FOOD SECURITY: Our Basement Grocery Store (LATE WINTER Edition)

Raspberries are currently $8 for 250g in Australia - non organic. You’d need armoured guards on your basement here 😂

Hey guys - great idea growing your own beans - I do it every year and it's a completely hands off crop (in fact, the first year I grew them, I just, as an experiment, threw a handful of store bought black beans into a bed and they grew prolifically, and I saved my own seeds from then on and they grew just as well).. Note, however, if you're planning on filling up that 5 gallon bucket with your own home grown beans, you'll need to grow a field worth. It takes a lot of beans to fill a bucket up.

I loved seeing your beautiful preserved food. You mentioned once that you grew your garden on one-eighth of an acre and the quantities of fruit and vegetables you harvested is amazing. How reassuring to know that regardless of what goes on around you, you can feed your family so well. Thanks for the video, I look forward to them each week.

As a mom who has been homeschooling and growing food for years, I want to say I love your content. I always learn something new or get inspired to try harder. I wish my husband and I had the knowledge and the the goals you have when we were married thirty years ago. But it is such a joy to see our daughters growing up and surpassing us in all their skills and knowledge. And..because we have a big family, we have the added benifit of continuing to learn while some of our girls are still home.

Love your video! I love how you add a little "intro" to the different sections - opening the door, walking down the stairs, Michelle talking at the beginning... it's so good :) Love your content too :)

You two impress this Grandma so. Love your food storage. Your kids are so blessed.

11:40 Michelle you crack me up 😂 love seeing you guys keep things light and authenti

I have recently found your channel and have been loving the videos. I was raised on a farm and my Daddy raised Hereford beef cattle. We always raised a big garden, and we had chickens for laying and some for eating. We raised rabbits and we always had a hog to fatten and eat. My Daddy hunted and fished. Some of your videos take me back to those good times. I am old now and I am constantly amazed at how much some of my friends don't know about animals and gardening. I feel my education on the farm was just as important as my education in school was. Bless your sweet family.

In regards to tapping a neighbor’s maple tree, you could maybe barter with them. We like using bartering as currency.

You can make mashed potatoes and freeze. When you thaw and heat they come out as good as you just made them. I make a big batch an freeze in single portions.

An idea : make instant mashed potatoes, or a sauce thickener, by boiling potatoes, mashing and drying them, powder them once dry. Freeze if unsure. Rehydrate in hot milk for mashed potatoes. Kids can do it. If you make sheppards pie. To have a lighter load sometimes...

I am a 66 yr old gardening grandma. It seems we are on the same schedule of an abundance of tomato products. I am only planting two plants. I am learning from your channel. I am most interested in the Lady Finger popcorn. A video on planting to harvest and when to harvest would be most helpful. The demo on the pancakes was amazing. I also have tons of strawberries and black berries I need to use up. I don't know if I missed it but I thought you were going to show how you made your smoothies with your berries? I am new to smoothies. Thanks for your great content. Btw...LOVE the bloopers! Keepin it real.

Guys, watch The Rancher and The Wife. You will love it! For the whole family. God bless you all

We love dutch babies! They're a great way to use a plethora of eggs AND fruit. And you're right, it never gets old watching them puff.

I loved it when you said you are savoring the last moments of winter! This is exactly how I feel. I love being in the garden and going all the things, but the slow winter months are definitely something to savor.

Thanks for the great videos! If you have too many beef roasts just take the ones you like the least. Cut in slices semi frozen and put through a meat grinder. Make your own burger. Can get a decent sized electric grinder for couple hundred. We done this method for over 10 year. Make burger with the cuts your not using. Also can grind up freezer burnt stuff for dog food.

It’s so nice that you have extended family that you can share with. Community is so important.

I love making big batches of mashed potatoes and freezing in serving size portions! Quick heat and eat side dish! Taste just like freshly made. I have also ground some of my roasts into burger if we run out!

"I'm not a white girl person" 🤣🤣 I really like how organized your food storage is 👏👏

I highly recommend trying dehydrating veggies and fruit. Its a bit less work than canning and takes a lot less storage space. I do this with tomatoes, green beans, fruit, and garlic. I make pizza sauce rehydrating herbs tomatoes and garlic, throw anything in soup, green beans rehydrate in a pot of water easy, fruit becomes snacks and you can even use a blender to make dried extra greens, squash, or berries into nutritional powders. It has been a game changer. Plus fruit leather is a great snack.