What Are We Changing in 2025? Our 2024 Year in Review | Pantry Chat

Join us as we sit down in the Harvest Kitchen to reflect on 2024 and look forward in anticipation and excitement for 2025.

Time Stamps:

1:06 - Fermented Cranberry Sauce
3:14 - Packaging Meat
5:49 - ForJars
9:05 - Year in Review

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[kristyholman]

So many good points in this, especially “it’s hard to find joy when you’re overwhelmed.” That’s my life right now between my husband and I working full time off farm jobs, commuting and having a homestead. This is NOT an easy life path but it is one we will not give up on. Appreciate all your teaching and encouragement more than you know. Merry Christmas!

[RoseFelton]

Hi Josh and Carolyn! Merry Christmas!! Thank you for choosing my question for your Pantry Chat today. It was great hearing what Carolyn had to say about fermenting Cranberry Sauce. Yes, I have been with you for a long time and have learned so much from you. I love learning from you and am looking forward to what you have in store for 2025 including Homesteading Family as well as STS. I follow you two more than I follow anyone else!

[cookingwithshelleypampered]

"It's hard to find joy when you're overwhelmed." So true! Even when it's something you enjoy. Slowing down or maybe changing priorities is a must, especially when we are enduring personal difficulties such as losing a loved one or other hardships.
Merry Christmas Carolyn, Josh and the whole Homesteading Family and team. Will see you in the crash course in January! Thank you for all of your work and help throughout the year. ❤

[AmyWHolman]

Love prepared to share. No homesteading isn’t easy but it is a simpler more intentional life.

[kristymissy]

I'm just down the road and we don't have any snow. All rain. If it does snow, it rains. Thank you both for all your transparency, teaching and sharing your lives with us! Be blessed in 2025

[jd]

I wish I had found you 20 years ago. I am 74 yrs. young but have learned alot from you just the same. I learned how to make ekderberry syrup, juice wuth a juicer you advertized. I grow my own elderberrys, beauty berries and blueberries and this spring thinking of combining all 3 and canni ng combo juice. I love it over crushed ice in the summer with a splash of 7-up. I have it every nite i er crushed ice andso healthy. Thank you. ❣️

[cynthiawhitcomb]

I think what you said regarding “pace” is the key. There will always be said “projects, ” but finding the balance is the real issue.

[TheEssentialRanchersLife]

I love, love, love you freeze drying book. I am freeze drying like crazy 🤪

[cherylpresleigh]

I don’t ever recall hearing that “homesteading is easy” on any homesteading channel I follow. In fact quite the opposite. Part of what I enjoy about your channel is that you don’t say anything you’re doing is easy. Instead you navigate processes to help simplify and manage tasks or educate to give folks ideas and a realistic understanding of what it will take to do whatever level of ‘homesteading’ one wants to pursue. Personally, my ideas, wants and dreams are always more than I will ever be able to do. But I’m also a realist who thinks through my options and when a change has to happen (which always is the case) I make the change, whatever change looks like for any given idea, and move forward from there. My heart longs for so much more but I know it isn’t ever going to be. We are a very small fish in a big pond and frankly at our age will never be anything more than this. If we had family that wanted to live more along the homestead way, it would be very different. So, thank you for your rational voice in an increasingly loud world of opinion. You are a blessing!
Merry Christmas and may 2025 be full of God’s blessings on you and your family.

[cherylb.]

You can be proud of the results for your book. It's well made sturdy beautiful book. I've just gone through it again to mark the next recipes to do. Thank you

[robertstickle]

Merry Christmas Carolyn and Josh. I love the Preparing To Share idea. Strengthening the community in the end strengthens us. I think I am going to borrow that to incorporate into our holistic goal.

[NorthernLycanthrope]

Love these videos. I've downloaded them and listen to the audio at work (work as a gardener). Recently bought a property and wasted no time turning the front and backyard into a productive garden. Still plenty of work to do but I appreciate all knowledge you're sharing from planning on what and when to plant to all the canning and dehydrating food storage videos.
Thanks very much!

[lynsmith]

Thanks so much for sharing. A piece of your life. I hope 2025 will be a fantastic year for you. 🌷🇨🇦

[DebraKopera]

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year Thank you for sharing all your videos

[cherylb.]

Have a Merry Christmas and holidays! 🎄

[rosehavenfarm]

I use a brake bleeder to vacuum seal jars (with the ball attachment). Works great. No batteries.

[cherylb.]

I found projects move from have to do, need to do and want to do. It's fun getting to the want to do one!

[garyc.foster]

I love finding mechanical (non-electric) tools and equipment for my little urban homestead. It's good to be prepared for whatever comes at us.

[kelseybosma]

Hello Carolyn and Josh! Merry Christmas to you and your family! I would really like to see a video and learn more about growing food for the animals. I grow pumpkins and sunflowers, but don’t know how to use and grow them for feed, as well as would like to know what more to grow for chickens and goats primarily. Thank you for everything you do!

[aprilnickerson]

My goal/challenge for myself this year is to teach a whole food cooking class to as many young people as possible. I work with a few younger girls and they have no idea how to cook beyond a box or microwave or preprepared foods. First gathering is the first part of February. I’m hoping to teach them how to shop and cook real foods. 🤞🏻