Top 4 Vegetables That You Should ALWAYS Grow In A Garden (Preparing For Worldwide Food Shortage)

today we're going to be talking about things we should be growing on a farm to be more sustainable to not have the food shortage or the food inflation prices really hitting us we're going to talk about the things that can grow the best that can give you the best bang for your buck and that's kind of our opinion on what we're growing we we've gotten to where instead of growing 50 60 70 different things in some of these beds we decided to grow five or six different things and then we'll play with a few other little items that we want to try for the next year we don't grow we grow in abundance we don't grow a hundred different varieties of food so i want to show you some of the things that we are growing that we believe is a game changer for your farm or for your home or for your potted plants or for your raised beds or whatever you're growing it's going to give you more abundance in some of the other shrubs or crops that you're growing [Music] good morning welcome to the max you can hear the cows bellowing they know it is move-in time they just got done milking and they're gonna be going back to another field with some fresh grass fresh water i think they're excited about it [Music] [Music] so we give our rabbits organic alfalfa every day it's just a handful because they're little bowls that's all they eat it's about handful we feed on shrubs from the ground we also feed them vegetables that we have in excess like for instance they're eating asparagus spears right now the brushy bar the asparagus that we don't eat and they love it they have been taking it down actually they've been leaving a lot of their alfalfa and needing a lot of this this asparagus like to feed them off farm but the reason we keep them in cages and get off the ground for safety but also we want to catch them manure use their veneer good quality food either off ground that has been raised organic or organic alfalfa to turn around know that their manure is clean pure i hate to say clean manure is that kind of that's kind of stupid sorry allows it to know that it is a cleaner processed manure or it doesn't have a lot of chemicals or a lot of gmo properties to it we'll put it right back on the food that we're going to be eating then turns around and we eat what we don't eat we give back to them it's crazy very cool how that food cycle works everybody's done we do have a broody hand that's in here that misty has been taken care of she's got plenty of water and feed we do incubate our eggs but we also when we have a chicken go broody we don't think it's a bad thing so we take it move it into its own little cage and allow it to hatch its own eggs out we've had a pretty good success rate doing that another way to be sustainable to know that if we have fruity chickens instead of trying to break the broodiness out of them use that for our good first thing we're going to talk about is potatoes we love growing potatoes potatoes are a great additive for your farm it allows you not to have a lot of work to do for your gardens because we only we raise these in raised beds we raise these in in-ground beds we raise these in huge culture beds there's no wrong way to raise them especially if you have a very neutral soil if not you balance it out with lime and you balance it out with other things that are not chemical and we use a lot of compost and that helps balance out the soil for potatoes potatoes for instance we have some growing right here we have some growing right here and we have some grown way over there they can put off so much so you're planting one half of a tuber which is a potato that you've let go to seed or basically make its own new seed and you may get five to seven of that ratio so say you plant say you take 10 potatoes you cut them in half you have 20 starts 20 starts times five you've got a hundred potatoes just for ten when you started so it gives you sometimes five tens and twenty times the value of what you're growing now you need to find what variety grows best for you like we've tried kennebec we've tried yukon we've tried all the yellows that you can imagine they don't grow good here so we grow reds reds are not my favorite however that is what grows best here so we need to utilize that every potato we have planted this year from here to here to way over there it's all reds the value of the potato is you can use it so many different ways we freeze can of course eat raw and life we also can dehydrate and freeze dry potatoes they are a game changer on farm if you're not growing them you need to be growing them they tend to have to start really early in the spring or if you're in a cool area you can grow them a little bit later in the season but for us in zone 8b we start ours usually late january early february into february early march depending on what part of zone 8b that you're in or what the freeze looks like for the season we planted a little early this year and we happen to luck out so they're doing good they're flowering right there this one little 4x8 bed last year gave us hundreds of potatoes that's all it took to make hundreds of potatoes then you could turn around can you can eat life you can freeze you can dehydrate it's a game changer add those to your farm what you're planning because with food prices going up even if you say there's no shortage which i believe there is a shortage coming but say there's no shortage look at the expense that you're going to be saving by because potatoes are expensive they're not cheap so if you're buying a bag of potatoes instead of buying a bag of potatoes you get an amount of potatoes that's in that bag and plant and you'll be getting this kind of harvest so say for instance you have five four by eight raised beds you have you know 20 pounds worth of potatoes to plant you're going to make 150 200 250 300 pounds of potatoes and they are a heavy carb they allow you to have a good nutritional carb on your farm that's not junk food it's a game changer grow potatoes it's number one if you've watched this before you watch us a lot which thank you so much and if you're new to us please subscribe but if you know what we do we raise three forms of chickens we raise cornish cross which right now we don't have any on farm because we had a good harvest last year we raised three different sets yeah last year and two different sets the year before and that gave us a surplus of chicken that we were able to can or able to put in the freezer for us to use all this year and even parts next year so we had a surplus of chickens so we graze we raise cornish cross we raise those strictly on land and movable tractors secondly we raise roosters ducks and what we call our permaculture chickens they're all on pasture too and we'll see those way over there in the pasture they are simply helping our land they do not eat a lot of feed or grain of any sort they usually eat all farm but they're also feeding our pastures for our cows to have better grass to graze the next year heavy nitrogen loads you can't beat that thirdly we raise them just as you see like most people do chicken house this is where we get our eggs but also a great source of a nitrogen enriched compost or manure from the chicken so we take that out through their fertilization there we bed it then they turn around mix that bedding in with their manure then we turn around and get all that out especially after heavy rain when it gets really cakey nasty junky that's when we like it because then we pull it out we're able to utilize it mix it into our traditional compost or any dirt or lay right next to things that we are growing that helps us have a better garden for the next year and the next second we're in the no-till bed this is what we call our pea and bean garden we grow about 20 to 30 rows double stacked of peas and beans from soybeans that we're growing on the other side of the farm edamame you can use that so many different ways people give a bad name to soy because it's one of those things that we have modified so much that we believe that we can only buy gmo modified and it's bad for you and it hurts our stomachs kind of like gluten flour and things like that well it's just like lactose milk if you're lactose intolerant a lot of those things the reason they're so bad for us we've taken them and we've processed them to make them bad for us all the stuff that the government tells us that we have to do with our food ends up causing us a lot of issues so we we're growing usually non-gmo or heirloom or organic versions of anything that we have on farm so these peas these beans so for instance over here this is like a pink and purple hole over here this is like a henderson bush bean or a llama bean on past it we have another row of a different kind of top pick mississippi pink eye on the other side over there we have soybeans like a edamame because we believe that soybeans especially if they're grown in their natural source you can use them for so much now i'm not saying i'm going to eat a veggie burger but soy can be utilized in so many different ways but for us we just like to steam them and eat them and they're very very healthy for you if you do them that way reason you want to grow those on farm and this is one they're not it's not the fact that you're getting a monster load of nutrients which you are it's not the fact that you can't grow something else in this area which you can but the value of beans peas any kind of string beans contenders whatever you're growing it allows you to grow a lot off one plant so we will actually harvest probably two or three pickings off these plants and we will end up having 30 to 40 to 50 gallons worth of beans just right here in these few rows and then that's not counting the soybeans we'll probably grow another 30 to 40 gallons over there so you're growing a harvest again that you can turn around and freeze you can eat right off vine you can cook and boil down and have with a meal you can steam like the soybeans you can can you can dehydrate and you can dry again for the next year there's so many different ways you can utilize it soy we're not even going to talk about all the ways you can use soybeans because the world has taught us soyuz and everything you don't need a lot of space if you're growing in raised beds you can grow these in raised beds they don't go deep they don't need a lot of space to grow they love growing together all these rows will pretty much close in and be right on top of each other we will be walking single file down these little rows basically i mean just like this once they come up they're not quite up yet but once they're up that's it you know what's so cool though what have we fed this with compost and rabbit manure that's all that we've fed this area with this year last year the chickens were on it so we are we're utilizing what's on farm to turn around and feed was turn around and feed eating us then we're turning around and chopping dropping this bag it's going to feed the soil or we'll take the tops give back to the rabbits and chickens number two behind number one potatoes number two peas and beans of all sorts because they produce an abundance fresh duck eggs they get to be moved every day on fresh grass we give them a little grain but just entice on the move you notice right behind where they're going it's a heavy manure load it allows it and then we dump the waters right there on that that area too so it just makes a good little bed of compost and manure and good deep bedding that's the maneuver to the next spot in a few weeks that'll be solid green so then the cows will come back graze it again drop their manure and of course the roosters and chickens and ducks will come right behind it pick through manure get out of them and near as nasty as that sounds it's a very regenerative approach but it allows them to know that everything is getting cleaned everything's getting used and then our fields are getting re-fed by these animals that are partaking of them as you saw third is definitely corn now this comes with a a warning or a um kind of a just in case kind of thing corn comes we're going we're going to call this number three but same time we're going to kind of do a kind of a two number threes like i guess that makes sense if you have the land you need to grow corn corn is like soybeans it is is a cash crop it's one of those things that everybody tends to grow in big farms uh if it be ford you know biodiesel if it be for some kind of uh gasoline that we put in our car if it'd be for us to eat if it'd be for cornbread if it'd be for anything corn is so versatile corn on the cob it could be off the cob it could feed your animals not only are we using the corn we're using the husk we're turning around using all the greens because the corn is a grass so it's actually growing the corn is the by-product so but all the greens all this right here we actually go to feed all our animals at the end of the season i want to forewarn you if you don't have the land we'll discuss kind of the second part of number two corn is is definitely a nitrogen puller if you're a conventional person and you're okay with using conventional fertilizers which we don't you have to have a good nitrogen foundation uh to start and then you're gonna basically halfway through when it starts getting about this this tall you're gonna go ahead and literally re-feed it to the side of it make a trench re-bed it pour the dirt close to it and just put heavy nitrogen it's a hard thing with corn we actually are not great corn growers we grow what we can uh we we enjoy growing it but we're still learning because we know we have to have so much more nitrogen than what we're pushing out so between the rabbits the chickens uh we are actually putting a ton of nitrogen back in the soil cotton seed meal we can buy it organically we're also buying some organic blood meal to put in there because it's a slow release nitrogen booster however we're having to put a lot of amendments back into the soil but it is a game changer when you're growing it because not only are you growing corn and it's putting abundant off i have two patches of corn about this size and you can see some of it's growing better than the other we're fishing to re-feed it now actually with some rabbit manure we're going to go through the rose try to put some of that chicken betting that we talked about all down in here and it is hard to do and it's a lot of work but it provides a heck load of a lot food that again you could eat raw you can eat life you can cook it boil it down cream corn corn the cob but you can do so many different things when it comes to actually corn you can mill it down like a grain and then you've got cornmeal there's a value to it this is a sweet corn you can grow field corn uh here in mississippi we can go south mississippi and zone 8b i could grow actually two stands of corn i can grow this corn turn around and grow another set of corn somewhere else now because it is depleting the nitrogen load that's what we want to talk about is number two i am going to turn around and grow the second part of it's going to be a nitrogen filler it's going to be greens we're going to put mustard greens back in here which of course is great to eat as a superfood we're actually gonna put kale mustard collard and turnips right here if you don't have the room to grow corn wait for the cool season and you need to be growing greens greens is number three too and the reason i say that is because if you're growing corn you've got to turn around and grow something else here for the fall season and the cool crops to then add nitrogen back to the soil and also keep the ground really fertile so we turn around grow greens here which are collards mustards uh kale and of course some lettuces too but the value of that is not only are we eating the best quality greens off land it's feeding the ground back that's what you want to make sure you're doing if you're having corn you need to be feeding the ground back in some form or fashion corn not only is it providing the corn all the greens of course we're utilizing too it can be chop and drop but most of most of all could be for feeding animals such as making a salad or basically just throwing the corn stalks in with the cows the the chickens the pigs the sheep everybody eats it now we talk about the greens say you can't grow the corn wait for the coolness grow the superfoods in the greens kale is a superfood you can do so much with it it has so many benefits to it the mustard greens again if wherever you're growing it you're adding nitrogen back to the soil you're able to then harvest it and eat it also the same way with the turnips you've got turnip greens that you can turn around use the roots actually the turnips itself you can can you can boil down you can eat you can stew whatever you want to do with them two part number three grow the corn for the hot season then turn around grow the greens or some kind of nitrogen and richer back in the same area that you can turn around and eat so corn or greens because there's so many benefits to even the lettuce and things like that that you can grow in areas and you do not need a lot of space we grow lettuce 12 months out of the year even in a hot climate we learn to grow things like our our butter crunches that we like from hoss tools which we'll have a link to hoss tools down below but also we grow the coastals the muriels a lot of the hot seeded lettuce that tends to not bolt as quick even in our hot climates and we grow them in the shade areas number three growing corn if you're not growing corn you need to grow greens if you are growing corn still grow greens in the cool season fourth item that you need to be growing in your gardens or on your rooftops or on your patios or even inside and people are going to be surprised by this but it's herbs herbs and seasonings in your gardens herbs have such a great value on a farm they do not need a lot of space at all you can pretty much grow herbs all year round especially if you're growing them indoors on porches or can move them in and out we have a greenhouse so we grow herbs literally 12 months out of the year now do we grow herbs in the ground absolutely our yarrow our calendula our parsley our cilantro all that stuff is growing in ground right now then we have several that's strictly growing in the greenhouse a lot of things about the herbs is not only going to give you flavor you're not making sausage with sage all the time you're not making a great italian pesto or italian sauce or a spaghetti sauce those things are really good and you want to utilize those because it helps you balance out your palate with good quality foods that taste different and allows you not to have the monotonous flavor especially if you're eating all farm a lot you can change it up a little bit so that's one good thing about eating herbs and seasoning are growing herbs and seasoning however what it what we grown for is some additional benefits misty is supposed to do a video on how we uh what we do with a lot of these herbs from you know tarragons to yarrow to cilantro to parsley to even the green chives some of the flowers that you see here even to some of the other things that we're growing it all has purpose and allows us to know that if we're growing it we can utilize it in different ways we're growing rose because we're growing rose hips we're going itchanea we're growing all these beautiful herbs that you see all through this greenhouse all for purposes not only to season our food but also for health benefits you're making salves you have calendula if you're wanting something for skin soothing you may use lavender rosemary we've used for different rubs and different oils it's got so many different benefits to it and you need to of course research it don't just be lackadaisical in your approach with herbs don't just plant them for prettiness but understand there's value in all that you plant from oreganos to these rosemaries to the lavender over there in the corner to another rosemary to more parsley all here instant gratification because it grows really really quick but also you can harvest it for instance one of the easiest things to grow is basil basil and marigold together sorry guys i'm turning the water off basil and marigold together we grow with a lot of other plants as companion planting it allows them to deter a lot of the things like bugs and slugs and snails that come up and eat a lot of your shrubs or eat a lot of your other vegetables that you're growing for companion planting supplemental things such as seasoning of your meat more than that is because it gives you the benefits of medicinal value to a lot of things that you're growing but here we have a lot of herbs on farm and there's value to all of them don't grow them just to grow them but growing for value not for just food but for medicinal benefits and also for your health so i'm finished with the chores i'm finishing up with the pigs here in the pig forest also the cows in the back we've talked about four different crops actually five if you count the two for number three it's a little complicated i'm sorry things that you need to be growing in your gardens from potatoes peas and beans corn and greens and then number four of course your herbs i know that sounds like a lot of stuff and it is and it's not gonna come easy it's hard work but when you talk about raising food for your family to be inflation proof to say you know what i don't care if a food shortage is coming i don't care if we can't get this or that from walmart because we're growing it on farm that is what's awesome to have that sustainability to have the stewardship to say i'm going to use my land wisely and then turn around to have the satisfaction to say i'm eating off my grounds off the plate it's feeding my animals and it's yummy and i don't have to depend on the big box stores provided by food that is what's awesome so if you enjoyed this video let me know tell me other than these four five six ten whatever i mentioned in this video what are you growing that you think that could be really good on farm i know people talk about squash zucchini tomatoes all those are great okra very good we enjoy all those and we grow those on farm however either because their abundance is not there or because you can't utilize them in several ways they did they just tended not to make the survival for crop list so we hope you enjoyed this video grow what you can grow where you are whatever space you have you need to be utilizing it and not only that making sure you're taking care of your family god bless happy homestead [Music] you

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Published: Thu May 05 2022