How Much Food did we Grow? Cold Room Tour.

The government see this as lost money 🤑💰😢😊🤫

I have very little growing room when it's hard to figure out what to plant for just one or two people your videos are very inspiring and educational

Hi Ruth, thanks for sharing your faith, knowledge and sense of humor. Love the home made recipes. Have you thought about growing herbs? They can add extra vitamins, flavor and nutrition. Easy to dehydrate for the winter months.

Preserving home grown foods has so much value. Nutrition wise and also to feed you family through the winter months. It saves money any creates a sense of self sufficiency sufficiency and security that's so important. I agree with you that there is a lot of value to your hard work and efforts. And I think you are doing a wonderful job to feed and nourish your family. A lot of these skill have been lost over time, so I'm glad you are passing on your knowledge to the next generation, as well as to your viewers. Thank you so much for sharing that with us.

Thank you for recommending this magazine. I've been a subscriber for years thanks to my dad sharing it with me for years, once he finished reading it. ❤️

Edited to ask about your green beans. From how many plants did those come? Thanks so much for sharing your space and wisdom with us.

Ruthann, I've been wanting to know about how you keep your vanilla, and use it, from dropper bottles. How many ounces are the bottles you use, and do your droppers have measurements on them? Or do you just know about how much one dropper full is? I want to implement this at my house.

What a gorgeous little baby ❤

I love how your shelves are arranged in color order. Please tell me that was intentional! 🥰💕 (at least one section anyway!)

Loved this video! I so enjoy watching and learning from you. I cant wait to see the ghee video. Im wondering if/how you seal the jars!

As always, you achieved your goal of inspiring and educating me. Thank you!! 💚

Here in west central Minnesota, we finally got some rain and took advantage of it. Our carrots were the last to come out and oh my goodness, the best tasting carrots!

I have that same book Back to Basics, Haven't loloked at it in years. I have 2 more like these,

Ruthann , we would be interested in learning equipment you'd suggest if any . Mill oats at home and how to shelf store . Or how you would recommend storing and where to purchase oats and equipment.. thank you in advance.

You're allowed to choose to not buy XYZ because whatever reason and people need to be okay with that and mind their own kitchens. It's your choice. As long as you and your kids and spouse get enough vitamin C to not get scurvy over the winter (and you probably already are) you're fine and nobody should bat an eye. And that can be as simple as an apple, carrots, lots of squash which you have, or a glass of juice or fresh fruits or veg at a friend's house or school, gummy vites or sometimes even fruit snacks or candy that kids always seem to spirit out of thin air. Oranges are so available because December to March is when they're ripe and harvested down south in FL or CA and they come in their own shipping jacket peels and can get to you with minimal effort (a spray of food grade vegetable wax and put in boxes or bags and a train or truck ride) and I think bananas are always in season but end up gross because they're picked green and artificially ripened. You are not required to buy oranges and bananas.

Beautiful!

Yes! The printed Word! God's everlasting gift to us! So appreciate you sharing your faith... all comes down to that! That is like a work of art! There's no better colors in the world than those produced from a jar of canned vegetables and fruit!

Yes, God is Good All the Time.

Got my subscription ordered!!! Thank you!!

Learning from you and watching your family makes me happy. Thank you for sharing with us.

I have subscribed to Backwoods Home Magazine since last year. Very useful information.

RuthAnn, I used your link and ordered my subscription for my family. Thank you so much!!

I peel and cube mine and can in a light syrup.

I put diced cucumbers in potato salad

Hey RuthAnne, I pray you're well. I recently found your channel... well the AI algorithms 🤔 matched us in my feed! So I have been watching a lot. I know you use Redmond's sea salt on your cooked dishes. I think you mentioned pink Himalayan sea salt before and canning (which I don't do) I don't think you say anything other than salt. So, if you've used Pink Himalayan sea salt and switched to Redmonds do you have a video that compares salts?

Usually you let potatoes cure. Also if you have a large family you may want to buy more jars, Incase you have great harvests.

If your zucchini relish is sweet try browning ground beef and add it in to it and ketchup makes delicious sloppy joes.

I wholeheartedly agree with you about eating local and preserving foods that you grew. It’s the way our ancestors used to live and they were so much more healthier then the way most people are these days! God bless! ❤️🥰🍁🇨🇦🙏🏻by the way your grandson is absolutely adorable!!!

Beautiful, stocked shelves. What a blessing for you and your family.

Put wood ash in your soil to help with the Cucumber beetles, squash bugs and powdery dew mildew. Love the tour!❤

Adorable garden helper! ❤❤❤

I'd love a video about how you put your garden to bed for the winter with any specific amendments. Also how you plan out/ rotate what you grow. What specific varieties do you grow?

Great video, Ruth Ann.

Babies sitting in garden soil is just the cutest sight!

It's always a pleasure to watch your videos. Even when you are rushing around, your videos are calming. Plus, I get the added bonus of learning something new.
Never doubt yourself and what you are doing. You are a breathe of fresh air. ❤

I love backwoods home magazine, I am subscribed and it is one I will maintain my subscription to.

Great video ❤ you've inspired me in so many ways

Thanks so very much for sharing your experience and your story. I love watching your videos. We have some family in Fort Dodge, Iowa and we live in Arizona so I know how far away you are from us. I was born and raised in central Illinois so I can see you canning for your family! My paternal grandparents always had a huge garden and I was always there to see them make sure you had the best food and time for cooking and canning them. You know it’s funny how I miss things we had readily available, probably because it was their best food for all the kids and grandkids. Sassafras tea is one of my favorite memories. The popcorn that we grew and usually made popcorn balls with, and “putting up” all the vegetables by canning, making crocks full of coleslaw, grandma always said “this will sure taste good when the snow flies! “ she was so right about that…❤❤❤ I love and miss all the wonderful family and memories of our favorite things together. I am so happy for you and your family to be able to enjoy 😊 the same sort of existence that I had growing up! They are very lucky! Thanks for sharing your family life and love with me! ❤❤❤ Su Tyrer 🥰

Thank you so much for making "real life" videos. You and your family are a blessing.

Ruth ann, you are such a wealth of information! I learn something new in almost all of your videos. To add to that, it is so easy to watch all of your content. Your pleasant, your not boastful, and it is real life. Your kids pop up, you make whoopsies, and you leave it all in. I just adore watching you. Whenever I feel scattered I go you you and I am all set. Thank you for all you do for everyone ❤

Thanks for the video!

Totally en joyed this video. I wish that you had been around when I was raising my five children. I do love canning. Now I live in a townhome and have next to no space to grow anything! Lucky I live in a farming community so it is a bit of a savings 🤗🤗💞💞💙💙

My son said he didn't like beans in chili/taco soup. I cooked 2.lbs of lentils. Pureed them and made chili. He said it was the best Chili we ever made. Now he only wants chili with lentils. At least they cook faster than.other beans lol

I love your channel. Your honesty and authenticity, that everyone is helping with outside AND household chores, also the little boys :) I appreciate your attitude towards consumerism and your appreciation of going back to a more basic and conscious way, for instance regarding proper books instead of hours spent online. I also really appreciate you living your Christian belief without lecturing or preaching. God is good. God is love. The one universal truth. Nothing else needed 🙏 Lots of love from Germany 🙂

Do you see any of your children taking on the homestead lifestyle also....just wondering

Thank you for sharing the Magazine subscription. We are now awaiting and exited for knowledge.

Love watching your videos! I get so many ideas and tips to help me in the kitchen. I saw that your green beans are so nice and GREEN! I've been so hesitant to can mine, because I always see other canned green beans and they are close to brown. I'm sure they still taste good, but the color turns me off to even try them. What's your secret?

Gardening is always a learning experience. Even though I have been at it all my life I learn something every year. Trying things different, that sometimes works teaches us

Tip I learned and you probably already know. If you push down on your carrots first and then pull up they come out of the ground much easier.

Awesome testimony 😍 love the printed Word of God 😇 blessings to you and your beautiful family ♥️♥️♥️

Hubby bought a 12 book set of books called the Foxfire series where the authors/editors went out and interviewed mountain old-timers. That sounds kind of like your Reader's Digest books. My grandparents and parents took Capper's Weekly and hubby's grandparents took Cappers, but his grandmother also liked the Grits newspaper. I remember devouring Capper's Weekly when we got it in the mailbox. So many interesting stories, recipes, etc. My maternal grandmother, when they were first married, didn't have two cents to rub together, so when a Capper's Weekly salesman came around selling subscriptions and a cookbook, grandma told him that she wanted the cookbook, but would trade a chicken for the book. He took her up on it, had himself a chicken dinner and she got the cookbook which was handed down to me and I still have it to this day.