Hard times? I’m not really sure we know what that is in comparison to the pressures of our Great-Great-Grandparents. But! Let’s talk about it and how we can keep our heads clear. Just what do we do when the harvests and homestead isn’t like we are used to or like we want? Let’s chat it up! xo
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Great video as always Patara. Very informative. We love hearing your passion and views on everything you talk about 🙂
Patera, I watch all of your videos and love them but seldom comment. But you reminded me today – My grandparents had a small farm in Bristol straddling the state line. A key to their survival – after hard work – was a network of family & friends. They grew more than they needed, canned everything and stored it all for bad years. Bought flour, salt and sugar in bulk. Had a root cellar and smoke house to slaughter hogs; had milk cows, chickens, ducks and honeybees; apples, grapes, hickory nuts and pecans; boiled laundry and hung it to dry. Heated the house with fireplaces and a wood stove. No running water until the40's – they had an in-ground cistern and collected rain water. They were poor as dirt but survived the depression, and my father went to college. Wish we had that little farm back. (Beth)
You my dear, are a very wise, hardworking woman……………..you think ahead , you work ahead, if only it could be manufactured and sold!!!!!!!!!!!!
Love your videos. Your garden is beautiful. I gotta try the cattle panel arch. Yours looks gorgeous and the beans are so plentiful. Be thankful for what we have.
Our forefathers used the Joseph principle: Stock up in the fat times to supply in the lean times.
Good video, thank you Patara, always love your straight forward ideas and suggestions. I didn't do good on tomatoes either this year in SC. Maybe better luck in the next planting season!
I think the difference is resiliency. They could be free and happy in good times but didn't expect it would ALWAYS be that way. They were humble, hard working in tough times and simply endured. Relying on hope and G-d for tomorrow. My Papaw and Granny were "next year people." If it was bad one year, they simply said "maybe next year's crop will be better." They endured the dust bowl climate in Oklahoma. They STAYED. They made it through, by the grace of G-d and a resilient spirit. I wish I had an 1/8th of their resiliency! thank you for your videos Patara. Truly.
MY TOMATOES ARE NOT LARGE IIN NUMBERS BUT I DO HAVE BIG ONE CANNED 5 QTS SO FAR. FEAST OR FAMINE MAKE THE BEST OF WHAT GOD GIVE YOU GREAT VIDEO GOD BLESS
Thanks for keepin it real, my garden looks beautiful and I'm very proud but my family and me would starve if I had to depend on it.
We've been lucky in my part of middle Tennessee as far as tomatoes go. Unfortunately not so much with melons, cukes, and peppers. We all just keep on keepin' on. 🙂
I love what you do!
patara ur videos r just so motivated . ur channel is so awesome I love ur farm and all the animal's 🙂
Watching and waiting for the Walker sisters!!!!!
How large or small has the population of pollinators been for you this year?
What a great thought provoking video. Would you be willing to share your recipe for pear butter? I know there are probably a thousand videos on how to make it but I would be interested in your recipe.
thank you for sharing
Thx for your wisdom!
I learned from my Depression Era grandmother to can enough food for two years, just encase the garden doesn't make it one year.
God bless Miss Belle and her mama ❤️
Amen – our great Nana used to say “ and on & on “ ( life )
Great video. I loved it.
I'm just wondering can you do a video on how our grandparents kept warm when they had little funds. Or how people kept warm in the great depression.
Spot on Patara, "The skill sets they had," . . . I remember once, years ago, telling off my daughter, who was about ten at the time, just at that stage where they know about everything, for being very rude to my father, who was having trouble getting a VCR to work. She showed him how and was quite snippy about it, and made some implication that he was dumb. Of coarse he let it slide, because maybe when it came to VCRs, video games, and microwave ovens, his skill sets were lacking. But I didn't. "Hold it right there young lady," I said, "Maybe you think you're pretty big for your britches because you know what buttons to push on a VCR, but what do you know about growing up without even a TV? What do you know about growing up in a depression? What can you tell me about farming behind a team, breaking a team, pulling a calf, or fixing a windmill. Can you tell us about taking beaches in the South Pacific, or helping McCarther retake the Philippines? Or about a million other things that are much more important than VCR buttons? Maybe your grandpa did only make it through sixth grade, but that was common in those hard times, times you can't even imagine, where most kids had to work, but that sure doesn't make him dumb, in fact he may be the wisest man you will ever meet, and you'd best not forget it". She didn't either, she's nearing forty now but she'll ask me sometimes, "What do you think grandpa would have done about . . ."?
TRUTH. Never know what tomorrow brings, so do the best you can do today!
I wish I could have talked to my grandparents from both sides of the family but they were all dead before I was born. I was able to talk to my aunts and uncles before they all passed away and learned some things. I had an uncle that was a farmer his whole life. He was a wealth of knowledge!
Omg this was 4 yrs ago.
Good wisdom! Great talk!!
I learned to make saurkraut this year for the first time!
Super video! Love your passion. You're such a natural with talking to us. Proud of you baby girl.