We got about 300 lbs of food for $30 at the farmers market. There was so much food that we filled the trunk of our car.
We got different kinds of squash and many pounds of potatoes.
The squash went into the freezer for long term storage. When we pull some out, it turns out pretty good. We froze them whole with the skin on. We will have enough squash for the entire year. And we really love squash in this house.
We buried the potatoes under a few feet of sand out by the garden. This will keep them fresh and prevent them from freezing during the winter months. Sand is the perfect storage medium for potatoes. It holds the moisture level and temperature right for long term storage.
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If you keep your eyes open, you can often get scores like this during the growing season. Great Job!
Thanks. This was a great haul. The squash will keep us going for a year.
We all know what's going to happen. It's going to spoil. There's a sort of a theme going on there. The racoons killed my chickens. The frost got my harvest. My solar failed. The mice ...... You get the picture.
No. The squash is safely in the freezer.
The potatoes are under 3 feet of sand.
The chickens are in the freezer too.
Cats are eating mice so we are good there too.
Looking good I would say.
Cats are eating mice so we are good there too.
Yesterday you said you not seen any mice. Lies again.
but you just commented that you haven't seen a single mouse this year. See when you lie on video it's not a good thing because you need a good memory to remember your lies. And the squash is safely in the freezer until a power failure.
I just went and looked at a pirated video of this and couldn't believe the bad condition of this produce. We feed these crappy vegetables to our chickens. They are on the verge of rotting already and he plans to eat for a year on them. Hope they don't force the kid to eat that crap. The potatoes are so tiny and rotting its no wonder he only paid thirty bucks for that mess. Never seen such bad corn in my life. Not a deal by any stretch of the imagination. I wouldn't feed that to anyone I loved.
relying heavily on your freezer is not good sense. Using it to preserve meat is one thing but taking up valuable space for vegetables that can be canned is a waste of money.
WE love this! We get these hauls from time to time and we mostly can it and put it up in the pantry.
We were going to can the squash but we got a freeze so it went into the freezer whole. Turned out fine though.
Sure was a great deal.
you will be greatly disappointed in the squash after its been in the freezer for a while. I thought the freezer was full of deer, fish and chickens. How big is this freezer? A walk in?
Dollar ah pound is not too shabby. Can't get that in the grocery store.
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Wow thats an awesome food haul you got there , way to go Troy , the squash look awesome , it must be amazing to be able to shop at a real farmers market and not a grocery store . I also want to apologize for my bad behavior towards you here on steemit . I got a message from STEEM CLEANERS and they made me see the error of my ways , only positve and uplifting content in my comments from now on .
it wasn't a farmers market is was a grocery store. Google it.
Yeah, I will believe that when I see it.
thanks for the reply your'e awesome
@thediyworld ........... i think it is awesome that GROCERY STORE you got all of the food at offers such great deals , and it's awesome that you call them a farmers market even though the reviewers that posted the 3 reviews i looked at on their website thinks they are a grocery store also , and they even have a carwash ....... there are not any grocery stores or farmers markets here that have car washes . I want to share the reviews these fine people left so everyone knows how awesome this food store really is
Oleson's Farm Fresh Markets
Jim P.
Traverse City, MI
5.0 star rating 2/16/2016
I love Oleson's. Truly a great grocery store and a very generous family. I remember meeting the original owner Jerry Oleson back when I was in Boy Scouts in the 80's. They would let the local troops use their cabin on Long Lake for our winter retreats. Great man and a great American dream story. Their store now a days is very clean and the staff are pleasant and attentive. Sure the groceries might be a few penny's more than the mega mart down the road but it's worth it for the better service.
Chris L.
Traverse City, MI
4.0 star rating 9/8/2016
Great local grocery store.
Love that they carry local food and specialty items. An excellent selection of liquor and beer.
Christine T.
Traverse City, MI
4.0 star rating 10/29/2011
This grocery store beats having to wait in long lines at Meijer! I usually don't have to wait very long to check out here.
They sell local buffalo, you can find it in the frozen food section. Occasionally, they have fresh ground buffalo.
I am happy to see more and more local products being sold here, please keep them coming!
There is also a nice touch-less car wash here. AGAIN I CANNOT BEGIN TO TELL EVERYONE HOW AWESOME THE GROCERY STORE , YOUR FOOD HAUL AND YOU ARE ............... UTTERLY AMAZING ,TRUELY .
see, its just a grocery store getting rid of bad vegetables, no biggy
Troy could you do a guide on how to purchase subs for a Youtube channel. I wish to start a channel and to get of to a good start in the New Year, I feel it would be a good start to have 20000 subs in the first three months.
What organization do you use? From your Socialblade User Statistics https://socialblade.com/youtube/user/techman2015 it appears you are buying subscribers at the rate of 50 per day. How much does this cost? Do you buy in multiples of 50, 100 etc? Or is it bigger blocks? What costs are involved for such purchases?
As I said, it would make a good post.
Stating such lies as fact is criminal.
I have 2,000 videos on YouTube. I get subs watching older videos all the time.
In print it's called Libel. Seeing as how it is in print (so to speak) it tends to be it's own evidense.
If that's the case, which no one believes, then maybe you can explain how a person can have 103,000 subs and only a 3% new video viewership rate? There's NO ONE on YouTube who has a worse ratio. Either you're buying subs or there are a lot of stupid people out there lured to your videos for some unknown reason who then stop watching after the first couple of videos because they see you're a fraud. Which is it?
Or just maybe the trolls destroyed my channel, threatening lives of my subs?
And dont even try to deny it. I am even now still getting messages from people who were threatened.
Just go away.
Let me make my living and take care of my family.
Trolls? You ban anyone who says something negative on YouTube. There's no way the trolls destroyed your channel. That's just foolish. You have so few negative comments under each video it's almost silly. Go visit 'Pure Living for Life' which is FAR more successful than your channel. Today they have an equal number of thumbs down as thumbs up and MANY negative comments. No, it has NOTHING to do with trolls, Troy. That's just an excuse to cover for the fact that you make shit videos that are riddled with lies and DIY advice that is generally quite poor. So, how DO you buy subs?
Blocking a troll for two years only blinded me to what you guys were already saying. As you know.
And you still thumb down every single thing I do to this day.
I dont buy subs. I would never risk my channel like that.
What's this "you guys" shit? I'm not a "you guys." I'm me. And what do you mean when you block a troll you don't know what they are saying? When you block a troll you block a troll. Their comments are removed. And I personally do NOT thumbs down your videos. Why? Because you profit from thumbs downs and I don't want to give you revenue. And BTW, you can hide thumbs ups/downs. And again, NO ONE on YouTube as as many subs as you and worse ratio of views-per-subscribers. So if (and it's a big if) you don't buy subs, that means your viewers really hate what they see shortly after subscribing to you.
can you post these several so called messages you are getting to provide proof? after all you demand proof from everyone else.
Why dont you just go mind your own business and leave me alone
i demand proof of your claims. you think it is just fine to make accusations and claims without evidence but get pissed if others make accusations without showing proof and when they do show it you grey it out or delete it. double standards are clearly being shown here.
please provide proof of your claims that my YouTube channel has been destroyed...
here it seems to b growing nicely:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCZcw-7xex-c8c-swiJZuTIg
and my second YouTube channel is doing very well also considered it is very young and mainly only used for commenting:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCh4sN0Q7eQwB4WEnOl7eCrg
he is kidding you martin, he needs all of us viewers, even Rose the one with the IQ similar to troy- almost 50. Rose is a sweetie, she is selling her feces on craigslist to make some money for a new hemorrhoid, her old ones are giving her trouble.
You've been told the same thing Troy, Just go away.
Part of it is his click bait videos. He has a ton of views on that video where he put a tiny air conditioner in the first trailer and ran it on batteries. Anyone can do this the problem is for how long? He didn't cool his trailer with the ac because he didn't have the battery or solar setup for continued ac. He lived in an apartment away from the film site so it really didn't matter but the deceit has been profitable.
Your Socialblade statistics tell a story - a consistant story at that - that you are purchasing subs of around 50 a day. Any variations on the amount is where the subs have unsubscribed. Click on the link provided. You may want to vary the purchases in the future. It will look better.
Who do you purchase them from?
And it's only criminal if it's a lie.
I do not purchase subs.
Your continued harassment of my family online and in the real world is criminal.
Do you use cut and paste for these answers? Why mention the "real world?" Just say "is criminal."
What world do you live in? You keep mentioning the "real world."
And what's happened to your foot note:
"Please ignore the nasty troll comments that follow'
Trolls from YouTube have found me here and are harassing me?"
The harassment is clear and real.
There have been some pretty nasty threats made right here on steemit.
Let the World judge for themselves who are the bad guys.
And the so called "continued harassment". It's not! I'm just here to warn other Steemit users of your practices. Either of the fraudulent kind or your dangerous work practices!
Your harassment of my is clear to the World now.
Ryan showing his ugly head as the king leader that you all worship is just more clarity for the World to see.
When is the flashlight giveaway your promised?
nope, these fine people have opened my eyes to your deceit and lies. Nothing more. They are a treasure here on steemit
When is the flashlight giveaway your promised?
He also promised to pay us for following and commenting on Steemit...
When are you going to pay us like you promised???
"When is the flashlight giveaway your promised?" Is that a fraud Troy?
Yep thats it! Thats why your views are down. Get real it is because content went to crap and you show nothing getting finished and constantly not finishing a project
I think he is fixing to get red tagged from the property with his illegal wiring and showing it on video is not smart. Then he will be running the show from a walmart parking lot. How to grow weeds in a walmart shopping cart.
wow you made 4 cents in 2hrs troy... gonna get those bills paid yet ;)
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STOPWhen is the flashlight giveaway Troy? You know, the giveaway you started telling people about MONTHS ago? Do you not have the money for postage? Or is it you're just too busy spending your life online as an Internet addict? It's not nice to promise things to your loyal followers and then not come through as promised.
I though he said fleshlite...
You always have a reason you can't work on the homestead. And the new viewers will see that soon enough. It's too cold or it's too hot or it's too wet or it's too dry or I hurt myself and Mommy couldn't fix it
Well, blowing out a knee is a good reason I would think.
If you dont like me just leave. Find something else to entertain you.
But harassing my family online and in the real world is criminal.
i dislocate my knee about twice a week but i still seem to get my work done and even do so awesome hiking etc...
Turd blows a lot of stuff and knees isn't on the list...
Proof that you can edit my videos real well.
Makes your claims of any evidence against me null and void.
When is the flashlight giveaway your promised?
Turd is charging it with his teeny bedini weenie...
What you’ve fcked your knee again Trog?
Overdo the Wednesday night Bushafting did we, you want to get a friend to help you next time.
Are the church insured or will you just go round and bed for their money to get you over Christmas?
At the same time he was filing legal documents claiming he could support his bought wife he was on youtube begging for strangers to buy her clothes. Remember that? Its in his videos
All we do is make videos of our daily lives on the homestead.
Anyone can see that for themselves.
Harassing my family online and in the real world is criminal
Troy I blew my knee out and worked every day not missing a beat. Im on my feet most of my work day. No missed days off. Your poor me im disabled does not work.
his mommy drives hours over to the dumpsite to kiss it and make it better. While there he has her clean, cook, can and do the washing for him. Slavedriver that troy is
Nope I'm here for the money you promised we would make. Thanks again for the invite
You are not wanted here.
Harassment is criminal.
When is the flashlight giveaway your promised?
when will you revive the broken ribs act? That was always good for a laugh.
Troy prove it where are the pictures from the ER and you never mentioned a blown knee before. Another lie. Same lie about the show truck when you had already purchased a new vehicle months ago. Stop lying all of the time another reason you are losing viewers.
I do not bow to the demands of trolls.
When is the flashlight giveaway your promised?
troyreidlies (25) · 4 minutes ago
when will you revive the broken ribs act? That was always good for a laugh.
bettyswallocks (17) · 9 hours ago
Troy prove it where are the pictures from the ER and you never mentioned a blown knee before. Another lie. Same lie about the show truck when you had already purchased a new vehicle months ago. Stop lying all of the time another reason you are losing viewers.
hey troy i cant wait to see your youtube silver award. when does it arrive? ive seen several other youtubers with less subs than you get theirs already...
you might want to contact youtube and find out what is taking so long...
But then they would have to verify his 103,000 subs are real....And only giving him 2k max views...
troy can you please explain your comment in this screen capture?
now i understand that women don't like to be touched by strangers BUT
every woman ive ever known likes to be touched by their partner. whether that be a boyfriend, girlfriend, husband, wife... if women don't like to be touched by you then perhaps it should tell you something about yourself.
my wife Addie is American (Wisconsinite to be exact) and she loves to be touched by me.
Get off my blog.
Stop harassing me.
Go take care of your own life and leave my family alone.
i am simply a concerned citizen asking a fair and reasonable question about a comment YOU made. i have never done anything to your family so please stop making that false accusation about me. and no troy i will never leave so long as you are on the internet spreading lies and filth about me and inciting others to attack me and my family.
That was amazing. He is an idiot. Why didn't he just come out and say women are freaked out by me (who can blame them) and I like to touch myself while looking at them . I need a young woman from a third world country that will take whatever abuse I throw her way just so she can get a green card.
@thediyworld. Troy you said in one video that you only eat food that it chemical free. What is the origin of this "300 lbs of food for $30?"
it was meant for a pig farmer to feed his pigs but when he say trog he relabeled it as rotten vegetables and trog fell for it. It goes well with old musty deer corn.
fixedbydoc (54) · 9 hours ago
have you ever tried growing potatoes? and i dont mean the one time you bought them and buried them then dug up the same day and claimed you grew them despite the bag being in the background and the dirt being freshly dug before you pretended to dig.
here is my potato garden harvest: https://steemit.com/homesteading/@fixedbydoc/our-potato-harvest-2016
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That's a sizeable haul. If you are living in a tiny house where can you store it all?
Why run a freezer if you have harsh Winters? Why not have a food safe outside?
From the rest of your Blog this seems to be months old. Aren't you misleading your viewers? Why not state how old the information is?
Read the article. I said it was from earlier in the article.
Nothing misleading but you trolls.
Where are you storing it all though? And a supplemental question, what would be acceptable amount too loose has spoilt produce?
Did you read the article?
"We got about 300 lbs of food.........." Yes I did read it? Did you read my question? I call Bull Shit!
@the-diy-world your words are to big for him to comprehend. maybe if you try smaller words?
Glitchy-glitchy...Clicky-clicky
the-diy-world (18) · 8 hours ago
That's a sizeable haul. If you are living in a tiny house where can you store it all?
Why run a freezer if you have harsh Winters? Why not have a food safe outside?
From the rest of your Blog this seems to be months old. Aren't you misleading your viewers? Why not state how old the information is?
why did you go and spend so much money on all that food when you could have grown it for free in your garden like i did?
https://steemit.com/homesteading/@fixedbydoc/my-food-garden-harvest
This guy cant grow anything he has proved that last 5 years
well he ruined his garden by allowing cats to crap in it. that is toxic to humans and specially babies.
At least we dont put in our own human sewage like you do.
apparently you do not know or understand the difference between humanure and sewage. suggest you educate yourself on the topics. and my stuff is FDA approved both state and federally and i have proven so. secondly nearly all commercially grown food in America uses humanure on their crops. again do some research. your ignorance is your downfall troy. that and your lack of comprehension skills.
I saw the stuff you use.
ick.
you mean this stuff here is ick?
LMFAO you need to get educated
here is a good starting point for you to start educating yourself on proper processing and use of humanure.
https://www.google.com/search?q=humanure+composting+&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&client=firefox-b-1-ab
suggest you read up on it because they way YOU used YOUR composting toilet and processed it in NY was completely WRONG!
you mean this stuff here that is certified healthy and safe fertilizer and considered one of the best fertilizers in Pennsylvania and also deemed far safer than the store bought monsanto stuff?
https://fixedbydoc.com/2016/09/26/how-we-compost-our-humanure/
He also is a total failure at fertilizing....
I dont get your problem with spreading organic fertilizer on the garden.
You guys keep claiming that I somehow faked the frost on the ground.
Very strange.
fixedbydoc (54) · 10 hours ago
why did you go and spend so much money on all that food when you could have grown it for free in your garden like i did?
https://steemit.com/homesteading/@fixedbydoc/my-food-garden-harvest
Damn glitch,,,
fixedbydoc (54) · 2 hours ago
why did you go and spend so much money on all that food when you could have grown it for free in your garden like i did?
https://steemit.com/homesteading/@fixedbydoc/my-food-garden-harvest
Funny how glitches seem to follow Troy wherever he goes. First the You Tube glitch of people being blocked, then deleted comments, then not clicking the bell. This guy is mental and a real christian who follows the word of the bible. Must have done something wrong in his life for God to turn on him.
The only people who turned on me are stinky trolls.
Damn glitch,,,
fixedbydoc (54) · 2 hours ago
why did you go and spend so much money on all that food when you could have grown it for free in your garden like i did?
https://steemit.com/homesteading/@fixedbydoc/my-food-garden-harvest
have you ever tried growing potatoes? and i dont mean the one time you bought them and buried them then dug up the same day and claimed you grew them despite the bag being in the background and the dirt being freshly dug before you pretended to dig.
here is my potato garden harvest: https://steemit.com/homesteading/@fixedbydoc/our-potato-harvest-2016
Steemit glitch strikes again...
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fixedbydoc (54) · 1 hour ago
have you ever tried growing potatoes? and i dont mean the one time you bought them and buried them then dug up the same day and claimed you grew them despite the bag being in the background and the dirt being freshly dug before you pretended to dig.
here is my potato garden harvest: https://steemit.com/homesteading/@fixedbydoc/our-potato-harvest-2016
Dammit that glitch seems to be bad today...
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fixedbydoc (54) · 1 hour ago
have you ever tried growing potatoes? and i dont mean the one time you bought them and buried them then dug up the same day and claimed you grew them despite the bag being in the background and the dirt being freshly dug before you pretended to dig.
here is my potato garden harvest: https://steemit.com/homesteading/@fixedbydoc/our-potato-harvest-2016