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Love spending time in the tavern.
Enjoying a historical supper from the days of old while watching this, yes, it’s a corn dog, you’ve guessed right.
Love this channel, thanks for all your hard work in putting these awesome videos together!
I got to visit Mount Vernon for the first time earlier this year -recognized the thumbnail right away!
You're perfect as you are. Never understood the back & forth business of gaining and losing fat. Seems unnecessarily harsh on the body. I'd say just keep doing what brought you to this shape.
Garlic also keeps away bugs like aphids
This is so funny–I was JUST thinking yesterday how Jon should do an episode on veggie gardens in the time period!
“Vegetable Gardening The Colonial Williamsburg Way” by Wesley Greene is a really great book on this topic. Has a lot of info on 18th century gardening methods, historical varieties and modern heirlooms you can get today and grow. Tons of good info
Loved this! Thank you!
I hate people who nitpick, but I'm going to do it anyway because I really enjoy your peaks into early American life. Here's my nitpick, Your sound level is kind of off. While this is not a big deal at all, I tend to set a playlist of 3 or 4 shows to sit back and watch. Volume level changes are a tad annoying. If it can't be fixed, not a problem as your content is worth getting up to adjust the volume. I thoroughly enjoy 95% of your content, and even the other 5% is still excellent!
There is so much involved with planning a grocery garden. From planning cover crops to protect the soil to enhancing the fertility of the soil with the use of dung and high carbon cuttings such as leaves and sun dried grasses clippings(composting). Rotating crops, irrigation, weeding etc. Today many of us love gardening, not only as a hobby, but for superior vegetables. Back in the pre-industrial days it was a matter of survival, eat or don't eat.
Burkolh… broccoli
Why is it Jon looks so serious and non cheerful in these videos ??? Just asking
Partner with NorthSpore to do a mushroom bed! I grow winecaps and oyster mushrooms!
Thank you for the gardening info! With the way the world is going, we all need to ramp up the food security.
Thomas Jefferson was an interesting person. He was quite an epicure, into French cuisine, loved ice cream and that too orderly garden might be plant varieties he was breeding for here. He was also into nutrition. He wanted everybody to be healthy.
I watch a British gardener channel and he has a green house. He plants all his seeds in the 6 packs or coir puffs and even repots them in the green house if the conditions aren't right outside yet. This way he can make sure they are viable seeds, make sure of the percent of plants to plant is good. If any do not make it he has plenty more of them to replace them. And if he ends up with too many and it is something he likes he will probably plant in another spot. The cold frames are just mini greenhouses. When growing your own food to survive, you are more than happy to trouble yourself with assuring success.
Thank you
'Giant' pruning towers, as shown at around the 46m point, were used once 'pegged' to the ground with fairly large iron pins, making them very stable. 👍
Translation of panel 5 in the Dutch chapbook:
This is how the Warmoezier fpoelts the painted vegetable,
And purify them of the nature that clims to the root.
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I started watching this video because their knowledge of gardening and food production has been lost to the modern day. Unfortunate that you do not know what you’re talking about with gardening for example you don’t pick asparagus past June because the plant has to go dormant in order to grow so that it will be available to eat next spring. They did not have grocery stores back then their garden and what is their only source of food. Many of the gardening techniques the brick walls you think of as fencing were there to give solar heat back to the garden during the colder months. I am disappointed at the lack of understanding but not the information. We can learn so much from their years of experience that has been lost to modern man. So I thank you for sharing the information.
I love this. Please let there be more
Rocambole is a type of garlic. Also, garlic is real food. It's wonderful roasted whole, and spread onto toast.
Thanks for this!
YES to part 2!
Bee keeper here – When your bee's swarm, you can often watch where they go and collect them when they land in a temporary spot, giving you a start to a new hive. A lot of times you can see them getting ready to swarm and split them before they have a chance.
Hi John, come to do an event at Kentwell hall !
Always a real joy to watch ❤ loved the show
Usually I'm trying to watch (listen to) you live Friday when I'm finishing up at work and driving home. Had the day off work, and wouldn't you know it, I missed your stream completely 😂
I was most surprised at hearing that ya didn't have bee hives at your homestead property. Seems like something one of your folk would have started there.
Distilled herbs might also be what we'd consider extracts, so mint extract, for example.