Prairie Yard & Garden: Growing Vegetables in the 1800s
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- The Oliver Kelley Farm, located on the bluffs of the Mississippi River near Elk River, is an interpretive historical site that features an operational mid-1800 farmstead. One feature of the farm is a historic garden where pioneer women and children raised vegetables for the family. Host Larry Zilliox visits with Andrea Krist, a site interpreter from the Minnesota Historical Society, who educates guests on the raising and preserving of vegetables in the 1850s.
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This woman sound like she is speaking from memory , very knowledgeable and articulate . Very good video ..
I want to go back in time. Smart woman.
The German Templars would construct houses elevated a half level above ground and a half level below ground to be used as a cellar.
The interesting and smart thing is that the floor and walls of the cellar didn't meet at 90 degrees but were rounded off so as to prevent spilled grain getting caught in the corners attracting vermin.
I had to shell beans as a kid! I used to hate it but now I am glad for the experience.
She is so natural and sweet!
I am from the UK and my house was started 1838 and finished 1864. I'm starting to make a period garden and this video sure paints a contrasting image of the time! worth a visit i'm sure
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I would like to have her hat. Basically, aside from the clothes, our gardening in the 30s was pretty much the same. The cultivating of the soil was done by hand, as well as planting the seeds, the weeding, the harvesting. Our vegetable garden was laid out row by row...so many rows of peas, carrots, onions, string beans, cabbage, tomatoes, cucumbers, etc. We planted our potato eyes in mounds...usually 6 or 7 mounds. We always enjoyed fresh creamed baby potatoes and peas, We had a separate strawberry patch and our watermelon and cantaloup were grown alongside the big corn field. Lots of memories of great food. Come winter, the veggies we didn't consume as they matured and didn't can, we stored in bushel baskets of potatoes, carrots, onions and apples in our basement. Good food year round. I don't miss the work but I do miss going into the garden and pulling up a carrot or two, wiping them on my britches and devouring them.
when you eat from your garden you will be in better health
I agree that her hat would be very helpful and I'd love one of those! Keeps off the wind in the cold and the sun in summer.
I have a large garden. I don't plant row by row but have it more cordoned off. I have cattle panel trellises with beans, squash, morning glories, and cucumbers growing on them with paths underneath. My children love the garden. The neighbor kids love the garden. It is a magnet. Nothing beats heading down to the garden at supper time and harvesting what you need. I am glad my kids have this experience.
God bless you
Cool. Lots of information and facts I didn't know. Like you can leave parsnips in the ground through winter. Hmmm. Ms. Krist is well-spoken, knowledgeable and her enthusiasm is contagious. Good upload. Thanks. 🤔 LL
wow. she is so knowledgeable and so comfortable with here knowledge. wow
This was FASCINATING! Thank you so much for sharing these older veggies and processing methods. I loved this video! Great questions and great interviewer and great answers from the young lady! It makes me want to try the older ways.
Parsnips fried in butter. Nuty flavor. Now that sounds good. With white wine. The ability to be content with something simple, Wholesome. Those where the days.
Andrea Krist is an excellent speaker/educator/interpreter! Really enjoyed this video!
If you let the zucchini grow big to it's full potential, they do get mature seeds, a thicker skin, and last several months in a cool well ventilated location, and away from rodents, as rodents get into the squashes for their seeds. Maybe on top of a wire shelf is a good place. Pumkins too can last several months, away from heating, in a likewise well ventilated and cool location.🎃🎃🎃🎃
Love this....thank you and thank you to your donors for funding this series!
Very knowledgeable gal. Well done.
I've been there several times. It's a great place to go, especially during threshing week or their Victorian wedding weekend. :)
I absolutely agree about the aprons! I LOVE aprons! So handy and useful! We plant two large gardens (we live in ND, so the growing season is very short too), and do a lot of preserving come fall. We used to have a root cellar, but since it has fallen in, we just have a dark room where we keep a lot of our root vegetables. This room is kept monitored so that the temp doesn't get too cold or too hot.
I really enjoyed this- thank you!
Wonderful video! Thanks so much for preserving our history!
To bad TV did not have more content like this instead of the garbage that most people watch.
Thanks for TH-cam
Wow, Andrea was awesome!
Very interesting since I am also in Minnesota. I have been very, very curious about what was grown here by my Scandinavian immigrant family.
Interesting side note. Many Amish call peppers, particularly green bell peppers, mangos. I have always wondered why. It was more a process of stuffing the peppers and mangos. Somehow they switched the word pepper for mango?
Thank you for this video. Very interesting.
Probably a lot of root vegetables, and grains. People tend to keep their eating habits and traditions. Scandinavians love seafood, so they must have enjoyed fish. Apple and pear treas, and other fruits they would have enjoyed in their home countries. Berries.🍇🍐🍎🍏🍒🫐🍓🍓🍓
this was really informative I learned a lot thankyoi!
this video was very informative ....thank you...Now one for the inside of the house the barn and wearing apparel would be lovely.
This is fantastic! Having a facility such as this is definitely a goal of mine.
Love the video!
Thanks…I loved this one.
That was great!
Wonderful .. thank you
Thanks for watching! 🌼
I guess im the only one who wants to live like the 1800s after I get my own house..
You're not alone. :)
Nope, only I want to live like 19th Century England, complete with Victorian style greenhouses
Of course that house won't have electricity, indoor plumbing or water right?
Laura Pironi No you are not the only one!
Lived like that as a child, would do it again
Woman knows her stuff! Wow
Interesting. Thanks.
Interesting!
Root crops also fed cattle through the winter when grain was costly or hard to grow
we use that a lot for our chicken to
A turducken of sorts.
Very interesting. Watching from the Uk before work 🙂
I just found my dream job!
Sure
And here i was thinking nobody wanted to do this anymore, keep your dreams nice to meet you hope u have an awesome summer if your gardening
it's been FIVE years....time to circle back around to this video I think....it's been a trying couple of past years. I wonder how you feel and think now!?!?!
Wow love that dress I WANT it
I want the hat!
Thank you!
You are welcome!
I was very surprised when she said most people aren't familiar with rudabegas. Here in the UK we call them swedes and they're very common in rural areas. They're a very robust veggie and we add them to stews and soups, as well as mashing with carrot, roasting or (one of my favorites) roasting on the BBQ like a jacket potato.
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Americans have lost touch with their food source. When I moved to the United States, I was surprised by how hard it is to source what I consider "staple" vegetables in bulk, when I was accustomed to buying my root crops in 10kg sacks in Finland come harvest season.
Interesting they are called Swedes. I am guessing they are/were a staple crop in the Scandinavian countries which was the main immigrants that settled in Minnesota. In fact Minnesota is the second largest population of Scandinavians outside of those countries. They were still very popular during my childhood and especially my parents now in there 80's. My dad loves them. When she said they were not popular I think she was referring to the US as a whole. Still very popular in Minnesota but as people move here from other places the rutabaga is slowly dying out
Fantastic. How about a video on the cooking and baking of the produce?
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Those crocks were beautiful.
I never thought anyone thought crocs where beautiful
wow!
I love it. how did that coked how did they cook? what kind of stroke did they use in the 18 hundreds?
where can I find more info/seed about mangoing and the cucurbit mango variety? When I try to find more info on it I just find info on SE Asian green Mango (the tropical fruit) pickles
I think I saw it on MI gardener.com seeds for 99cents
Would sure like to try cucumber ketchup 😋
Chilled cucumber soup is awesome, too.
"Growing a garden" in the 1850's wasn't a "necessity because there were few stores." It was a necessity because folks wanted to eat. No one said, "we live in a food desert - the store is a mile away." They had enough sense to not ship perishable plant food from the west coast and other countries. They didn't even think "fresh." All they grew was fresh - how could it not be? Plant a garden and escape from the food masters. If you are lucky the stores will go away.
Agreed.
Totally agree although I will clarify for those reading this comment and feeling confused about wanting the stores to "go away", we're talking about the current stores that hold monopoly on the food market. A store in and of itself is not evil. A lazy society, dependent on stores, and a handful of godless megacorporations controlling 95% of the accessable food is on the contrary a SERIOUS problem.
@@BronzeTheSlingplus the companies producing the foods pit chemicals and lots of sugar and dyes in the foods. Definitely not good for us
....IMHO: "MASHED RUTABAGAS" ARE AS GOOD, OR BETTER, THAN MASHED POTATOES!!!.... YUM!!!!!!!!!!
11:20 I cannot find any information on these "mango" vegetables online. Could somebody please point me to a good resource?
fermented (pickled) vegetables are coming back, as now SCIENCE has come to recognize the benefit of the probiotics to the health of people. I think its something that isn't mentioned. Also the winter squashes are also FODDER plants of many prairie farmers. "Cow squash" was a major winter food for livestock and was stored in the hay loft. Also modern ""catsup" also has vinegar, but few recognize that. People just don't realize the food production in it original forms.
nice video, however volume isn't good.
I would like to know what they used for fertilizer back then. Was it just cow, horse, and chicken manure?
What are rootabagrs 6.00 it looks like a turnip
Rutabegas are similar to turnips, but they have a smoother texture and flavor.
I'm only 3 minutes in but I'm wondering why they are spending their time (a lot of it I'm sure) pulling weeds? And why is there SO much grass growth around their foods? Composting and permaculture methods, as well as the 3 sisters method was WELL known by the 1800's by nearly every household. They seem to be making it harder than it needs to be. They need to introduce some companion flowers (again common knowledge by this time in history) and herbs into their plots to help them flourish. They've got a lovely piece of land to work, they could really regenerate that land if they put their minds to it.
Having done work in an Historic restoration village, I think that gardens are not tended to on a daily basis as they would be if people lived there every day. Often reliant on volunteer man power, there is not that much consistency in attendance, hence the gardens tend to weed a lot
My grandparents still did a bit of subsistence farming when I was a child, and I remember many long hot summer days spent weeding until the only plants in their sizable garden were the vegetables. It was a point of pride to have a weed free garden. Obviously, those standards of perfection aren't as important in a volunteer-run garden, but if you ever look at garden tours of British gardens that are run like Victorian gardens, also by volunteers, they look pristine, not a weed in sight, and the rows are neat and orderly.
Having experienced the backbreaking conventional gardening, I am building all my gardens to be no dig gardens with heavy mulch, after initial tilling and removing big rocks and old farm debris that turns up. My husband has found the rusty front bumber of an old pickup truck, and even a cauldron, and I find a lot of old glass and shattered pottery and china on the old farm we're slowly turning from a dilapidated pasture to a maybe-eventually-market-garden.
THEY HAD TO TRANSFER ROOT CROPS INTO A ROOT CELLAR, WHICH DIDN'T FREEZE, .....OTHERWISE, THEIR WINTER FOOD SUPPLY WOULD BE FROZEN INTO THE HARD GROUND!!!
Were you listening? Because she just said that many people would leave a part of the root crops in the ground over the winter which were then harvested in the spring.
Why is there so much long grass all over the place - is that deliberate? Did they not compost and put down dung in those days and make field free of grass and weeds? Or did they leave grass to stop the sand blowing away? I did not really get that!?
The grass may have served as a cover crop as mentioned, mulch, or possibly as a late-season feed source for the livestock as we turned our cattle out on to the garden area at the end of the season so they could graze and clean up once the veggies were removed. - Mary
Mom cooks bean "in the dough stage" taste good
Has anyone made cucumber ketchup? Recipe.
Shalom Hills
The host reminds me of Dr. Steve Brule.
Why would plants be spaced so far apart?
Growing up on the farm, the gardens I grew up with in our fields, we had to space the plants out a great deal. Our well was 1/4 mile away. We did not have a water source out by those gardens so we spaced out the plants so they would not compete with each other for moisture because they had to rely on rain for their only watering. - Mary
All of the recording & editing for this great segment, just to misspell the interpreter's name? How does this continue to happen in the 21st century.
Watching in 2020. There is no way that any farmer, from any time period, would have that much grass and weeds in their garden. People in the 1800s plowed, tilled, and kept all the grass and weeds hoed out, right?! And I'm pretty sure mulching and composting have been around for even longer. 🤔
They dont have as many workers as you might think there.
You know nothing. Take a look at pictures of farms taken in the 1800s.
tillage encourages weeds. Who's gonna do all the pulling? Lots on the list before that.
Nice dodge of the botulism question. Subtle.
...AAaahhhh! to live in the 1850's,.... with our good, old friend, ...mean, mean, old "gangrene"!....
Imagine only owning one or two or three outfits, in today's world if you have too much money you're a failure if you're seen in the same outfit more than one time. Some of the rich people don't even wear socks and t-shirts but one time...TRUE FACT.
It may be wise to relearn these skills. I like women who are modesty dressed. Today’s girls with tight leggings and yoga pants???...how the times have changed. I love are modern day conveniences but augmenting with gardens and some self sustainment at your home is healthy I believe. Jim from Ohio.
P.S. yes I planted a garden this year and live near the Amish. I learn from them. Have you ever dug up potatoes? That you planted? And Smell the earthy goodness? If not your missing out.
Women dressed back then like they still should.Decently,modest.
Oh, get a life
Now to do it "period accurately", put some corsets on those history interpreters. I've been spoiled by enthusiastic historians like Ruth Goodman, who dress the part, all the way to the proper underwear. Their contemporaries in 1850 would have considered them to be in a state of scandalous undress without, sort of like society still scorns women who are out in public without a bra today. Remember, it wasn't as much to cinch in the waist as just to provide support for the "assets" like a modern bra, support to the back, and make the dress sit more evenly on the body. (Unless you were of the idle wealthy classes, and didn't have to run a farm, when that 17" waist goal may have been theoretically possible).
Homestead to Table American pioneer farm women seldom wore their corsets when working the farm when you live where the next human is 2 days or many hours at minimum.
@@mrs.schmenkman Your clothes would not have fit you, without the support of a corset back then. Knowing how long it takes to peel off a layer of Victorian clothing, and put it back on, by the time you saw a visitor approaching, you'd be too late to present a decent appearance to your guests. Read Elinore Pruitt Stewart some time. Pioneer women on the frontier socialized in person more than most social media addicts do today. Even pregnant mothers wore a corset. Except for the very upper crust of idle high society that we think of when we think "corset", most women would not have tight-laced, they used corsets more like a bra. If it's tighter than a firm hug, it's too tight to work in. And you CAN work in one. Working women often didn't even have full boning, but rather cording, where soft cord was sewn into the boning channels to support the breasts and torso.
The modern non-surgical solution to back issues and abdominal hernias, which I have the dubious "honor" of experiencing, is a contraption similar to a corset. Although the elastic material doesn't breathe as well as a custom cotton corset would, and needs boning just like a corset to keep is shape.
Women in america in the 1800s did not wear corsets.... where are you getting your information from if at all... that is something strictly seen across the water in Europe. NOT the “new world” as they call it. Not 18th century America, unless some was extremely well to do.
To much bhla-bhla...
Petrea Mihai too intelligent for your rotted brain.
Extremely disrespectful. Shame on you.
Informative but I couldn't finish watching this video; she's used the filler word "uhm" at least 200 times!
Filler words are a natural part of speech but you do want to avoid using it every three words. She has a very pleasant voice but she's filled with linguistic mishaps which makes it challenging for the viewer. I can tell you with absolute certainty that "filler words" undercut any presenter’s effectiveness. My patience level is immeasurable; that's the only reason I made it through the first 10 minutes of the video.
Whine much.
Oh someone that can put two words together without a filler. Marvelous!
Pamela Descoteaux and? So what? Back seat reporter, typical
yes that is a word very used in 21 century ......
And women should still be covered!!
Agree. Dignity, self respect, class.
No tattoos. No drugs.
Amen
As should men. Fully, totally covered. At all times, in all weather and climates, working inside and outside. I can't think of anything worse than seeing a man's bare wrist or knee. Seeing that would absolutely push me over the edge because I have no self control and personal integrity. Patriarchy is such a blessing to the human race and has solved all the world problems.
Except the Bible don’t say anything about a mans dress code, other than covering his shame...
thank you. And nothing will solve the worlds problems, until Jesus Christ yahshua hamashiach comes back and whipes away all the sin and wickedness.
And btw men and women are not built the same,
There’s a reason things where better 100+ years ago. And have become ultimately evil present day..... I’ll leave that to you.
Woman did eat the apple, after a snake told them it was ok. And then got man to do it. Which is why labor is so painful and intense for a woman.
One of the most painful videos I have ever seen.
Sorry I turned it off after the 9th minute her face scared me.
Natalie Sugar your an asshole
interesting. I like her lips and such fine teeth.
She is beautiful. Let’s see your face. Probably full of pimples and sweat.
@@angryoldman9140 hey rootless and brainless, go talk to your momma like that! Who said you could comment??
BORING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Also.... as a gardener from MN who now lives in Los Angeles, I can tell you: an acre is enough TODAY to feed 6-7 families, easy.
WAYYY too many clothes for a place that gets hotter than Los Angeles.
I love it. how did that coked how did they cook? what kind of stroke did they use in the 18 hundreds?
I love it. how did that coked how did they cook? what kind of stroke did they use in the 18 hundreds?
I love it. how did that coked how did they cook? what kind of stroke did they use in the 18 hundreds?
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@@williamjackson5942 somebody has been stroking the coke. Hahahahaha