Turning the Garden into a Year's Worth of Food

Turning the Garden into a Year's Worth of Food
Join us as we preserve the harvest and add to our food storage for the rest of the year!

About the Sunshine Farm
We're Jenn & Chris. We are millennial homesteaders on a small plant based hobby farm and modern homestead in Upstate NY, where we focus on sustainability, loving on all our animals, and enjoying wide open spaces. We're in our mid-twenties, balancing full time jobs, and also trying to share our lives with you along the way. Thanks for joining us for this video, we're excited to have you along for the ride.

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[lauramonahan]

This is fantastic. BTW, the other reason to remove the tomato seeds for sauces and ketchup is most of the excess water (and very little taste) is in the gel around the seeds. The sauce will cook down faster if you remove the seeds. There's a quick way to remove the seeds: cut the tomorrow crossways, exposing the seeds, then gently squeeze it like you're squeezing a lemon (only softer). They fall out, and the rest of the tomato goes in the stockpot.

[blackpackhomesteadchrisand]

With all that food you have to be creative. The more combinations the better. Canned stuff in the winter is the best.

[michelled]

It‘s really something else every year that doesn’t grow perfectly, but it's still a lot to harvest every time! Love seeing how other people are preserving their veggies, so much to learn here!

[dracoarawn]

I would love to do something like this, you give me inspiration and passion to move forward in my gardening skills and health and life. #Thank you #Gardening #YouRock #Positivity

[kprairiesun]

Love small onions so I don't waste a big onion when I usually only need a smaller amount.

[veganlyncat]

I wish each one of these items were it’s own ‘how to’ video.

[karinvertue]

That was really interesting. Is it possible for you to give some recipes like do the tomato ketchup and how you processed the piclled onions please? Thank you

[ruinsane]

You two are amazing. Truly inspirational. You set the bar high. Goals!

[ellenconforti]

Your harvest looks fantastic. My question is you mentioned your preservation of your zucchini zoodles that you dehydrated them. How long did you do this for and does this get rid of the mushiness when they are defrosted.
Ellen, Florida gardener

[whosme]

might want to look into a mill for tomatoes in the future as it makes the cooking time so much faster when you remove the skin and seeds.

[toneyjohnson]

Looks great can't wait to give some of this a try. Thanks for sharing.

[theartisanhomestead]

Next year will be our first year of really having a garden, because we’ll move during the winter. Did you already had a lot of food to preserve in your first year at the sunshine farm? I really don’t know what to expect for the first year, it’s exciting! Thanks for sharing all your tips and ideas and thanks for inspiring us!

[sunriseskies]

How many years have you been doing this?
WOW!!! I’m impressed! 👏
I’ve heard how a person really needs to know what they are doing in regards to canning so foods don’t go bad.

[heathere.]

You guys should make onion stock with all of the onion scraps and then can the stock! Its great for soup bases and gravy!

[christinesimmons]

Try some Pepper and Onions Relish it is an awesome base for many things

[tippystreats]

Loved seeing your harvest. Question: when you canned your ketchup it looked like you didn't clean the rims of the jars which had food on them. I hope the video was wrong. If you don't clean the rims the jars may not seal safely which means they can not seal which would cause spoilage (possibly without you knowing). Just want to make sure you and your family are safe.

[sarinhthach]

This is inspiring video, we just start our spring here. I hope I will get lots of harvest and will start to preserve like you guys, but not sure how it will turn out at the end of summer as I just put my seedling outside last week and we have SNOW today!! :-(

[tessnf]

wow! loved this! I wonder how you have the time to work ft, grow all this food/preserve it AND film it. So inspiring

[maryegerton]

Wow! Way to go! Did you pressure can those pickled red onions?

[sunriseskies]

So onion and peppers don’t need to be blanched before freezing?

After watching you chop all the peppers and onions I wished I lived near you to take you a food processor 🥰🤣

Loved this video!!💙🌈❤️
Be well!!🌻