My garden saves us a lot of money at the grocery store. This Gardening in Canada video is going to look at how I store my food over the winter months. This is a year’s supply of the produce we need until the garden starts producing again.
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Ashley is a soil scientist who has had a passion for plants since she was a small child. In the long summers as a child, she would garden alongside her grandmother and it was then that she realized her love for greenery. With years of great studying, Ashley had begun her post-secondary education at the University of Saskatchewan.
At first, her second love, animals, was the career path she chose but while doing her undergrad she realized that her education would take her elsewhere. And with that, four years later she graduated from the University of Saskatchewan with a bachelor’s degree in science and a major in Soil Science.
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It seems like a lot of food but I think the biggest struggle for anyone is variety. That’s why the hydroponic and sprouts/microgreens setups are going to be key.
This is my dearly loved crinkle cutter https://geni.us/5SXYv22
This is my pressure canner https://geni.us/q2V7
I got these for stacking in my pressure canner https://geni.us/xCIZAXz
If you do not want to manage the pressure by heat I recommend getting a wobble weight: https://geni.us/gB5wf5
For more on the microgreens and sprouts check out this video (i list out all the things you need for this there): https://youtu.be/WEjk8rj4TZc
Potatoes take so much work to cook. We are rice people too. I might try canning some next year when I have a pressure canner.
Thanks for the tour!
there is roughly a mortgages worth of canning jars there ^^
Love the pantry!!! Well done! You will love your hydroponics. It’s so nice to get fresh lettuce in January!
"She's a spicy meatball" 😅
This is amazing! What kind of pressure canner did you end up getting? I'm in the market but I have analysis paralysis right now. Haha
I have been treating my powdery mildew infested tomato plants with a 20% mouthwash and 80%water solution, but the plant leaves still dying from the bottom up. Any idea as to why it happens? Thanks.
Would love to know how you do the jellies with the left over skins and pits. Thanks so much for sharing all your knowledge.
Fantastic stuff
Do you have a hydroponics video?
Love seeing your pantry!
I think the part no one talks about is how much money, just in jars alone, for one years worth of food, for just one person, actually cost…. it's a lot. I just started buying jars last year with visions of a well stocked pantry in my head… pffft! Cripes, hundreds of $$$ in so far and that's pretty much*A* Shelf of various size jars worth. Rather discouraging, but I know once they're amassed they're an renewable, invaluable, precious resource, but still, damn, this Canning game is expensive to join in. Ugh!
My mom ALWAYS cut her beets for picked beets with a zigzag cutter! I swear mine don't taste as good as hers because I don't have the cutter even thou it's the same recipe🤣🤣
For your sanity, please get off the fence as to whether you are a soil grower, hydro, or whatever, and stick with soil. The process is much less confusing, and you will need fewer gadgets and such.
I'm growing strawberries with garlic in a 30-gal, along with two cannabis plants in a 3×3, and I'm bringing a living soil EarthBox (worms and all) in my room to grow salad greens for the winter.
To the point of being on the fence; you get hit from both sides of it. It's more expensive to maintain two types of grows because either causes their own problems, and the brain capacity to manage them is not fun when your trying to go to sleep at night!… one sheep, two sheep, three soil sheep, four hydro sheep, five my hydro sheep need more cover crop, six my soil sheep need a flush, seven wait that's not right… and then you're awake.
Be well, stay safe, and thank you!
Very nice! I love your honesty and 'don't do this' as you showed your haul 😅. Favourite quote, "He's a condiment monster." 🤣 I just got a pressure canner and am trying to figure out how to use it. Want to have a pressure canning party? 😃
Love that you said " spicy meatball" 😂 I never hear that anywhere ( except me) I laughed out loud. You're parents must be my age! ……. or your grandparents
not gonna grow shit any more ill just live with you kidding i think ill be ok
I love the idea of getting a sugar source from trees rather than bees for so many reasons! As well as being expensive, where we live in the great white north is not actually a very suitable climate for honeybees and so often folks end up losing and replacing hives every year. Which is heartbreaking, expensive, extra work, less honey, and less sustainable. If you have Birch trees around, they can be tapped for a lovely syrup, as well as Manitoba Maples/ Box Elders
I have been water bath canning and canning for a few years myself off and on. This video was so entertaining and very honest on your part and i loved it.Thank you and do some more as you go on if you enjoy and find the time.🙂.
I canned 100 pounds of peaches this year. Didn’t think of making jelly out of the pits and peels. They were very over ripe though, so there was quite a bit of bad stuff that I was throwing away. Next year I will have to make the jelly.
This year I have canned the most in my life. We have access to an older (40 year old) apple orchard close to Rosthern, SK and I picked lots of apples and made apple sauce and then juice from the pits and peels.
I’m glad you said “Don’t do what I do” regarding stacking your jars. Put more shelves between the existing shelves so you don’t have to stack them.
Love your channel.
love it. would really enjoy seeing a recipe video for your peach skin/pit jelly
They have a dwarf banana tree that will produce bananas. Might be worth a shot to grow in house during the cold months. Nice pantry tour.
Can you make shelves just a bit higher than the jar? Seeing your shelves can be a good way to store more jars. Good Honey Do weekend for husband.
Hi there😎 So happy to hear you enjoy SPICY🌶️as well! I make Red Pepper Jelly. If I don’t have enough of the same hot pepper to make Cowboy Candy, I make the jelly…GREAT for Christmas and gifting for any reason and season…We are CANADIAN…so sharing with most everyone is our motto – LOL!!☺️
If you haven’t tried the “Candy” – Please do – as it’s so worth the wee bit of prep time! The only issue…Your husband just may come to like them, and like all good things, we can rarely eat just 1 or “A handful” – LOL!😉
I make lots of Vietnamese and Indian Dahl recipes for quick food…YUM!😋
As for the onions in Beef Broth…of course it’s French Onion Soup! My Mom makes a brilliant French version with a Canadian Red Wine. It’s divine with or without the wine, but just wanted to mention that my family has left onions in their broth since they started canning generations ago! NOW – You have a quick soup for those busy days when you need something warm and delicious for cold wintery days!
Cheers🇨🇦
I enjoyed your tour. As far a beets go I find that I process in three ways. A few small bags of cubed beets for easy dinner preparations. I always ferment at least two jars of shredded beets for salad toppers and the rest go into my freeze dryer. I find the freeze dryer does an amazing job of preserving the beets. Plus I powder several of the beets after they are dried and add them into smoothies.
I would love your Borscht recipe please and thank you. 🙂
Loved this video! Definitely do more of this stuff😊💞👍 FYI there is no FDA approved recipe for pressure canning zucchini either due heat penetration issues (just to help anyone out!).
Thanks for your content!💞
– Janelle from Ontario
Yum! Pickled cauliflower! Recipe please?
What's the deal with you and canadian prepper