Always have a back up plan on your homestead. Proper food storage in many forms is one of the most critical aspects is true self-reliance. There are many critical situations that are always pending and learn that having a plan B and even C is being a responsible homesteader. Thanks for watching!
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Thanks; Very good information. I have been canning for only about 5 years & I am 64 yrs old, so it's never too late to learn. I know that not everyone will want to learn to Can so one method that my church advocates (I am LDS) is to buy just a few extra cans of food product or toilet paper, etc for your storage whenever you go shopping. Doing it this way will quickly add up & not break the bank. If you have to put stuff under the bed for storage because you don't have a lot of space then that is just fine. Another way to store bathroom products, is to use the tub in a spare bathroom if you have one & just pull the shower curtain around it. I'll get off my high horse now. Just wanted to add a few thoughts. Vida
Very sound advise. Thanks for the video.
Preach on sister. My husband thought I was a nut job for buying extra food every week and putting up storage shelves in our bedroom (the only place they would fit). He's a truck driver who specializes in heavy haul equipment. That part of the industry goes kinda dead for the winter. He decided I wasn't so crazy anymore when we went 3 months with barely any money coming in and we still had plenty to eat.
Even though we have a year around growing season for most fruits and vegetables in Hawaii some of our produce is seasonal, like avocado which I puree and freeze in bags for guacamole etc. There are a few other seasonal fruits I need to learn to store as well. Your video makes me think I should be doing more to store food since crop failures are a possibility here too.
Love the Dirtpatch family 🙂 Good choice.
I think a lot of people have the misconseption that homesteaders are putting things up for "the END of the WORLD" this isn't what we are doing. I'll give you an example, you mentioned rain. Our land (0.50 acres) has to be intensly farmed, and it has as hill so we watched the water on a rainy day and dug a trench so are garden could go in. Last year we had 14 days of rain and even though we did the mound method we still lost half of our cucumbers and all of our salad garden. We have tried to grow potatoes and onions two years in a row and we have failed in this soil, it is not ready, it needs more time and amendmendments so we are going to do raised beds there and build the soil up. The funny thing is we had volunter cucumbers come up in the other half of the garden so we had so many cucumbers we canned pickles! The tomatoes did fantastic and we canned sauce. This is how you prepare for the winter or for an emergency. Sorry this is so long, but I just liked what you said and wanted to put in my two cents. Greetings from NC! Helen from Homesteadinarental
Thanks you for sharing your honesty.Your vids are refreshing.
Jerry and Becky of Pine Meadows Hobby Farm
Loved this video, I appreciate good people sharing good information.
Super video. People can't stress enough on the importance of food storage. Thank you. Just have to remember you can never have too much.
One more thing. I love how all this videos tie in together and with the other you tube channels share and bringing them to other people attention. Preppers and homesteaders all working together. Huge big family.
I live around the Amish and some of my very good friends are Amish. They really have things figured out. They all grow gardens and preserve food, raise their own animals for eggs or meat or milk and can live without electricity. We lose power for a few hours and everyone here (besides me) is freaking out. I love the convenience of flicking on a light switch but it makes people think when it's not there. They are the real homesteaders and pioneers!
Great video. I keep a 3 year supply of food canned in an underground cellar .After katrina hit we never lacked in food.Preparing for the unknown is always a good thing.
Great video as always! We believe that being prepared is just smarter than not being prepared. I do have a question, do you all process any meat animals? We do small animals like turkey, chicken, rabbit, and quail, do you do any of these? As always thanks for all you do!
some people have no idea ??? thank you for this information
I always had a food back up, I was divorced with 5 kids & always worried if something happened & I couldn't work my kids would still be getting food. Now years later I am disabled with rheumatoid arthritis & am no longer able to work my kids are grown & on their own ,so again my penny pinching canning ways are still coming in handy for taking care of me & helping out my grown kids too @ times! like you said a million different reasons that we all should be prepared! Great video!
Thanks for the end comment … Your not crazy! I feel a little crazy and husband/ family think I have gone off my rocker. I have started food/ water storage, started canning and few other things.
This has been on my mind for a long time. I'm hoping that a root cellar can help (after all a lot of shop items are stored for many months). I prefer cellar 'fresh' over canned but I'm concerned about crops failing in a cellar. Do you have experience or advise of that type of storage?
Always stay real. Whoever thinks that prepping is a waste of time is totally depedent on the system and not very bright. xoxo
thought provoking!
I have some questions about food storage. Is there a way to contact you?
this is excellent! plan a,b and c!!!! <3 xo
How refreshing! What a blessing. I agree completely. homeschooling and gardening/canning/food storage on 2 acres. I enjoy Emergency Essentials Homemade Plus program to supplement all of my growing and canning. I'll use Chef Tess' cookbook later this winter to put meals in jars from the year of food storage cans arrive. Bless You!
Patara you are always full of great ideasI do as much as I can living were I live We are always picking up great prices and then can them I want so bad to get a small piece of property so I can have chickens rabbits and maybe a goat Thanks for sharring your great advice
How did you find out about the LDS cannery? It's definitely a great resource!
Canning is something I learned from my Mom (God rest her soul) when I was a kid. I've since learned to dry foods as well because not everything cans well. I love canning.
It's very hot in AZ, so my question is how do we keep the canning food safe from the high temperatures?
Patera, thank you so much for talking truth but most of all for giving some options. Another youtuber, i won't say who she is but her advice was to stay where they were and that they didn't belong in her neck of the woods, i was mortified. She used political correctness and words that most of us know but do not use in our regular dealings daily, being a business owner i come across many types of people and never have i had to listen to someone using every word from the dictionary to get their point across, i call it grandstanding. Many people are leaving the city, they don't know anything about homesteading much less storing food, where to homestead etc. I left the city about a year and a half ago, i was taught by my mother how to cook from scratch so basically i can make just about anything with what we've got at any particular moment. My garden failed last year and it failed again this year, i bought seeds from the Dollar Tree UGH, don't ever do that, i got a crop of all Sunflowers, now i know why they were at the Dollar Tree. I thought i was planting an amazing garden full of all sorts of veggies but nope, i got a 30 x 30 space of sunflowers, my other garden with beans, well i didn't know what damage rabbits could do UGH again. I even tried wood boxes for my herbs and peppers, again a failure even with store bought fertilizer. I ended up last year and this year having to purchase from the Amish in bulk all of my veggies and fruits to can plus i do go to LDS for other food storage items as your suggesting so we have plenty of food storage but to keep it going, i have lots to learn, i have also been raising chickens, i incubated about 48 that are amazing, however i have 14 roosters, here's the bad part, i know it is a part of life and i know that if i were desperate i would do it, but for now, having birthed them, raised them watch them grow, see their individual personalities, i just can not bring myself to do what i have to do in order to put food on the table so for now we still purchase our meats from the store and i have been canning it. i know i have to so something about the roosters but i don't know what to do. I just adore them all, we get eggs, i also get my milk from the Omish and i can make just about any dairy product so those items we do not purchase any longer from a store. I have backed off from buying a cow just from fear of it's size. My annoyance with the other youtuber was her negativity and so possessive about HER neck of the woods which is round about where you live. I suppose her family's blood shed is worth more than any of ours being raised in the city. Again Patera thank you for not taking that route of telling people not to do it but to rather stress that it won't be easy but it can be done over time and learning. You are awesome and a very loving soul. God Bless you.
What an amazing channel you have! I recently retired as a paramedic/Firefighter and the life you are living is my dream life! My goal is to move to eastern Tennessee/ western NC mountains and start a small homestead! You are a great inspiration to me! Thanks for the wonderful videos!!!!
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