hello everyone this is Danny back with deep south homestead want to take a moment we've had a lot of questions asked about how we do things here on the farm one of the things I want to show you is this grapevine I have here this is not actually a grape I'm sorry about that is a muscadine this muscadine vines I've had this vine for probably thirty years and it produces just an astronomical amount of muscadines for us each year and what I want to do is I want to show you a clip or a video that I made this past summer for our farm here which is blue bird farm y'all gonna hear that word that time will come up frequently because that is the name of our farm and even then we'd like you all to go on Facebook and and like our farm and look at some of the things we do on our farm there we show a lot of procedures that we do that we haven't gotten to deep south with yet but on the Bluebird Farm video I'm going to show you in just a moment you'll see how we take these muscadines and we turn them into juice that we drink all year long so I hope that you'll enjoy the video and if you do at the end of it be sure to like share and subscribe not only to Deep South homestead but like our blue bird farm page on Facebook also thank you this is Denny king from long bluebird farms on we're on our final day of our muscadine harvest we harvest the wild purple muscadines and then we have some tame the big tank bronzed ones and today this is all we have left on our minds right here is what we want to do is share with god a little video about how to home squeeze your muscadines and you know to make a juice out of them what we have here that we use is called a Chinoy we take these we have ice cream over ice cream buckets we put underneath them what we do is we take the muscadines and we'll pour them over into the ice you don't want to go too full of it and you'll stick this ladle down in it and you'll run this thing around and around in this and if you do it squeezes the juice out of these muscadines but for camera purposes right now we're going to remove this and stick it to the side and we're going to stick a little small pot underneath here to kind of just give you an idea about how this thing works and how the juice pours out of it when you turn this handle round and round the juice will continue to fall out of this as you match these muscadines and you you'll end up with your juice won't set the pickling back underneath it here and a little time consuming but calm if you've ever drank fresh-squeezed muscadine use um you'll know that it's absolutely worth every bit of the effort that you put into it this is something we do every year on the farm here we gather these and squeeze them and then we all when we get through with the process we will put them in a deep freeze and freeze them in small containers and throughout the winter time we'll take one of these containers out every week and that's what will drink for breakfast a lot of times in the mornings once you get all your holes squeezed down and you press down all that you can press out of it you're going to want to have a little bucket set to the side here that your noise comes apart you can take this thing and turn it upside down the mash holes out of it now in this process we're not going to do all those right now there is a a green phone that gets on top of this and what you're going to want to do is take a spoon when this stuff when you get through and you don't want to take this stuff off it's kind of like if you ever made sugar cane syrup it's the skinning it's all butter want to be careful not to get too much use this is just one of the processes in doing this once you get all of the Simmins off of it then you're going to want to take your juice and you're going to one take a we use a mason jar you're going to want to pour it up into a mason jar and you're going to want to put this in the refrigerator for about 24 hours and after you poured it in the refrigerator for I mean having them refrigerate for like 24 hours the next morning you're going to want to get it out you're going to want to take a jelly bag and one of the first things you want to do is a jelly buddy you want to take it to make sure to get it real get it get some water because you don't want the juice you don't want to use up a lot of your juice soaking up your jelly batter and you're going to want to take a funnel we have these little containers here you put the funnel in it what we'll do is we'll take this jelly bag will hold it over that palm and we'll pour the juice through it the same purpose same principle as making you making jelly matter of fact this juice can be used to make jelly once you get through with it it's just that we choose to drink art rather than make a jelly out of it you'll see in the bottom of this jar after sets for 24 hours the drugs out of this all those the the pulp will actually go to the bottom if you're real careful when you pour this you can leave that stuff most of it in the bottom and when you you'll notice because of the purple in the wild muscadines there this uses a it will turn out to be a a pink color now you don't want to squeeze this jelly bag too hard because if you squeeze it too hard the the pulp will have a tendency to want to push through this and you won't get as clear of a drain now you can see that this turns out to be a beautiful pink color once you get to this stage and you're getting you want to fill it all the way to the top because when you're putting the freezer it will expand you want to stop a little bit lower than the top and once it's been in the freezer it will it will look like this right here frozen and this hair is about for my wife and I will take my cassette in one of these out once a week and we will let them fall and every morning will for just a little bit in the glass and that's what we'll drink with our breakfast in the morning here on that blue bird cawing I hope that um this portion of a video has been a little bit educational if y'all to show you how we handle our muscadine harvest here on our farm if you have any questions you can contact us on our farm site on blueberry farm on Facebook and we'll be more than happy to answer any question you have about any of this process thank you