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We'll be using the dehydrator to make onion powder! I've sourced some local organic onions, and I want to preserve them by turning them into onion powder. Freshly made onion powder is so much more flavorful and delicious than store bought onion powder. #foodsecurity #foodpreservation #homesteading

It's jalapeno season! We like to preserve these pickled jalapeños so that we can have these all year. If you're new to canning, this is a great recipe to start with! If you don't want to can these, you can refrigerate these and turn them into refrigerator pickled jalapeños.

Come tour our chicken coop, and we'll show some of our favorite must-have chicken coop features. Our coop uses the basic design of the classic Wichita Cabin coop, but we've incorporated some of our own innovations as well. We'll talk about how our coop features make caring for chickens so much easier! To see the video where we made our DIY bucket waterer, click here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5gFCuseaSAQ&t=762s

It's time to preserve the fresh kale from my vegetable garden! We'll dehydrate some of the kale to turn it into kale powder, and we'll also freeze some of it. Then we'll make a smoothie with kale powder in it - it's a great way to sneak in some veggies - you can't even taste it! Check out the video where we harvested this kale together here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s_AdX_G10Wg

We like our burgers with pretzel rolls, so today we're going to make pretzel rolls together! This is such a fast and easy recipe - it's a great recipe to start with even if you don't have any experience making bread or working with yeast. Link to the original pretzel roll recipe: https://sallysbakingaddiction.com/easy-pretzel-rolls/

Let's talk tomatoes! I'll share the varieties of tomatoes that I grew in 2022, and we'll talk about my favorite types of tomatoes (and why they're the best!). We'll compare tomato varieties based on flavor, yield, and disease resistance, and I'll talk about which tomatoes performed the best in my 2022 garden.

Come raise monarch caterpillars with me! We collect the monarchs by finding eggs on our milkweed and raise them until the butterflies are ready to be released. We'll talk about how to protect these monarchs, how to feed them, and finally how to release the monarch butterflies. You'll get to see the full life cycle of the monarch butterfly, including watching the caterpillar form a chrysalis and watching the adult butterfly emerge (or eclose) from the chrysalis. Come enjoy this exciting journey with me! This is a great science lesson for kids, and an especially great option for homeschool science or nature schooling. My kids always enjoy watching the caterpillars grow and change.

Our chickens needed a bigger and more efficient waterer, and we also wanted their water to stay cleaner! So, we made this easy DIY chicken waterer using a 5 gallon bucket and chicken nipples. The chickens love their new waterer, and it definitely keeps their water so much cleaner! This will also hold more water, which allows us to go camping for the weekend. We'll also review the process and trouble shoot the best way to use this waterer at the end of the video.

Come see my latest grocery haul from Azure Standard! I'll share some of my favorite products from Azure, and you can see how I'm stocking up my pantry to protect against inflation and food shortages. If you'd like to shop through my Azure referral link to support my channel at no additional cost to you (thank you so much for choosing to shop through this link!) click here: https://www.azurestandard.com/?a_aid=b5ef14ce4f

When you're harvesting cucumbers, but you don't have quite enough for a full batch of canning pickles, refrigerator pickles are the perfect solution! These fridge dill pickles are so quick and easy, and you can make a batch as small as one jar. Link to the original recipe: https://www.pinchmeimeating.com/refrigerator-dill-pickles/

Garlic is one of the easiest and most useful vegetables to grow in the home vegetable garden. Let's harvest my garlic together, and I'll share my tips for growing garlic! We'll talk about how to know when garlic is ready to harvest, and you'll get to see what happens when you wait to long to harvest garlic.

Growing vertically is a great way to save space in the vegetable garden! Supporting your plants will keep them healthier, and make harvesting your vegetables easier. In this video, we'll talk about why vertical gardening is a great choice. We'll talk about different options for upright growing. Finally, we'll talk about which vegetable plants are great candidates to grow vertically.

Learn how to grow your own food so you have a reliable source of garden fresh vegetables year after year! Are you concerned about food shortages and inflation? Or do you just want to learn to be more self-sufficient? In this video, I share the 7 things I'm doing in my garden to increase my food security, and to help give myself a dependable source of healthy organic vegetables.

Let's take a walk through my late July garden. We'll see how all of the vegetables are growing, and I'll share my gardening tips along the way. Thank you for joining me!

Come tour my early July garden. We'll see how the garden is doing - both successes and failures, and how the vegetables are growing. I'll share my gardening tips along the way!