Homestead Pantry Tour | Self-Sufficiency and Food Storage

My grandmother was born in 1911 and lived to be 99. Her whole life she grew a huge garden and canned everything. All my best memories from childhood were being on her farm and cracking walnuts that fell from the trees and picking peas and beans and corn and helping her can peaches and pears. I miss her so much and am grateful for the knowledge she passed down to me.

A tip that my great grandfather taught me over 50 years ago is to keep an apple in with your potatoes. It will keep them from sprouting even at room temperature. When it gets really soft remove, before it is total mush, and add another. The gas that is released from the apple as it rots preserves the potatoes. If you buy apples don’t get the fancy wax covered ones ❤️ 🍎

I am Korean. You have more kimchi stored in your fridge than I do. Awesome.

It makes me so happy to see families living this way! I’m slowly learning and growing some veggies right now. I’ve never been one to grow things but I’m so excited to see my tomatoes and cucumbers thriving. Every step towards this lifestyle is one to be celebrated!

Forget Kim K pantry now this is a pantry! I feel healthier just looking at it 😊

Can you do a week of dinners! Would love to see how you use this!

What a DREEAAAMm if every home looked like this we would be so much less sick!!! live so much longer and especially be a lot happier!!! I am very very jealous and in awe of how delicious your canned pantry looks!!! congrats. Wish i had that selection of delicious natural foods at my disposal, your kids are very lucky!

Only people who ever done this knows how hard working you are. Kudos to you!

We do a lot of conservation and preserving in Russia. I make around 100-150 cans of preserved cucumbers, tomatoes, zucchini, eggplants, bell peppers, mushrooms, cabbages, red beet-roots, sauces and even soups, and lots of seasonal fruits (juice and jam). I do not buy any fruit juices in stores except for tomato and orange ones. That's not too much. In the past we made 2-3 times more. Every week we open 1-3 jars. Let me offer you a popular zucchini salad: 2 kg of zucchini, 350 gr onions, 300 gr carrots, 500-600 gr bell peppers, 1,5 kg tomatoes, 150-200 vegetable oil, about 70 gr of salt, 200 gr of sugar, 80-100 ml of 9% vinegar, 1 head of garlic, black pepper, 3-5 bay leafs. The process: fry onions and carrots, add zucchini cut into quarters , stew for 15 minutes (appx), add bell peppers, stew for another 10 minutes, add crushed tomatoes and stew for another 10 minutes, then add salt, sugar, garlic, vinegar upon your taste (stew for another 5-7 minutes) and then do the canning. You can eat this zucchini salad with bread, potatoes, rice any time you want as an appetizer or part of the main dish. Good luck!

This will save some post apocalypse survivor life one day

Eating healthy and homegrown food is the key for a healthy life and body

This is SO impressive! Do you have any videos about how you process these foods (the processes of your processing 😂), and how you use them in your cooking? I’d love to see that. Really, absolutely fantastic job in being self-reliant! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

You should do a video on your process for planning your spring garden (layout, spreadsheets, seed purchasing decisions, etc).

Can you teach us the process of canning and dehydrating these things? And recipes for how you use these things

When I was a boy, we lived this way. All our veg was grown in our garden and lasted through the winter. My mom would be canning from September to mid October.

Hope your people appreciate what you do. It's a lot of work.

Dehydrate your potatoes too. I shred for hash browns, and slice for use in scalloped potatoes, then blanch and dehydrate. They store well for years.

Would like to see how you use the dehydrated foods for lunch/dinner meals.

After seeing this I realized I need to get a move on with my dehydrating and canning....😊

Wow! You are my new woman crush! I love canning and preserving. It’s actually therapeutic to me to harvest my food and put it up. Sprouting potatoes used to frustrate me.😱 Then one year, after a bumper crop of taters, I canned most of ours. You have to pressure them but talk about ready-to-eat. Open a jar (pints or quarts) and you have the start of potato soup, potato salad, mashed potatoes...the list goes on and on. So wonderful to watch younger folks keeping preserving alive and well. Thank you for sharing. 🙌🏻👏🏻🥰I’m stealing your idea of cardboard on the shelves. Why didn’t I think of that?🤦🏻‍♀️