A Week in the Life on Our Plant Based Farm & Homestead

Good morning friends today. I have a lot of work to do It is saturday and I am going to be cleaning out the kitchen garden and starting that over for fall Malachi is joining me right now. We've got him in his little ring sling Say hi Right now chris is outside he is working on brush hogging the pastures. I actually can't even see him So I don't exactly know where he is, but while he's working in the pastures we are going to work on the garden So i'm going to go outside and just kind of start seeing Seeing what I have to work with Let's go. See what that is up to Hear lots of commotion over there As you can see, it's just a little wild in here. We got this Dryerdale pumpkin plant growing Some pumpkins There another one down there In here, we have a volunteer cherry tomato and Cucamelons are starting to kind of fill out this trellis nicely also got a volunteer tomato in here as well as Growing up there and this pumpkin plant is growing all the way through here So you can see the sweet potatoes are growing really well I think I just planted like five sweet potatoes in here and as you can tell They're filling out really nicely I really love them as ground cover I'm, pretty sure brush hogging didn't go well because I hear chris coming back and that sound does not sound good I know I guess we'll find out what's going on with the tractor in a minute As usual with our old tractor malachi every time we bring it out we end up having problems Huh? This time it is the brush hog Yeah So anywho, I guess we're not getting brush hogging done today. We're gonna go inside and i'm gonna give malachi his milk Then i'll come back out later This space just needs a lot of cleanup i'm gonna pull out One of those tomatoes which has just like a lot of disease And then this area I need to pull out the mustard greens And some weeds in here and just put down some fresh compost and i'm going to seed some greens and herbs and Also Some radishes, so let's just start by cleaning up some stuff When I stay It's actually so much hotter out there than I thought it would be So I after I finished clearing out what I wanted to I picked all the basil Because i'm going to make a bunch of pesto today and I also am washing all these peppers I'm going to chop them up And put them on a pan with parchment paper and stick them in the freezer So that we can have them all winter long I love sauteed peppers So let me show you what i'm working with. So this is just a big mix of sweet peppers. There's corbacce's um There's jimmy nardello These are just some wonky bell peppers A green bell some poblanos and here's the poblano and some other random peppers When it comes to peppers my favorite way to preserve them is just to freeze them because They heat up so well in a cast iron Um from frozen and so i'm just going to go ahead and chop all these guys up Doesn't matter what kind they are. They're all sweet So they're just going to taste like sauteed bell peppers when I throw them in a pan later on in the winter So let's go ahead and get them all chopped up. Um harvested these a few days ago, which Um, and so they've been sitting on just the counter not in the fridge or anything just on the counter And then now that I have time to work with them. I just put them in the sink wash them all Now i'm gonna go ahead and get them chopped. I did record my process of harvesting all the peppers I had little malachi with me. So let's hop back a few days ago. So you guys can see that process I am out here in the garden. It is looking extremely lush. It's been a weird year, but August so far has been Sorry, I think it's september today officially Well, august was a beautiful month for the garden and september is much more lush than it was last year. I'm out here with malachi Chris is actually playing frisbee golf. So malachi and I are gonna hang out together. We're gonna harvest some peppers Do you want to say hi little dude? Yeah, you look sleepy We could get out of town see the beautiful world around want to see it now Pack our bags and get in that car Leave a little note and we'll drive real far Let's get out we can leave this city Hi handsome Oh the flies are bothering you, huh handsome Okay. See ya Grumpy grumpykins gave him a sweet pepper to play with but he wasn't very impressed Here's a quick look at the pepper haul We have corbaccis and jimmy nardellos some pippins um golden honey sir, jimmy nardellos a bell of some kind Another green bell and a poblano You like your pepper? Quick peek at the fall garden starting up You got broccoli and cauliflower in here You can also see everything is just super lush quick garden tip if you're harvesting peppers harvest the sweet and the spicy separately that way you don't end up with a mix and forget what you have and uh It's just so much easier to prepare peppers when you know what's sweet and what's spicy. So I just picked sweet peppers I'm gonna pick some sweet banana peppers as we walk back over Okay, so let's walk back over to the banana peppers and i'll harvest some of those. You're gonna let me harvest anything else boo boo Flowers in bloom So you've got all those over there And some over by the kitchen garden really crazy but Open these are mulch I headed which are my favorite Those guys to the batch Oh, this is getting really heavy and I found a tomato. I want to come over here and harvest some peppers real quick These are the pippins golden honey. They start off purple And then they turn this color And they finally turn their right color Which is this orange color And they're really sweet and really good. This is what I come over to gone for a second and then What? really You get a basil So I got all the peppers finished you see the pile of compost and I had some okra. So I am frying up the okra I just chopped them up into little I know what you call them rings. I don't know and I covered them in cornmeal and then i'm just putting them On a pan with just a little bit of oil and pan frying them And then we're just gonna enjoy that for a little snack So that's kind of what I was up to today as far as preserving goes and I made the mistake of letting some get big like this and it was just way too rough for actual eating so I ended up with Unfortunately a bunch of composted ones so instead i'm gonna remember next time that I can't let them get big So lessons lessons from the garden Still have to turn all of this into pesto, but I think that's going to be a job for later tonight It's a few days later and we are going to make chili chili cheese fries So we're gonna go pick some potatoes from the garden and make some Homemade baked french fries and then we have some chili. I'm in the pantry that we're gonna put on top Into his mouth, I mean, oh So he doesn't put his hand all over me Okay, so back here there were potato plants and they've since died back and other things have filled in But i'm gonna go ahead and dig up what's um in just this area right here Okay, so i've got a basket full of potatoes which should be plenty for Some french fries and I also grabbed some cherry tomatoes. So we'll go ahead and take these in clean these off and chop them up Okay, it's time to go inside and make dinner Dinner time You're so sweet So I just drizzled a little bit of sunflower oil on the fries I didn't add any seasoning yet I'm, just gonna sprinkle some sea salt on them when they're done um, I put them in the air fryer on the Fries mode i've never used the air fryer before though. So hopefully they turn out. Okay Normally, I just bake them in the oven at like 350 for like 25 minutes and they're delicious But the air fryer should be a little bit faster and a little bit crispier So we'll see how they come out and then we'll heat up some chili put that on and some vegan cheese I guess it would be nice