Your view off the porch is so pretty

Folks who have the old skills and knowledge are priceless treasures that the rest of us will NEED come SHTF (and in my opinion (IMO) SHTF isn’t an if, it’s a when). In your copious spare time (😳😂🤣😂🤣) have you considered developing a home sized grain mill? I know you are not impressed with what’s available on the market now. If it can be devised, it can be made, and I know that there is a market for it. I expect that there are those who would be happy to invest in its production. Many blessings to you and yours.

I’d help you just for the experience and your stories about the old ways.

I shucked a lot of corn as a kid, miss them day's. God bless.

The chair, wow 💕💖❤️. I'm looking forward to hearing more on how you promote fertility.

You are a blessing for.sure.

I remember, as a kid, the church members would all get together and go out to a farm and have corn shelling contests. I don't remember prizes or anything, it might just have been bragging rights or maybe I was just always on the losing team. We always had a meal together. It was a lot of fun. I do remember our hands got really sore. :o) Thanks Justin, you brought back some good memories to an old guy. God bless.

Very pretty corn.

pretty colors on the corn!

What a heavenly view.

Justro, this video's got all the fixins for a fine life. A great porch, a lovely rocker, beautiful scenery, gentle breezes, gorgeous chimes, a love of history, a calm pace, perfect conversation, Irreplaceable memories, and the gift of corn. And, as if that ain't enough, Char has the makins for enough corn husk dolls to entertain her creativity for a good long while. Thanks for sharing this. Many continued blessings to you and yours.

I was reading in Alex Stuart portrait of pioneer. They said back in the day. They would store sausage in the rafters of there cabin in corn shucks. That's a awesome book if you have never read it.

Enjoy your videos sir, new subscriber here from NC

My hubby and I are in our 70s and we LOVE watching your videos and family, as society has advanced and lost many of the old ways. Thank you for sharing life with us. We appreciate you, Justin, and your family excellent work ethic. God bless you.

Oh son I enjoy watching you so very much I am old 77 and I love the old days I remember doing all these things with my grandpa

Thoroughly enjoyed watching this video. I grew up on a ranch in West Texas and we had a 5 acre corn patch, pigs chickens and then the main business was raising cattle. Your video takes me back to sweet memories of my childhood. Few today would appreciate the richness and abundance of a simpler life and simpler times. You are wealthy beyond measure.

Thanks for sharing. Blessings

This young man is authentic.

I think that would be a favorite task of mine too if I could sit there with that view! You are a heck of a talented farmer AND decorator to grow corn that matches the trees! 😃 Heck, I’d happily sit there and do it without the jug but would have to taste a sip if one was around just for old times sake. I just couldn’t stand up too quick…. It’s been a minute since I’ve drank anything as strong as that! 😂☺️ That chair is really beautiful! I love that you know the history of so many things and share it. It is beyond cool you know someone who can still make those too. That would really be something neat to see done and learn!! Grandma had some like it so I know how sturdy they are. I know hers were all well over 50 years old probably easily over 60 and looked every bit as nice as yours. I have her rocking chair that’s about the same size and style but the bottom of it is made from some kind of rope that I haven’t seen before. Whatever it is is tough too because the seat still looks brand new and she rocked a lot of miles in that thing! I also have a corn husk doll from her. I’m not sure who made it or when but pretty sure it’s a lot older than I am, not that I’m ready to call myself old yet! If Charlotte likes dolls maybe y’all could make some from your husks just for fun this winter. If she don’t then just make tamales, everybody likes those! LOL I hope you enjoyed a peaceful afternoon shucking and had good company helping you or at least those trusty supervisors around. Thank you for the story and for letting us hang out with you for a bit today!

A video on making grits would be great.

Thank you for explaining the corn crib. I never really understood how they were used. Lovely corn

I used to have chairs still have ladder back but dont remember some got redone I'll have to look. But I remember dolls made out of the corn shucks. Do you have email for orders when you start in spring I'm interested in a lot of your matters and corn. Hows your dad today? We know you've been busy keep him in our thoughts and prayers. You know I got to get on my friend to look you up again. Take care of that cough still fighting whatever this was. Yes you and your stories are a blessing . Keep them coming we love the journey. Have a great week next weekend looks bad weather. Need help hollar.

Justro, I think yours is really a history channel. I sure enjoy it. Unconventional. Your accent is something else! Com' mon!! Corn shucks are chair bottoms! Wow! and so beautifully done! It's remarkably quiet where you live. I'd love to see your corn milled. How fun! You're such a Blessing. Regards from far north California

That brings back childhood memories. I used to stay with my Grandparents and we shucked and shell corn. I still have the old corn sheller that we used clamped to a wooden box. That was our rainy day project

Thank you for sharing brother. It's so nice to hear about old traditions and how to do them. I'm 58 and I can just barely remember my grandparents doing some of the things you're doing. Thank you again.

That is some beautiful beautiful corn

My mom made me a corn husk doll when I was little (5ish), I still have it.

Oftentimes I find myself wishing I was born way back when❤ love this one ❤ youve got some really pretty ears of corn

Ive never seen corn shucked that way. That’s so neat! That’s a beautiful sight with the corn and rocker and chair and background off the porch. So peaceful.

Had no idea that's how those chairs seats were made. From corn shucks. Wow. I thought it was made from straw or grass. Great video information. "Jimmy crack corn and I don't care"

I had no idea those chairs were made from corn husks. I would love to learn to do that. Thanks for sharing!

Learn something new every day. I didn't know those seats where made of corn shucks. I have 3 of those ladderback cornshuck chairs. I'm looking for another for a complete set.

Your corn is beautiful! I’ve seen chairs like yours many times growing up and never realized it was woven from corn husks. It’s such a beautiful lost art.

My dad use to do seats like that in the late 70's. He used the the twisted paper to weave the seats. I still have a chair he wove and it is still like new. He also use to cane chair bottoms. He would get a bucket of water and soak the cane to get it pliable and start weaving. Dad was born in 1922, some of the stuff he would do was the old fashioned way. I wish today I would have paid more attention. I do remember a few things, but wish I remembered more, or should I say cared enough to pay closer attention.

Thanks for sharing 👍🤓

I bet the horses and cows love that corn!!!

My grandmother came from Sweden and settled in Iowa. They used to have shucking bees, followed by drinking and dancing. And more drinking. I assume they got the shucking done first, but Im not sure. Lol Thanks for sharing the good life with the rest of your Northern cousins.

Fantastic history lesson brother!

justin i really injoy watching your chanel thanks for sharing your memory and your farm experience with us god blass good people.

Learn something new everyday. Very informative video my friend! Thanks for sharing! Nice lookin corn and a very nice view of the fall colors in the background. GOD BLESS YOU MY FRIEND!!!! 👍🏻🙏🏻😇🙌🏻

Hey Justin, I do love that Jimmy Red can't wait to grow some next year I'm a be thinking about that all winter. Y'all take care bye for now

Happy Halloween from Somerville, Alabama.....Larry & Connie

Place I use to hunt had a old separate corn crib . It was probably 4 foot wide and 10 foot long. Post where set on a flat rock. The floor was about 3 foot off the ground.. this was a area that people raised hogs. The roof was hinged where you could raise it to throw the corn in. The floor was slanted so the corn would run down to one end that had a small door you could pull a bucket load of corn out. The only one I ever seen built like this.

That is awesome Justin. Thanks for sharing buddy.

That’s one pile of corn right there!

One thing I love about your channel is the history you share. Makes me wonder if my grandmother, who was widowed with 13 children, in the hills of West Virginia in the early 30's, how they all survived. Maybe shucked corn also. Anyway, I appreciate you sharing.

My granma use to take me and my cousins to our farm up in the mountain to husk corns before bring it back to our house so we can eat together with the entire family. This brings back memories lost to time. Even for me, born and raised in a part of the world you probably never heard of, in language you probably ever spoke, this connected to me in a spiritual level. The world has truly changed....

That sure is some pretty corn 🌽

fabulous video , thank you

Thank you for another history lesson Justin!

This has been one of my favorite videos. I could clog the whole comment section with all the ways you've touched my soul. Instead, I'll just say thank ya for the upload and God Bless you and yours.

Love this guy

learned so much! Thanks!

You taught me something on that corn shuck chair bottom and the shucking tool. On a completely different note, Justin Rhodes put out a video recently where he considered restoring a spring well to give his family a backup water source if they ever needed it. He said he’d probably need someone to refurbish it to get it going again. I mentioned you in a comment but I don’t know if he read it. You might reach out to him if you’re interested. It looks a lot like your well setup that you recently did a video on. Anyway, I really enjoy watching your videos. I’ve never met you before but I feel like I’ve known you all my life. I guess we’re like the old folks say, kindred spirits.

I really liked your video!

Im gonna ask you a question that no one seems to know the answer to. I remember when I was very very young, my dad fed the chicken just straight corn kernels. Not cracked corn, and the kernels were small enough that the chickens could eat it with out an issue, no matter the birds size. In todays world, people insist that they need chicken feed, and if you give corn to your chickens it needs to be cracked corn. When did people make that shift, and why are the kernels so much larger today?

I love those old style chairs and have a collection from nearby dumpsters. One is stuffed with pine needles, one with newspapers. I have a couple of corn shucking tools with metal tips but never saw one actually used before. Thanks for your vids. I really enjoy them.

I had four corn shuk bottom chairs for the longest time. They came up missing a few years ago. Only just found out what happened to them, younger brother took and sold them because my older brother just waved a hand and said "anything in there that you can sell, do so." Referring to the living room of the house. Nevermind everything that was mine was marked as such with string tied on tags. Four tags in the trash, buried under a few things. I still am hot about it, more so that for three years now when I'd ask about them. No one seemed to know anything, especially my younger brother and his wife. They're still family so I don't do any good to hold a hot grudge about it. But I'll never trust them again to do anything for me without supervision. If that offends them, fine. I and deeply offended at being lied to for years all because one was too lazy to sit and supervise as I asked him to, and the other knew they were stealing and tried to hide it. I can forgive a lot, doesn't mean I'll forget it happened though. While not from the mountains myself, more coastal history for me. I hear you about the fertilizer and growing up in the eighties, shelling out crabs and shrimp, cutting up fish and clam waste. Rabbit and squirrel trash, ashes, egg shells and table scraps that weren't for the dogs. All get laid in a trench in the garden. Soil put over, repeat that for the whole thing and leave it for a week. Turn it all over again the plant. Never was a small harvest as long as the dirt enrichment was done. Also grew the best weeds during the off season which we'd field burn a week before first turn to re-enrich. I still have an antique forged iron shucker. It's about pencil thin in places from being used from if I had to guess when my state was still a colony before the revolution.

I have not done that in a long time.

Loved seeing you and the corn shucking. Thank you. God bless.

We had the fancy version of that husking tool back in the day, ours was bent metal with leather finger loops. We'd use the tip to spear the husk near the ear tip and squeeze the husk between the steel and our thumb to pull it back. It's been forty years since I did it, but an opportunity again this fall I'll compare both ways as I have a corn field again.

Cornmeal mush was my favorite breakfast. Every morning my mother made hot cereal. I wasn't crazy about oatmeal, but grits and cream of wheat and hot rice (with butter and sugar) were pretty good. Still, nothing was as good as mush!

Thank you!

Great video

One of my favorite things to do. I usually have a couple friends come over and to get this done and we end up grilling out and fellowshipping. Enjoying your channel. Take care.

Your channel has grown a bit in the past couple of months. You have an abnormally large ratio of comments which shows people are really interested in what you are providing. Keep doing what you are doing and I hope people start sharing this channel with their friends.

Again let me say how much I enjoyed this video,I have shucked a few ears of corn and never had one of those pegs you were using handy for sure,is the Jimmy Red an heirloom seed and can you still by it thanks again for sharing part of your day with us.

I would love to see how shucks were woven into chair seats! I have some of my papaw's ladder back chairs which he made in the 20's. He wove the chair bottoms out of hickory.

Do you freeze what you mill to kill bug I a small plot this year we will hand miil what we got . Thanks I enjoy your channel Always go stuff .

Reminded me of shucking corn with my papaw. That sure is some pretty corn. What variety is it? I've never seen a shucking peg before

Hi Justin, Do you know anyone who strings chairs with corn husk rope? I would love to see a video of them making cord and weaving a chair bottom.

What do you use the red corn for

Did they ever nixtamalize the corn?

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