Right! It is an event that lasts a couple of weeks, depending on where you live. Typically, you start very early in the morning, the whole village shows up at your house to help, you process a huge pig or two in a day and get drunk. For the next few days you do the same at your neighbors' houses. It was really fun time if you're a kid and from what I can remember, for adults, too.

Lovely hearing all of these stories, very interesting. It is completely the same in most of the villages back in the days in the Philippines as they helped their neighbors.

It's almost that time of the year boys, get ready

Everyone who lives in the countryside of Romania still practice the tradition of pig slaughter and Christmas dishes preparation from it. Even people from cities with no relatives in the countryside go with their friends to their families to participate, help and make fresh produce.

@@TheGhostOfMichaelJackson speak for yourself bud

Me too! I remember the daisy-wheel cranked butter churn jar, after coming back with a bucket of milk for dinner. She had an electric "ice box" though, and used the old-fashioned one for a cupboard. The chickens were always in&out of the ice house, which was abandoned. She had an old crank telephone that connected with a party line, too! Lol.

@@lukasmakarios4998 yes we had a party line I still remember the number , our fridge was run by a kerosene wick underneath and power was from a 32volt petter generator next to the out house and laundry . Yes a long time past

This is still done today. I'm in my 20s and on the farms and in the cities suburb I know my family still does this. I as well help my uncles, aunts, and grandparent with the whole process.

😂😂😂😂😂

Yup

Thank you for my first laugh of the day!

Ha, mine too

Ziiing

I missed a few things. My grandparents didn’t have a phone either. The chamber pot was called a slop jar and not a slop bucket. I also forgot to mention my grandmother had running water at her sink in her kitchen. She had running water because the rain runoff from the roof was channeled into a large tank on the outside of her kitchen. I don’t know the capacity of the tank but it had to be in the hundreds of gallons because we were never cautioned about wasting. Another thing my grandmother did was clean clothes by boiling them in a large cast iron pot that had a fire built under it to heat the water. She used a lye soap made from ashes and animal fat if I remember correctly. My siblings and I lived in the city and spent a month in the summer with my grandparents. Because we were used to a commode, a bathtub, running hot and cold water, electricity , gas heaters, gas range, electric refrigerator, etc, we thought it was fun to go to the country and stay with our grandparents. I was born in 1942 so I got to experience a different life from normal city life in the late 1940s.

That’s so awesome! Thank you for sharing this! I have some friends who live off grid. Almost everything is done in this manner. A large percentage of their food is foraged and harvested from their land. I’m highly inspired!

@@klayvonisme This was after WW2 and my grandparents didn’t have a choice except to live off the grid. When Louisiana started requiring a drivers license in the 1930s, my grandfather was “grandfathered” in and issued a license without having to be tested to show he could drive. He should have been as he was a danger on the road. Fortunately, for the public, he rarely left the small town he lived in. My mom and her siblings gave my grandparents money to help them plus Louisiana had started an old age pension plan for seniors in the 1930s that helped. I doubt he had paid into Social Security as that didn’t start until the 1930s. My grandfather was close to his 50s when Social Security started. He farmed, did some barbering at his house, some blacksmithing, etc and payment was under the table. Just a very different time. Men ruled the roost in those days. My grandmother had no say about things. She had 8 children. One died of tetanus at 18 months of age in the early 1930s, one died from a massive infection from a ruptured appendix in 1939 and one was stillborn. The other five lived into their 80s and 90s with the last dying last year. My siblings and I lived in DeRidder, Louisiana. We loved our month in the country in the summer. It was so primitive that it was like camping out for a month. Where they lived in the country, you would see the mailman come by and a few other vehicles. My grandparent’s house was on a hill about 50 yards from the dirt road. If we heard a vehicle coming, we ran to the front porch to see if the vehicle was stopping by or continuing on down the road. In a day there might be a half dozen vehicles come by and that was it. We were city kids and weren’t used to the isolation. We enjoyed the country and missed the city life at the same time. I tell my grandkids about those days and they absolutely can’t comprehend living without a TV or two, a PlayStation, cell phones, the Internet, etc. They look at me like I’m BSing them!

Wad the paper up first then straighten it out, works better that way

Same for me in Fulton Arkansas🥰

@@BR549-8 , nah. It's all good. I actually found the full playlist on another channel after I posted this.

@@stuffbywoody5497 wish you had linked that

Check townsends channel very similar content.

I was surprised by that clogged blood for black pudding, in our country we stir the blood until it cools and is still liquid and then use it.

Two days to butcher. Should take an afternoon or less

@@telldeatrich3593 Well a couple things. I have done it in one day before, but the titanium bars and screws in my neck do not like me picking up and bending over all day. Tends to make me bed ridden or walking with a cane again. .... no fun. At 13 years of age I started working at BROWNS MEAT PACKING PLANT in Spartanburg SC (The old Arcadia Plant which is now gone). They still have a big plant in Gaffney. Jimmy Brown is the only brother still alive but he knows me and my family well. Good people. Hard working. I worked from 5 pm to 3 am but only 3 to 4 days a week and load outs once a month on weekends. (My mom did not like us missing Church so we went Saturday night). All the while I was in Jr High. Man that was good money! Those were different times.... That would have been 1976 to 1982. So yea I could do it in one day but really what is the hurry? At 60 years old I no longer have anyone to impress. Also I really like the meat to hang a week if I could but I do not have a walk in cooler. So I hang them under the water tower. If I am not careful the Pumas will get the meat:( So two - three days is the longest I can hang meat. In all fairness there are just 3 of us. I cut the meat while Lori grinds the sausage and bags the stew meat with me taking breaks to season the bacon and put hams in the cure. While Thomas renders the fat and makes Kracklins for all of us. So we are taking our time and getting it done but I do not think we will get fired! Jim

You had to throw in "Bless their hearts" didn't you? 😂

@@MrEazyE357 I may live in the New DEEP SOUTH of Chile South America but I was raised in South Carolina. Sometimes it comes out. Jim

Thank you for sharing!

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Did this trigger you? I unapologetically love my people

@@jorgejustice for good reason... And those who don't get it can get fookt

We had a pigmy goat as a pet as kids. When the meat goats were being slaughtered grandpa killed the fluffy white pet goat too. When asked He told everyone half way through dinner “what exactly do you think the meat in this spaghetti?” Miss them both

So very sad.

@@parkerolson5713 yes, but it is the reality of farm life. It has caused a lot of harm also people being disconnected with where stuff really comes from. People become unrealistic and very judgmental that leads to regulations that make no practical sense to make those in power FEEL better.

Yes I lived on a farm as a boy and was traumatized by my pets being turned into food. Part of life

I used to have rabbits now I have quail. Harder to not get attached to rabbits. quail are loud messy and I don't mind when they go to the freezer camp

I was just going to mention that.. you are 100% correct.

Thank you for the information.

interesting info! Thanks

It looks like a very similar process to the horse hair plaster lathe 'drywall' I had to repair in a house I owned that was built in the 1860's.

You're exactly right. This wall has a good chance of falling apart.

Full time job was survival & being prepared.

We have become specialists whereas they were generalists. Every man on a farmstead was also a butcher, a blacksmith, a horseman, cattleman, or shepherd, a veterinarian of his day, a carpenter, often a mason, and a lot more. But where they had intense practical skills, they tended to be cripplingly incapable of hypothetical thought, and by extension, to some extent, empathy. It was very difficult for people of previous eras to imagine something different than their own reality or put themselves in the shoes of a stranger.

They had the exact same brains we do. And with no distractions like we have today, even little or nothing to read, all your mind goes to work and surviving.

@@cameronbuttigieg9060 that's not true. It was about community. Our ancestors weren't as isolated as we are. We've had specialisations of jobs since antiquity.

@@jaegrant6441 I live in a small northern Ontario rural community. I am a blacksmith, a farrier, a cattleman, a trapper, a hunter, a butcher, a horse trainer, a logger, a welder, a carpenter, a harness maker, and a dozen other things necessary for making a living from the land. One of my shoeing clients is a mechanic. That's all he does. Another is a real estate agent. I've literally never met her. I just trim her animals. I don't see how isolation or community has any effect on the tendency of subsistance farmers to have broader skill sets.

And you Mr.Frank Z.? Great job on harvesting your meat birds 👍🏻.

Excellent job

Me too. And i just invested in a plucker 😄 too many birds to pluck by hand.

@@sarahsherman4514 ya it took me a while. But it's doable.

@@frankz1125 i did 9 chickens and 2 ducks , have 11 chickens and 6 ducks left, going to use the new plucker for the rest. My hands/back couldnt handle it.

Ummm... these are modern people. You know this isn't actually a time traveler show, right?

Back when men were masculine.

Me too! I love Peter and Alex. I can't think of calling Peter Fonze because I've seen many other Farm series and they never called him that 🤔 I do wonder why though.

The woman seem more masculine than the men

@@mainemermaid6596 capable*** Has nothing to do with masculinity. They don't seem masculine at all tbh lol they're quite feminine. And lovely. They just do stuff. Humans doing stuff doesn't mean they're masculine. The women are equally hard workers. They are all just functional, capable human beings lol. And yeah, that's hawt :') Tbh I know men who really do exude masculinity, but they are technically quite useless when it comes to being handy etc. They just have clearly quite a lot of testosterone. And act like twats. Lol. Don't build or fix nowt tho.🤣🤣 just sayin

You're absolutely right, captainAMAZING.

It seems like they did it the hard way in the 1600s dragging gigantic animals all over the yard instead of slaughtering it next to a tree where they conveniently gut, skin and quarter the animal. I wonder whether the show got it right?

@@chrisfuller1268 it's a good series but never forget, it's still "reality" TV. I've watched several by this same crew and there's always a lot of omitted details, and things that are sort of drama'ed up.

In Southern Missouri the persimmons were much smaller but incredibly delicious only when fully ripe. Anything less than fully ripe and they were horrible! I haven't had a persimmon that tasted good in 50 years

Care to share great aunt Nora's recipe?

Here is my family's recipe for persimmon pudding. Seems to be common around central Indiana farm families. Persimmons are often used as a winter baking treat in various recipes across the Ohio valley. Also ... try it once for a taste test, exactly by the recipe. Some folks LOVE persimmon dishes, others, ummm dont. This is exactly how my family's recipe is written: Persimmon Pudding - Cream together 1/2 cup butter and 2 cups sugar. Beat in 2 eggs, then 2 cups (1 pint) *ripe* persimmon pulp. Add alternating, starting and ending with flour - 2 1/2 cups flour + 3 cups milk (4 flours, 3 milks). Dissolve 1 tsp bicarbonate soda in 1/4 cup hot water. Beat into batter last thing and Pour into a greased 9 x 13 pan. Bake in a slow oven (275 F) for 1 3/4 hours. Pudding will rise and puff up to top of dish but will fall when removed from oven. Do not increase soda, it will give a bitter taste.

@@itzakpoelzig330 Certainly. Glad to share.

@@karenmcdaniel1732 Fantastic! I'll try it out on my family this holiday season, thank you. We have a few persimmon lovers in our ranks. I'll be sure to give credit to great-aunt Nora, too.

This video is trying to replicate 17th century operations.

Informative.

Thank you!!!

Good to know. TY

@@kaywatson6505 they sell hog scrapers online that work the best.

Thank you, this was killing me. I'd have let it pass if they hadn't gone out of their way to describe their 19thC auger bit so lovingly.

I believe they’re historians who study the 17th century

he made the house out of shit. where the heck do u live.....

It takes 400 squirrels equal one hog....

@@warrendomask1565 - Ironically as Hell, he's from San Francisco...

@@warrendomask1565 nothing new for us we have been doing it here for decades ( cow dunk, mud, stones or anything by which we can make) all your westerners n Europeans have no clue that all of these things is quite common in Asia . Dig deep in Asian countries history and u will be surprised how good and advanced they were

@@zenjigaming3342 i like to think of myself as open minded. but if your house is made of poop, it's not advanced. rammed earth, straw bale... there's a whole bunch of creative advanced ideas out there. but poop house is not one of them..... that said, if it works, it's not a stupid idea.....

I love all things medieval, archaic, and antique. But it was actually the one set in the most recent era, The Wartime Series, that I found most fascinating.

I typed in tales of green valley. It pulled up every episode. I hope you enjoy this series as much as I do!

@@brianhoppersr.3671 Thank you very much!

There have also been other "farm" series done by the same team. Try looking up "The Victorian Farm", "The Edwardian Farm" and also something like "The Second World War Farm". Each covers a calendar year and make wonderful viewing.

@@paulcampbell5202 you’re a gem!

It's a bit mind-boggling, isn't it? So many "simple" things we take for granted are really complicated and require all sorts of different skills and knowledge. Think of a humble piece of cornbread... then think of plowing the field, growing the corn, picking the corn, shucking it, removing the grain from the cob, grinding it... then someone has to get firewood, build a fire, and cook... then finally you've got food. I've been at some of this sort of homesteading thing for a couple years now, and I only know a small fraction of what the average farmer knew in those days.

People needed huge families to get the work done.

yup, a fresh set of rocky mountain oysters

They took his friend. There were two of them but yes he does seem to know what they did and it's just now sinking in that he's next:/