Laying by corn....Why I didn't marry that city girl

morning folks this is Josh Stoney Ridge farmer welcome to the farm vlog today well we've harvested our corn out of our garden for the year and you might have seen that video already if you haven't seen it then right here it is what we're going to do today is we're going to show you how we put back our corn so basically we're going to freeze our corn and this is the way we do it this is the southern style way of doing it the way that my grandparents did it the way that my parents did it and we'll show you how we do it so come along today on the vlog we've got everything set up here on the back of the Gator and we're gonna have some fun here working with our corn all right [Music] [Applause] [Music] before we get started with today's corn blog let's get corny with some Dollar Shave Club guys so Dollar Shave Club is our day sponsor for the day here on the channel this is the new $5 dollar shave club package that you get their introductory package if you go to dollarshaveclub.com forward slash Stoney Ridge you get all kinds of cool stuff in here for five bucks you get a how many razors one two three four pack of razors a premium executive razor for executive shaving evidently Dollar Shave Club thought I had a pretty beard I guess that's why they're our sponsor of the channel it's kind of funny you get this executive premium razor I think that thing has like five or six razors on it this stuff's made in America it's a good quality company and if I didn't believe in it I wouldn't show you you also get one wipe Charlies one wipe Charlies for wiping your Charlie if you need any further instruction on that please read the instructions included in your box also lavender body cleanser so you smell good for mrs. Stoney Ridge or for your missus whatever Ridge farm you live on also shea butter so this stuff really works good makes your face feel smooth contrary to popular belief if you have a beard you still have to shave now I know a lot of you guys might not shave this area right here but it looks gross so clean up go to dollarshaveclub.com forward slash Stoney Ridge and pick yourself up a kit today alright so what we have here is golden queen corn now we pick this golden queen corn a couple days ago and some of it started to dry up already so what we'll do is will rehydrate that corn by soaking it in a bucket full of cool water no big deal let me show you here what it looks like on the cob okay and you can see these kernels have started to dry up a little bit kind of unfortunate but we have another corn garden up here and to be perfectly honest with you the golden queen corn is not as good as the Silver Queen corn so I'm not really too awfully excited about this it just has a better flavor it's sweeter it's more delicious and it makes a better southern style creamed corn now we say creamed corn here but it doesn't have cream in it it's just the way we harvest the kernels of the corn and I'll show you how we do that you don't have to put cream in it it doesn't have to be milky and disguise it's just pure corn so let's get busy so here's our corn harvest for the year and I'm gonna say it was on like 1/16 of an acre probably 1/16 of an acre is enough to feed your family off of so just FYI you don't need to plan a whole lot of corn in order to get enough to feed your family through the winter this stuff will probably only keep for a year maybe two years in the freezer you really just kind of want to eat it as time goes on and not leave it in there for two and three years it just gets you up here as time goes on we will be freezing this we will not be canning this we're gonna go assembly line style basically you have your pile of corn you've got your cutting board and your knife will cut the ends off well shuck it will throw the shucks in the back of the Gator and then we'll toss our corn ears in a bucket of cool water right here beside the Gator will probably fill both of these buckets maybe even four buckets full of corn once we do that we'll take it and we'll show you how we scrape the corn off of the cob we've got a cool little tool I want to show you too all right I don't want you to think that this is some miracle of modern agriculture it really isn't a miracle it's just something pretty simple it's just how we keep our corn very very simple I recommend not doing what we did so right now I'm having to waste quite a bit of corn just for the simple fact that we harvested it a couple days ago instead of leaving it on the stalk so if you're gonna get your corn off the stock go ahead and be ready and process it so what we're gonna do is just get busy rocking this out and the goats are gonna have an awesome awesome treat of note corn silks I'm told corn silks are good for your urinary tract so they sell corn silk pills dehydrated corn silk pills online and I've never heard of this before but I'm told if you have frequent urinary tract infections that corn silk can help with the pain and the urinary tract infection I had no idea but here's your corn silk so each silk is attached to its own individual kernel right here okay and you see there's some empty kernels we had an infestation of Japanese beetles in our garden probably right as the corn began to blossom in other words right as it started to shoot castles at the top and to shoot silks out of the ear of corn look at this and listens a beautiful ear so anyhow at that point the Japanese beetles got into the silks of the corn and they did not get fertile like they should that's a wonderful ear of corn right there well let all that stuff hydrate and you'll see the before and after here in just a minute [Music] we've got some corn that's not quite too delicious looking right in here normally what we would do is we'll take our knife and we'll just cut in here and get rid of that section no biggie but this one's got some rot all the way around it so we want to be careful if it looks like it's got a little mildew on it or rot we want to get rid of it so we'll take this to the goats I don't mind teaching you a lesson learn this lesson from me if you're gonna do corn if you're gonna put back corn pick it and shuck it and freeze it in the same day if you possibly can so set aside some time that you can fool with it so we don't get rotten so it started getting moisture issues and and the reason behind all this is because we simply went on vacation when we should have been doing our farm work that's the way it goes sometimes the vacations okay we probably have I don't know ten dozen twelve dozen ears of corn here something like that it's a whole lot cheaper to replace twelve dozen ears of corn that it is to replace an unhappy wife guys some of these might have worms or caterpillars on them you see that little guy right there that's a caterpillar that's okay if they've been munching in here we just try to cut the end off that they've been munching on not a big deal but it reminds me of a funny story so when I was in the Air Force I was in the Air Force from 1995 to 2000 and I dated a young lady who was quite the city girl she now lives in the San Francisco Bay Area of California and I live here in the hills and mountains of North Carolina we often had conversations if we stayed together where we'd want to live and pretty much the ultimate decision-maker on ending my relationship with this person was she told me she wanted to look out her backdoor and see other houses there's nothing wrong with that but that's just not the way I want to live my life I want to look out the door and see beautiful trees and in my beautiful farm so the funny story part of this is she had a giant cherry tree in the backyard and I'm talking about a huge cherry tree and this is in the back of her parents yard we were still young enough where most of us were still living with our parents besides the military guys but her dad was a retired Air Force guy and her mom was from the Azores I went back there she said oh you can't eat those they have worms in them I said worms they said yep so we went back there and I picked me four or five and every one I cracked open had a big old fat white worm in it so I brought a handful of them back in the house and I said oh these are fine and they said what do you mean they're fine I got worms at them I said all those worms taste just like cherries and I cracked that thing open to not just lurked up the worm and ate it right in front of her mom it was hilarious make a good first impression on a mom and a dad just eat a worm in front of them okay so let's give you the before-and-after so this is the before and you see it's kind of wrinkly and dehydrated and this is the after so least kernels plump right back up just let them soak in water for a good hour or so so the next step in this process is D silking you want to get all those silks off of the cornet you can we're just using a brush here and I'll put a link down below to a D sinking brush basically just a brush and you just remove all the silks from the corn because you don't want to eat those they're not very tasty kind of getting your teeth a little bit so we'll go through the entire five gallon bucket of corn here and we will de silk them all this corn will shrink down to probably three or four freezer bags full of corn a lot of work goes into this for a lot of tasty treat okay so I'll get busy D silking this corn and there's really the only technique you need to know is brush the crap out of it and off it will come the next step we'll be doing is removing all the bad spots and we'll put them in the same bucket as the silks right here and we'll take that up you can feed it to our chickens and then we'll cut it off the cob and I have a nifty little tool right here I'll show you it's a corn cob tool it's made for creaming corn and we'll post a link down below and we'll try this tool out I've never used it before maybe it'll save us some time maybe would be a pain in the butt maybe I'll cut my finger we'll see okay so the next step in this whole process is to cut out the bad spots if there are any dark spots or bad spots just use your little knife your little paring knife and get those bad spots off then you hold the corn in your hand and just basically shave it right off now you don't want to shave all the way down to the cob okay you just want to shave it down a little bit you don't want to shave it down to the cob and that's where the creamed corn part comes in this is like a southern style creamed corn so first we're gonna try it the old-fashioned way just like this and then we're gonna show you the new cool tool now I haven't used a new cool tool yet but it'll be fun to try with you for the very first time so what I'm doing is just basically taking the tops scalping the top of the corn okay and again if there any bad spots I've got a yucca bucket right down here and a good bucket right down here so I get all the bad spots out I'll cut all the tops off of that corn very very simple very easy a little time-consuming and guys I know and you know it's easier to go buy it in the can and it's cheaper to go buy it in a can at Walmart or whatever store you want to shop it if you're too good to go to Walmart I guess you can go to Target but it never tastes as good as it does if it's grown at home I'm telling you or even if you bought it off of a farm or if you went to the farmers market bought a couple dozen ears of corn you'll never regret this in the wintertime when it's cold outside you pick you some nice biscuits put a little corn fresh corn it tastes just like it came right off the cob so basically what we're doing here is milking the cob so you'll take your knife and you'll just go down like that and that milks all the juices out of there and that's what makes your creamed corn now we try to here without our fancy gadget now we'll get our fancy gadget out and give it a shot I have not used this so I do not know first thing we'll do is we'll get the bad spots out there's a few bad spots here and again we didn't use any sprays so I'd anticipate more bad spots more in little spots where bugs might have nibbled that's okay there are no sprays on it what went into this corn and I know what went into the soil all right this is designed it has a little cutting blade right here it has a little site area right here so these little grabbers will cream a5 the corn and that will scrape the cob so blade little cutters and a scraper let's see how she works or does she work sometimes these kind of contraptions weren't really good and sometimes they don't work worth a hoot it might have already been set up just right and I screwed it up which has happened before all right so go right across okay no it'd be nice if it was a time-saver if I'm a fan of that thing let's keep trying I give up yep okay hmm I don't like it I died in my book this thing is a dud but it was worth a try what's going back to the old primitive method you get our knife out and get to cutting get you a little close-up of how we're doing this it's easier to work the knife toward you get you up here a little closer here in a second we'll get done with this ear remember your knife is for cutting not for pushing so use it like a little saw blade and don't cut your fingers off because you'll need those for the rest of this job so here's a nice ear we're basically going to work our knife down and we're just scalping across the top okay so just scalp right across the top and what you want to do is leave most of that juicy part that germ you want to leave most of that in there okay as time goes on as you work this corn a little bit more and a little bit more you'll get better and better with your knife now you're thinking to yourself I can't believe I'm watching a guy cut corn off the cob on YouTube well believe it and you're learning something and you're having fun it's just better than watching stuff blow up on TV just all that's on TV blowing stuff up get tired of turn the TV on hear a bunch of commercials about hair loss products and stuff blowing up with a bunch of actors that don't like guns I don't need to show you that anymore basically slice it off moving that knife this way don't push it just slice it okay and then go back through and scrape out all that germ and then we'll go in the house this pot will be probably half way full and we'll show you how we freeze it so see you in the house alright folks so we're in the kitchen here and we're working with our food saver this is our food saver it's probably five years old it's an older version I'll post a link down below to a newer version but they basically all do the same we want to make sure that our heating elements on our food saver are nice and clean and I just take a damp rag and I make sure I keep them wiped nice and clean and I also want to make sure that this little drip tray right here is empty and it's nice and clean every time you put it up clean it good now we're not going to use pre-cut bags we're gonna cut our own bags and we're going to cut them to about the quart freezer bag size which is about like this and they have little marker lines on here that you know denote how big your bag is we're gonna slide this bag in here and we're gonna press it [Applause] it'll start to seal and basically what we want is a good seal just like that a good solid line across there that's how the FoodSaver works I smashed my finger it's not dirt I promise we've got a couple bags already made up here and you want to make sure that you're not using or dropping the bag that you're not using more than you would eat in probably two sittings okay so we've got a family of four put four or eight servings in there so that you have enough for leftovers if you want it and if you don't like leftovers just put four servings in that way you're not throwing any away or wasting any so we'll come over here and I basically just have a big old spoon and we'll spoon out however much we want in there okay and basically my wife and I are gonna eat probably four big spoonfuls per meal so we'll put four nice heaping spoonfuls in each bag I think that was five I lost count but you know what you're gonna eat you know what your family's gonna eat now slide this guy on the way and you want to make sure it's nice and clean we're gonna put this end down into the food saver with the smooth side up and the rough serrated side down I guess you call it serrated but the rough side down smooth side up and we want to have this set on moist so moist food smooth side up and get a good seal now the bag is heating up and sealing it's gonna suck out some of that moisture into that little drip tray I showed you that's cool it's okay I'll see what our bag looks like all right nice and sealed vacuum sealed vacuum tight we'll put on here the date so the month in the year and what it is and you know it's cream corn but we'll put it's the first harvest because our second harvest I think is going to be much more delicious so guys we've already taken one load up here to the goats and we're gonna take our second load of corn shucks up here to the goats some of the corn didn't do so well so while we're sitting in the buckets it kind of I guess just got moldy so a whole lot of it we're gonna feed to the goats and we'll be depending on that corn garden you see right behind me so we've probably got a quarter of an acre of silver queen corn planted right there it will probably depend mainly on that for our corn this year but I did want to show you how we put our corn back the southern way the way my great-grandparents taught my grandparents and taught my parents so stay tuned for a future vlog once we start harvesting this corn right here which it's tasseled out really good I'll take you over there and show you here in just a minute we're gonna go ahead and dump some of this over to the goats they really love it delicious corn so any time we can give our goats something green and fresh we give it to them they love this stuff give them some good roughage awesome got one more bucket and this is basically the corn that just got kind of moldy it just kind of got bad so note to self learn from me if you're ever harvesting corn for freezing be sure you harvest it and you cut it off the cob before it's too late now this is our second corn garden and I'm six foot five so this stuff is about seven feet tall it's gonna do great we'll have a lot of corn a lot more corn than we can use so we'll share a whole lot of this with our neighbors it'll be awesome so guys I hope you enjoyed the farm vlog today I hope you learned a little something we'll take you through this garden and show you what we do with it - this little corn garden stay tuned to a future vlog we'll have some fun in this little garden we got to build a go check we've got our goat waterer right here hey vine all kinds of fun stuff so thanks a lot guys be sure to pound that like button subscribe to the channel we'll see you next time on the Stoney Ridge farm all right [Music] here at sweet add some ways to me stone Tyrion [Music] all right folks so we're in the [Laughter]