Would you please take us step-by-step through the process of making each kind of cheese you make?

I am completely in love with your channel you guys. Bravo for making this lifestyle cool again. Blessings you guys.

hi , is very common to roast peppers here in Argentina, and preserve them in olive oil , were are mostly italian and spanish descendants . Although we do it different. we put the peppers directly on the fire. is much faster . then , when ia totally black , we put it on cold water and the skin comes out easily.

I would love to see a tour of your root cellar

Eggplant is one of my favorites. I grew up eating them stuffed and baked. Mom stuffed and baked them, then put them in freezer. She would take them out the day before eating them for dinner and put them in about a low to med low oven covered until they heated through. Oh my, heaven. Some she stuffed with their own dug out inners, Bread crumbs, rice, parsley, onion and garlic. Some she stuffed with mild homemade sausage, rice, parsley, garlic and beaten egg. I have personally stuffed them with ground chicken, garlic. Parsley, onion, sweet pepper! Mom would sometimes bake them with fresh crushed tomatoes as a sauce. I have also made meatballs and burgers with eggplant. Can you tell I love egg plant?

Your videos remind me so much of my life with my children when they were young. Homeschooling, planting gardens and flowers together, doing chores and just living an "ordinary " life. I miss those days but love having grandchildren!

Could you update now that it's three months later? How did your preserved veg hold up in the oil? Thanks! This is only my second video of your channel, and I can already tell I'm going to enjoy it :)

Roasted peppers freeze so well!!! We stopped preserving in olive oil because too many go rancid. Try it out!

have you guys done a "how we managed to buy this place" and how have you financed it?

You two are so cute! Love watching you two complete and help each other and teach your children the value of what is important in life.

I've just this minute found your videos and, as I LOVE gardening/homesteading type life styles...... It's binge watching for me. But it makes soooo sad now, I had a stroke last April and my garden is a No Go for me now, tears are hot for me now. I've had a good recovery but not for my garden, I can't manage it. I've learnt to speak again and I can bake and cook, sew, crochet etc, I'm very lucky and count my Blessings every day. Today I made lovely soup with Bay leaves from my little trees, lovely veg from local shops, enough to send big jugs out to my 2 girls and their families. So, it's ok but my garden, I miss it, miss the earth in my fingers, miss the little bugs, miss Mr and Mrs Robin who bring their babies to see me when I'm under the Holly tree findin snails!!! So, keep doin what you do, smell the earth and enjoy the bugs, God Bless you a and keep you and good luck in all your endeavours.

Wow, wow, wow!!!! You have just taken canning and preserving to a whole other level! My goal one day is to preserve like this, what a money saver, every thing is fresh and you know where it came from.

I just recently found your channel: have watched so many posts, we live over here in eastern wa. in Chewelah, and do so many of the same things you do, Love your root cellar, next on my agenda. We raise heritage lamb, goat and beef also, have been gardening, canning and now dehyrating things from the garden. Love your great lifestyle and info!

All that cabbage I kept thinking, "KIMCHI!" amazing video. I hope to have a beautiful garden like you all soon!

Hi, I sure do enjoy your channel. My wife and I do a lot of gardening canning and putting up vegetables. It’s good to see young people doing some of the old way stuff. God bless y’all. (Old guy from Arkansas)🇺🇸

I dehydrate my peppers and grind to powder in my vitamix

Those chilis would make some awesome chili powder for cooking with! I’ve heard a dehydrator is a homestead’s best friend. Did you know the FDA allows for a certain amount of bugs in processed veggies? Yep. It’s bugs either way 😆. Although I clean my veggies like a maniac. I bet your cheese is delicious. It’s calling to me. I freaking love cheese! Congrats on the root cellar! You have an awesome set up. Well done! Thanks for sharing your lovely food w/us!

I really enjoyed every single thing about this video! Thank you! It makes me want to get back home and preserve a whole bunch of lovely produce! We commercially fish for sockeye salmon up here in Alaska during the summers but look forward to one day having a bountiful garden but until then, I will buy from my local farmers to put up what we need🙂 hope you are staying somewhat cool over in the eastern part of our state🙂

I love your channel! While I like the newer videos and think the voiceover is professional quality, I miss your older videos like this. They had this adorable old school home video feel to them.

this is amazing. my husband and i are in our 60's and are doing research to be able to d some of the things you are doing. with some modifications. your family is so inspirational. thank you

You are amazing. I have binge watched your channel this weekend. Wonderful. Making the ricotta, wow.

Love this. I felt like I was just hanging out at your kitchen table with you guys while you worked. So much beautiful food! 👍

I so loved that, you all are so great, keep em coming....please!

This was a wonderful video. Would love to see more like this: a day in the life but also showing how to preserve and use the food we grow. Love everything - so glad you started making videos - it's how I found you and then read your blog from beginning to current. Always so excited when I see a new video it available! Thank you for taking the time to include us in your amazing journey with your family!

I love all your videos! They have such a relaxing and cool vibe to them!

I'm so glad you brought us along to see the preserving and storage. This is overwhelming to me each year, I need to plan it in, not fit it in and recruit some help along the way. I thought you said "Growing your own food you 100% eat love" then I heard bugs, made me laugh. Both true I think. At least they aren't irradiated bugs right? Love your summer videos and blog and for being honest about real life. I think the world would be a better place If we were all just a little more that way. P.S. your chicken Helen and the house escapades were the highlight of my spring.

Could you do a video on the steps to make ricotta cheese? I’m starting a milk share share next week. My first.

Love to watch how the whole process is done!! Hard work is always rewarded!! you should sell any extra preserved food I’m sure lots of people would love to have freshly preserved veggies!!

I wish I'd know this was an option for preserving peppers in years past! I always froze mine because I figured I'd need to pressure can them and it'd be a lot a work. This so so easy!! Thanks for sharing!

This was so enjoyable and full or so many good ideas, thank you!

Nice rustic root cellar!

Shaye, thanks for sharing this video! It’s super motivational and was awesome seeing how your family prepares and stores food!

Awe thing was a fantastic video. Love your homestead. When we started our homestead we lived in a tiny camper while we slowly built our house. I found you then and would follow you in your journey. I'm so glad to find you again on KZfaq 👍🙏🌻

love this! I have to try your preserving method for eggplant.

Would love to see more preserving recipes from you especially with you growing such a diverse range of lovely food x love your blog/vlog x Pattypan

This is one of the best homesteading videos I’ve ever seen. You guys are amazing. Looking forward to more videos.

Another fantastic video. That root cellar 😍 well done on the garden and isn't it a great conundrum, to grow too much of anything.❤️

This is a lot of work but I am sure so rewarding. It’s amazing to be able to grow your own food ❤️

Love you, your family and your farm. I feel so good after watching, it is so calming. Always learning something too. Hugs❤️

The oil is not the only important part of preserving those peppers. The salt and vinegar are CRITICAL to avoid botulism. Please do not ever preserve something simply by covering with oil.

Your channel just popped up on my suggested videos. I'm in love! I've only watched this video but I know it'll be up there for favourite channels. Your video was beautiful. Your shots and music. Perfection. I've just started my garden this year and it's been wonderful. I'm just starting to learn the art of preserving! Thank you! Morgan -Midland, Ontario

I have had your garden video playlists on repeat pretty much all summer. They very much reflect the romance and love I have for the garden and bring me great joy when endlessly picking produce to the point of exhaustion this time of year. Thank you for the reminders of why we do what we do!

Wonderful video. Loved the music, too. Thank you for sharing. 😃

Roast those peppers straight onto the gas flame, it’s much more efficient and will peel so easy after covering with a lid, and resting them for 10 mins.

Love it..... we’re in winter here in Aus..... longing for summer days in the garden ❤️

Hello! I love your channel. I know some have asked already please do a tour of your root cellar also can you show and explain how you made your cheese cave looks really cool very interesting

Never thought to preserve peppers that way. So versatile. Thanks for the inspiration 💕

Absolutely LOVE all your videos! I especially love the awesome connection you both have for each other! And, your kiddos are so very adorable!

LOVE your channel! Thanks for posting! I'm planning on having a much bigger garden next year so I'm sure your channel will come in handy when I'm trying to preserve it all! 😊

PRETTY PLEASE post more preserving and cheese making/cave working videos! So inspiring!

What a fantastic video Shaye! I too, have waaaay too many red peppers in my garden. I had thought about preserving a jar or 2 in oil and putting in the fridge to keep, but it made me nervous. You have given me the confidence to give it a try! :) Could you please do a video on cheese making??

I absolutely love your videos! The music on this one was great too!!!

Loving your channel. So many skills were shown in this video.

Growing your food is only half the battle. Storage for later use is the true talent. As you folks know if you can't can it in a water bath or pressure cooker, you can pickle it, ferment it, freeze it, dehydrate it, or immersion it in oil. The talent comes in when you know the different ways you can do one vegetable or fruit. An example : there are 5 ways to ferment a cucumber, or can a tomato in a cold pack or hot pack or pressure cook it. Dehydration can be done by the microwave, oven, dehydrator, or the sun. This video helps put this out there for the rest of the people to expand their knowledge. Personally, I thank-you for putting it out there to be seen and talked about. :-)

Love Preserving our own food.. You know what goes in it.. Thanks for sharing. :")

Loved these great ideas. You make it look fun.

Can we get a tour of the cheese cave? Look so interesting

I know this is a lot of work. I have done it when raising my family. But it is so soothing and calming watching you and your family.

Looks great! It also works great to hold the peppers directly over the flame on your stove. I've diced and dehydrated my peppers too. They hold their flavor reallyvwell that way. Happy preserving!

Thank you for sharing your life with all of us. We made the change to live from our property when it was still odd (15 years ago). Yes finding a place for all the stuff you preserve is tricky. One of our best places was under the beds. Good luck in your future endeavors.

I love your videos. I love the way you tell a story with your videos. Thanks for sharing!

I just loved this video. So beautiful. I need to find your brie and sauerkraut recipes. Thank you for your inspiration.

Stu! You used my line.... "I can't be this pretty AND (*fill in the blank*). I'm so proud- it's one of the most versatile phrases there is!! :) -Carrie Bews

I love your channel and appreciate your level of intelligence. That you are so young and knowledgeable about homesteading, canning and cooking is refreshing... Blessings to you and your family in health, love and prosperity.

Loved it. More like this please and your cooking videos

Love your channel and am learning so much! Your little ones are beautiful and you are caring for them so well. They are going to be cool adults with strong spirits!

Another great video. Enjoyed spending the day with you all in the kitchen! I am totally intrigued with your cheeses, cheese cave and root cellar!!

I absolutely love watching your videos! I love everything about gardening and love tasting veggies and fruits fresh and seeing how much a difference there is in the taste than store bought ones! Thank you for taking the time to share all of this with everyone! Your garden and home are beautiful!

Love this. When our children were little we had a self sustainable farm. Best time of our lives. Watching this brings back so many good memories. They are all married now and I’m an empty nester, but this is my vibe. New subscriber.

Sweet pickled peppers are yummy. They last all winter to go with sandwiches also. I just got done canning 22 jars. Great garden I grew up on Washington. West of the mountains. But spent a lot of time on my aunt's grape farm in Grandview Wa.

What variety of peppers are those? They look so good!! Thanks. Love your channel

Way to go, you're doing it right raising your own food. I grew up like that and no one in our family ever had to go to the doctor. We were healthy!

So many goals for our little farm and property. Someday I hope I'll be making cheese and sauerkraut too

Hi! I’m from Las Cruces, New Mexico, about 30 miles from Hatch, the Chile Capitol of the World 🌎! Chile is a way of life here, and starting around the end of August each year, big gunny sacks of chiles appear in the grocery stores, and they roast it right in the parking lots (not on the pavement, although some days it’s hot enough!). They have big rotating wire drums that they turn over propane flames. I wish I could send you a whiff of that glorious scent of roasting chiles~~~but I think you know what I mean because of your smaller-scale endeavors. I’m originally from Michigan, and the smell of people burning leaves 🍁 was the kickoff of fall. Here in NM it’s roasting chiles. People also roast them at home on their BBQ grills or in their kitchens. I know many people who have freezers just for chiles. The chiles are roasted until the skin turns mostly black. Some people stick them in convenient sized things Zip-Lock freezer bags, skin still on. They say that once thawed, the skins slide right off, and it’s easy to pull out the seeds. Some prefer to “de-seed” and skin them prior to freezing. Sorry this getting longer than I planned! Anyway lots of people put up 120-150 pounds of chiles a year in freezers, and they still end up running out in the spring/summer. More in a bit... KGB

I am so glad I found your channel. I can’t wait until your new book is out xoxo from Southern California. ❤️

I dried green pepper last year in casserole dishes lined with parchment. oven set at 170* for like 12-16 hours. they dried crispy and hard and kept for months!

Your videos are so inspiring. I love to watch these while I am in the kitchen myself. I have learned so much. Keep em coming!

Teamwork! True on the bugs! Love sauerkraut and so many of my friends don’t! Royal ricotta always has a crown but stays humble. Having a root cellar gives you string roots!

Yes, the storage of my garden harvest is hard work,but rewarding.

Absolutely loving your videos. Thank you for bringing us all along.

I love your house, from the arched doorways to the rough kitchen wall, counters, sink and everything in between....rustic :). I'm sure you're in the middle on enjoying all that beautiful food you put up. You are wonderfully talented in preserving!

Omg I love your Victorian Farm shoutout! Love that series and it's sister series like Tudor Monastery Farm etc. Ruth is seriously such a gem.

Loved this video! I’ve attempted to make cheese a couple times. your videos make it look so easy! Love the channel!

Love it all! Thank you : )

Beautiful garden! Love this.

Wow! Amazing...so well done...keep up the good work. love the cellar...your home/garden is a gardeners dream come true...One day...one day God willing I my husband and I could do something similar.

I love this video. It's personal, interactive and real. Would love to see more like this. Love the channel and the passion for food.

This is my second year of roasting my peppers and preserving in olive oil. All thanks to your's and Stuart's inspiration! It was such a success last year that I more than doubled the amount I preserved this year. I also (did this last year too) I roasted onions along with my peppers and added them with some garlic cloves and herbs to the jars as well. We stored them covered in oil in the extra refrigerator along with our pickles and sauerkraut. You, Shaye, are such an inspiration! Thanks again :)

Reminds me of my childhood farm life in Northern California! Great video!

I love your ideas of growing,preserving and enjoying eating all of the produce.What a good and healthy lifestyle.

Your videography has this uniqueness from all the other youtubers. It's a bit millenial quaint prairie home vibe. I wish you talk more about the cellar and the process of setting it up... along with the different varieties of cheeses. But this is my second video I've seen from your channel. So u might have covered it ....really like the grounded atmosphere while talking about inspirations and variations of preserving.

How wonderful, that’s a lot of hard work but oh so worth it!

Good grief, I'm so inspired, I could explode. Cheers y'all! Thanks for passing the bouton!

Gorgeous video! I love the lighting. I do wish I had more cabbage this year. Only two heads made it after a groundhog invasion.

I’m so glad he’s asking questions.... cause the are the same questions I have and I feel like you can hear me ask them ❤️great work guys ❤️new Subbie

Looks like you’ve got your hands full this season. You guys keep up the good work.

Love you guys. Thank you for being you. Do you guys use whey to start your sauerkraut? I’ve found it helps sooooo much with all lacto-bacilis fermentations.

You can make some baba ganoush with that eggplant, too! Also, have you ever tried the paper bag method to skin peppers?

Ahh! I love Victorian Farm!! Ruth Goodman is such a good teacher, as is Shaye! 🤣 So cool when two of my favorites collide.

Hi there! What song is this?! It’s been stuck in my head and I’d love to download it somehow! Thanks so much! You guys are truly wonderful, I’m so happy to have found your channel.