Cooking Green Beans In Appalachia "We Grew EVERYTHING On This Plate" // Garden to Table v15

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Appalachia’s Metcalf Mills

3 жыл бұрын

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@lindaarmstrong4661 2 жыл бұрын

This is the beans I grew up eating in Gatlinburg where I was born in late 1940's. My grandma and mother canned and cooked them like you do. We loved the shellies, too! I love your channel. It takes me back and I think you are a brilliant man. I'm elderly and homebound so watching good folks like you and Perma Pastures is the highlight of my day. God bless you and your family!

@metcalfmills5679 2 жыл бұрын

Wow ! Thank you for sharing this with me Linda. You have made my day. You have given me a new perspective on who watches my channel. My dad is also home bound and I take care of him. One of the reasons I started this was so that he could see what I was doing when I am out of the house. We only got to work together a little while before he got too sick, so this way I can share what I’m working on with him. Thank you so much and God bless you too Linda. You have made my day !

@PermaPasturesFarm21 3 жыл бұрын

Very impressive my friend!

@SunShine-ip7gl 2 жыл бұрын

Mighty nice dinner brother! Proud of all you've grown 👏 Lord provides much to those who work the ground 🙏❤ kudos!

@metcalfmills5679 2 жыл бұрын

That’s for sure. Thank you Sun Shine.

@kristinebeedle657 3 жыл бұрын

This Southern girl like some mustered greens with some good pork fat. My green beans didn't do too good this year. I'm sure it's a soil issue I like watching Billy @perma pasture farm learned a lot. Thanks for sharing. Blessings!

@metcalfmills5679 3 жыл бұрын

I heard that. The only thing I put on my beans is Black Kow manure and mushroom compost if I can get it. Billy is the best ! Thank you for watching !!!

@ASouthernLadyinAppalachia 3 жыл бұрын

@@metcalfmills5679 Careful with the Black Kow. Folks are loosing things because some of it has Graze On in it. I'm sure it depends on where the source is. Danny at Deep South Homestead talks about it.

@darlenetomblin3528 2 жыл бұрын

My sister taught me a trick planting potatoes. And it works. I tested both ways. If you plant potatoes in the full moon, they grow closer to the top soil and if you plant in the dark of the moon, they grow deeper in ground. Easier to dig in full moon planting. Have you heard of this?

@metcalfmills5679 2 жыл бұрын

Yes I have Darlene. It works. So many things the moon has an effect on. Thank you so much for sharing !

@belindagray3005 3 жыл бұрын

That's the way my Mama taught me to cook green beans except she would put a whole peeled onion in to season too. Pull it and the fat out before serving. Sometimes she would cook baby new potatoes in with the green beans we kids would almost fight over them lol. Course she always made sure there was enough to go around. Spent many a summer day stringing beans and husking corn. I know what your talking about that feeling of togetherness , belonging and working toward a common goal. So many people are missing that in their lives. Maybe it is coming back. I hope so:)

@metcalfmills5679 3 жыл бұрын

Belinda thank you for sharing these memories with us. It was wonderful to read. I hope it is coming back as well. We need it now more than ever! Thank you !

@dianapollex3266 2 жыл бұрын

Oh my goodness! My mom made the best greenbean and taters. 🥰

@metcalfmills5679 2 жыл бұрын

I understand, mine did too !

@sherrygtn63 2 жыл бұрын

What an awesome meal !! Just needed a big slab of onion..done my share of bean stringing & corn shucking with people..Feels like home on this channel !

@metcalfmills5679 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you Sherry!

@lorrainepeckham4211 3 жыл бұрын

Looks like a good mess of green beans for supper.A mess means just enough for a meal.:)

@metcalfmills5679 3 жыл бұрын

Yep, right on !

@131dyana 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you very much. God bless your family.

@metcalfmills5679 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you and God bless you as well

@macEboy 11 ай бұрын

Nice! Thanks for bringing us along for the supper.

@metcalfmills5679 11 ай бұрын

Thank you!

@SunShine-ip7gl 2 жыл бұрын

Oh my word! Yes beans are best with some good bacon fat in there. And you've given me the BEST word for how I have always liked bacon 🥓 Brickly. Lol I will forever use and remember this. Most my friends and family say I like my bacon burnt but I like it brickly. 😋

@metcalfmills5679 2 жыл бұрын

Yes they are the best! Ha ha! It’s a good word!

@gardenlady58 2 жыл бұрын

I really enjoyed this video. It brought back fond memories of growing up in rural Alabama in the 50s and visits to my grandparents; farm. Snapping beans by the bushel sometimes, eating pork they grew, and just having a peaceful sustainable life. He grew running beans with his corn too. and plowed his fields with a mule and plow.

@metcalfmills5679 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much for sharing this with us. Glad to hear you enjoyed, and glad it stirred some good memories !

@jtharp9265 2 жыл бұрын

@@metcalfmills5679 God bless you , Beautiful memories and seeing you cook all that blessed food , Just like my Daddy showed me , have a blessed week . Mrs Josette Montgomery County , Texas

@metcalfmills5679 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you

@Skashoon 2 жыл бұрын

I’m late getting started and never cooked much. Now I need to learn from you and Billy about growing food, cooking, farm life in general. I don’t even know which varieties to grow. I’ll be sure to look for half runner beans, and I bought some mustard green seeds. I’m late getting started and my gardens are still being set up. Wish I had a neighbor like you to learn from and help move soil. Doing it by hand at age 66 is brutal, but it has to be done. Thanks for your videos.

@metcalfmills5679 2 жыл бұрын

I am glad to help with any questions you may have, if I can. I can’t move dirt but we can be KZfaq neighbors ! Thank you for the kind compliments, I am happy to share what I know. I am working on offering seed in the future.

@sonyagregory5711 2 жыл бұрын

Preparing your meals like this just makes your heart sing. Then smelling all the flavors as they marry in the pot is pure Heaven! Mmmm! Good Eatin!!!❤😊

@metcalfmills5679 2 жыл бұрын

It sure is Sonya!!

@deborahmcsweeney1650 2 жыл бұрын

My grandpa who was Cherokee decent taught us to make green beans like that only he put the salt pork and potatoes in with the green beans and it was the meal on its own! So yummy!

@metcalfmills5679 2 жыл бұрын

Yes it sure is

@noblebrooks1552 3 жыл бұрын

Really enjoyed your video, Thanks. I grow and like the white half runner, little brown speckled grease beans. I really like the blue lake bunch bean as they keep growing for several pickings and most of them don't have strings. They taste close to the half runner cann real good also. Great job! Thanks for sharing.

@metcalfmills5679 3 жыл бұрын

These half runners will also keep bearing if you keep them picked. Thank you for sharing and thank you for your compliments !

@truthseeker9688 2 жыл бұрын

Pretty beans. We grew half runners and cornfield beans. You are making me hungry, Justro! I love mustard greens...usually mix them with the turnip greens.

@metcalfmills5679 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you❤️

@lorrainepeckham4211 3 жыл бұрын

I was raised with that kind of country cooling yes sir!

@metcalfmills5679 3 жыл бұрын

Can’t beat it Lorraine !

@allonesame6467 2 жыл бұрын

Last year the kale reseeded itself in the asparagus bed ! Thank you, kale! So, I figured I'd let the lettuce and mustards go that way too! I pick and eat the outer leaves and and let the center of the plant continue to grow and seed out when it's ready. I don't have to buy seed and try to control everything. Mother Earth provides.

@metcalfmills5679 2 жыл бұрын

I do the same when I can, thank you

@charl.4407 Жыл бұрын

Great video….your dachshund is fun to watch…he fits perfectly in the rows!! Tasty meal…😘from Vancouver Island.

@metcalfmills5679 Жыл бұрын

Thank you so much, he sure does! Best to you up there

@shodson314 3 жыл бұрын

I haven’t heard some one say “fry it up Brickley since my dad died. He loved a mess of beans too!

@metcalfmills5679 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you for sharing that with me !

@Georgia_Farmer 2 жыл бұрын

Your half runners look huge compared to what mine did last year. I grew greasy backs, half runners, whippoorwills, and rattlesnake beans last year. The rattlesnake beans out harvested all the others, put together, by 4:1. Planted only 8 feet of rattlesnakes and 22-foot rows of the others.

@metcalfmills5679 2 жыл бұрын

They did good last year. Thanks for sharing.

@shazzorama 2 жыл бұрын

Twin bean people! We even break the green beans just alike . 😅🌟

@metcalfmills5679 2 жыл бұрын

Ha ha! Thanks Sharon

@cooksonriver 11 ай бұрын

I wish I was eating that supper you cooked!! Yummy!!

@metcalfmills5679 11 ай бұрын

Thank you 🙂

@michaelgriffee145 3 жыл бұрын

Reason they planted beans and corn together is the beans make there own nitrogen and corn loves nitrogen you want good sweet corn plant you row beans the 2 rows of corn then a row beans then 2 rows of corn then watch it it will really grow

@metcalfmills5679 3 жыл бұрын

Absolutely ! We’re getting into a future video ! Thanks for the comment Michael !

@thomasmccardle725 Жыл бұрын

Man them beans sure look good, I prepare my beans the same as you pulling the strangs and strings before cooking! I’m picturing a meal with green beans, stewed tomatoes and taters along with a skillet of cornbread! If I’m feeling spoilt rotten I’ll make cracklings cornbread, yum yum!

@metcalfmills5679 Жыл бұрын

Oh thank you for speaking my language! ❤️

@kimmer2799 3 жыл бұрын

The last garden I had I grew my half runners on the corn. It worked out great. The half runners also make really good leather britches. Enjoying your channel. How is the bone sauce working out for you? Have you noticed a difference yet?

@crystalbrooks7875 2 жыл бұрын

I remember when granny would dry fadder beans on the porch on a string!

@metcalfmills5679 2 жыл бұрын

We call em leather britches

@crystalbrooks7875 2 жыл бұрын

@@metcalfmills5679 Yes! That’s so awesome! I’m glad I found you! We watch a few of your videos a day! Until we catch up! Lol You talk just like us! I love it! Miss Charlotte is adorable! 🥰

@metcalfmills5679 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks Crystal! 🙂

@debbiewilson6527 2 жыл бұрын

Looks 👍 good.

@metcalfmills5679 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you

@lorrainepeckham4211 3 жыл бұрын

ok you know the word mess LOL

@metcalfmills5679 3 жыл бұрын

Sure do !

@LeaC816 2 жыл бұрын

You had a feast, Justin! That would be heaven for mustard greens to just grow wild. I absolutely love them but I have to plant them on purpose to get any. I’d be totally fine with random mustard bunches popping up instead of weeds! Very smart with your potatoes to plant them in different areas like that too.

@metcalfmills5679 2 жыл бұрын

It sounds like you are a lover of mustard greens too ! My favorite green for sure. Feels good to pick them when you didn’t sow them. I am getting ready to sow the green patch for winter. Mustard and Kale. Our main garden has two soil types and it is interesting to see how things grow ! Thank you Lea ! Do you have a big garden ?

@LeaC816 2 жыл бұрын

@@metcalfmills5679 They are my favorite too! I could make a meal any day off just a bowl of mustards & a piece of cornbread! To answer your question, no I do not have a big garden right now. I grew up on a dairy farm in East Texas and always had big ones there but my family moved to the city when I was a teenager. It was definite culture shock. Last summer I bought an older home on 1/3 an acre still inside city limits. My mom is older now and I didn’t want to move too far away from her. Our “small” garden when I was a kid was bigger than my whole property is that I’m on now! 🤣 I do have a garden here though and I’m working on expanding it and maximizing the use of the area I do have. This place came with the entire front yard fully landscaped in a cottage garden style. I have added a surprising amount of vegetables right in my front yard and it still looks pretty and landscaped. Most of my neighbors have no idea the bright, frilly edged green plants growing under my rose bush are mustard greens or that the tall skinny plants with the pretty yellow blooms are okra! The back of this property is heavily wooded and overgrown. It looks a lot like the area y’all worked on at Billy’s except it’s flat. They won’t let me have pigs here and it’s too big a job for my chicken. There’s no way to even get any sort of tractor or brush hog in there so I’m working on clearing it as quickly as a 5’1 woman with a chainsaw can! LOL Hopefully by next spring I can have what most folks around here consider a big garden at least. 😊

@metcalfmills5679 2 жыл бұрын

Oh yeah, I could eat a bowl of mustard and a piece of corn bread anytime too ! I like to pour my dill pickle juice on em, soooo good ! Well at least you have that ! And it sounds like you have good plans.

@metcalfmills5679 2 жыл бұрын

That’s the funny thing, most people don’t even realize what is growing right in front of them. Sounds like a big job ! It will be so worth it when you are finished ! Wow, what kind of chain saw ya got ?

@LeaC816 2 жыл бұрын

@@metcalfmills5679 oh my stinkin heck that sounds good!! I have always poured pickled jalapeño juice on mine but now I will have to try the dill pickle juice! Thanks for the idea!!

@sheilafade2016 2 жыл бұрын

Those are nice green beans

@metcalfmills5679 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks Sheila

@stephencudaback4548 Жыл бұрын

Hay j my family gecess bean hog fat or bacon with half stick butter salt and pepper table good eat thank for your info love you guys and videos see you on the next one from steve c from state Oregon

@metcalfmills5679 Жыл бұрын

That is some good eatin! Thank you Steve

@lastdayshomesteading6288 2 жыл бұрын

That looks great I grow those mustard greens as a cover crop but for me they got a particular bite to them that's hard for me to get past butI still eat them. Half runners gotta love them take care enjoying your channel.

@metcalfmills5679 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you, glad that you enjoy.

@tpaw6908 Жыл бұрын

Wow this one popped up after I replayed the rabbit trap for Robert . Good lookin meal just I would add a big slice of onion with that matter and cuke . Looks good.

@metcalfmills5679 Жыл бұрын

Thank you, it sure was❤️

@puppygirl1947 2 жыл бұрын

My mama loved half runners and greasy , , still have the hoe propped up in the hill where she planted her last beans in 2017.

@metcalfmills5679 2 жыл бұрын

Mine too. Really ! I got mamas how hangin on the wall in the living room. Thank you for sharing !

@124bucket 2 жыл бұрын

we always plant on good friday if possible

@metcalfmills5679 2 жыл бұрын

Yep

@debrahayes4043 Жыл бұрын

Yes we do

@metcalfmills5679 Жыл бұрын

Thank you

@debrahayes4043 Жыл бұрын

Your very welcome

@marielg9143 2 жыл бұрын

Holy Beans Batman

@metcalfmills5679 2 жыл бұрын

No joke!

@k.p.1139 2 жыл бұрын

Beautiful beans! You cook like my Grandma did. I have never heard of greasy beans. I grow pole beans, but they don't look shiny. Can you recommend a variety to grow? I looked it up and it's like field peas, a lot to choose from, so I wouldn't know where to start.

@metcalfmills5679 2 жыл бұрын

Well we always grow greasy or NT mountain half runners. That’s all I have experience with..

@billyangelapressley Жыл бұрын

Wow looks awesome.

@metcalfmills5679 Жыл бұрын

Thank you Billy

@billyangelapressley Жыл бұрын

@@metcalfmills5679 you welcome. What was that meat that you fried up with the meal?

@metcalfmills5679 Жыл бұрын

It was middlin meat. Uncured bacon kinda. Salt cured pork belly.

@billyangelapressley Жыл бұрын

@@metcalfmills5679 oh ok. Thanks

@tuahurts6330 2 жыл бұрын

thats the way i pick um

@metcalfmills5679 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you

@breathoflifefarm7197 2 жыл бұрын

Are those Mountaineer White Half Runner beans? They are my favorite one!!

@metcalfmills5679 2 жыл бұрын

Yes I sure was! One of our favorites to

@jeffyoung2089 2 жыл бұрын

👍👍

@metcalfmills5679 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you

@tammy5590 Жыл бұрын

We always grew halfrunners. But I don't grow them anymore. I use Bluelakes or Kentucky Wonders. I guess when you eat them for 50 years you want something different. But I like a good mess of halfrunners with new potatoes. Where did you get that gridle holding down that fatback. I need one of them.

@metcalfmills5679 Жыл бұрын

Well the half runners got crossed with commercial beans and made them tough, a lot of folks stopped eating them. Ours are non tough. I don’t remember, you can try ebay. Grill press

@tammy5590 Жыл бұрын

@@metcalfmills5679 I know its hard to find sead for half runners anymore. I looked a couple years back for some but never found any. I may have to contact some of my family from McDowell county WV and see if anyone has seed. Thank you.

@debrahayes4043 Жыл бұрын

I never hear you talk about turnip greens they are good

@metcalfmills5679 Жыл бұрын

I like mustard the best

@David-kd5mf 2 жыл бұрын

Do you recommend any seed companies for historically used varieties of corn and beans for NC?

@metcalfmills5679 2 жыл бұрын

Talk to people in NC that grow. That is what I would do. They will usually always share their seed. Most seed companies have individuals who grow the seeds for them.

@jwest4257 2 жыл бұрын

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