Why we Don’t Use Tomato Cages, and What we Now Use.

Please don’t apologize for doing gardening videos! My husband and I both enjoy immensely watching your garden grow! Thank you for sharing!

My youngest son (10)is quite a bit younger than our older two children 21 & 16, and after watching your videos I began to focus on teaching him and requesting him to assist me in our garden. He is in charge of our fruit( strawberries and watermelons) and also our potatoe bags by choice at this point. He is even upset if I do too much in the early morning hours before he wakes up. 😂I’m amazed how fast he is learning and we have been studying garden tips together. Thank you for all your garden tips that are so helpful this first year gardening for me, but also giving me an example of how to include children in the garden. I love your channel so much!

Love seeing their bare feet in dirt and being taught skills! You are a GREAT mom!!!

Handsome, strong young men helping their mom. Doesn't get any better!

Two main things that you may or may not have thought of: 1.) By going to the state extension office, you have made the authorities aware of this problem for other farmers in the extension office's jurisdiction, so they can make other farmers aware of the possibility this may have happened to their plants. 2.) By informing us all on your video, we are aware that this could actually be the reason why our plants are not doing well in our area. I am in Minnesota, and never would have thought to look for spray from a neighbor's farm or known what to do about it. Thank you for the great videos.

It is wonderful to see the little guys helping! I have 4 grown children and you are correct in your assessment that they need structure and responsibility. More important than just nurturing the garden, you are growing capable children!❤

I never get tired of seeing garden videos from you. I always learn something along the way.

Thank you for speaking out, Ruth. It takes courage to do so, and it is all our responsibility to do so, if we have proof that large farmers are using toxic chemicals near our land, and we are being affected by it. As Marlene below pointed out, you also are giving other farmers a heads-up that this is a very common problem. Jess from Roots and Refuge had grazone drift in her high tunnel a few years ago, and it decimated everything in her high tunnel that year, and took quite a while to locate the source. She also spoke out, and I think the more small gardeners and farmers let the big guys know we do not appreciate their mistreatment of our soil (and theirs, truthfully), the sooner we can get serious action. I am like you in that I COULD buy my food at a store, and do buy my corn at my local organic farmer down the road from me, but I just love how healthy and tasty my homegrown food is, and I am appalled at what is going on in the industrial food world. I don't want to support it. I also get great joy from just being in my garden! Because I lease my front field to that same organic farmer I buy corn from, and he's growing his corn crop in my field this year, I will be able to have free corn this year! (Part of our deal!) As always, your videos are thought-provoking and educational. I ALWAYS learn something new about gardening, even though I've been gardening for longer than I want to admit to, ha ha! Thank you, Gale from Vermont 🌻

My husband farms, and I have a hobby greenhouse business. He is EXTREMELY careful to have crops sprayed when the wind is in the opposite direction whenever possible. I am so grateful for his support!

Amen, Sister! “ I don’t want his money, I want my garden”. Keep on keeping on. Appreciate y’all, God bless!

The idea of neighbors cooperating with each other is an old idea. I love that! We all help each other in my little neighborhood.

They look so happy to help. You have amazing children with amazing parents .

I also LOVE that you and the kids go barefoot! I always did as a kid and still try to as much as possible at 64 yo.

I love love love cattle panels for trellising things. I do tomatoes and peas on cattle panels. They are the first things I plant in my garden every year and then I put the plants / seeds in along the panels. I couldn't homestead with out cattle panels, zip ties, and duct tape lol. I love your garden visits, never apologize for time spent in the garden. Your parenting advice regarding chores vs free time is spot on.

Often times having children help is more trouble than help. But, if you want to raise healthy children you need to keep allowing them to help, and positively encourage their efforts. You do a good job with both. Thank you for the lovely video. God bless.

I look forward to this new upload every Saturday morning ❤ I grew up Amish and our lives were much the same as this. A lot of hard wholesome work and so worth the effort. I love how these boys willingly help knowing the reward of harvest and the good food you make for them. I also love how you are always patiently teaching the boys. You truly are an inspiration ❤

I will never get tired of your gardening videos. They are so informative and give me garden goals . I love seeing you all work together as family. ❤

37 year old stay at home, homesteading mama raising two under two over here in Vermont- just stumbled across your channel and couldn't be happier that I did! You are a wealth of knowledge and breath of fresh air in the homesteading youtube community :) thank you!!!

I love the way you are raising your family, I wish the world would do the same. If I could go back in time, my family would be so different, I love you channel

I love how patient you are while teaching your children how to help out. Teaching traditions is so important.