Modern Couple Get Sick Trying To Live Like 19th Century Pioneers

[@garybowler5946]

I'm coming up on 70. I've been gardening for 48 years. This is is hard work. The overlooked point is food preservation. It all comes in, in the fall, the food has to make the year. Raising the food is a miracle, keeping the food is survival.

[@aliceclearmanphd984]

My dad was born in a farm in 1921. Whenever someone would tell him they wished they were born in the past, he would say, "you'll think that until you need a dentist." 😅

[@darlenefraser3022]

“The past was the worst”

[@luvely1062]

Peo0le idealize the past so much, even i do. Everytime i wish I lived in the past i just watch a show with and person of color, or in the winter, and I know this is an easier time. I'll stick to camping for a week or so if I wanna 'live in the past' 😅

[@aprildawn82]

​@@luvely1062 All 'colors' have had it rough at some point in history....

[@monaelias2154]

Medicine is the only reason. All that space.

[@kermit1473]

Indeed teeth greatly affect your health...Louis the 14th had horrible teeth! His soft palette was ripped out by a barber surgeon....he could only eat smooth soup consistency foods and spoke with a lisp for the rest if his life because of this

[@TrixieRed]

Reading this title, all I could think of was the Oregon Trail video game: "You have died of dysentery"

[@darlenefraser3022]

BAH Hahahaha! Great memory!

[@ParisFinley]

And cholera ☠️!

[@Ms_Nightshade]

OMG! Best comment of the day!😂🏆👍🏻

[@XCaptianXChaosX]

Why hasn't that game been brought back in an app or something? I would play it. All. The. Time.

[@mishmazy]

Same !! I was thinking "haven't these guys played Oregon trail" we all know if illness didn't get us, that darn river crossing did 😂

[@LDrosophila]

We also forget that most people in the past were taught by their parents and grandparents. If that man had been born 150 years ago, he would have been taught how to drive a plow before he was 10.

[@ginadelsasso288]

This is so true. These people were in no way conditioned for this. They shouldn't be so hard on themselves. There is a reason why we dont live like this anymore. It was too hard and it was survival of the fittest. This wasn't living, this was simply surviving.

[@larryphelps6607]

Most people have been domesticated to the point of incompetence in survival situation. "And the meek shall inherit the Earth."

[@marykasser5217]

Yeah. Some of our society thinks they want us to return to this way of life in the US. If they are successful, many many people are going to die. They will have thier wish, but won't live to see it. But the rest of us will. I hope that can wait until I'm gone. Please just give me another 15 years. If so, im sorry for those who will survive and their children.

[@emmapeel8163]

@@marykasser5217.. we have a choice now. the Amish do fine in their communities.

[@ReclusiveEagle]

They would have done in 2 days what's taken them 2 weeks and they wouldn't have gotten sick. I'm not sure why they didn't just go to an Amish community.

[@unapologeticallyamy9031]

My great x4 grandmother traveled from Tennessee to Utah, back to Missouri and to Utah starting at age 13 in 1843. She’s a bad a$$ and I’m so lucky because she kept journals. She was a midwife who helped with 60 births and she kept records. Whenever I don’t feel strong, I remember that her blood is in my veins and that I can be resilient and tenacious just like her. Sarah Caroline Williams is her madden name.

[@P.Serenity]

That's who real female heroes should be.

[@kennajaques4144]

My husband's grandmother came out to Alberta in an ox cart as a child in the late 1890's. The first house they lived in was a soddy. She hated it when it rained, as creepy crawlies would fall out of the dirt walls and ceiling. She went from having horses for transportation to seeing space travel.

[@carolmoore1038]

My grandma too. I asked her what she thought about man going to the moon and she was like for what practical reason do we do this? LOL

[@1vengo]

Oh, that remark on creepy crawlers is useful for me... I think some day maybe to make Canadian/Ukrainian Burdey, kind of tiny soddy A-frame

[@carolmoore1038]

@@1vengo look up video Kirsten Dirksen Norway underground home. I'm going to do me one of those home shouldn't have to be expensive most of that is artificial

[@1vengo]

@@carolmoore1038 I'll check it up, TY so much!

[@jameberlin8539]

Recently I saw someone online asking what women did before cures for things like UTIs. "They didnt just die, right?" Yeah, actually, plenty of people just up and died from stuff we can cure by doing things like drinking extra water and taking medication.

[@skyspring7704]

They worked hard to avoid such infections, even before people knew what germs are they knew you don't want to let the outhouse get too full, you need to keep throwing straw and ashed in there to control the bad air, you have to boil underwear etc. People who try to "live off the land" with no prior experience and training usually get pretty sick. There is no "simple life." Every lifestyle requires skills and knowledge.

[@marbleousmel]

People still die from UTIs. I had one that required hospitalization and IV antibiotics for four days. The first two or three antibiotics they tried didn’t work and it wasn’t until the culture came back that they identified the correct antibiotic.

[@HBudianu]

There are many natural ways to cure UTIs: corn husks and yarrow do for example. Plantain for arthritis. Dandelion for liver detox. Plain yoghurt for yeast infections. We lost a lot of knowledge.

[@carolmoore1038]

They also had ho.e cures, many of which I still employ.

[@Ahern1245]

Yeah, but many died no matter how many herbs taken. Survival of the fittest.​@HBudianu

[@aaronjustice2566]

Did they not realize that a lot of farm day IS taking care of the animals? What else do they think they are supposed to fill their day with?

[@mangot589]

I noticed they didn’t even know how to get the horses started. Livestock is a LOT of work. They watched too much Little House on the Prairie should have read the books instead lol

[@McShag420]

They just want to cosplay.

[@slaterhorsetraining]

2 hrs in the morning, 2 hrs at night... and the cow is still bawling to be milked. Do they even know she needs to eat during the day? All that grass and the cow's tied to a rail. hmm. And the chickens... not used to coming to grain. Twice the work for lack of knowledge. but mr neighbor... applaud for your well harnessed, well trained team.

[@katherinegeddie7687]

They should have tried to get some of the Amish community to give them training in farming, animal husbandry, digging wells, and food preservation. These couples were not educated in the ways of the times they were to live in, much less those who were pioneers.

[@BigNorseWolf]

Learn by doing is kind of the point.

[@mom.left.me.at.michaels9951]

​@@BigNorseWolf a little instruction from an expert goes a long way though 😅😂

[@richardhanes7370]

I live next to the Amish and they do it just fine. They're actually very healthy

[@shellbell1517]

Stumbled across this. I’m sitting here tonight in my wood stove heated house, dreading the next wood load to go in. I’ve lived without running water, not just vacationed or made due while the sewer got fixed. Humans today really don’t appreciate all those before us did to give us the easier life we enjoy. I’m thankful. So I would never go on some “reality” show like this.

[@ktbiwk]

Me too, and I feel everything you just said. 🙏

[@tracynonumbers]

by now that load is in aah enjoy!

[@ljb8157]

Why not? What an experience it would be. I would jump on that chance in a second! It's truly the only way to understand what our ancestors went through

[@kayla-hn8zr]

​@ljb8157 maybe for you, but not everyone is obligated to make their lives exceptionally harder than necessary ☠️

[@SoniaH-m4g]

I’m one of the few gen x/millennial’s in the western world who grew up with no power, long drop toilet, all meals and hot water was provided by wood fired stove, but we owned it. I often look at my peers who never learned the basics of providing for themselves (without having to rely on corporations), the basics of work ethics, the basics of commonsense and now many of them are neurotics trapped in the cycle of never having enough yet unhappily owning a lot. I miss the basic lifestyle honestly.

[@OtisDavies-cv6ze]

My great grandparents were pioneers who took the Oregon trail. It is noted in the family journal, that a small log was strapped sideways on the plow, to keep it from tipping while plowing. Edit: my grandparents came across the prairie on the Oregon trail in the 1870's. They went from Iowa to Greeley Colorado where they settled. My great grandmother is listed in one of the books as a pioneer mom

[@covishen]

I really hope they had that water tested, yes they are playing settlers, but there is a reason we don't use shallow wells anymore. Want a cup of roundup with that?

[@SalyLuz-hc6he]

My great great grandpa died really young when he was digging a new well for his family. He got down far enough that there were some strange gases coming out from the rocks, and he wasn't getting enough oxygen down there- so he died. My great great grandma lived to 101, and I'm very thankful I got to know her! I learned so much from my grandparents, great grandparents, & Great great grandma! We all lived on Farms, and they were extremely self-sufficient people! My great great grandma never remarried, but she was innovative, and with the children they all worked hard to survive on their small farm. I'm so glad I got to grow up with these strong and highly skilled elders! 💙👵🏼👴🏼💙🤗👵🏼👴🏼🫂

[@jaykneegarner2479]

Roundup isnt what one should fear with a shallow well. Bacteria and protozoan bugs are what kills. Giardia being a big one, Cholera is another! Im currently without running water and have been for the last 3 1/2 weeks. My well is bone dry and the well driller my landlord hired has been dragging his knuckles on getting out here and set up to take the well down another 100’ or more. In the meantime I’m bucketing water out of a large stock tank. I must bring all water to a rolling boil before using it to wash dishes. And as aa additional insurance measure i add a cap full of bleach to the rinse water.

[@covishen]

@@SalyLuz-hc6he The problem I have with these shows is that they always show the people "alone", by the 1870's Manitoba was largely settled, there would have been neighbors who would have helped, especially during the building the cabin/barn phase. The other problem is that there are diseases from the ticks they could have gotten Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever, or Lyme Disease. That well really scared me, who knows what they were drinking. Small wonder they got sick, I mean have a little pesticide with your morning coffee why don't you. We bought a place in northwest Minnesota. The state made drilling a new well a condition of purchasing the house. The old well was 45 feet, our new well was 189 feet, because of agricultural pollution.

[@ReclusiveEagle]

They aren't used because you aren't allowed to dig on your own property without a permit and approval. Not because of health risk. There are wells all over Europe. Many log cabins have them. They collect rain water and are made with stone and putty. The only thing they had to do was boil the water. If they drank water from a well in the mud then really no amount of testing would have helped them.

[@covishen]

@@ReclusiveEagle Boiling the water is all well and good, and will kill organisms living in it, but that doesn't help with the nitrites/nitrates/agricultural pesticides/etc. This was filmed in Canada so I cannot speak for Canadian Laws. I can only speak for where I live in Minnesota about 90 minutes south of Winnipeg, and for around here there is intense farming and the agricultural chemicals have polluted the shallow aquifers.

[@shawnueda8909]

I farm for a living. This just make me cringe. Farming requires lot of skill. Its not just toss seeds and wait till harvest is just fanciful dream. Pisses me off at can't take care of livestocks. Had to turn it off.

[@Madamegato]

That was seriously what happened for me. Hearing him describe the horse being stuck with its hoof near its face because he was too tired to go find it that night and secure it and keep it safe... No real settler would have EVER left their horse to run free in the dark because they had to get up in 5 hours. Stopped it right there.

[@tanyabrown9839]

My great grandmother after my great grandfather died ran a 1000 acre farm (it was huge) alone with just the help of an adult son who didn't live on the farm. I stayed there once as a child and they had about 60 horses running free there, sheep, chickens, ducks, turkeys, quite a lot of pigs, crops etc. She also kept a great garden so grew a lot of her own things. I remember being told not to go into the pig stalls as the mother pigs could eat a child and remember being once put onto a pigs back which was then let loose and holding on for dear life as it ran across the field. I was great at riding horses but staying on that pig was a whole other story.

[@katr8756]

Tough woman!!

[@sj-art]

It upsets me they let 2 people with no experience risk potentially killing some horses with their ineptness.

[@plakor6133]

Ok, I ain't watching. Unacceptable.

[@sj-art]

@plakor6133 they didn't kill the horses thankfully, don't worry. They ran off terrified with a pig in a crate and one was limping for a while I guess, one almost fell in a hole but was ok. They didn't feed the pig for a day because they wanted her extra hungry so she'd follow them happily when they had the food...which didn't happen she made them work. It was a lot of inexperience but in this episode none of them died that I know of.

[@DeeDee-il7zk]

Won't be watching this mess!!

[@skontheroad]

Ineptitude???

[@ljb8157]

This is the best series out of all of them. They actually did all this... themselves. I have far far more respect for this show. These guys actually took it seriously and did a better job than I ever could. You should absolutely watch this series. It's amazing

[@carrieweaver6161]

And could you imagine doing all that while raising young kids too?

[@KLondike5]

Frontier House was a great short series where they put a few families into living on the land as early Americans. The wealthier family complained the most to the change but the kids seemed out of their spoiled attitude by the end. Nobody had any idea how much work was required.

[@ljb8157]

I found this series far more entertaining. They actually did the work themselves. They started with nothing and built those beautiful homes with their bare hands!

[@Montana_Ranch_Rescue]

I think about that show ALL the time. 🔥 The kids were the happiest. The little boy had the time of his life, then returned home to video games and divorcing parents 😢 The modern world…

[@SS-qo3nt]

I've had Lyme Disease for years and all I can say is thank God I wasn't born in the era my great-great pioneer farmers were!

[@EyeoIsis]

If they had ben born into that life it might have been much easier. But to decide midlife your gonna go "pioneer" is idiocy.

[@kaylagroening8734]

I lived a few miles from where this was filmed. My elementary class took a field trip to their farm. I remember meeting the horses and a pretty little jersey cow with the longest eyelashes I had ever seen. I asked if they were allowed to read books. They said: yes, as long as it was from the appropriate time era, but they often didn't because they were too tired by the end of the day.

[@utej.k.bemsel4777]

Those "good ol' times" weren't so good! Being ill in an unheated tent isn't fun, i found out as a wild west reenactor.

[@ReclusiveEagle]

This is why you build a fire pit in front of the sleeping area. "The good old times" refers to a time when people were free and not slaves to corporations and "Democratic" Governments. You can't point to someone with no experience and say "See! That's how it was in the 1800s!" No it wasn't. Settlers knew how to farm. They lived on farms their entire lives and had people around them to help them. They took 2 people with no experience and said "Go be like them!". This is the result. Real settlers would have had a camp within a day or two and started farming as they got there.

[@GabizAndHubert2]

I can’t believe that couple left there minor children for an entire year. 🤦‍♀️

[@Growmap]

They weren't little boys. I think only one was a minor and he was a teenager around 16, I think?

[@pamelaleannefreeland9025]

They do know that they’re supposed to clean the pan after cooking food, right?! “Whatever we cook today will taste like whatever was cooked in there yesterday.” Between that utter lack of food safety/cleanliness and the shallow well as their water source, no wonder they get sick. Absolutely ridiculous that they weren’t given any training on the animal husbandry or simple survival skills before they got out there to start is beyond negligent. This production company is lucky they pulled this crap back when they could still get away with this, because now days it would never be permitted. They truly were as inept, uneducated, and unprepared as the poor saps they were able to exploit into doing this.

[@Fire-Born]

The way they speak about the animals shows how little they understand about living with the land and working with the animals not just using the land and animals.

[@Catherine-ty8ss]

They aren't weaving a fence from thin stringy branches? Have they never heard of cobb? Make a baking oven. Dysentery was a real killer back then and these people have no knowledge of survival. Shame on this series for not giving these people at least books on living in these times. No one went west without a guide book of plants and animals

[@Dianna-r2w]

Sure they did.

[@JunoBeachGirl_]

I am 60 years old and I grew up on a farm in Northern Michigan where the closest town was literally 45 minutes away and it was just a tiny little town. We had to exist through virtual very hard work and being careful and planning and educating herself. I was up every morning 5:00 AM to bring him cows and milk them and feed the livestock. I went to school on the bus that picked me up at 7:00 AM and got me to school at 8:30 AM. When I got home at 4:30 PM. I got ready to do the milking again at 5 pm. In the spring time, the work load increased significantly because now we had to be on call 24 hours a day due to calves being born some of which had to be pulled because mama couldn't push her calf out. As soon as the snow started melting it was time to rake the planting fields in order to gather the large rocks that came to the surface due to frost and the ground freezing. After that we would start plowing the fields in preparation for planting crops. This is about the time that we start seedlings indoors to eventually be transplanted to our vegetable garden. Once they are in, they now must be weeded and protected against rabbits and deer and all kinds of animals that will come and eat tender tasty shoots. This is very serious business! If a rabbit or a gopher eats your seedlings you could go hungry. Also, this is the time of year that we would start tapping the maple trees in order to collect sap for making maple syrup. Once we have 100 gallons of sap we start the fire that will burn for two weeks straight as we make maple syrup. We throw last years old potatoes that are sprouting eyes into the boiling syrup in order to purify the syrup: All of the little pits of bark and dirt and twigs adhere to the potatoes and little by little they start to turn into little twig and bark balls that you remove and feed to the suckling pigs and goats. About the time that we finish sugaring (which is another word for making maple syrup) it is time to wake up the beehives slowly by feeding them sugars and sugar water. You have to time this carefully because when they start leaving the hive it has to be at least 50°F on a consistent basis during the day and there must be flowers and pollen for the hive to start a productive hive again. This is also the time of year that you start morel mushroom collecting because you only have about three weeks to collect enough mushrooms to freeze and to last the entire year. It is time to set up the brooder or the nursery for baby poultry whether chicks, poults (baby turkeys), ducklings, and even goslings (baby geese). Once you get your house and your nursery for the baby poultry set up, it's time to start clearing out the woods around your property. This means pulling the bracken or the new ferns that are unfurling or growing in your woods off and out of your property. While they are still curled up and not unfurled, they are called fiddleheads; believe it or not fiddleheads are delicious! You cook them exactly the way you would cook asparagus, and coincidentally when the fiddleheads are ready to harvest you will find them with young asparagus in ditches or along the edges of the woods where it is moist but sunny and where the grass is tall because asparagus loves to grow in tall grass. Wild leeks, also called ramps, also grow in the same areas that fiddleheads and asparagus grow and they are delicious. Absolutely delicious. Coincidentally? A wonderful spring dinner is one of roasted young asparagus, boiled fiddleheads (by the way you take a rough cloth or a sanding sponge and you carefully scrape the stems of the fiddleheads because they are very prickly), sautéed morel mushrooms, and broiled or barbecued spatchcock young spring chicken. You can also make a delicious chicken fricassee especially if you make the fricassee chicken (stewed chicken) with wild leeks or ramps you may have found when looking for asparagus or morel mushrooms. (Young venison or a young spring chicken cooked with fresh spring vegetables is unforgettable!) One last essential chore before planting time for your large field crops is clearing out your woods. This is because cattle may roam and forage in your forest and you do not want them getting hurt or fallen trees, or even being attacked by wasps and hornets that like to live in dead trees. Controlled burns must take place in the spring when the ground is still a little moist. After the burns are done it's time to plant the fields whether you're planting grains or corn or even sorghum. Maybe you have decided to let the fields lay fallow? Once you get the field planted, you can give yourself a big pad on the back because you've earned a break. (But make sure you've got a nice fence around your vegetable garden in order to keep the deer and animal nibblers out when you're giving yourself that break... but make sure that that wire fence is buried in the ground at least 3 feet because rabbits and gophers and moles (they love the tender roots) will burrow to get to your garden treasures. Summers are spent milking, enjoying the baby farm animals, constantly weeding the vegetable garden, and picking berries (strawberries, raspberries, blackberries, and even blueberries) for jams and jellies, or harvesting stone fruits, such as cherries and plums and peaches, as they ripen so that they can be canned and frozen for the rest of the year. Summer suppers were usually light meals served underneath the big beautiful maple tree in our yard, usually sandwiches, salads made from our new young lettuces and early tomatoes, sometimes a light supper was as simple as tomatoes, cucumbers and onions marinated in seasoned vinegar and olive oil served with broiled perch caught from the lake down the road. When the strawberries were in season, we have strawberry pie morning, noon, and night! We would also hold back fresh cream from milking and it was delicious served over berries or granola, and sometimes we even made rose water ice cream with it which was out of this world! We also made butter out of the spring cream because the best milk and cream was always in the summer when the grass was fresh new and the clover was blooming and when the cows ate the blooming clover, which is full of sugar. The milk and cream was the sweetest and freshest milk and cream you ever had in your life. Summer would come and it was full of hard work, but also so much joy because our favorite time of the day was 4:30 PM when we would pile into my grandfather's old truck and drive to the lake 3 miles away and swim until about 6:30 PM when we pile back into the old pickup truck and drive back home where we would have a beautiful supper waiting for us underneath the maple tree; we would sit at the picnic table and listen to the radio where the Detroit Tigers were playing baseball. After we finished supper, the first stars would appear in the sky above us and along the edges of the woods we could see the little twinkling of the fireflies coming out to court each other. Sometimes we could see the northern lights flashing every color of the rainbow in shimmering waves. Summer would deepen and soon we would be bailing hay, very hard work for about a month, then the fall would roll in and we would be harvesting the root vegetables, squashes, and of course, apples. We had an actual root cellar that we had dug into the ground that we would line with straw every year. We braided our onions, we wrapped each apple, onion, squash, and sugar pumpkin in newspaper. Potatoes we buried in sand. We also had a little tunnel that was at the back of the root cellar that lead into the barn which was a passage for the barn cats to go in and out of because there was always mice that would try to go down there and eat the food and the cats kept it cleared of the mice. They also seem to like having their kittens down there! I could go on and on and on about managing life on a farm, but the bottom line is that it is extremely hard work that lasts 18 hours a day every single day. I didn't even talk about chopping wood for firewood, mending fences, treating cattle and cows and livestock for diseases and infections and most importantly, say goodbye to the wonderful animals that you formed friendships with that were now going to sacrifice their lives so that we could live. I was taught to say prayers not only to the Lord, thanking him for the food I was about to eat, but also thanking the animals for giving me their lives. It was a wonderful life, a very hard life, but a wonderful life.

[@bluewatersprite8738]

​@JunoBeachGirl_ you should really write a book. Just that paragraph was so fascinating. I'm sure I'm not the only one that would enjoy reading such. At the very least, you should write a draft, if only for the sake of family/ posterity

[@timeflies72]

@@JunoBeachGirl_ wow thank you so much for this

[@JunoBeachGirl_]

@@Catherine-ty8ss @Bluewatersprite8738 and @timeflies72 Thank you for your compliments! I have loved ones who say the same and maybe I will do it for my children because it's a time in the past that's never going to occur again because of the way farming and life has changed? I have so many funny memories, like trying to ride the sheep back to the farm on the back of one very stubborn ram (male sheep) and him deciding to take a detour through the Neighbor farmers fencing leading all of the sheep on a 3 mile detour, ruining neighbors yards and farmers fences lol! There was another time I wanted to show off my beloved billy goat and to my shock and surprise, when standing with my friends from school who had come over especially for the treat of seeing a goat perform tricks, instead he he bent his head down and started urinating in a stream and literally started spraying his face with his own urine! Needless to say I didn't impress my schoolmates! (We all ran screaming away!) I have so many wonderful memories because I grew up on my grandparents farm. You've got me thinking about possibly writing my farm memoirs with my grandparents? Thank you for the support! It means the world to me! 🥹🫶🙏

[@karla.30]

Reality. They should have had training to learn skills that pioneers would have already known how to do. 4 weeks training...then start the show!

[@Growmap]

Yes, training and conditioning. And GLOVES for the first episode.

[@MOcamping1212]

I draw the line at ticks.

[@sgraham4533]

I can tell you right now my husband and I would’ve died the first year out

[@Eveningbreeze721]

We would have been goners lol

[@ironcladranchandforge7292]

I'll have to watch this tonight. However I will say a couple things that I know, coming from experience. The Pioneers were tough and resilient because they were conditioned for hard work and long days from an early age. When you grow up in these conditions, you become accustomed to it. That's not to say that the Pioneers had it easy or were without sickness. Many died at an early age. Many died from sickness, including those on the Oregon Trail. Women looked like they were in their mid 50's at age 30. The lucky and overly healthy ones made it successfully. Much credit belongs to the Pioneers for their achievements. It was a hard life!!

[@sarahtyster7342]

women usually died in childbirth at some point, if they continued to reproduce. hence a lot of orphans and stepparents.

[@terraflow__bryanburdo4547]

Farming was so hard that U.S. Grant, Americas best and toughest general, failed many times and was saved by the Civil War.

[@jeanfitzsimmons7442]

Most of us really are not up to the kind of hardship our ancestors faced. We no longer have the skills and experience to live that life and live their lives that way. A few months, little experience and then coping through the struggle through life threatening challenges. We are up to living in the modern world, just. Different struggle. Different world.

[@icekraze07]

The wife in the older couple 100% is placating her husband. She wants to be back in you half million dollar home and not playing pioneer.

[@joanbaczek2575]

Cows need a herd!! One cow is miserable, cows also need shelter!

[@sarahmill6963]

The second couple would drive me crazy😮

[@mimim8532]

Especially that wife! Ugh. Ignorance and selfishness

[@mentallydisturbedscience8900]

“Happy wife, happy life! Hyuck! Hyuck! Hyuck!” Shoot me, now.

[@hopeparker5288]

Showering out in the wilderness is easy. Was your face, hair and neck first then take off your top and with a rag wash the top half of your body then dress. Then undress the bottom half of your body and wash that and make sure to dry your feet completely before putting socks and shoes back on. Wet feet isn't good.

[@dsherwood3889]

How does a man get a women to leave her 15yr old child to couch surf for a year? I could never. In my opinion it's abandonment, either bring him with, wait a couple years, or send dad out by himself.

[@User_1dashzero]

I’m only 2:10 in and their first issue is building a damn field big enough to feed 15 families.

[@MNkno]

This is one reason that pioneers lived in multi-generational homes if they had the chance - grandma and grandpa could even out some problems, not just with knowledge but with food prep & preservation, watching the chickens and/or children, sewing and mending clothing, and leaving the building and plowing to strong youngsters..Not complaining was a major qualification..

[@internetmachine]

Imagine pioneer people coming to future to endure modern toils. Like having to apply for endless job applications online and possibility having their basic dignity compromised at any moment for a paycheck. To be inundated with useless and harmful media and messages at all seconds of the day by tech that is indifferent to your suffering and those who profit off your fear. Jeese.

[@nucleargrizzly1776]

I bet they wouldn't whine on TikTok.

[@internetmachine]

@nucleargrizzly1776 that's a whole other documentary 😂

[@nucleargrizzly1776]

@@internetmachine 🤣🤣🤣

[@gke251]

I think they would go join the Amish

[@charliedavis8894]

No one HAS to be inundated media and tech 24/7. You choose to be. Find a job doing physical work instead of sitting in an office staring at a computer. Turn off the tech when you get home. Play card or board games with family. Take up a hobby. Volunteer for something. There's plenty of things to do besides stare at a TV or phone.

[@Maddie9185]

“ Why make your life more difficult then it needs to be” those were my mothers words anytime anyone told her about living off the land like in the old days. She also said been there done that and don’t need to do it again. I’ll keep my refrigerator, washer and dryer and stove.

[@leelindsay5618]

And they are finding out that roller crimping and no-till is more effective for planting. Doing things with a plow is too much work with no real reward.

[@leelindsay5618]

All that coughing would cause my mom to make a hot tea or two. More hot drinks for morning and evening.

[@kevinf3642]

What kind of sense does this make, for 2 people to jump head long into such a project without first learning the skills with animals that are not use to them? I can't watch stupid 😕

[@sarahmill6963]

The well water is making them sick

[@Cali_Flowers]

Can't wait for the next episode! I also really like the new couple versus the original older couple. Watching this production (from probably before cellphones) is even trippier, because even that time seems a lot calmer! Thank-you for sharing this series!

[@charlietbarnes4842]

They all r doing great it's the insects n rain I'd hate x

[@Growmap]

Before cellphones for most people was any time before the mid-1990s. The best time might have been 1920s-1970s because they had some necessities in rural life but not all the controls we have today. I had friends whose families farmed 160 acres with teams of horses. (Two different friends - different families.) They were raised without electricity, but had wells and farm equipment, and there were better wood cook stoves by then.

[@ReclusiveEagle]

This is not how settlers survived. Settlers grew up in generational farming families and would have done in 2 days what has taken them two weeks. It's not easy but it's not this difficult. This is absolutely not representative of pre-20th century life. I'm not sure why they didn't just to Amish communities to find participants or even film their lives. The Amish live as the settlers would have.

[@francinemiranda8409]

It would appear this young couple didn't bother to substantiate their dream with experience Or knowlege...

[@krisqo]

born and raised in Appalachia lots of this is just our way of life, gardening, canning, animals, firewood, and hunting granted we have modern tools to make life a lot easier its just a way of life and how your raised i guess. If i had to guess the couple is from the city and have 0 experience in the country.

[@Juanita-gf4te]

In those days the kids and all would be helping work the land and doing chores. Women would be pregnant and giving birth with only other neighbourhood women to help them. They did a series like this in NZ years ago and it was really tough and started out with two families. Before long other families came to join them and they worked the land and built huts to live in and they had a going concern with animals, chickens and eggs. They had crops and vege gardens and fruit trees and bushes and home made booze for parties. They shared everything, the work and the food. They made a success of it, these suburban families who arrived there on a horse drawn wagon with only clothing and implements from that era.

[@SalyLuz-hc6he]

Please let me know if you remember the name of that series, because I would love to watch it! I have seen several from the US, from the UK and one from Germany, but none from your part of the world. Thank you so much!

[@kimboswell8063]

Ditto! I’m Australian and have really enjoyed historical programs like this from the UK before, but would love to see one from NZ too, if you can remember the name? Sounds like a much better setup in comparison to what these unfortunately clueless solo “pioneers” were expected to contend with! Much more realistic too, that people would naturally try and work together for the mutual benefit of everyone in such a challenging and physical environment, sounds like the kiwis had a bloody good go tho 💪😆

[@Juanita-gf4te]

@@kimboswell8063 Colonial House was a similar TV series and this family had to travel on an ancient sailing ship to get to their piece of land.......it was very rough going for the whole family and it showed how much progress they made over the weeks. This was a Dunedin family and they did great through all the hardships.

[@Juanita-gf4te]

@@SalyLuz-hc6he It was called Colonial House and it can be watched in the TVNZ archives.....you can watch a sample of 3 episodes then you have to sign up to watch the rest.

[@kimboswell8063]

@@Juanita-gf4te thank you! 😄

[@EuniceStone-s9j]

People in WV and ky still use outdoor drilled wells and have free testing done at around twice a year. Usually at the change of seasons or after a flood.

[@chrystastuckless]

Dude! This show is 24 years old! I remember watching it with my husband. Loved it!

[@imeldahiggins-wiffle8302]

These people had no clue..did they do any amount of research? They were really reliant on the couple that quit the first day.

[@cristyf5431]

I remember watching all the episodes of this years ago on TV, before utube. I always hoped they'd make another season of it to watch more couples try it. If they did, I missed it. I'd love to watch this whole series again!

[@JanetBettis]

Check out "Frontier House". Was on PBS. Families signed up for this and were filmed doing this experiment. Very good.

[@charlietbarnes4842]

Im so glad the knew couple came i think the younger ones wer struggling a bit b4 x

[@intricatelytangled]

Yes they were!

[@TheRoulette77]

dont start getting all click baity no need to make their faces green on the thumbnail!

[@Big_Bump]

I agree but the first shot of them they have green faces because of the night vision

[@inannashu689]

First off the horses aren't trained properly, and you neglected to tell them that the person plowing holds the reins as they are doing the plowing. You set these people up for failure from get go,I guess for tv purposes.

[@rekanai8516]

I'm giving the production team the benefit of the doubt of not knowing too much about it either. No excuse for poor education, but it wouldn't make sense otherwise.

[@ktbiwk]

​@@rekanai8516😂 right when they were ducking running thru the rain

[@jeremygenslinger4874]

They have to artificially inject Drama into everything anymore this is why television hell all formats of so called entertainment are rapidly dieing and individuals doing real shit and putting it on KZbin, Rumble and others are going insane because there's no artificial bullshit when there is they don't last long or are only watched by morons who thrive on bullshit Drama.

[@GraceBryant-tu5fe]

They need to learn from Titus Morris. He lives off the land.

[@johnnolan4312]

I grew up with the Treadways in Kenora Ontario, my great grandparents settled in Northern Manitoba , tough life , tough and incredible people!

[@victorshear95]

In real life, you don’t laugh that much when you’re life is on the line

[@SN-zb7ew]

It is always fond to think back Because then you’re more grateful for the advances we have made…

[@mentallydisturbedscience8900]

These poor kids were trying to make a homestead, and the sadistic producer goes to a planning meeting and says, “I tell you what, guys! We’ve almost broken these poor sops’ spirits. But you know what will REALLY push them over the edge? If we drop the most annoying humans you’ve ever had the displeasure of meeting right on top of ‘em!” Followed by evil laughter!

[@Anastasia8074]

This has to be really old for them to let a bunch of animals over a filming period of a month live in a bar wire corral in the forest. I hope nothing spooks those horses bc that’s going to be an expensive vet build and some film legal issues

[@katr8756]

Everyone we knew growing up on a farm in Western NC kept their horses in pastures with barbed wire. And we never knew of any horses getting hurt. You take a horse around the pasture showing them the fence, and they get to know right off where to run and not to run!!

[@katr8756]

Everyone we knew growing up on a farm in Western NC, kept their horses in pastures with barbed wire fence. And we never knew of any horses getting hurt!! ... You take a horse around the fence to let them know the boundaries of where they can run and not run.

[@jebsmith323]

Plowing in the rain isn't a bad idea. When it dries up, it will harden into clumps.

[@susanmercurio1060]

Just goes to show that we are much weaker now than the pioneers.

[@mathildekacedan2505]

Thank goodness for the introduction of a positive couple, because the negativity of the younger couples was really tough to watch.

[@BigNorseWolf]

The lack of tiny free labor..erm. Kids is showing in not having enough time to look after chickens and milk the cows.

[@Goldenhawk583]

5 minutes is.. They are whining and complaining, they are suggesting getting rid of animals to get more done, they dont know how to get a pole in the ground, how to tie up a horse, how to do anything it seems. I am annoyed....

[@neuro.weaver]

Was it dysentery? I WAS dysentery, wasn't it?!

[@MandatedReporter]

Lol women had 10 children only for 1 to survive. It was no bueno

[@ktbiwk]

Left their 15yo son wtf 😂

[@intricatelytangled]

100k?

[@NoobSimmerKP]

I promise you that 15 year old boy could care less… he said deuces and good luck and went to his friends house.

[@intricatelytangled]

@NoobSimmerKP lol! 😆

[@lbfeline2782]

If you don’t even know that chickens can fly you’ve got no business being out there.

[@h-leath6339]

Yup, all fun and games until you remember why modern waste treatment is awesome or why plumbing Fresh Water, Heat-O-Gas and Elektra-Sparks! into your house is rad. And allowed the average individual to live a comfortable modern existence while also learning valuable end user maintenance techniques. Take your children out camping regularly. It's incredibly important we remember, as a species, what it takes to survive daily from scratch. And show your kids the night sky with or without the benefit of lenses. It's important we remember we live in a vast and infinite space. And where do we go from here?

[@joanbaczek2575]

That water is contaminated!!!

[@ljb8157]

I love this series! I how you upload the full series. They did an amazing job! I was seriously impressed with all 4 of them!

[@mjperkolator8854]

I feel bad for the horses. Maybe they needed to start off with a small shelter for the animals just to keep them safe.

[@hopeparker5288]

There's nothing tough about these couples🙄. The school of hard knocks is the story of my life. I've been in that school since before I was conceived. Yes, before I was conceived, my dad was a heavy drinker and smoked cigarettes and my mom smoked menthol cigarettes. I know how to clean feathers off of chickens. You don't use a hatchet to chop down a tree. I was cutting down trees sense I was a kid. I've been camping in a tent out in the woods, without a stove, bathrooms, or anything since before I can remember. I can plant potatoes without having to use a plow. If I was out there I would have started a small potato garden to tie me over until the field was finished being plowed. As for the animals you have to gain respect by being the pack leader by being a strong leader. These couples are nothing more than working class. Get some people out there that there with some real experience. I've also built shelves using the lumber that I chopped down using an axe. Not wood from a lumber yard. I've used vine to tie the logs together and placed them in between two trees. But I guess this real life stuff isn't what's needed to make a video, otherwise I expect you would have used actual home steamers instead. Contact me I'll go out there with my husband he knows how to build from scratch using raw materials. My husband can even saw through metals. He's just as tough as I am. I'd want goats out there. People didn't have goats back then but with my knowledge about goats I'd want goats.

[@McShag420]

I'm going to make an educated guess that these people are no longer cosplaying 1800s farmers.

[@poll2dock]

It’s one thing to play stupid with your lives however you have no right to risk the horse’s wellbeing!! You know 0 about horses. That’s obvious.

[@Growmap]

Did they have any expert advisors? Hens stop laying for a time when you move them. All the skills they need to actually do this should have been taught before it started. Settlers who survived the trip would have been used to being active sun-up to sun-down and then some. And working class people in general back there would have been far more physically active even in cities.They'd be used to drinking untreated water so they wouldn't get sick unless the water was really bad. They'd also be used to not having sterile dishes and utensils. And even if they didn't have experience with plow horses, they would be likely to have experience handling and caring for horses. They'd know you don't chase horses, cows, or chickens. You let them forage a while and then lure them back with grain.

[@marz9676]

Yeah. Have you never played the Oregon Trail? Dysentery

[@bettypearson5570]

The frontier living show they did in the US at least had a week of training by experts for the participants on animal husbandry and other basic skills need for the pioneer life. Plus they didn't have as harsh of weather! On this one if you go back to when they first got there the producers hadn't even provided them initially with the basic supplies like lanterns and they provided them with raw meat instead of things like smoked ham or bacon which had a much longer shelf life which is what pioneers would have brought. It is a reality check in showing how the average modern day person would have struggled to survive.

[@lorimiller4301]

Please love your animals. Don't give up on them. They need you.

[@sarahb.6475]

If you do not want to spend the time to take care of the horses then please do NOT have horses. You NEED to learn horse safety and horse skills. You need to know how to clean the hooves and what to feed them. And to know the signs of colic and laminitis (foundering). Too many horses are abused, starved and then end up at sales because they look like skeletons. Because of improper care. Its ok you risk your own lives if you chose to do that (i hope you know about proper nutrition or else you may get berry-berry (sp?) etc. But please do not risk those horses. I have lately on YT seen a few horses go through refeeding. I hope you aquired equestrian skills before you got those horses but it sounds unlikely.

[@yankeefrugal]

When was this filmed?

[@coolcatrandom970]

Where can I watch the rest of these?

[@caterpuss]

It's 2025, I live in a shed that's been abandoned since 1998. It was flithy, but now looks like a nice homeless camp. I have JUST enough water to flush a toilet. No hot water. 45 cats. I have to bring drinking water in from a different well in jugs cus the property water is contaminated. I use almost exclusively solar lights. But I do have to use electricity for heat because I'm scared to install the wood stove myself. I've got a garden. I forage for food in the summer, but go to the food bank, so I'm not getting much healthy food. And I have only gotten ecoili or beaver fever, idk what it was, once in the last 4 years, and I didn't even go to the hospital because I didn't realize what it was till a month later. I have spent my whole life digging fence posts in a land that has rocks the size of cars just below the surface. Where do I sign up to do a homestead challange?

[@Lanipax]

If you don’t know basic health and safety for your horse you shouldn’t be allowed to work with them. Clearly clueless!

[@brightphoebesays]

I like how Alannah doesn't wait for grace. It's not her way. I'll do so next time someone imposes grace upon me! That would be hard to be thrown in with a missionary couple.

[@AndrewGrey-o2h]

I think the "pioneers" of the 19th century were trying to get where we are now, not backwards. They would think these people were nuts trading in modern conveniences that they only dreamed they had back then. I mean I doubt 19th Century people would decide: "gee we should go back and live like people in the 16th Century!" The "pioneers" didn't go through all that hardship just so future generations could live exactly like they do.

[@IcarusLhooq-bc7uq]

I m sure

[@miss_princess_lily]

Isn't it much easier to live like the characters on Yellowstone? lol

[@MrZOMBIE170]

why are they green in thumb nail ?

[@hopeparker5288]

I'm tougher than both of those couples put together🙄.

[@lisamomon6793]

If your not use to that kind of hard work you are going to get sick and exhausted at. First. Then you will adjust if you dont give up

[@brightphoebesays]

Deanna doesn't look like a Deanna. She looks more like a Mary or an Anne or a Libby.

[@kerryjames6312]

No i dont want to live in olden time i prefer to live in the present

[@speakupriseup4549]

This is disgraceful, endangering animals and people just to make idiotic reality tv with people who have no idea what they are doing.

[@chengkuoklee5734]

We have been taking modern convenience for granted.

[@Government-EconomicsTeacher]

Im with the younger couple. Animal fence comes before convenience. However splitting it up worked out

[@forestman2382]

Life was no picnic back then

[@emmaaustin123]

18 hour days were standard for everyone in medieval times.