I just have to say how much I respect your principles and hard work. I’m 87 yrs young living in a senior apartment complex and I so enjoy your wide open spaces and your farm and your animals. We are allotted an 8 x 8 raised bed each to use so I have cabbage, carrots, broccoli, celery, kale, and jalapeño’s growing but would love to try potatoes. The Lord has blessed me with good health and I will keep gardening until I hear that trumpet call!

Agree 100%! Grow enough food for your family but also think about an elderly neighbor that may not be able to garden as much, grow to share with them! ❤️

My parents lived through the Great Depression with no starvation because they lived on a farm and had a great variety of animals and vegetables and fruit trees and bushes. They grew bags and bags of potatoes, corn and green beans to bottle, banana squash, carrots and pinto beans.Those were staples for survival. Tomatoes and onions and many were important too. We never went hungry and I never knew we were poor.

My great grandma at 104 yo still kept a huge garden she produced her own compost and used bone meal and blood meal. Everything she planted was prolific and delicious! What a sweetheart!

No one realizes how much work farming is until they try and grow their own food. So thank you for all the amazing tips!

Excellent, informative video. 3:06 Potatoes 7:43 Peas and beans 12:07 corn and greens 17:23 herbs

We grow Okra & because my Momma was cajun we not only had it fried but also cooked it in Gumbo, made stewed okra, tomatoes & onions with or without sausage. She pickled okra with & without peppers. We always had an abundance of everything we grew. Enough to eat fresh, can, freeze & even share with the widows in our neighborhood.

Here in the Southern Appalachians, the old timers and mountain people including my family and our neighbors always planted their green beans with the corn. The beans provides nitrogen to the corn and the corn stalks provide a platform for the beans to climb. We always had delicious corn and beans that way. My brother and I grew up on our parents organic garden although they did use a little chemical fertilizer at planting…. Take it from an old retired medical doctor with degrees in biology, minors in chemistry and physics…a nitrogen molecule is a nitrogen molecule whether it comes from a cow’s butt or a bag. But like you I like the way God does things better than man. 😀 Mom canned and froze what we grew and we ate it all year long. We drank fresh grass fed cow’s milk from the neighbors. Fresh daily straight from the pasture. A gallon a day for a whole 50 cents. My brother and I were without a doubt the strongest kids in our elementary school when we played one on one tug of war. No one could beat us! Maybe the fact we were direct descendants of Daniel Boone’s oldest brother helped too, but I personally think Mom and Dad’s no compromise love with equal amounts of disciple, faith in God and that great food was the answer to our amazing strength. 😄 Thanks for your video!

Try growing corn the Native American way called 3 sisters, when the corn is about a foot tall and a pole bean and squash around it the corn becomes a trellis for the bean and the squash or pumpkin covers the area to keep moisture in and the 3 support one another replacing all the things one takes out another adds it back

I am elderly and my garden has shrunk to my ability to handle it. Your video has helped me so much in deciding what to grow in my limited space and energy. I'm growing most of what you talked about except herbs and corn. I eat kale, eggs and a meat almost every morning for breakfast! My goal is to create an herb garden, I love herbs and some of them help me control my blood pressure! Thank You, good job young man!

Sir Albert Howard reported a hundred yeas ago that composted manure is four times more valuable than uncomposted manure. Also, composting rabbit manure and chicken bedding ensures that you are staying safe by not permitting any pathogenic bacteria or fungus to escape. Your property is absolutely wonderful. You are undoubtedly a genius of the highest order and I congratulate you for sharing your talents with us. Sincerest peace and blessings to you and your family. Sending you golden light now.

Seems like tomatoes, onions, peppers and garlic is included in so many recipes that I would think they should be a consideration for any garden. Great work on your videos!

As a gardener who tries to stay organic as much as possible, the phrase "clean manure" is fully understandable to me.

It is so exciting and wonderful to see young people learning to live a older ways lifestyle 🥰

I just sold everything I own, bought a big rural homestead and moved my family here in December because it is obvious what's coming. We got 2100 sq feet of fenced in crop and garden beds going now. Hoping it's enough to weather the storm that is coming. Thanks for the video and information.

Great video! I appreciate your emphasis on self-sustaining growing methods. In my faith tradition (I am a Christian), there is a calling and a responsibility to care for those beyond my own immediate family. Given that, my focus has been on teaching and cultivating community gardens as well as my own. My grandmother kept several acres with the women's group at her church (I'm originally from Georgia), and they gave away the surplus. Self-sustaining food production is a lost skill. Thank you for bringing some of that wisdom back into the world! May God bless you, your family, and your beautiful land!

I just learned today dandelion greens are richer in vitamins & minerals than kale or spinach. All parts are edible.

We have 15 acres in North Central Florida. I've be preparing a food Forrest for several years. We grow citrus, pomegranates, Loquats, black Mulberries, cucumbers, herbs and spices. We loved your video. We're both older adults, just turned 70 but very active. There are medicinal plants and trees as well. Loufa is a great crop that can be eaten or let grow to its full length and used for bathing or scrubbing pots & pans in the kitchen. Grew them last year with great success. Thanks for the great info. God Bless

3 sisters. Maze grown on an mound, plant beans to climb the corn stalks, plan squash around to provide pest protection and shade soil. Also good to plant an fish heada under each maze plant. This combination of plants will keep your soil extremely productive

The best kind of people in this world, The Macs! Christ centered, educating us to do better..love ya all..I know this is a old video but gonna watch it..always learn something..

sweet potatoes cause you get both a tuber crop and you can eat the greens as well, plus makes a good ground cover.

Such wisdom! Excellent ideas! May God be glorified as His people press in to Him. 🙏

My Daddy grew the three sisters method. He grew corn with beans growing up the stalks to add nitrogen back and squash or pumpkins to be shaded by the other two.

I'm a gardener and grew up with parents who ALWAYS had a HUGE garden, we ate from it year round. I try and try every year BUT the wild animals end up eating everything on me. I've tried marigolds, red pepper flakes and a few other things so I just gave up. I have 7 acres right next to beautiful water and I take care of it all alone plus the house. I also have my 84 and 94 year old parents with me who have Alzheimer's and Dementia. This Video makes me crave having a huge garden again. I thank you for the smiles and the memories and I know I'll think of this Video when I'm in the produce section of my grocery store. Your herbs are AMAZING!!!! Tomatoes flare up my arthritis, Love them but try staying away from them. What A Gorgeous Farm Y'all Have 💕!!!! I just Subscribed and feel Thankful Your Site popped up for me! Western Upstate New York Nurse here 💕 Stay Healthy Everyone 💕

I grew up in the county with my parents growing everything you've mentioned and more..radishes,strawberries, carrots, pumpkin,had a cherry tree too...I didn't realize it until I was older how we'd grow potatoes one year and in the same place corn the next. Unfortunately my father never understood the greens thing so we never did greens for the nitrates. But I sure did haul a $#it load... literally..of rabbit manure...we had a rabbit Barn too..he used that to nourish the soil...we were eating organic before organic was a thing. I miss those days!!!!

I’m new to your channel. But very impressed. I’m 71. I love the fact that you use and reuse everything to grow healthy food and in process do not deplete the earth. I admire that fact. Keep up the wonderful work. Blessings to you and your family. 🐰🐝🐞✌️

Mac, you are doing a great job with your farm. The neatness, organization and cleanliness shows what a hard working provider you are. Nice Small the perfect amount of land, you’re making good use of your land. Kudos Mac.

Being on a Keto diet for awhile, I started substituting starchy potatoes with Turnips. These root vegetables are great in stews but they're a bit pricey per pound comparing to potatoes, so I started growing them in my garden, along with carrots and onions as well...looking forward to harvesting!

Ok so I've been growing 12 years now and I feel the best to grow is pumpkins. I don't have to weed them and it's a big vegetable that can make pies, cakes, and as a stew. They store in the house until the next season anywhere on tables etc. . I do herbs as well like lemon grass it combines with ginger for a healthy tea. Also tomatoes I grow white yellow, red , and Cherokee purple and San marzano basically. That gives me sauces through the year to freeze for pizza, soups and spaghetti. Beans are freezable greens as well and also I dry apples from my trees. So fruit trees are easy no weeding as well. My beans are bush beans so they are easy too. And fast growers such as contenders.

This is one of the best sustainable farming videos I’ve seen

Thank you for the great advice.i grow a garden every year.i live in town but we have chickens and a big garden.i am teaching my grand children to garden and raise chickens.we get lots and lots of eggs.we share everything we have with the elderly and our neighbor's. God put me here to help others.Praise God he is soooo good

When we had our farm I’ve never felt prouder then sitting down with me family for supper and everything on the table we grew

Home grown potatoes have so much flavor compared to store bought potatoes. If you grow your own onions too, fried potatoes & onion has a whole new wonderful flavor!

I cannot be without onions, scallions, leeks, garlic...all the alliums! Tomatoes too, I pick & eat the tiny varieties right off the vine every day. Never running low on vitamin C. 🙂🌻

Well, you're the first person to put it into such a simplistic grouping list. Thank you 😊

Your garden beds look great.when you grow smaller variety of vegetables it's also helpful to rotate your crops to avoid pest infestation & depletion of soil nutrients.its actually beans/legumes that return the nitrogen to the soil,once you have harvested a bean plant & it's time to pull it up you will see the small white grainy ball type things attached to the roots they are actually the nitrogen.you then chop up the plants & dig them into the soil before planting either corn or leafy greens which are also heavy feeders.my grandfather used to do this without even having the need to constantly add animal manure for nitrogen.look up rotation gardening "crop rotation" for more info.very helpful.

You have a great outlook and organization skill on your homestead. On the nitrogen issue : think past monoculture. If you interplanted your peas and beans at the base of the corn plants , that would give the corn a constant source of nitrogen. Also give the beans a natural trellis to grow on. Carry on!

Root veggies like turnips and radishes along with winter squash type fruits that have long shelf life and are versatile in the kitchen. One acorn, butternut, or delicata squash can give you hundreds of seeds for the next year and most will keep for months. Even pumpkins

My family moved from a central city home into a village in the middle of farm country last March. I've lived in the city all my life, but my parents always had a large vegetable garden and my parents had friends with farms, so I grew up with our diet being supplemented by the garden and our farmer friends during the winter. We have had a garden for the last two years and this was the first time I've ever done my own canning. It's a lot of work, but it's also very satisfying and we love being able to eat some of what we've grown. It's been a learning curve for sure. Thankfully there's a lot of helpful KZfaq videos 😉

Thank you Mac Family for taking the time to make your updates. We appreciate your work, commitment, views and values. They match the majority of many and farmers appreciate you as well.

Yes. Everyone NEEDS to start doing their part growing something. This will be the future to sustain each other. As they are planning to starve us to death. Yes, it's an evil plan but it's definitely their plan. Trading and bartering will be a great way for us to care for our families and each other as commanded by the LORD. Thank you for sharing your knowledge 🙏

Butternut and acorn squash keep all winter in the right conditions. Onions are full of nutrients, almost no animals eat them, and makes everything taste good Sunflowers provide oil (if you're industrious) and animal feed (can even leave them on the flower head)

Sweet potatoes. They are versatile, can be grown in abundance, the leaves as well as the tubers can be eaten raw, steamed, freeze dried, frozen, and canned. They are more glycemically healthy for you than Irish potatoes. Plus they keep well in a root cellar, and one potato can make hundreds of new slips/plants for the next year. Thanks for your informative video.

Never watched your channel before. Glad you make a focus on doing things organic all the way through. Nice to see someone else that cares on that level.

Hey there, consider putting like a 1X8 piece of wood or a log in there cage in the winter keeps them stay warmer and a piece of ceramic floor tile in with them in the summer it keeps them cool and it lets them get off the cage floor, win win 👍🏼. Not too big you still want the precious poop to fall.

I’m part Cherokee and moved to the Arizona mountains desert..... 3 sisters and the okra have been productive. “Succotash” is a staple meal from our garden. My mother always planted-bush , pole, Lima, snap peas, string beans, black eye peas for “hopping John” meal... it’s a challenge growing in the desert.... however I feel that if you can grow food here, YOU CAN SURVIVE as well as thrive!🙏

I grow lots of onions and garlic. They're easy to grow, don't take up a lot of space and provide scent camouflage for greens and brassicas. For the garlic, I just take a few bulbs from the produce section of the grocery store, split them up into cloves and plant them around the other plants in spring for a late summer/early fall harvest, and/or plant in late summer for the next year's harvest. I've traditionally used soft neck varieties because they store longer, but I found an awesome hard neck variety which I'm trying this year because it develops huge cloves.

What gets me about this video is how intelligent he is! He clearly knows what he's talking about. Yet there are so many coast-dwelling people that would discount him for his accent or his home state. Meanwhile, they'll be the ones complaining about empty shelves.

Tomatos would be one for me and my family simply because we use tomatoes in a lot of ways. We love our salsa, spaggiitti sauce and diced tomatos. We would go crazy without those options lol. But everything is u mentioned was spot on.

Gardening the 3 Sisters way automatically fixes the soil and makes the most of your space. Corn, beans, squash and or pumpkins. We love potatoes, sweet potatoes and cucumbers too . Thanks for sharing your gardening expertise and experience with us. Stay happy, healthy, hydrated and safe. May God continue to bless you, your family and your adventures.

A permaculture suggestion for feeding your corn would be growing alfalfa and beans along with your corn since those crops are nitrogen fixed meaning they naturally add nitrogen to the ground

22 minutes with a stranger, who blessed me with a lifetime education, for free. Thank you sir. Subscribed. Let the planting begin!

Sweet potatoes. The whole plant is edible and high in nutrients.

Great video Colby! The farm looks great! Onions, garlic & peppers have to be on my survival list lol

Beautiful use of your land, fantastic looking gardens and a great list! Thanks for posting!

Totally recommend the book Resilient Gardening by Carol Deppe. She talks about creating gardens that are better for many different challenging situations. Some of the crops she recommends are potatoes, winter squash, and dried beans. But she also recommends having chickens for eggs and growing flint corn if you can for flour. Dent corn is helpful too.

I love the things you suggested, but my first 3 go to plant are always tomato's, peppers and cucumbers. You can get so much from one plant, and you can do so much with them.

Consider growing duck weed to feed the chickens. It's 40% protein and loaded with vitamins and nutrients. Duckweed doubles it's size in about 2 days. It is the most profitable crop per acre, even beating out soybeans.

Have been watching all your videos all day yesterday and it was amazing your work and wife and family. You are wise beyond your years and take such good care of your family. God is watching over you all.

I have a small garden (25x60) for the two of us. I also have some education and have moved toward a method of growing more in tune with nature. NPK are the major things that plants need and NPK are all on the periodic table and are natural elements on this planet. Blood meal is a great source of N but how is that N any different from the N that is derived by other means? Traditional fertilizer has NPK in it that N may not be derived from blood (a waste product from the slaughter house) but it's still N. I COMPLETELY understand using the waste resources that your farm produces to perpetuate production of your farm. I got some great ideas from watching your vids (found your channel today and subscribed) and will continue to watch. It's awesome that you're living a self-sustaining life and reusing and recycling the waste products of what you do. The reason I'm writing this is because of the corn segment. I'm envious of your corn plots and you said it was hard to keep up with the N requirements. I think being anchored to "organic" is hamstringing yourself. Use all of the N that your farm produces and then supplement with however much the corn needs with conventional fertilizer. The goal is to have food to eat...not to be anchored to a method of farming that reduces your ability to make as much food as you can. N is N...continue to use the N your farm produces and if that's not enough for your corn...increase your farms production or don't be shy or embarrassed to purchase conventional fertilizers.

Another great video! We try to put onions and garlic anywhere there's extra space. Great for seasoning, medicinal and fending off some garden raiders.

Yes, yes, yes! I grow potatoes every year, love watching them grow and love eating them and sharing with my elderly neighbors. Love fresh food! Great video! Thanks!

We're in zone " 3 ,4 ,& 5,all in the same day, high desert. Oregon. I'm still trying to just get something to grow. GOD BLESS

You can actually make flour out of any type of squash. So they really should be on the necessary list. Freeze dried or dehydrated they can be blended to a powder and used like a flour. 👍🏽 And agree with all you said except soy. But we can agree to disagree on that one. 😁

When I was young we lived in rural Western New York and we grew two different crops: One for storage and one for summer usage. I continued gardening right up until I retired five years ago and moved into an apartment. Squash, carrots, onions, and beets can be harvested in the fall to store and last into the following spring. We never grew potatoes because my great uncle had 40 acres of muck devoted to his cash crop of potatoes. However potatoes always popped up in the compost pile along with a pumpkin plant. Peas were planted on St Patric's day, and a month later the beans went in; green and yellow varieties. Tomatoes, lettuce, cucumbers, and peppers were planted on Memorial Day. Broccoli and cauliflower can be planted anytime after the last frost as they like cool weather. Carrots and beets like warm soil to germinate in. The one plant that people over-plant is summer squash and Zucchini, one plant of each can supply the whole neighborhood! For me the number one soil amendment was leaf mold, I used to "Harvest" leaves and never considered them as waste. Wood chips take nitrogen to break down so I didn't mulch with them. Ground up leaves and grass clippings always worked best! AND I never used pesticides or weed killers period!

Hi there! My husband and I are in our sixties and both disabled. I have rheumatoid and osteoarthritis which makes it just about unbearable to walk. We’ve worked out a way for us to prepare and we’ve adapted pretty well, but everyday is an overcoming day no matter what. I was the gardener and the canner. Nowadays, I write out different list of what we need done to build up our food forest and he does it the best he can as he’s also disabled. I cheer him on and encourage him, thanking him and the Lord for all His blessings. We go to the Amish store about 10 miles up the road from us while driving our small hatchback car towing a 6x8 trailer. There we purchase some wood pallets for $2 bucks a piece to make our raised garden beds. It’s not the most ornamental precise arrangement, nope, it’s a mish mesh of pellet boards slapped together! But let me tell ya, it does the job and melts my heart. So what are we growing! We have asparagus and garlic that we left in raised beds over winter, which are now shooting up through all the mulch. This past Monday we sowed carrots, lettuces, baby bok choy, red cabbage, jumbo sunflower seeds and opo ( a type of Asian squash that grows on vines.) We were also fortunate to put in some ever bearing strawberries, cilantro, one Cherokee purple tomato and basil starters. I’m thinking of doing Fall beans n peas still might put a few in the end of the month. We put in onion sets snd peach trees so far this season. Waiting until next month to put in those potatoes and sweet potatoes. We’re blessed with wonderful neighbors that bless us with corn, tomatoes, squash and beets and we try to be a blessing back. Sorry folks for the rambling. God bless everyone.

Thank you I agree!! I do not know why but the good LORD let me know to expand my garden HE has a Purpose.

Cucumbers are extremely productive and easy to grow with no pests, around here at least. I just started making refrigerator pickles using garlic and jalapeno pepper I grew and some other spices and things. Super easy and delicious pickles that are supposed to last around 5 to 6 months in the refrigerator. I'll be filling my refrigerators up with pickles before winter. LOL

Thank you so much. I'm from California, I learned so much from this vedio. I want to leave this California soon. I am starting to plant my own vegetables, I have them mostly in big pots. My Chile I grow in my yard they seem to do good there. I would love to maybe move to Tennessee and buy an acre and try to do a little farming well just grow some vegetables. I'm not much of a farmer I wish I was but I grew up in the city all my life. But better late then never especially, because I'm not young anymore. But with God's help and grace he will help me. Thank you again for sharing what you know about farming. God bless you and your family.

Thanks! My wife knows a lot more than I do, but you explained things while showing your farm "organization" and that helped me a lot!

Last one, this has to be the cleanest and most well organized farm ever!

We do a small garden and we grow enough to help with are elderly neighbors. We threw out strawberries scraps in an ash pile for one year and now we have a 10 by 10 full of strawberries. Big and beautiful and so sweet

You forgot that many of our herbs are perennials. Low maintenance, and draw in pollinators. I'm trying this year to add flower edibles. Started some canna lilies for the tubers. They are a member of the banana family and you can use the leaves for wraps. I;ve been doing a lot of research on edible flowers this year.

I'm So Delighted to Watch your Video Young Man, simply because you Remind me of: 1) Some People are Born To Do Good Things for their World! 2) Your ADVICE to GOD'S People, and even To Unbelievers, IS: VERY GOOD! HEALTHY, and WISE! ADMIRABLE! Thank you, Very Much!

Have not grown a garden in years . I am planting this year. Thank you for your advise on these things. I appreciate it.

I agree basil is a required companion plant, especially near tomato plants to limit pest. Mint is worthwhile for animal deterance, and good mint tea.

Very good video. Thanks for including herbs in your list. Another benefit of herbs is that as one learns to introduce fresh herbs into their cooking, they can also reduce how much salt/sodium they are using. I have learned to make entire dishes with no salt and had wonderful, flavorful dishes!

Very informative video and we will start planting more of the plants you suggest. We are in the Pacific Northwest and zone 8b also. In our climate we get snow which is great for growing fruit. We have a small orchard of apples, cherries, pears, plumbs, and figs. We grow blueberries, strawberries, raspberries, elderberries and wild blackberries. We find lots of vitamin C and minerals plus pectin is beneficial for good health as well as greens such as spinach, Swiss Chard and romaine lettuce and snow peas. We do grow canning tomatoes for sauces and stewing since we use them in so many ways and a variety of squashes and beans. Keep up the videos! Your gardens and farm is beautiful!😃

We live in north central WA state, so our growing season is short. This year is abnormally cooler than usual. Our Greens and wax beans are still small but doing good. We noticed red potatoes growing in our compost pile. Every year we plant Walla Walla sweet onions. Onions are sweeter if we allow them to go through the winter and harvest the next year. We average 4-5 feet of snow every winter up here in the mountains and the snow usually sticks around until late April, but this year we weren’t able to plant until the 2nd week in May. We only have 3/4 of an acre of useable garden space as the rest of our land is heavily forested. But we use every available space of land possible. We planted 6 dwarf fruit trees this year. 3 Honey Crisp Apple, 1 Donut Peach, 2 Rainer Cherry. Next year we will plant 2 Elderberry trees on the property line with our closest neighbor as they love Elderly Berry’s too.

We used to have an acre garden...we sold that property, now have 14 raised beds scattered throughout our landscaping. We grow potatoes, cabbage, onions, squash, green beans, beets, carrots, tomatoes & peppers. It’s what we use & preserve! Our landscaping is mostly flowers & shrubs for the pollinators. We will grow greens this fall as the weather is cooler. Thank you for your video!

I love that your farm is not only functional but its really beautiful, too! Sending love from "next door" in Alabama.

As you are raising chickens....chicken feathers are a top source of nitrogen. I put mine in the compost heap and mix it up. It will take a few months to break down, but once it does the compost is worth gold.

Great video! I would include onions in this group. Raw, dehydrated, powdered, etc. Great veg and very versatile…..

We just grow what we eat. If you don’t like to eat it don’t grow it. We have had a homestead lifestyle for 48 years. We have always raised our own food because we enjoy gardening, and raising livestock. The food is so much fresher and with the animals you know what it was fed. This is my first time to view your channel. Looks like your doing a good job.

Hello, I did an experiment with potatoe skins, sprouting the little eye. I am growing plants now in my garden. I didn't need the usual hunks of seed potatoe that I thought I would need. Not sure if this was a fluke or if it is common. I did have a problem with ants...I learned to make self wicking planting bins so I have peas and beans in them. So nice not to have to water often here in Texas and make the best use of what water we have. What a wonderful way to rejuvenate everything by grazing the cows, then moving the chicken tractor over it and then planting. Brilliant. We are growing greens too. I am trying sweet potatoes this year and have read that the greens from that are great to eat too. Score!. Tysm for your wonderful advice. Prayers for a plentiful year for y'all.... p.s. Lovin' our herbs too....I even have them in my flower beds....such fun.

I am growing sunflowers for my chickens this year and thinking of trying my had at corn also

I started over 20 years ago with fruit trees mostly citrus. Hi, I'm Anita and I live in Geraldton Western Australia. Now my mission is to turn much of my regular house block into an urban forest. I will plant anything once, try and see how it goes and always save and recycle seeds. Currently my lemon 🍋 tree 🌳 is back to cropping stage. Looking forward to check out some more videos on this channel. 🇦🇺💜🇺🇲💚🖐🥰👍

I started using the 5 gallon cloth bags this year due to lack of space in my herb garden. They have been great until I build another raised bed this year.

For corn we use "horse tea" which is rich in nitrogen and can be sprayed or poured. Additionally we use the "three sisters" method of planting....corn, beans & squash.

I'm new to your channel subscribed 🙂 I'm a new grower and trying to grow what I can. I did a pineapple in a pot so far it's growing. I'm going to get a high raised bed to do more. I bought a strawberry plant yesterday. Thank you for your videos to help us new growers

Great video for a practical garden plan. Its always great to have useful, low maintenance items around, too. I have to have my pickles. Dill comes up from seeds dropped every year. I have a grape vine for the leaves to put in with the dill pickles to keep them crisp (and grapes!). Usually have a few chili peppers fresh or dehydrated to put in jars. I ferment some dill pickles in season and can dill, hot dill and sweet pickles for year-round use. I trade pickles with a friend for cabbage so I can make and can sauerkraut. Also, I keep perennial things like horseradish, rhubarb, asparagus, strawberries, blueberries, raspberries, gooseberries and fruit trees around the house as edible landscape plants. And the grand kids know there is always something fun to eat in papa's yard!

Thank you. Great to see you did not stop working on your farm tasks for more than a minute or two while making this video. Good example for us all. : ) Well done !

Old man Pate on 107 by the Nolichucky used to raise rabbits, catch the manure, used that for earthworms and sold all 3 in the 30s and 40s. Among other endeavors. He'd be 110 now. Smartest man I've ever known. Made radios, hybridized flowers, amateur archeologist (National Geographic (when they werecscience-based) begged him for info lol He told em nuthin. Could carve, hell, he could do anything. RIP , Pate.

Gotta have carrots and tomatoes! Besides that, this was another wonderful tutorial!! Thank you!!

Luv LUV LUV this video and your presentation of it!👍🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻 I am a life long gardener even on the concrete of the city for a decade.. I have grown my own food for over 40 years & I grow tons of greens, kale, collards, chard, beans, peas, HERBS and this year I am growing potatoes.😁I also grow ton of tomatoes which I can and freeze… I am zone 5 in Michigan with a shorter growing season than you so I start my seeds early in the house and plant out mid may under cover with our last frost end of may… Little more challenging to grow here BUT SO WORTH IT!👍 Others say I grow to much..lol But I give away all the extras😊 I am so happy to see you using the black with green stitching grow bags in this video as I am using lots of them this year to grow EVERYTHING in as I have only a rocky sunny hillside that I have worked so hard over the last 3 years to make into a 3 tier garden to grow in containers of all sizes and makes and all my plants are happy and producing VERY VERY WELL👍😁🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻 KEEP ON GROWING & sharing your knowledge with others brother! 👍GOD BLESS YA ALWAYS👍🙏🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻😊

Yes, potatoes, beans, peas, corn, winter squash, and then fruit, veg, and herbs for vitamins and variety. I put in all sorts of fruit trees/bushes/vines and perennial veg/herbs as soon as we move to a new place. All around the fruit trees, I plant pinto beans, asparagus, herbs, and strawberries. Then, I get the other stuff in. It doesn't take much work but does take some money.

Good presentation. However, got to expand our list to include, tomatoes for fresh and delicious taste AND long term storage. Grow peppers (sweet, medium and hot) canning is a must to include studied and sauce. Next is onions and garlic. These two items are known for their long term storage with very little processing. Now that you have grown these three items you're able to can SALSA!! One item I have and I'm growing wheat which allows me to not depend on shortages. This grain will keep for more than 25 years with no extra energy from the power grid, just energy from your body. Now I can make bread both regular and sourdough. Just a few more items with round off my list is cabbage which stores well especially in a root cellar and as sour kraut. Finally, beets, carrots. I know that living Zone 8 has its advantage to grown some crops all year round, living in Zone 6a also has some different advantages too.

Mr.mac I wholeheartedly agree with you..im allergic to milk.soy and everything else lol..but raw unpasteurized foot milk etc. Is fine. All of those chemicals are killing us....your videos are getting more informative thank you...i don't have enough land to graze n the soil is dead..been building it for several years soo..i plant chicken gardens peas beans lettuce bok choy tomatoes. Anything that feeds my chickens! Thx

Thank you for sharing your thoughts. My parents grew up during the depression so they passed the mindset down to us that you need to stay prepared. Even though we are getting old we still try to be as prepared as possible.

Try growing your beans and peas with your corn in the three sisters method. The legumes help increase the nitrogen in the soil for the corn and will climb up the corn stalks so you can get both crops in the same space and increase your yields and efficiency.