Visiting an Old Farm Store in the Mountains of Appalachia - Wonderful History!!

[@gracelandone]

Boy, I could spend an entire day there. Big box stores will never replace what this lady offers, both in terms of merchandise and personality. Thanks for this.

[@CelebratingAppalachia]

You and me both! 😀

[@locodriver3936]

Agreed

[@jeannetsentas4399]

As a child, some friends and I called The Harbor Mercantile on Vashon Island and asked the proverbial Sir Walter Raleigh question, we thought we where so brave! I have not thought of that in years, thanks for bringing back memories.

[@partain2000]

I absolutely love pickled eggs. Also, pickled garlic. I have had sweet pickled garlic and it is great.

[@dianaspy6733]

My son has texture issues. Lol. Yes I did the Prince Albert prank! I have a small can. 🎉

[@kelleyreynolds5211]

Always had such an appreciation for a good old fashioned feed store. Love it!!☺️💛

[@CelebratingAppalachia]

I totally agree!

[@karenbrown4294]

Fantastic video, what an amazing place. I live in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧, over the other side of the world , I really wish I could visit this wonderful store xxx

[@katiek1856]

Whenever I make out that way I’ll definitely put this place on my list to visit.

[@NewRiverRoots]

This all started with me learning how to make cornbread. Now many videos later we feel like we know y’all. We never get tired of your content and your dedication to preserving Appalachian culture.

[@CelebratingAppalachia]

I'm so glad 😀 Thank you!

[@garybrunet6346]

What a lovely woman. So much knowledge and history. Thank you Tipper and Corie! 😊🇨🇦

[@nickik.9037]

This was a wonderful video & tour of the Bryson Farm Supply store. Stores like this are so hard to come by these days & it was a joy to listen to Debbie as she told of the history of the store & her family. I wish we could get back to more places like this where the kindness of people shine. I know you & Corie could have spend days there just looking around & listening to Debbie & learning from her. Hugs!

[@airgunfun4248]

What a great place! Another way to appreciate your local history an culture. Preserving the local heirloom beans, peas and squash is really fantastic. Edible history! Debby if you see this it's wonderful work you are doing. And thanks for posting Tipper

[@bethhammond4106]

My Dad planted Irish potatoes on a dark night.He was Indian,only used signs

[@lauraloper3740]

How wonderful is that place! Growing up in the South you would be able to see nothing but small business, family owned and operated. I surely miss when you walked in the door a great welcome and everyone knew who you were! God bless you and thank you for this video.

[@aliciamott1396]

I thoroughly enjoyed this video. It was like a wonderful field trip. Thank you thank you.

[@connieumar2076]

Tipper , I so enjoyed the store & your visit with Debbie . If you ask me , I'd say Lowes & Walmart should be afraid of the competition from Miss Debbie's truly historic, Family Owned Business . IT'S RARE TO FIND GREAT PLACES LIKE THAT ANYMORE !!! I LOVED GOING THROUGH THE BEANS....They really are treasures !!! Thank You For Bringing Us Along !!

[@lrk7dak]

Tipper, the small black and white vase you liked looks to me like a “egg poacher”. I have a couple of them and love to use them. I loved this episode! 🥰.

[@rissylantz4072]

Debby seems like such a sweet lady. Sorry for your loss ♥️🙏 5 years or 5 mins, It still hurts to lose someone you love. Sending much love Rissy from Vancouver BC Canada 🇨🇦

[@mamamode1312]

I love our feed store, too. They kindly heft right from their out bldg to our vehicle for us. Just wonderful folk.

[@karenbuzintx1367]

What an amazing place. Unlike any other. Not a cookie cutter store, but a store that sells history and preserves it. Thank you for a tour of a place I may never see. And isn't Debbie a sweetheart. Another great video!

[@christinej2358]

Debbie has so many wonderful memories of growing up in her families store, she needs to write them down to make a book to sell in the store. All the seed information of who brought them to in, gardening tips, things farmers have shared with her over the years about farm animals, feed and anything else she can recall that people ask her about when they come in the store. It would be a fantastic book to read and families would enjoy having to pass down to their children. Great seeing around the store, hearing some stories and learning about the beans. Thank you for sharing!

[@Pembroke.]

Debbie has an amazing job. .t's wonderful to see these small family business around today. And with God's help this store will be running for many years to come.

[@CelebratingAppalachia]

I sure hope so 😀 Thank you for watching!

[@Pembroke.]

@@CelebratingAppalachia I am sure she will, and enjoy the recipe.

[@mamamode1312]

Oh dear I'm saddened by today's episode. This lovely store is closing end if the month auction on the 21. State is taking the bldg to expand the highway. 💔

[@Pembroke.]

@@mamamode1312 I just watched Tippers episode deeply saddened by the news

[@automaticsweetheart2009]

She seems like a really sweet, modest person. The world needs more Debbies.

[@connorscuriosity3520]

My granny used to go to this place she called "the dig store". Stuff and whatnots that you would go in and "dig" through. She loved that store. I really enjoyed watching this. Connor

[@lynnesimmons3112]

What a wonderful little place!

[@lindarhudy1745]

I love white crowder peas, but have a very hard time finding them.

[@karenstewart8818]

What a treat to meet Debbie and get a slice of Appalachian social life via the farm store.

[@CelebratingAppalachia]

So glad you enjoyed it 😀

[@OkieJammer2736]

🌟 HOURS of OMGOODGOSH's walking through this place!

[@amymahers2957]

I love this farm store. I go in every time I’m in Sylva. They are wonderful people.

[@Zygande]

I will soon be 74 years old. I remember going with my grandfather to buy garden seed. One of the hardware stores kept their seed in a bin like the nail bin. I thought they were so beautiful.

[@joshuamaier3482]

Thank you. Been there for rabbit supplies in the mid eightees when my family lived near Sylva. Also thanks for the content. Had very good friends on Jones Creek Road in Alarka Township who were always hospitable. Salt of the earth. Hearing you and the girls talk reminds me of their very specific accent from that area. Was a stroke of luck finding your channel

[@CelebratingAppalachia]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@ruthmccormick3246]

Miss Debbie is a treasure trove of history, what a blessing to still have the store open and going!!! Love the heritage! I know you and Corey had a great day there. God bless Debbie, her family and business and God bless you and yours❤🙏🙏❤

[@Jennifer-tf8ud]

Debbie looks so pretty in red. Would love to stop by her store and browse. Really enjoyed the little seed show and tell.

[@bethgiesey9405]

Wonderful country store. This makes me wish for the little country store we used to have when I was a child. Nice meeting you Debbie. Thank you Tipper & Korie for taking us along!!

[@bongserevo2088]

Matt and Katie vlogging inside a bushcraft store be mighty interesting

[@mikeanders7542]

Apinol would heal anything . our family allways had it! u got a scrape or cut at grannys u got this on it! it smells like a pine tree most wont use it because it smells but it heals and keeps the soreness out of anything even sprained ankles!!

[@pcs2511]

Usually when you have Walmart in the area everything for 30 miles around dies and disappear. This store is a gem, that shows southern women have grit. Love the videos.Please keep it up.

[@keeptrying5962]

I would definitely shop there if I lived anywhere nearby, what a cool place! Mrs. Debbie is lovely and I am sorry she was widowed so young. Glad she's honoring the legacy by keeping it going, with the help of family and employees she credited. So special to have a place like that. Thank you Tipper, this was fun! 🙌🏼

[@Gardendreamsforme]

Oh how I miss these beautiful mom and pop stores in my home town. I love this

[@CelebratingAppalachia]

So glad you enjoyed it 😀

[@mitchmatthews6713]

This is true people's history!

[@saner6888]

I could spend all day in Debbie’s store. What a find. Great interview 💛

[@edsteward7717]

Pretty cool. She doesn't know how much people need to learn from her. Nice place.

[@charliecapece6511]

thank you ms. hooper for what you do. GOD BLESS YOU, and your family. thank you ms, T, for sharing...

[@heatherofthemountains]

This is such a sweet and nostalgic video. Incredibly interesting conversation and such kindness... Let's bring that back folks!!! Thanks Tipper, and thank you Debbie, for opening your store to us strangers. I've really enjoyed the stories and seeing your store. I'm very sorry to hear of your husband's passing and I will be praying for you and yours. All my love. 💙

[@sandyboffa]

What a beautiful store and fascinating seeds & stories! Thank you Tipper❤️

[@iviefryar694]

I can see how everybody would want to support Debbie she is a lovely person with a wealth of info and experience. Here's hoping your store continues to thrive and enrich others! Thanks Tipper and Corie!

[@sandywilliams5180]

Aponol is the greatest stuff. I couldn't have raised my boys without it, and kerosene.I love all the antiques. What a great field trip down memory lane for some of us. I'm looking forward to your reading about Appalachian. ❤️🙏😊

[@CelebratingAppalachia]

So glad you enjoyed the video 😀

[@bobsternvogel5550]

Nice to see the barter system is still alive and well in western North Carolina! Hope Granny is having a happy birthday.

[@joannsuddreth8862]

Love this store and these people. Native of Big Ridge but lives else where now. Miss the mountains and their people.

[@phyllismacevicius8821]

What a wonderful place and Debbie is so sweet.

[@theldawood80]

Brought back so many memories of my Mama n Grandparents saving seeds. I so want some speckled butter beans.

[@kimberlyking9947]

What a Gem, and a real treasure for this community to have!! Nope , no way will any big box store ever replace what this family owned business has to offer!!

[@doylefoust4802]

What I like about shopping in a store like that is your treated like a person there's no self-checkouts like at Walmart your person in course I wouldn't expect you to remember everybody's name but to remember is quite a few that means that their people and that is very very awesome.

[@connieparker8896]

My little brother did the Prince Albert thing , wow I haven’t seen one since I was a child

[@russneversleeps8258]

Nice to see you ladies over here in my hometown. I was born in '75, and I do remember when there was nothing but houses, the school and Bryson Farm Supply on that road.

[@bethsmith9605]

Tripper, you do a wonderful job interviewing people & sharing their stories. Enjoyed this visit with Debbie.

[@aryan1956]

I love that. When I was in junior high, I got a crank call asking if I had Prince Albert in a can. A voice came behind them, "What are you doing? Don't do that!" The other person got on the phone & apologized for the prank. I recognized the voice. It was my friend from school & her little sister was pranking people in her phone book. We all got a great laugh from that.

[@CelebratingAppalachia]

😀

[@sledneck7398]

I'm just a few minutes in and that is an impressive place!

[@CelebratingAppalachia]

I just loved it 😀

[@michellecapelle1868]

That was fun! I loved seeing all the old stuff! I decorate my house with that stuff! I just can’t get enough of it! The seed we’re incredible and all the stories to go with them-i could listen to that for hours!

[@Needlewich]

Lordy, could spend a day in places like this!!! Debbie is doing such a service to her community and beyond. Thanks for sharing, Tipper! God bless and love to all! 💕🤗🙏🏻

[@lindapetersen1800]

Tipper places like this are places I just love to go to !!! I go up North into Wisconsin and drive the old back road and it is something to see a new little store blow on up to you to go through !!! I love those places and the OLDER the BETTER !!! I have always gone up to Elroy Wisconsin and bought a new Lamp or woodworking there !!! It is on a short 2 block area that runs through the town and sometimes you see 2 trucks sitting and Men Folk are talking about what ever in the MIDDLE OF the ROAD I don't mind at all just go around them so they can still talk about what ever!!!

[@josiecardenas4440]

Wow I did not know their was so many different kinds of beans . What a nice lady God bless you all

[@1ACL]

A real treasure of seed.

[@FernandoOcumare]

Great Place! Going to a place where you find what you need and also receive personal service is just amazing. Great video 🙏

[@jennsappalachianden]

This was SO interesting! I didn’t know there were so many different types of beans. Of course, I’m just trying to learn all I can. Thanks for sharing with us, Debbie! Love your store! I’m over 2 hours away in East TN, but if I ever get the chance to come that way, I’ll stop by.

[@elizabethhamilton8388]

What a wonderful store. I am all about buying local. So neat that they still trade back and forth with their customers. I have never seen some of those beans. Thank you for taking us with y’all. Really enjoyed this video. Hugs from the southeast coast of Florida 😎🦩🌞🦩😎

[@n8vmc469]

Great store! They’ll talk yer ear off if you want too. Good folks!

[@papaw5405]

Numero uno!

[@CelebratingAppalachia]

Thank you Papaw! Hope you've had a good day 😀

[@lindahays8444]

So many interesting seeds. I would be in gardener heaven for sure.

[@bethmichaud3209]

👍👏👏👏Glad to be acquainted with Debbie and the family's, wholesome, business. Touring the shopping selection was fun!

[@cheryllamb8831]

I've been to the Bryson Farm Store many times. I buy their honey every year & gift it to my D-I-L @ Christmas. Bought plant starts from the greenhouse, propane when traveling here on visits. Everyone I have had contact with are definitely kind, helpful people persons.

[@CelebratingAppalachia]

That is so wonderful 😀

[@Georgia_Farmer]

What a store! I appreciate Debbie and her crew keeping the past alive and well. Those beans, wish I lived closer! I often pick up heirloom beans online from Sustainable Mountain Agriculture Center and have purchased from Fluty Lick Homestead - found some old timey beans that have become fast favorites. There's a great book out by Bill Best, "Saving Seeds, Preserving Taste: Heirloom Seed Savers of Appalachia".

[@karenh789]

So nice to see a small business so successful in this day and age of big box stores. The town I grew up in used to be that way but now all of the businesses in that town are "mall stores". Sad to see because it's another level of disconnection of face to face contact between people. Thanks for the video Tipper and Corey! And I like the table cloth on the table where you discussed the store's history!

[@freshstarts1618]

Thank you for the field trips ladies! How sweet does an adventure get to be?! I immediately went to seed shopping after the segment! Weellll during really.. anyway. Thank you again for interesting informative and fun content! ❤

[@loripretti843]

What a cool special store!!! Thank you so much for sharing this store with us!!! God Bless!!!

[@wandagordon6453]

What a wonderful store. I love old family owned businesses. Hope they’ll be around for many more years. Seeing some of the items brought back some sweet memories. Thanks Tipper. Take care and God bless y’all. 😀❤️

[@elijahgrindstaff9561]

Love this, love businesses like this. My great uncle has ran a parts store/ junkyard in McCaysville Ga for I know 60 years. He will be 89 years old and still does his best to keep the doors open. He has worked the place 6 days a week for all those years. It has downsized to what it use to be but it’s still in operation. It’s s big part of my childhood. I would go with my grandpa and hangout down there. It was a place where all of the old timers would hangout around the wood heater and gossip and trade pocket knives or just whittle on a piece of cedar. All of those older guys are gone now but can still see them all sitting around the heater or on the warmer days sitting out in the sun. Good memories for me. I hope to one day make the trip to visit this place.

[@CelebratingAppalachia]

Sounds like a place I’d love to visit 😃

[@londonkyguy]

I love finding these stores and hardware. I can spend hours in them looking around.

[@CelebratingAppalachia]

Me too!! 😀

[@charleshenderson1174]

Thanks beautiful

[@leighflorkevich9916]

I would end up spending all day in that store! I love looking through places like that, you can find a lot of treasures. I saw a little blue and white piece right next to the pig that I want because I collect blue and white dishes and glassware. Thanks for sharing this wonderful store and if I ever get to western North Carolina I will visit Debbie.

[@jerriscollins-ruth9019]

Have fun.

[@CelebratingAppalachia]

Thank you for watching!

[@raven4592]

Fascinating video tipper so interesting and a lovely lady,I’ve since found some wonderful general stores in Appalachia that have remained unchanged and in the same families for decades,there must be a tremendous pressure to keep these old places going in this day and age,thanks again

[@dianaw.571]

Would love to visit this store someday. Very interesting history and the owner is a lovely person.

[@deewinston5651]

Love old farm stores like that. I have been to one in awhile. So much wonderful history. Thank you Tipper for sharing.❤️

[@dellamitchell8535]

Really loved this video.. I have never seen so many beans in my life lol... And I loved all the old stuff she had. Mostly the cow bells there at the door. Thank you for sharing. I will be looking into beans to grow...

[@Jean-ko4xv]

Another great visit Tipper, Thank you so much. God Bless. Jean

[@karenlindsay9884]

How surprised I was to see Debbie and Armando on your channel as I scrolled thru YT. My husband and I live 3 minutes from Bryson Farm Supply! We buy their hog feed which they recommend for chicken feed. It’s a wonderful place to buy from-not only neat looking but we always feel like we are their favorite cousins come to visit. A wonderful business! And we sure miss Randy, Debbie Hoopers husband.

[@CelebratingAppalachia]

Love that!!

[@lindapetersen1800]

We got that thing about the seeds !!! It is called SHARING IS CARING SEEDS !!! So I have grown seeds for others to be grown for others !!! I keep some for myself but the business gets the most of them unless a little lady wants to try some and then they are giving some to others !!!

[@jdennis1730]

God bless y'all I like videos with real people in them

[@jerryodell1168]

Everyone has trouble with memory including me. I would tell my students when I taught, " Your forgettery out runs your memory, write it down " . I keep notes and books with information everywhere.

[@CelebratingAppalachia]

Love that Jerry 😀 I bet your students still have that running around in their heads 😀

[@ktmcc4360]

I have an old glass butter churn, square with metal gears, wooden paddles and the top holds drive group with a red wooden handle. Its a family heirloom as it the first thing my step father bought for my mom for their new lives together. It was at an antique fair in Niles CA. In like 82... It was the most important piece out of my parents house when we had to move it on. A few cook books a recipe card boxes and some old memories were worth more than the million dollar house to me...

[@tracysmith9546]

Loved this video, and thank you Debbie, even though I never lived close to you. I remember my grandpa going to the feed store in Springerville AZ.

[@mcmanus747]

My wife said you needed to buy the pig, put some sunglasses on it and an acorn necklace and put it on your porch! Love the channel. All my maternal family came out of Appalachia. ❤

[@CelebratingAppalachia]

😀 I thought about that

[@holliesheet3182]

All the amazing variety of the brown bagging and the stories behind each is so happy to see and listen, seed bank exchange-like! Warm feelings, here, Ms. Tipper, Ms. Debbie, and Miss Corie! Great share, y' all!

[@LikesQuilts]

What an interesting place to visit and shop! Would love to go there and thank you again for taking us along as you discover even more of your wonderful heritage. My kind of place and people!

[@locodriver3936]

Wow the treasures in that place!

[@pamelacrowell2007]

Loved this episode!!! Your love of beans and seeds is akin toy love of genealogy.

[@mhelen7360]

Thanks for telling us about Bryson Farm Supply, Tipper. What an interesting place, and I never knew it was there. Used to drive over a couple of times a year to events at WCU. Haven't been in several years, and can't even imagine a Walmart and Lowe's on that stretch of road. Sylva and Dillsboro were such small quaint towns.

[@amandiepannell786]

LoL, that's where I got my hay for my Father in law donkey! Awesome store

[@CelebratingAppalachia]

Yay! Love that 😀

[@bubbanc01]

I haven't been in that store in ages. I have to get some things for a school project so I may just swing by next week.

[@lewiemcneely9143]

Another good one. We were by there last week several times while wearing the road out between Webster and Wally world pharmacy trying to get a prescription filled to do away with my mange. So far, so good. And seems like Billy Ray had a bunch of trucks at one time. Been by there lots of times but always had somewhere else to be and was usually in a truck of some kind. Looks like the old family stores that had a little of everything for when times was hard. I could tell you were wanting to get square dab in the middle of all those beans. Lots of good eating there and yes mam, they's butter beans and dinner but lunch for my Sweetie. I always toted a dinner bucket. Still do when I go but everybody runs off to eat lunch. I'll just be the old hick I've always been. God Bless Yall and watch that camera girl, BOTH eyes!

[@CelebratingAppalachia]

Thank you 😀

[@lewiemcneely9143]

@@CelebratingAppalachia Thank Yall! I didn't know if Clay Logan would let yall off the mountain and leave him down at the station with all them possums!

[@CelebratingAppalachia]

@@lewiemcneely9143 😀