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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.

We are losing knowledge like this every day, and the world is poorer for it. Tell Grandma thanks very much!!

You can learn a lot more useful things from our elders than you can in an Ivy League university.

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.

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.

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 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.

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.

Love hearing your Granny reminisce, notice she didn't complain about their lot in life! Good times

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.

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 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 ❤

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.

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!

These grand parents are a national treasure!

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!

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

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 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.

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.

secret to life...live right live simple and always be grateful for what you have.

There will never be another generation like this, very special Grandma you have! Thank you for this video!

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.

This is awesomeness. I could listen to her talk all day, the knowledge and experiences.

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.

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 🖤 .

She’s worth her weight in gold!! Never heard of beans & dumplings before, but it’s on the list for soon to be eat.

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. :-)

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”

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.

I adore these talks with your Granny. Thanks for sharing her with us.

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.

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.

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.

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.

I'm 61 and I wish I had half of her knowledge. What a blessing. Thank you for sharing that. GIG 👍😁

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.

She has some good advice. My father was born in 1924 in Appalachia. She and him, had similar life experiences. Good folks indeed.

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.

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

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 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

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.

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

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.

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

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!

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

Learning from the past is essential. Thanks for sharing. Glad she can pass along the info to us all

What a beautiful grandma. The eyes, they are still young and wise.

My father born 1925 and mother born 1929. Both were hoarders their whole lives. So afraid to let go of anything....cause they might need it.

More from your Grandmom, please! She’s so wise! All my parents & grandparents are gone. Thank you for sharing!

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.

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😁💛

Grandma is gorgeous!doesn’t look or act her”age” at all! God bless her for all the knowledge she shared!

The lessons like this from my grandfather, always pop up in my mind as I prepare for what's to come

Such a fountain of memories and information. Thank you Granny

When my grandfather was alive I told him. Grandpa I wish I grew up in your days. I was 15 and this was around 1990. He said oh no, we went through the depression. I said to him. Yeah but everyone now a days is on drugs! He was full of knowledge and did have a hard life.

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.

My least favorite chore as a teenager growing up was to scrub the outhouse with a stiff long-handled brush or simple scrub brush and a pail of boiling water and strong soap. I simply hated that chore and still do to this day hate cleaning the throne room! LOL

My grandma and great aunt said they ate dandelions during the depression as lil girls. I'm sure that's not all they ate.

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!

More folks should record their history. Interesting and educational. Thank you to you and your family for sharing yours.

I miss my granny telling me her stories. You’re lucky she can still tell you hers. Keep sharing them with us.

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.

Precious moments with elders - sharing time, knowledge & experience. Kids today very lacking.

Loved this. I wish I had asked my dad more questions. Spend as much time as you can with her.

You are absolutely blessed to have a grandparent to talk with. Enjoy every moment you can with her.

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!👍🏻🇺🇲

I really enjoy the talks with these precious people!

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.

Fried mush - remembering my ggm. Mom was born in '34 and raised by her grandparents so my ggm was a central figure in the family. When we would stay with her we would beg her for fried mush (cornmeal loaf, sliced and browned in butter with syrup). Mom would never make it for us - said she ate so much of it in her youth that she couldn't stand the taste.

❤❤ 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!

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

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.

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.

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!!

This is great! I love her stories. Please have your Grandma on the channel more often!

I have ate plenty of poke sallet , my granny ,my mom, aunt's everybody around eastern middle Tennessee ate poke sallet, we would go pick while it's young and tender , she would boil it in water until it was really tender then add lard , salt, season it up, then add scramble eggs to it, pinto beans, fried potatoes, corn bread almost every night, but damn it was good.

I love hearing stories from the Great Depression Era from folks that lived it. I will have to add soup beans & dumplings to my depression recipe book! Yall should check out Water Pie too!

Back in the 80s an old man told me during the depression his family raised possums in their chicken coops to eat. Said they taste good and would eat any scraps they had. I think about that from time to time horrified lol.

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.

I love listening to your grandma, she reminds me of mine and all there stories. All the wisdom that the older generations have is beyond a heart resource that in afraid we are losing.

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!

What a special time with your Grandma...❤️ I miss mine so much & she was very similar in abilities. They raised everything they ate, but sold the best parts of the pig...I’ll never forget seeing a hog’s head in her kitchen sink. Now, I’m working double time just to learn half what she knew 😊

I love conversations like this. Pure gold content.

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!

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 !! 🙏🕊️💌

Yep. Im originally from Tennessee. We ate polk salad regularly. Guess we did not know we were poor as this was in the 50's and 60s

I could listen to her all day. I miss these talks to my grandma

Anyone that gives a thumbs down has no respect for the older wise people. I live to hear the stores my dad tells me about when he grew up. Some day he will be gone and his stories to. This is how you learn the right way hugs she is awesome. I miss my grandmother and her stories. How she survived scarlet fever.

Just absolutely love your Grandma!!! This is the way I've always loved to live. Listen to our elders and learn so much. 💜💜💜💜💜

OMG! Just loved this video! Cherish even second. I was on the floor over Moonshine Hot Toddies... wrote down ingredients for future use!

That was exactly what everyone needed. You mixed family, prepping, knowledge, and so much more. Great job

My dad was born in 29 and my mom in 34. They were so poor not much changed for them. They did without and survived on little. Then they lived through WWII rationing. They accomplished so much in their lifetimes.