtime because you surely deserve it. I love the episodes where Meg cooks. She absolutely amazes me. I have never seen anyone work the way she works. Keep up the good work. I enjoy seeing the boys helping you and Meg with all your chores. I feel like I know you. Love y'all!

We finally got to see your baby's face! She's so calm, content - and beautiful! Now I'm wishing we'd get to see your other kids faces too! We see them walking around and working with you, which is so nice to see. They're all learning so much from all you do on a daily basis around gardening and growing food. Now I recall that the boys also learned how to weld or something like that too. Do you home school or do they go to public schools? I can see they're caring, observant, involved & intelligent, and good looking, like their parents, but don't know how old they are, or their names. I've been watching your family grow for a few years now and really like when you cook & explain as you go along. I like your down to earth & thoughtful personalities. Oh, almost forgot - when making the whipped up garlic and it seemed more soupy than you'd imagined, I thought if you'd just whip up a few more cloves of garlic, then add it into the mix, you'd be adding some .more substance & texture, if that's what you'd wanted. You could also whip up some chicpeas & add some of that purree for a nice sptead or dip, almost like a humas. I could see adding veggies too, like a sauteed cauliflower, some artichoke or maybe some kind of a lightly cooked green, maybe a raw or lightly sauteed kale. How nice to have earned all those heads of garlic, onions & more with a bit of good-for-you work by the whole family, outside.Are you planning a fall harvest? You are in a warm climate, so have a longer growing season than I do, but I forgot what state you're in. 🌻

I really like the way you speed up repetitive tasks, but also add in what you are saying at the time!!!!

Hello Hollar family. I so enjoy watching your videos. Your family life is very inspiring and the content is very entertaining, for lack of a better word. Love all your children. The girls are sooo precious, and the boys/brothers seem to think so too. Just wanted to say I love Corbin's haircut. Looks so much cooler for the hot humid summer. Also, after watching a video of yours on making garlic scape pesto, I for the first time made some of my own. I saw the scapes at a farmer's market and picked them up. Just this evening for dinner I used it to make a garlic scapes pesto pizza on the grill using naan bread. Soooo good. Enjoy the rest of your summer!

My mouth was watering thinking of that sauce as a pasta topping. Definitely not a fail. Elizabeth is an absolute doll!

I thought you had a youngster visiting and then I realized that someone had gotten a haircut, he looks very handsome!!!

We love you Hollar Family!

Your son sitting just snuggling the baby! 🥰

Little Elizabeth sure is growing quickly with a cute and precious little gift you have. Both your girls sweet, sweet sweet.

We use sunflower oil for toum. Avocado turns it ever so slightly green and it didn't emulsify as much. When it works, it's like garlic mayo. Keep trying, it's well worth it.

Add cheese is always my go to when recipes don’t work

Any podcast l listen to, I'm cleaning garlic. Then l freeze it. Works great.

The Toum is said to be a Lebanese dish. Alternating the oil and lemon juice and keeping it in the food processor and eventually it will start to look like mashed potatoes and then it will get creamy after about 15 minutes of processing it. This site Feel Good Foodie has a recipe and pictures and it looks incredibly thick. Baby is adorable and I see Buggy in her. Love yas

Garlic!!!! Love it...can't cook without lots of it!! I've never seen such gigantic cloves as the elephant garlic "uni-clove!!! It's bigger than a whole onion! Elizabeth is adorable! Holds her head up good and strong like an older baby! Love Corbin's haircut!😘

Thanks for keeping it real. I am sure a lot of people would have left the failure out. Life is never perfect, Kudos to you for coming up with an alternate plan.

So glad y'all are back. It's not the same without you. Of course I love @SowtheLand, @Lumnah, and Hanbleceya Ranch but you guys are so relatable to me. Love your fam.

Elizabeth is so beautiful! ❤

I peel and freeze whole cloves. Great for adding to anything that you are cooking.

I love seeing the process of trying something new and failing. Shows that not everything goes as expected the first time and it takes practice.

You still have some, you weren't completely wiped out like some.!

gosh that baby is so sweet ..never a failure in the kitchen ..just a new dressing ...good to see you all again❤❤💘

Peel and process the raw garlic, add a drop of olive oil then using a small cookie scoop and make little pucks. Freeze on a cookie sheet then put in bags or freezer boxes. So very handy when you’re cooking ‘fresh’ garlic all year!!

Hope you are all well.

You know what is funny? I watched this yesterday afternoon and, in the morning, I had tried to make Toum sauce and had the same result the first time around. You have to add the oil by the spoonful I. The beginning until you get that thick consistency and then alternate between the lemon juice and the oil. I got it right the second time! The Hollars are my people

One of your best videos you have made to date. Thanks. Loved watching.

This is encouraging! Honestly, when you see a video and everything comes out perfect, it makes one feel like a failure when something goes wrong during our own attempt. However, you showing the reality of life (the ups and downs) and how you manage it was awesome to see! Thank you for sharing and being real! 💪

That garlic is like nothing I’ve ever seen! So cool!

Hi guys! I love watching your story! I love making taum and have a couple suggestions for you. It’s more like making mayo than hummus and sometimes I even use it instead of mayo. I find it best using a mason jar and an immersion blender. For that size, start with 1 cup of peeled garlic, amounts of salt, lemon juice, and oil can vary depending on the texture you want. I usually have the garlic, 1teaspoon salt, 1/4 cup lemon juice in the jar and zip it with the blender til smooth. Leave the blender at the bottom (not running) while you add 2 cups of neutral-tasting oil. Once in, start the blender and slowly, slowly raise it up the jar as it emulsifies underneath. That makes a thick, dip-like, mayo-like consistency that mostly fills the mason jar. For a thinner, sauce-like consistency, use up to 1/2 cup lemon juice and up to 3 cups oil (and up to 2tsps salt), but you’ll probably need a bigger container. Good luck!

I LOVE the way the whole family helps out with the farm. Elizabeth is just gorgeous! Large families are the best too! Blessings... My granddaughter's name is spelled Alyzabyth. She prefers to be nicknamed Aly. Her other grandma used to call her Lizzie and she hated it! LOL She would say her whole name every time, fist, middle and last whenever Gma called her Lizzie! Too funny. Ali was just a little child at the time. So cute. Her older sis is named Alyxandrya. Cool and unique spellings...

Aww Elizabeth is so cute ❤ xx Sarah

Elisabeth makes my heart melt to a puddle❤ I’m going to be a first time grandma in November ,to a little boy who will be named Elias😊 Seeing her makes me go even more giddy. It’s weird to be a grandma already, I still don’t feel I’ve mastered the mom role yet.😂 But I guess we all learn as we go along. My daughter wants me to stay with her for the first month, at least, she said she’d prefer if I stayed for the first year😂😂 I’ve told them they can move back home and we can make the top floor of the house it’s own Appartement, but she don’t want that. I understand that too. She lives 150 yards from her work , where she is a manager. So she can easily run down there if needed , even when she’s off. Her boyfriend work is 400 yards, so it’s very central and all of the shops and conveniences is just out the door . They are nesting so bad now, the whole flat has gotten a makeover and the nursery is beatiful❤ Still, it’s really weird to see my baby with a baby belly. I feel she just became a teenager😢 I actually felt the baby kick for the first time on Friday, so it really is happening . it got me all teared up🥹

TOUM! One of the greatest condiments EVER!

wow the boys come in handy on the farm !!!

It's really an awesome thing to see your kids working along side you

I love you guys!!! I was having a really frustrating (read crappy) day, and you always lighten my mood and make me laugh. Your newest addition to the family is beautiful, Thanks for sharing your lives with this old lady by the lake (Erie).

Lilah and I are over here oooing and awwing over Miss Elizabeth. She is so sweet. Our garlic had a bunch of uni-bulbs and spilt past some bulbs. So far I haven’t found any worms. I am just drying and freezing it all though.

Yes, plant those garlic corms!!! I'm on about my 12th year of elephant garlic, from just planting the corms. The elephant isn't as pungent as soft neck, but it is so good. My favorite is also the unicloves 😂

That is not a bust, that is new dressing/sauce/marinade and that makes it a win!😋😃😉.

we had the same problem this year with our garlic and our onions too, from what everyone told us it was a allium fly larva, never ever had a problem like this before.

I add a bit of starch in thoum, never fails! *Albaik Garlic Sauce* Gently cook 1/3 cup cornflour in 1 cup cold water till gluey... add to processor with 300 ml milk, salt 1 tsp, 14 cloves garlic, whiz till blended well .... trickle 2 cups of oil then 4 tbsp lemon juice Firms right up!

Use in place of tomato sauce on a pizza..... win...win.. Enjoy watching your Family live and grow. Refreshing to see the real whether a fail or not. Teaches the youth critical thinking.

Bulbils is the name I know for those top forming mini bulbs. Also I'd recommend finding out what type of worms you got - learn your enemy's weaknesses and in this case their life cycle.

15:30....love the funny faces that always get snuck in 😂

What a great family and Elizabeth is so adorable !

Thanks for yet another fab video. Sorry about the garlic, you still got quite a bit. Give buggy, gorgeous little angel, a kiss fro granma Ellie. Oh boy we have 49 celcius temps here in Greece. My whole garden is suffering, not producing anything. God bless you all.

Hey FAMILY Great garlic harvest. The baby girl is so beautiful. Take care Y'all see you next time.

I just made my toum. I used a tall cup, added Finley chopped fresh garlic then added the salt, lemon juice and oil on top. I used veggie oil. Stick the immersion blender at the bottom and slowly blend up until incorporated. I had to add more oil, then it got fluffy. It takes a few minutes. Hope it works for you next time. So yummy!

Someone got his hair cut! Another brother is making faces, Buggy is a cool cat and Elizabeth is so chill. Your garlic sauce will be put to good use. Yumm!

I didn't know worms would eat garlic. Only you would have foodie worms!🤗 Saving some is better than none. 🙌 Have a blessed rest of the week! Big hugs and big love! ✌️💖🙏🙌🇺🇲🕊️🤜

I always enjoy watching your family getting together to work on garden harvests.

I have made perfect toum over and over and the last time I made a big batch it broke and turned out runny. I tried everything to save it, and couldn't and did nothing different. If you ever figure out what went wrong, let me know. Even the egg white trick didn't work for me. This was a great video and don't give up because I am beginning to think it has something to do with the garlic itself that it won't emulsify right. When it comes out right there is NOTHING better!! The baby is simply adorable. You have such a beautiful family and are so blessed!

What about trying whipping it in the Kitchen Aid stand mixer with a chilled bowl? Sauce looks great regardless. Our gardens in New Hampshire have done well. I always envied your growing season, but see that we aren't so bad. We baled over 4,000 square bales on our first cutting, despite the rain. Managed to get windows of three sunny days. Our outside gardens are producing wonderful summer squash, zucchini and cukes. I buy some veggies from our local farmer's markets to support them. Many of them use green houses. Nice to see such a happy baby!