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See how when she speaks, he listens and doesn't interupt her, nor shows any disrespect? That's how you treat people, or at least how people were brought up to respect one another. That lady has seen and lived through more than most of us ever will. I love that generation, and miss my Grandma.
And how he doesn't say "wow that's crazy" or "that's a great story" like most passive-agressive, sarcastic people of this generation. Some of my siblings act like this towards my parents and it's makes me angry.
@@moises75434 maybe they're flabbergasted by how difficult life was back then? That's crazy is not passive aggressive, nor is that's a great story. Living in a country full of all the conveniences we have, it would be difficult to imagine how life was for the older generations.
@@Stocker0777 - Yes, we need to get rid of Liberalism that is destroying truth, hard work, purity, morals and encouraging everything wicked. Without truth, we cannot get back to health and prosperity. Ass whoopins are long overdue! Respect was earned and expected. Anything else was rebuked publicly and shunned.
Lol you got that right. All the Ivey league schools started as Bible schools but they left God behind a loooong time ago. The fear of God is the beginning of knowledge
Reminds me of my grandma from Texas she knew the names of every part of a wagon and harness. One time we took her to Yosemite where they had the old time village with people who were trained to be all the old timers roleplayers and they all ended up listening to Grandma tell them what things were and how they had been used. Her name was Elvira Harlan, from Tyler Texas.
What a blessing! Mrs. Harlan must have been a wonderful source of information for those role players. My Granny had 10 children back in the olden days. She raised her children alone after my Grandfather was killed in an accident. I wish that I had asked her more about those days before she passed. She had so many natural remedies and recipies.
I am from France and my grandparents went through World War 2. I learnt from them the importance of building a food pantry as well as being prepared for anything that life can throw at you. The older generation has so much to teach us. I wish I had spent way more time with them before they left.
Just learn from your parents. My dad was a marine on tinian and saipan in WWll and also korea. My parents lived thru the depression. Believe me I know how my parents lived. Your parents will too. Don't waste time. They won't be around forever.
my gram and dad taught me to water bath can and then I learned from my ex sister in law how to pressure can. I thank the lord every day I did. I am currently stuck at home for 2 weeks because I have covid. I am not worried about food for me or my animals because I keep stocked up on things. and I have the jab. I am mad as the devil because I don't go anywhere except for work, the doctors and grocery stores. but I am not worried about the every day life things I need because I have them. I love these stories because they teach you just how important the knowledge of little things are
My grandpa said that they was so poor that they didn’t know that they was a depression. They had their farm and raised everything that they needed vegetables hogs chicken. I’d rather have fried rabbit and gravy than turkey. Not many people now what gee and ha is or plowed with a mule. When it got good and cold it was his killin weather. They would scald that hog and it was white as cotton. How I miss my grand parents and so many of the old family members. Great video. Keep up the good work brother.
Depression is hard times for people who are dependent on a social safety net that fails. Just like how famine is hard times for people who are dependent on a particular crop. If you can live happy while poor, that is just a symptom of independence and it makes perfect sense that you wouldn't notice a financial depression.
My grandmother said the same thing - they had their farm in Appalachia and didn’t really feel the Depression because that was already how they lived. 🤷♀️
Gosh, don’t ya just wish we could go back and live in those days ? They had hard hard times but people were different, they were good to each other and worked to survive !! Blessings
my mom and dad were raised in those times she speaks of and I remember those times myself when I was in my teens we raised most of what we are plus what we hunted and picked greens, berries, and fruit when it was in, but we ate poke and milk weed every spring, we boiled the leaves to get the bad stuff out and reboiled it with the rest of the greens and fried them in butter or bacon grease and my dad up until he died would not eat supper if there wasn't pinto beans on the table, I always loved to listen to older people tell there stories there was always something to learn from them, I wish I had more time with my grandpa because he was a walking wild edibles and medical plant's he raised 18 kids and they never went to the doctor if they got sick papa went to the woods and got what he needed and cooked it up and made medicine to cure them, I talk about older people but I'm 60 so now I'm the older people, sorry for the long comment, this was a great video thank you
I'm 61 & from AL. Seems odd for me to be the elder now. I don't feel like I know enough though what she described is very much the way we were raised. If you didn't garden, you didn't eat. If we didn't raise our animals there'd be no meat. If you don't go tend Bossy this morning there'll be no milk & how many ppl you reckon that know that the milk fat rises to the top of the bottle & needs to be shook up before you drink it? Not very many I'd bet. We made butter, raised chickens for the eggs & worked pretty hard. But the world was changing even then & that way of life just about died. We may need that knowledge again soon. I pray not but I'm trying to be prepared. Blessings
@@selenepickins4874 that's so true, most kids and teens now days don't know what a hard days work is and most people under 30 wouldn't know how to survive if the stores closed, me ad my girlfriend have several nieces and nephews that are interested in learning how to can and garden and we try to teach them what we learned from our parents out of necessity to eat, and have to say there doing good but there interest isn't so much now rhat they know how much work is involved but there still learning just a little slower
@@robertstricker9154 lol, my personal interest was frankly non-existent as a kid. My parent's theory of gardening was to plant enormous long rows of seeds but never water it! Not kidding. We had terraced rows of garden & animal food planted. Those rows literally stretched for 180 degrees around our house!! Can you imagine being dragged out there as a kid & being forced to help b/c really 2 parents alone couldn't take care of something that big? Anndd since I grew up in a physically violent household, any perception that I wasn't giving 110% earned me a beating w/ a belt & being sent right back to "do better." I literally had no idea until I was an adult you could plant a smaller garden & harvest more than enough to feed your family if you just water it & feed it!! 'Course our water came via a spring & had to be pumped up to the house so not enough h2o to water the mega-garden! We also raised & slaughtered our meat (which I mostly refused to eat since I'd raised those animals) including milking cows & chickens for egg production! Whew. Said all that to say that while teaching our young ones how to survive is crucial it's equally vital that we ease them into it which I'm sure you're doing. If we hit them with the full force of the workload of a homestead, this generation having known a much easier way of life will just reject it out pf hand & become vulnerable to whatever happens. Anywho just my 2. Lol. I had to learn to love my rural lifestyle by being a suburbanite for a decade or more & finally love the gardening. Still no cows or meat animals though I could raise them & feed them but somebody else would have to butcher if I was going to eat it. Silly soft hearted fool that this old lady still is...& proud of it! Blessings & enjoy your young family members. They are our true treasure.
You brought a tear to my eye. I miss my Grandma. She taught me to forage, cook, bake, do my laundry and sew. She said I needed to be able to take care of myself in case I didn't have a wife for awhile or when she was sick or had babies. I am a good cook my wife loves it when I cook. Thank You for the walk down Memory Lane.
Taters and beans. Still eat them regularly. When I was little Dad was out of work for a while. What we had to eat was mostly what we grew in the garden. That meant most meals were taters and beans. We would have taters and beans, taters and beans, taters and beans. Every now and then Mom would break up the monotony by fixing beans and taters. We came through that rough patch just fine.
My great grandfather was Mennonite and had a farm during the 20s 30s he didn't have a penny to his name but he had a nice size farm he raised cattle and pigs he had a community garden he let the poor raise food and if they helped with the chores he would give them a little beef or pork he kept alot of family's from hunger
beans, purple hull peas, poke salad, and lots of other foraged food kept a lot of people alive during the depression. people learned to grow their own food because the alternative was starvation.
Enjoy Your Grandma, She is a treasure. You should write these stories down that she tells for your grandkids. Preserve your family history. Great Video.
Agree 100%. Videos can become lost or digitally compromised...ink and the written word can fade. I've been writing a journal for my grandchildren with archival ink with as many old stories as I can remember from both sides of my family in case they ever become interested in knowing their dad's side.
My granny was from Morehead KY, and there were 13 kids. Each kid got one pair of shoes at Christmas and they had to last until the next so they ran around barefoot unless it was church or school time. She made lye soap and moonshine and gardened. She got herself a 1971 Mustang the year I was born and by the time I was 3 she'd stack phone books on the front seat so I could see over the dash. That car ROCKED!! Hard worker til she passed at almost 90. I miss you Grandma Vi ❤
What's grannies address and what time is dinner ?? My grandmother passed 2 years ago at the age of 100 just 2 months shy of turning 101.. She used to tell me about the great depression,growing up without parents being taken in by relatives and about how many 100s and 1000s of kids were taken in by strangers when their parents couldn't provide for them.. They'd stay and become part of the family until their parents came back and got them or sent money for a train ride to wherever they were at... My great great aunt on my mothers side took in over 100 kids during and after the depression and raised them as her own as long as needed,including those whose parents never came back or sent for them... I learned about how a family worked together from sun up to dark 30 making it all work and coalesce... From gathering eggs to choking the chicken to raising a litter of hogs to butchering to smoking and feying chitlins time.. From cattle husbandry to slaughter to smokehouse.. Fetching water from the spring and the hand pump well for drinking bathing cleaning cooking etc... Sun down was just Gods way of telling you good night.. Sun up was Gods way of saying good morning... They had it hard by our standards but I believe that they had it so much better than we do in these so called modern times... I listened but not as well as I wish I had.. Spend as much time with your parents and grandparents as you can,listen,question and learn... They'll be gone before you know it and you'll find yourself with so many questions that you cannot go back and ask...
im 63 last week, my great grand ma was my granny, she died of old age in 1970. her daughter was blond haired blue eyed fair skinned half breed that never left the mountain until my grandpas funeral, she slipped out the back door to get a pinch of snuff and slipped on the drain pipe of her ringer washer and broke her hip, it was all down hill from there. grandpa died with 2 gobblers over 1 shoulder and his browning auto 5 over the other, dead before he hit the ground. i was raised as hillbilly i still can my meat. i have so much diffrent life than those around me!
I'm 55 years old , my Momma past away 3 years ago , my Dad past away 7 years ago , I miss them both , I will always remember the many things that they taught me , and all of the stories of their lives , my Momma was raised by her Grandparents , so my Grandma and Grandpa were actually my Greats , just like my Aunt's and Uncles , so my Grandparents raised 21 children , 19 + 2 that was their grandchildren , they lived in a cave in Barnhart , Mo. , when my mom was little , my Mom took my siblings and me to show us where when we were younger , I miss my Mom and Aunts and Uncles sitting around the table and and us cousins staying up listening to all their stories after we were put to bed , after telling us some stories . My Grandpa was a full blooded Indian , he passed away right before he turned 100 years old , my Grandma had Dutch in her , my Grandpa would tell the stories of how living on the reservations where , before the lands were taken away from our people , he also told of the way that everything was growing up just like my Grandma . I learned Alot from all of my elders , and I learned so much from them all . Treasure these moments , and always remember everything to keep their stories alive with your own children and grandchildren , ect .. and let your children and grandchildren know your stories also . And even when you don't think that they are listening , know that they are and that they are learning from you . When they get older and you see them with their own children , you will smile each time that you see yourself in them . I have 3 children and 4 grandchildren and I am still telling not only my stories and my parents , I am passing many years of generations to my grandchildren , so history will always be learned , and keep being written . May God Bless You and Your Family and May God Bless US ALL !! 🙏🕊️💌
what a blessing she is! She is a wealth of knowledge of the past ways of life. She reminds me of my mom! She is in amazing shape physically. Cherish her, respect her, revere her, appreciate her..............she is a gem!
Love this! The story about Christmas reminds me of my grandpa. He built LSTs during WW2 in Evansville, Indiana. He would walk to work because he couldn't afford gas. He slung his single shot .22 on his back, so on the way home he would shoot rabbits or squirrels for that nights dinner. Miss the guy.
My Gma used to tell me these kinds of stories all the time when she was alive. What I wouldn’t give to sit on her lap again and hear them! Cherish these moments cause once they are gone these videos will be all you have!
What a beautiful place. How many people her age can walk that far and at that level of steepness? Very impressive. Most Americans will never know what true starvation is and what our grandparents and great, great great and great grandparents went through to provide the America that we have today.
My parents born 1927-dad, and 1932-mom, both survived the depression. On farms in Oklahoma and Iowa. I'm so grateful for all I learned from them , skin to what this woman shared. Also, I learned thriftiness, having no debt, pragmatism, logic, not wasting anything-recycling, growing organic food, the value of work, being true to oneself. I don't know how cityfolk survived with no jobs, no self-reliant skills on how to grow, raise or gather food, but my parents did right by themselves, their children, just as their parents did for them. My grandparents lived last 100, my parents well into their 80's, and i, now at 67, live much like my parents and grandparents, plan to live as long as my grandparents. Thanks for sharing this, it renewed my admiration for my mind and the knowledge they had and passed down to my.I pass it on daily!
My Grandmother turned 92 this year; lost my Pop & her eldest daughter to cancer. Every Christmas, we keep her fed with a flagon of Shery, and the stories come pouring out; her & her 3 sisters riding a sled in the snow through the house paddock, and destroying my Great Grandfathers brand new Asbestos outhouse; foraging for bush tucker (Aussie Aboriginal slang for forage food), Great Grandma getting chased by Tom Turkey the day before Christmas one year- and they had a turkey lunch for christmas. Still gardens, mows, grows fruit & veg, still drives & walks a million miles everyday! Really love hearing the stpries of her growing up during the Great Depression and through WW2 (and the impact of WW2 here in Australia). Due to these stupid lockdowns here- its been 2 years since we last saw her, and we are ringing her this weekend via Facetime so she can "meet" our 2 year old.
My grandmother is from Austria and she tells stories of living through WW2 and the Nazi takeover Her father was in Auswitch for awhile I am learning a lot from her stories
I wish my grandparents were still around who thrived during the Depression. He was a railroad man and she was a nurse. They had their own garden and fruit and nut trees, and canned EVERYTHING. Many old ways being lost.
When my grandmother was a child she lived in a tent on the banks of the bosque river in Waco tx. Whenever we would go out fishing she would remind us of the times back then when if they didn’t catch fish why then they didn’t eat. My grandmother was a beautiful woman and I’ve thought of her almost daily since she passed 5 years ago at 96. She taught aerobics for over twenty years into her late 80s, she was truly an amazing woman.
My grandpa always told us he remembered seeing a man get stabbed to death over a bologna sandwich on the Colorado river bank in Austin. He was just a kid, not even a teenager. His family moved not to long after that.
I’m in my sixties and I remembered my granddaddy telling me that they went to town during the twenties to get a few items for the farm. He stated that the folks at the store said a depression was going on for a few weeks. They didn’t even know that the bottom had fell out of the economy. They didn’t have money in the bank, had a tv, phone. Just didn’t know and didn’t see any difference in the way they was living. I stayed at my grandparents house during week when school was out in the summer while my parents worked. I remember the outhouse, chickens running loose in the yard, a handcranked well on the back porch, working in the garden an tobacco cash crop. If you never had it, you never missed it. We was all happy.
Gets in trouble for crashing the bike, Granny @ 87 y.o, "Carols fault, Carol made me do it, . . " i love that , still young at heart and keeps an open view of the world through a child's eyes . May God bless you all 🖤 .
I love your Granny!!! Reminds me of mine but she's been gone for 25 plus years. I still do a lot of what she's talking about. We raise our own hogs, beef, chickens (meat and layers) rabbits ducks and turkeys plus we hunt and fish. I can about 1000 jars of food a year (meats, soups, fruit, veges, beans, jams, salsas, spaghetti sauce, lord you name it, I can it). Food doesn't go to waste around here and when the SHTF we plan on helping feed our neighbors
Your grandma is awsome. You can learn so much from her. Please share more videos with her and her knowledge. Your so very lucky to still have her in your life.
Your granny is an amazing woman. we take for granted how easy we got it these days. If our youth lived like our grandparents did there would be a lot more respect and responsibility and certainly a lot better work ethic. Thank you for sharing this information. We must not forget where we came from.
As a child (I'm 67) I remember older folks telling my parents to pay off their home because they saw so many homes foreclosed on during the depression. A place to live and a place to grow some food. Start growing food now! The learning curve is larger than you think!
She reminds me of my great grand mother. She died sometime ago. She was a saint among women. She would wake up early to take care of the animals and worked all day and never complained or said one bad word. No matter what time you came to her house she had food or she would ask if she could cook you something. She would leave the left overson the table and cover it with a white sheet. She told me that she had done the impossible and had been cooking so long she figured out how to burn water. She always had food and had a stock of food that would last years.
Would it be possible to get Granny's soup beans and dumplings recipe? My daughters and i are trying to put together family and friends recipes, including for canning, and I just love your Granny. I could sit with her and shuck corn or string fresh beans listening to her tell her memories.
Dumplings were flour, an egg if you had it, salt, pepper and water to make a really stiff dough. Let it sit, then drop by little pieces into the broth from the beans, boil until done.
You're lucky to still have your gramma. I miss my grams everyday. Her name was Peggy. She used to keep a whole cupboard filled top to bottom with canned peaches. I'd ask my mom about it and she'd say it was because grammy had lived through the great depression and they learned to put up what they could when they could. Later in life I got the whole story. My grandma's sister, Anne was old enough to work at a cannery and would steal canned peaches from time to time at the cannery so the family would have something to eat when there wasn't any.
Love your precious Granny - I really miss my Romanian Granny and Cherokee Grandmother, they cooked just like that. Incredible women, our grandmothers, including our grandfathers, all of their generation. Our world will be completely lost when they're all gone. I'm glad that you're learning from her now, it will save you, your family, and countless others in the future.
That was a great video.... thank you for sharing take good care of that granny... I once asked my mother who was born in 1913 if I could tell her what I read about the depression....she said no I was there.... thank you again for sharing
You're very blessed to still have her around. She reminds me so much of my paternal grandmother. People like that just aren't made anymore. It's good to see how much you enjoy each other's company. May The Father bless her and the rest of your family.
This hits me in so many different ways. Jason, having and grandma that is in her 80's and can share this knowledge and stories with us is amazing. My grandmother did not like or love her grandchildren. As an over 50 adult, this is an empty spot in my life to not have grandparent stories. Thank you for sharing.
The older generation is the greatest gift we have. So much to learn from them. My mom is 97 and sharp as a tack. I am grateful for all she has shared with me. Im 67 and passing all she has shared with to my children. God is good😁💛
That granny is really something special. This was refreshing to hear, what a life she lived. I really need to spend some time with my remaining grandparents while I still can. Even as screwy as the world is today, we still have it so good for the time being. May God bless you all and your loved ones.
Awesome video. Ive been doing s lot of research into the depression. I feel like something close is gonna happen soon. It lasted 10yrs and only get 1 page in a text book
My mom had me later in life . She was 83 when she passed 4 yrs ago , she was born in 1934 as well . She would tell me all the stories from when she grew up in the depression and how my grandparents worked the farm and what they ate and such . Hot toddies 😆 my mom made them for us as kids and to this day if I'm not feeling well I have a hot toddie before bed . Your granny is a doll she reminds me so much of my momma . Oh god do I miss her . Granny I love you ❤️ you are a beautiful soul and so smart , such knowledge ... Blessings to you and your family.
9-12-21 Just watched this. Your granny is awesome! That food at the end - just like my grandma. I just lost my granny over Easter this year. She was 94. Cherish these times, time goes by so quickly. This was such a blessing to watch!
Valuable stuff, Jason. I was born in '43 and the Depression was gone but not forgotten, but then we had a war on, so there was still need for "gettin' bye". I've always been interested in these 'folk ways' from the old times, we can need them again! Greet Grandma from an old Oregonian bush basher.
I love grandma! Makes me really miss my mother that lived to be 101 years old. She always said they didn't really know there was a depression when it came to food. They raised everything on the farm and bartered for what the didn't have. Her parents died during the Great Influenza when she was four and was raised by her grandparents.
I love these talks with your Granny. Reminds me of my Grandfolks who raised me. They lived through the depression in their 30's raising a family when food was scarce and money was even harder to come by. I sure miss them and all the wisdom they shared.
❤❤ My favorite episode! Write those stories down! I wish I would've written down the stories Granny, Momma, and Daddy told me. But no, I say at their feet listening with rapt attention asking questions so they would keep talking. Such amazing stories. Tell Granny I'd love one of those sandwiches! Yum! I love me some green fried tomatoes and grilled cheese sandwiches cooked in cast iron!
If y’all enjoy this video I’ll recommend another that I promise you’ll love. Great Depression cooking with Clara, her grandson videoed her cooking what they lived on during the depression. She has passed but her cooking lives on !!! Give your grandma a big hug, she is so sweet !! Oh my gosh, that plate of food looks so delicious….we call that “good home cookin”
I lost my grandma 5 years ago and she swore by drinking a glass of honey and vinegar every morning, I’m 40 and as far back as I can remember she never got sick boy ole boy do I miss sitting with her and hearing her talk about growing up and the way they lived
I remember as a kid visiting several of my mom's older aunts and uncles on their farms lots of walks like that eating all sorts of berries and fruits from their trees listening to stories. Good times
Your grandma reminds me of my Mom, she was born in 1920. She could make the best meals out of almost nothing. We ate dandelions right out of yard, picked berries in the woods, never went hungry. I learned a lot from her, but still can't make her bread the way that she used to... I miss her a lot. Thanks for sharing.
The elderly are probably the best source of wisdom. I love these retrospective looks back at the lives of ordinary people. This is an excellent video, nicely done. Maybe one day our grandkids will be interviewing us and asking how we survived the times ahead.
I thoroughly enjoyed this. Your granny reminded me of my granny. She was from Mt Pleasant Texas. I miss her so much! She was the sweetest thing, feisty as hell and absolutely wonderful to me.
Granny seems cool as shit.. I'd love to sit on the porch hulling peas and medicinally drinking hot toddies with her.. while listening to stories and gathering knowledge.. Old people are awesome.. even the ones that you have to Try to keep up with while on a casual walk
I really enjoyed listening to your Granny! My husband’s MawMaw lived to 94 yrs old born in 1913. She would tell us stories like your Granny! I miss her! I hope you do more videos with her soon! Thank you for sharing her with us!!! 😁
You have A National Treasure in your grandmother! Please record her stories for future generations. I have no grandparents left. I miss them. They all taught me different things about growing and putting food away. My husband is the gardener, I am the pressure canner. We both need to learn about foraging.
Buy rice, beans and chickpeas +salt. Seal it in mylar bags and put those in sealed totes or food grade buckets 🪣 Wrap the buckets in heavy duty garbage bags and bury them a foot or so underground. Add a couple silica packs in the mylar bags before sealing . These will last for a decade or more underground and are quite cheap to make. I believe they cost me 3-5$ and could feed me for a week each.
I spent every chance i could with my grandmother before she passed. Just listening to her stories. She was just shy of her 100th. She had survived the Great Depression, TB, hips replaced, cancer and the death of her beloved husband….she was an amazing woman.
Brilliant woman Those beans and dumplings look like they could really stick to the ribs Like my nana used to tell me thank you for sharing Her beautiful knowledge Sincerely the Baker family in Maine. PS if she's willing to share that recipe for the soup beans and dumplings I would love to have it
That's really true living. My Grandmother always had a old coffee can filled with bacon/pork fat 😋. It was filtered to get all chunks out and was used for just about everything. Keep the wealth of knowledge going with her and your kids, but you know that already. 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
That sounds awesome soup beans and dumplins! I think people as a whole have forgotten to glean lessons from their elders! They are a heck of a lot smarter than most people realize!! The older they are the better!👍🏻🇺🇲
Ooooo!! I have to try dumplings in my beans next time! That sounds wonderful! And I loved that there were tomatoes on the plate! My Gran served tomatoes with almost every meal! We had a good sized garden and every fall she and mama would be putting away and freezing a BUNCH!
My French grandfather raised his family in Canada during the Depression & they always had plenty of food. He had a huge garden at the weekend farm & bought many other veggies & meat for his little cafe from the Asian grocers, with whom the other white restraurant owners refused to do so. In return, he got boxes of mandarin oranges during the winter, so his family always had plenty of Vitamin C. He would always have large pots of hearty soup specials on each weekday & meat dishes for those with more money. He frequently made up double or triple strength portions & send his girls to drop it off at neighbors having a rough time -- sick members, no jobs, widows, etc... so that they could stretch it for 2-3 days. A young cub reporter of those times wrote in my grandfather's obituary decades later, that Louis would let him charge a cup of coffee & bowl of soup during the week & the reporter would settle up on his weekly Friday payday, on the honor system. I try to help others as much as I can in his memory!!
Love it. This is the kind of stuff I grew up learning about and the food we ate and what I still cook regularly. My grandma ALWAYS had a bowl of sliced onions and cucumbers in vinegar and water with maybe a pinch of sugar out on the table at meals. Always had (and still have) poke greens in the spring and sassafras tea. Grandpa’s “cough medicine” was a pint of whiskey with a handful of horehound candy, tablespoon of ground ginger, and a bit or orange rind. Basically an old fashioned, now that I think of as an adult.
This is certainly a special video. Your Granny is one special person. Thank you and her for sharing her knowledge with us. That meal also looks wonderful.
I enjoyed this video more than any video in a long time!! It was almost like listening to my own grandmother! She would tell us stories of growing up in the Great Depression & how they survived!! Please tell your grandmother thank for sharing her wisdom with all of us! I came across this video while scrolling through youtube. I subscribed!!
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See how when she speaks, he listens and doesn't interupt her, nor shows any disrespect? That's how you treat people, or at least how people were brought up to respect one another. That lady has seen and lived through more than most of us ever will. I love that generation, and miss my Grandma.
And how he doesn't say "wow that's crazy" or "that's a great story" like most passive-agressive, sarcastic people of this generation. Some of my siblings act like this towards my parents and it's makes me angry.
@@moises75434 I agree 100% .. Todays generation needs a good ass woopin & brought back down to size 🙌
@@moises75434 maybe they're flabbergasted by how difficult life was back then? That's crazy is not passive aggressive, nor is that's a great story. Living in a country full of all the conveniences we have, it would be difficult to imagine how life was for the older generations.
100% agreed.
@@Stocker0777 - Yes, we need to get rid of Liberalism that is destroying truth, hard work, purity, morals and encouraging everything wicked. Without truth, we cannot get back to health and prosperity. Ass whoopins are long overdue! Respect was earned and expected. Anything else was rebuked publicly and shunned.
We are losing knowledge like this every day, and the world is poorer for it. Tell Grandma thanks very much!!
I call them the lazy boy generation.
Agree, bless her!
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You better pay attention Americans as food shortages have already begun in America.
Agree
You can learn a lot more useful things from our elders than you can in an Ivy League university.
FACT. Well said :)
Lol you got that right. All the Ivey league schools started as Bible schools but they left God behind a loooong time ago.
The fear of God is the beginning of knowledge
Halleluyah,amein.
Or on TH-cam
@@theblissgarden granny ain't on you tube. Lol
Reminds me of my grandma from Texas she knew the names of every part of a wagon and harness. One time we took her to Yosemite where they had the old time village with people who were trained to be all the old timers roleplayers and they all ended up listening to Grandma tell them what things were and how they had been used. Her name was Elvira Harlan, from Tyler Texas.
What a blessing! Mrs. Harlan must have been a wonderful source of information for those role players.
My Granny had 10 children back in the olden days. She raised her children alone after my Grandfather was killed in an accident. I wish that I had asked her more about those days before she passed. She had so many natural remedies and recipies.
I too am from Texas (East Texas) and she reminds me of my Nannie who was such an instrumental part of my life. What a blessing.
That is so cool, her teaching the people in Yosemite.
That would have been great
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I am from France and my grandparents went through World War 2. I learnt from them the importance of building a food pantry as well as being prepared for anything that life can throw at you. The older generation has so much to teach us. I wish I had spent way more time with them before they left.
I have thought the same thing! The knowledge they possessed and now lost... wish I had paid more attention.
Just learn from your parents. My dad was a marine on tinian and saipan in WWll and also korea. My parents lived thru the depression. Believe me I know how my parents lived. Your parents will too. Don't waste time. They won't be around forever.
I spent s enormous amount of time with my grandparents and it still wasn't enough
@@davidhamilton8041 How wonderful that you spent so much time with them.
my gram and dad taught me to water bath can and then I learned from my ex sister in law how to pressure can. I thank the lord every day I did. I am currently stuck at home for 2 weeks because I have covid. I am not worried about food for me or my animals because I keep stocked up on things. and I have the jab. I am mad as the devil because I don't go anywhere except for work, the doctors and grocery stores. but I am not worried about the every day life things I need because I have them. I love these stories because they teach you just how important the knowledge of little things are
My grandpa said that they was so poor that they didn’t know that they was a depression. They had their farm and raised everything that they needed vegetables hogs chicken. I’d rather have fried rabbit and gravy than turkey. Not many people now what gee and ha is or plowed with a mule. When it got good and cold it was his killin weather. They would scald that hog and it was white as cotton. How I miss my grand parents and so many of the old family members. Great video. Keep up the good work brother.
Depression is hard times for people who are dependent on a social safety net that fails. Just like how famine is hard times for people who are dependent on a particular crop. If you can live happy while poor, that is just a symptom of independence and it makes perfect sense that you wouldn't notice a financial depression.
@@matthewmchenry2889 👏👏👏 Well said.
My grandmother said the same thing - they had their farm in Appalachia and didn’t really feel the Depression because that was already how they lived. 🤷♀️
your grandpa must have been my grandpas friend lol
Gosh, don’t ya just wish we could go back and live in those days ?
They had hard hard times but people were different, they were good to each other and worked to survive !!
Blessings
my mom and dad were raised in those times she speaks of and I remember those times myself when I was in my teens we raised most of what we are plus what we hunted and picked greens, berries, and fruit when it was in, but we ate poke and milk weed every spring, we boiled the leaves to get the bad stuff out and reboiled it with the rest of the greens and fried them in butter or bacon grease and my dad up until he died would not eat supper if there wasn't pinto beans on the table, I always loved to listen to older people tell there stories there was always something to learn from them, I wish I had more time with my grandpa because he was a walking wild edibles and medical plant's he raised 18 kids and they never went to the doctor if they got sick papa went to the woods and got what he needed and cooked it up and made medicine to cure them, I talk about older people but I'm 60 so now I'm the older people, sorry for the long comment, this was a great video thank you
I'm 61 & from AL. Seems odd for me to be the elder now. I don't feel like I know enough though what she described is very much the way we were raised. If you didn't garden, you didn't eat. If we didn't raise our animals there'd be no meat. If you don't go tend Bossy this morning there'll be no milk & how many ppl you reckon that know that the milk fat rises to the top of the bottle & needs to be shook up before you drink it? Not very many I'd bet. We made butter, raised chickens for the eggs & worked pretty hard. But the world was changing even then & that way of life just about died. We may need that knowledge again soon. I pray not but I'm trying to be prepared.
Blessings
@@selenepickins4874 that's so true, most kids and teens now days don't know what a hard days work is and most people under 30 wouldn't know how to survive if the stores closed, me ad my girlfriend have several nieces and nephews that are interested in learning how to can and garden and we try to teach them what we learned from our parents out of necessity to eat, and have to say there doing good but there interest isn't so much now rhat they know how much work is involved but there still learning just a little slower
@@robertstricker9154 lol, my personal interest was frankly non-existent as a kid. My parent's theory of gardening was to plant enormous long rows of seeds but never water it! Not kidding. We had terraced rows of garden & animal food planted. Those rows literally stretched for 180 degrees around our house!! Can you imagine being dragged out there as a kid & being forced to help b/c really 2 parents alone couldn't take care of something that big? Anndd since I grew up in a physically violent household, any perception that I wasn't giving 110% earned me a beating w/ a belt & being sent right back to "do better." I literally had no idea until I was an adult you could plant a smaller garden & harvest more than enough to feed your family if you just water it & feed it!! 'Course our water came via a spring & had to be pumped up to the house so not enough h2o to water the mega-garden! We also raised & slaughtered our meat (which I mostly refused to eat since I'd raised those animals) including milking cows & chickens for egg production!
Whew. Said all that to say that while teaching our young ones how to survive is crucial it's equally vital that we ease them into it which I'm sure you're doing. If we hit them with the full force of the workload of a homestead, this generation having known a much easier way of life will just reject it out pf hand & become vulnerable to whatever happens. Anywho just my 2. Lol. I had to learn to love my rural lifestyle by being a suburbanite for a decade or more & finally love the gardening. Still no cows or meat animals though I could raise them & feed them but somebody else would have to butcher if I was going to eat it. Silly soft hearted fool that this old lady still is...& proud of it! Blessings & enjoy your young family members. They are our true treasure.
@@selenepickins4874 p.m. in
@@noobman1738 ??? All I know pm stands for is either evening or private message. LOL
You brought a tear to my eye. I miss my Grandma. She taught me to forage, cook, bake, do my laundry and sew. She said I needed to be able to take care of myself in case I didn't have a wife for awhile or when she was sick or had babies. I am a good cook my wife loves it when I cook. Thank You for the walk down Memory Lane.
What an amazing and practical granny you had.
Wow that’s awesome 👏
Don, what a good grandma. It sounds like you appreciate what you learned from her.
Definitely useful skills everyone needs to have, what an awesome grandma!
Taters and beans. Still eat them regularly. When I was little Dad was out of work for a while. What we had to eat was mostly what we grew in the garden. That meant most meals were taters and beans. We would have taters and beans, taters and beans, taters and beans. Every now and then Mom would break up the monotony by fixing beans and taters.
We came through that rough patch just fine.
Did you ever just have taters or beans on their own?😆
My great grandfather was Mennonite and had a farm during the 20s 30s he didn't have a penny to his name but he had a nice size farm he raised cattle and pigs he had a community garden he let the poor raise food and if they helped with the chores he would give them a little beef or pork he kept alot of family's from hunger
@@ericmartini2980 Awesome!!😊
@@ericmartini2980 Mennonitismm is absolutely horrible. It caused a lot of people to be dirt poor.
@@gowest5145lol how so
Love hearing your Granny reminisce, notice she didn't complain about their lot in life! Good times
Meanwhile we now have kids, teens and 20 somethings who have EVERYTHING yet complain that they're put upon and have nothing.
@@thedude883 Well, complaints are part of everything, so if you are looking for no complaints, surely make sure they don't have everything.
@@thedude883 Yeah I know it. I constantly hear people my age and younger complain while we have EVERYTHING comfortable in life.
beans, purple hull peas, poke salad, and lots of other foraged food kept a lot of people alive during the depression. people learned to grow their own food because the alternative was starvation.
People pretty much already knew how to grow their own food back then. They were self reliant in a way we don't really appreciate now.
Enjoy Your Grandma, She is a treasure. You should write these stories down that she tells for your grandkids. Preserve your family history. Great Video.
i think thats what the video can do.
Agree 100%. Videos can become lost or digitally compromised...ink and the written word can fade. I've been writing a journal for my grandchildren with archival ink with as many old stories as I can remember from both sides of my family in case they ever become interested in knowing their dad's side.
My granny was from Morehead KY, and there were 13 kids. Each kid got one pair of shoes at Christmas and they had to last until the next so they ran around barefoot unless it was church or school time. She made lye soap and moonshine and gardened. She got herself a 1971 Mustang the year I was born and by the time I was 3 she'd stack phone books on the front seat so I could see over the dash. That car ROCKED!! Hard worker til she passed at almost 90. I miss you Grandma Vi ❤
There will never be another generation like this, very special Grandma you have! Thank you for this video!
What's grannies address and what time is dinner ?? My grandmother passed 2 years ago at the age of 100 just 2 months shy of turning 101.. She used to tell me about the great depression,growing up without parents being taken in by relatives and about how many 100s and 1000s of kids were taken in by strangers when their parents couldn't provide for them.. They'd stay and become part of the family until their parents came back and got them or sent money for a train ride to wherever they were at... My great great aunt on my mothers side took in over 100 kids during and after the depression and raised them as her own as long as needed,including those whose parents never came back or sent for them... I learned about how a family worked together from sun up to dark 30 making it all work and coalesce... From gathering eggs to choking the chicken to raising a litter of hogs to butchering to smoking and feying chitlins time.. From cattle husbandry to slaughter to smokehouse.. Fetching water from the spring and the hand pump well for drinking bathing cleaning cooking etc... Sun down was just Gods way of telling you good night.. Sun up was Gods way of saying good morning... They had it hard by our standards but I believe that they had it so much better than we do in these so called modern times... I listened but not as well as I wish I had.. Spend as much time with your parents and grandparents as you can,listen,question and learn... They'll be gone before you know it and you'll find yourself with so many questions that you cannot go back and ask...
Also she is sharp as a tack for 87. Gets around well too! Cherish that! She may live a lot longer
im 63 last week, my great grand ma was my granny, she died of old age in 1970. her daughter was blond haired blue eyed fair skinned half breed that never left the mountain until my grandpas funeral, she slipped out the back door to get a pinch of snuff and slipped on the drain pipe of her ringer washer and broke her hip, it was all down hill from there. grandpa died with 2 gobblers over 1 shoulder and his browning auto 5 over the other, dead before he hit the ground. i was raised as hillbilly i still can my meat. i have so much diffrent life than those around me!
I'm 55 years old , my Momma past away 3 years ago , my Dad past away 7 years ago , I miss them both , I will always remember the many things that they taught me , and all of the stories of their lives , my Momma was raised by her Grandparents , so my Grandma and Grandpa were actually my Greats , just like my Aunt's and Uncles , so my Grandparents raised 21 children , 19 + 2 that was their grandchildren , they lived in a cave in Barnhart , Mo. , when my mom was little , my Mom took my siblings and me to show us where when we were younger , I miss my Mom and Aunts and Uncles sitting around the table and and us cousins staying up listening to all their stories after we were put to bed , after telling us some stories . My Grandpa was a full blooded Indian , he passed away right before he turned 100 years old , my Grandma had Dutch in her , my Grandpa would tell the stories of how living on the reservations where , before the lands were taken away from our people , he also told of the way that everything was growing up just like my Grandma . I learned Alot from all of my elders , and I learned so much from them all . Treasure these moments , and always remember everything to keep their stories alive with your own children and grandchildren , ect .. and let your children and grandchildren know your stories also . And even when you don't think that they are listening , know that they are and that they are learning from you . When they get older and you see them with their own children , you will smile each time that you see yourself in them . I have 3 children and 4 grandchildren and I am still telling not only my stories and my parents , I am passing many years of generations to my grandchildren , so history will always be learned , and keep being written . May God Bless You and Your Family and May God Bless US ALL !! 🙏🕊️💌
what a blessing she is! She is a wealth of knowledge of the past ways of life. She reminds me of my mom! She is in amazing shape physically. Cherish her, respect her, revere her, appreciate her..............she is a gem!
These grand parents are a national treasure!
secret to life...live right live simple and always be grateful for what you have.
Love this! The story about Christmas reminds me of my grandpa. He built LSTs during WW2 in Evansville, Indiana. He would walk to work because he couldn't afford gas. He slung his single shot .22 on his back, so on the way home he would shoot rabbits or squirrels for that nights dinner. Miss the guy.
I asked my grandma when to butcher the chicken. She said when the kids looked hungry enough. 😋
My Gma used to tell me these kinds of stories all the time when she was alive. What I wouldn’t give to sit on her lap again and hear them! Cherish these moments cause once they are gone these videos will be all you have!
Just absolutely love your Grandma!!! This is the way I've always loved to live. Listen to our elders and learn so much. 💜💜💜💜💜
What a beautiful place. How many people her age can walk that far and at that level of steepness? Very impressive. Most Americans will never know what true starvation is and what our grandparents and great, great great and great grandparents went through to provide the America that we have today.
Why don't they keep an eye on the little boy in the background.
My parents born 1927-dad, and 1932-mom, both survived the depression. On farms in Oklahoma and Iowa. I'm so grateful for all I learned from them , skin to what this woman shared. Also, I learned thriftiness, having no debt, pragmatism, logic, not wasting anything-recycling, growing organic food, the value of work, being true to oneself. I don't know how cityfolk survived with no jobs, no self-reliant skills on how to grow, raise or gather food, but my parents did right by themselves, their children, just as their parents did for them. My grandparents lived last 100, my parents well into their 80's, and i, now at 67, live much like my parents and grandparents, plan to live as long as my grandparents. Thanks for sharing this, it renewed my admiration for my mind and the knowledge they had and passed down to my.I pass it on daily!
My Grandmother turned 92 this year; lost my Pop & her eldest daughter to cancer.
Every Christmas, we keep her fed with a flagon of Shery, and the stories come pouring out; her & her 3 sisters riding a sled in the snow through the house paddock, and destroying my Great Grandfathers brand new Asbestos outhouse; foraging for bush tucker (Aussie Aboriginal slang for forage food), Great Grandma getting chased by Tom Turkey the day before Christmas one year- and they had a turkey lunch for christmas. Still gardens, mows, grows fruit & veg, still drives & walks a million miles everyday!
Really love hearing the stpries of her growing up during the Great Depression and through WW2 (and the impact of WW2 here in Australia).
Due to these stupid lockdowns here- its been 2 years since we last saw her, and we are ringing her this weekend via Facetime so she can "meet" our 2 year old.
I hope you got to spend time with her
My grandmother is from Austria and she tells stories of living through WW2 and the Nazi takeover
Her father was in Auswitch for awhile
I am learning a lot from her stories
I wish my grandparents were still around who thrived during the Depression. He was a railroad man and she was a nurse. They had their own garden and fruit and nut trees, and canned EVERYTHING. Many old ways being lost.
When my grandmother was a child she lived in a tent on the banks of the bosque river in Waco tx. Whenever we would go out fishing she would remind us of the times back then when if they didn’t catch fish why then they didn’t eat.
My grandmother was a beautiful woman and I’ve thought of her almost daily since she passed 5 years ago at 96. She taught aerobics for over twenty years into her late 80s, she was truly an amazing woman.
Such a great story and thanks for sharing it
My grandpa always told us he remembered seeing a man get stabbed to death over a bologna sandwich on the Colorado river bank in Austin. He was just a kid, not even a teenager. His family moved not to long after that.
I’m in my sixties and I remembered my granddaddy telling me that they went to town during the twenties to get a few items for the farm. He stated that the folks at the store said a depression was going on for a few weeks. They didn’t even know that the bottom had fell out of the economy. They didn’t have money in the bank, had a tv, phone. Just didn’t know and didn’t see any difference in the way they was living. I stayed at my grandparents house during week when school was out in the summer while my parents worked. I remember the outhouse, chickens running loose in the yard, a handcranked well on the back porch, working in the garden an tobacco cash crop. If you never had it, you never missed it. We was all happy.
Gets in trouble for crashing the bike, Granny @ 87 y.o, "Carols fault, Carol made me do it, . . " i love that , still young at heart and keeps an open view of the world through a child's eyes . May God bless you all 🖤 .
I love your Granny!!! Reminds me of mine but she's been gone for 25 plus years. I still do a lot of what she's talking about. We raise our own hogs, beef, chickens (meat and layers) rabbits ducks and turkeys plus we hunt and fish. I can about 1000 jars of food a year (meats, soups, fruit, veges, beans, jams, salsas, spaghetti sauce, lord you name it, I can it). Food doesn't go to waste around here and when the SHTF we plan on helping feed our neighbors
Your grandma is awsome. You can learn so much from her. Please share more videos with her and her knowledge. Your so very lucky to still have her in your life.
Your granny is an amazing woman. we take for granted how easy we got it these days. If our youth lived like our grandparents did there would be a lot more respect and responsibility and certainly a lot better work ethic. Thank you for sharing this information. We must not forget where we came from.
This is awesomeness. I could listen to her talk all day, the knowledge and experiences.
What a lovely lady! This has taken me back many, many years when I used to listen to my older relatives swapping stories. Thanks for sharing. :-)
What a wonderful grandmother! We can learn from them.
As a child (I'm 67) I remember older folks telling my parents to pay off their home because they saw so many homes foreclosed on during the depression. A place to live and a place to grow some food. Start growing food now! The learning curve is larger than you think!
She reminds me of my great grand mother. She died sometime ago. She was a saint among women. She would wake up early to take care of the animals and worked all day and never complained or said one bad word. No matter what time you came to her house she had food or she would ask if she could cook you something. She would leave the left overson the table and cover it with a white sheet. She told me that she had done the impossible and had been cooking so long she figured out how to burn water. She always had food and had a stock of food that would last years.
I'm 61 and I wish I had half of her knowledge. What a blessing. Thank you for sharing that. GIG 👍😁
You probably do have half her knowledge, you just don't know it. Your knowledge is a bit different than hers, but you've got it!
I was lucky I grew up with my grandma. She gave me all the knowledge to survive. I am now 70 and I still miss her with all my heart.
Would it be possible to get Granny's soup beans and dumplings recipe? My daughters and i are trying to put together family and friends recipes, including for canning, and I just love your Granny. I could sit with her and shuck corn or string fresh beans listening to her tell her memories.
Ya, the beans and dumplings sounded, looked great!!
She’s worth her weight in gold!! Never heard of beans & dumplings before, but it’s on the list for soon to be eat.
Ya, that dud sound good, didn't it?? I love me a good dumpling, but I don't know how to make em
Dumplings were flour, an egg if you had it, salt, pepper and water to make a really stiff dough. Let it sit, then drop by little pieces into the broth from the beans, boil until done.
Bean dumpling and sometimes a carrot or two in the beans
Dumplings are also good in stewed tomatoes!
What a beautiful grandma. The eyes, they are still young and wise.
Grandma is a real treasure - give her a big hug for me! :o)
You're lucky to still have your gramma. I miss my grams everyday. Her name was Peggy. She used to keep a whole cupboard filled top to bottom with canned peaches. I'd ask my mom about it and she'd say it was because grammy had lived through the great depression and they learned to put up what they could when they could. Later in life I got the whole story. My grandma's sister, Anne was old enough to work at a cannery and would steal canned peaches from time to time at the cannery so the family would have something to eat when there wasn't any.
Love your precious Granny - I really miss my Romanian Granny and Cherokee Grandmother, they cooked just like that. Incredible women, our grandmothers, including our grandfathers, all of their generation. Our world will be completely lost when they're all gone. I'm glad that you're learning from her now, it will save you, your family, and countless others in the future.
That was a great video.... thank you for sharing take good care of that granny... I once asked my mother who was born in 1913 if I could tell her what I read about the depression....she said no I was there.... thank you again for sharing
You're very blessed to still have her around. She reminds me so much of my paternal grandmother. People like that just aren't made anymore. It's good to see how much you enjoy each other's company. May The Father bless her and the rest of your family.
This hits me in so many different ways. Jason, having and grandma that is in her 80's and can share this knowledge and stories with us is amazing. My grandmother did not like or love her grandchildren. As an over 50 adult, this is an empty spot in my life to not have grandparent stories. Thank you for sharing.
The older generation is the greatest gift we have. So much to learn from them. My mom is 97 and sharp as a tack. I am grateful for all she has shared with me. Im 67 and passing all she has shared with to my children. God is good😁💛
That granny is really something special. This was refreshing to hear, what a life she lived. I really need to spend some time with my remaining grandparents while I still can. Even as screwy as the world is today, we still have it so good for the time being. May God bless you all and your loved ones.
Grandma is gorgeous!doesn’t look or act her”age” at all! God bless her for all the knowledge she shared!
More from your Grandmom, please! She’s so wise! All my parents & grandparents are gone. Thank you for sharing!
I miss my granny telling me her stories. You’re lucky she can still tell you hers. Keep sharing them with us.
Awesome video. Ive been doing s lot of research into the depression. I feel like something close is gonna happen soon. It lasted 10yrs and only get 1 page in a text book
people can sense how near we are to another Depression.
My mom had me later in life . She was 83 when she passed 4 yrs ago , she was born in 1934 as well . She would tell me all the stories from when she grew up in the depression and how my grandparents worked the farm and what they ate and such . Hot toddies 😆 my mom made them for us as kids and to this day if I'm not feeling well I have a hot toddie before bed . Your granny is a doll she reminds me so much of my momma . Oh god do I miss her .
Granny I love you ❤️ you are a beautiful soul and so smart , such knowledge ... Blessings to you and your family.
Just like the story’s my granny use to tell me when I was young. She grew up in during the depression and the dust bowl. Those were some hard times.
I’m glad you still have your grandmother. Please thank her for her wisdom.🐝❤️🤗
I adore these talks with your Granny. Thanks for sharing her with us.
She has some good advice. My father was born in 1924 in Appalachia. She and him, had similar life experiences. Good folks indeed.
9-12-21 Just watched this. Your granny is awesome! That food at the end - just like my grandma. I just lost my granny over Easter this year. She was 94. Cherish these times, time goes by so quickly. This was such a blessing to watch!
Valuable stuff, Jason. I was born in '43 and the Depression was gone but not forgotten, but then we had a war on, so there was still need for "gettin' bye". I've always been interested in these 'folk ways' from the old times, we can need them again! Greet Grandma from an old Oregonian bush basher.
I love grandma! Makes me really miss my mother that lived to be 101 years old. She always said they didn't really know there was a depression when it came to food. They raised everything on the farm and bartered for what the didn't have. Her parents died during the Great Influenza when she was four and was raised by her grandparents.
I love these talks with your Granny. Reminds me of my Grandfolks who raised me. They lived through the depression in their 30's raising a family when food was scarce and money was even harder to come by. I sure miss them and all the wisdom they shared.
❤❤ My favorite episode!
Write those stories down! I wish I would've written down the stories Granny, Momma, and Daddy told me. But no, I say at their feet listening with rapt attention asking questions so they would keep talking. Such amazing stories.
Tell Granny I'd love one of those sandwiches! Yum! I love me some green fried tomatoes and grilled cheese sandwiches cooked in cast iron!
Such a fountain of memories and information. Thank you Granny
If y’all enjoy this video I’ll recommend another that I promise you’ll love. Great Depression cooking with Clara, her grandson videoed her cooking what they lived on during the depression. She has passed but her cooking lives on !!!
Give your grandma a big hug, she is so sweet !! Oh my gosh, that plate of food looks so delicious….we call that “good home cookin”
I purchased her cookbook. Hard times are coming to America! Buy hard copy books that are practical. Clara's cookbook is a treasure.
@@heyjude6335 I love her videos.
You are absolutely blessed to have a grandparent to talk with. Enjoy every moment you can with her.
I lost my grandma 5 years ago and she swore by drinking a glass of honey and vinegar every morning, I’m 40 and as far back as I can remember she never got sick boy ole boy do I miss sitting with her and hearing her talk about growing up and the way they lived
I wish I still had a grandma alive...
Cherish them while they are here!
I remember as a kid visiting several of my mom's older aunts and uncles on their farms lots of walks like that eating all sorts of berries and fruits from their trees listening to stories. Good times
I am 65 and my grandmother use to make the meal you showed at the end when I was a child.
Your grandma reminds me of my Mom, she was born in 1920. She could make the best meals out of almost nothing. We ate dandelions right out of yard, picked berries in the woods, never went hungry. I learned a lot from her, but still can't make her bread the way that she used to... I miss her a lot. Thanks for sharing.
Awesome lady, what a blessing to have someone like that in your family.
The elderly are probably the best source of wisdom. I love these retrospective looks back at the lives of ordinary people. This is an excellent video, nicely done. Maybe one day our grandkids will be interviewing us and asking how we survived the times ahead.
I thoroughly enjoyed this. Your granny reminded me of my granny. She was from Mt Pleasant Texas. I miss her so much! She was the sweetest thing, feisty as hell and absolutely wonderful to me.
Granny seems cool as shit.. I'd love to sit on the porch hulling peas and medicinally drinking hot toddies with her.. while listening to stories and gathering knowledge..
Old people are awesome.. even the ones that you have to Try to keep up with while on a casual walk
I really enjoyed listening to your Granny! My husband’s MawMaw lived to 94 yrs old born in 1913. She would tell us stories like your Granny! I miss her! I hope you do more videos with her soon! Thank you for sharing her with us!!! 😁
You have A National Treasure in your grandmother!
Please record her stories for future generations.
I have no grandparents left.
I miss them.
They all taught me different things about growing and putting food away.
My husband is the gardener, I am the pressure canner.
We both need to learn about foraging.
Precious moments with elders - sharing time, knowledge & experience. Kids today very lacking.
Buy rice, beans and chickpeas +salt. Seal it in mylar bags and put those in sealed totes or food grade buckets 🪣
Wrap the buckets in heavy duty garbage bags and bury them a foot or so underground.
Add a couple silica packs in the mylar bags before sealing .
These will last for a decade or more underground and are quite cheap to make. I believe they cost me 3-5$ and could feed me for a week each.
I spent every chance i could with my grandmother before she passed. Just listening to her stories. She was just shy of her 100th. She had survived the Great Depression, TB, hips replaced, cancer and the death of her beloved husband….she was an amazing woman.
This is great! I love her stories. Please have your Grandma on the channel more often!
Granny is so wise. I would love for her to write about the food and her life journey.
The lessons like this from my grandfather, always pop up in my mind as I prepare for what's to come
Brilliant woman Those beans and dumplings look like they could really stick to the ribs Like my nana used to tell me thank you for sharing Her beautiful knowledge Sincerely the Baker family in Maine. PS if she's willing to share that recipe for the soup beans and dumplings I would love to have it
I would love that recipe too, especially the dumplings!!
That's really true living. My Grandmother always had a old coffee can filled with bacon/pork fat 😋. It was filtered to get all chunks out and was used for just about everything. Keep the wealth of knowledge going with her and your kids, but you know that already. 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
Learning from the past is essential. Thanks for sharing. Glad she can pass along the info to us all
That sounds awesome soup beans and dumplins! I think people as a whole have forgotten to glean lessons from their elders! They are a heck of a lot smarter than most people realize!! The older they are the better!👍🏻🇺🇲
Ooooo!! I have to try dumplings in my beans next time! That sounds wonderful! And I loved that there were tomatoes on the plate! My Gran served tomatoes with almost every meal! We had a good sized garden and every fall she and mama would be putting away and freezing a BUNCH!
I'm in Denham Springs louisiana and at the moment we're not starving but we could use some electricity, Check back on the starvation mode
My French grandfather raised his family in Canada during the Depression & they always had plenty of food. He had a huge garden at the weekend farm & bought many other veggies & meat for his little cafe from the Asian grocers, with whom the other white restraurant owners refused to do so. In return, he got boxes of mandarin oranges during the winter, so his family always had plenty of Vitamin C. He would always have large pots of hearty soup specials on each weekday & meat dishes for those with more money. He frequently made up double or triple strength portions & send his girls to drop it off at neighbors having a rough time -- sick members, no jobs, widows, etc... so that they could stretch it for 2-3 days.
A young cub reporter of those times wrote in my grandfather's obituary decades later, that Louis would let him charge a cup of coffee & bowl of soup during the week & the reporter would settle up on his weekly Friday payday, on the honor system.
I try to help others as much as I can in his memory!!
Love it. This is the kind of stuff I grew up learning about and the food we ate and what I still cook regularly. My grandma ALWAYS had a bowl of sliced onions and cucumbers in vinegar and water with maybe a pinch of sugar out on the table at meals. Always had (and still have) poke greens in the spring and sassafras tea. Grandpa’s “cough medicine” was a pint of whiskey with a handful of horehound candy, tablespoon of ground ginger, and a bit or orange rind. Basically an old fashioned, now that I think of as an adult.
Thanks for the walk & talk - Our elders and children are precious indeed. The circle of life. Much respect from Ireland.
This is certainly a special video. Your Granny is one special person. Thank you and her for sharing her knowledge with us. That meal also looks wonderful.
What a lady! Your family is blessed to have her.
I enjoyed this video more than any video in a long time!! It was almost like listening to my own grandmother! She would tell us stories of growing up in the Great Depression & how they survived!!
Please tell your grandmother thank for sharing her wisdom with all of us!
I came across this video while scrolling through youtube. I subscribed!!