Finishing the Food Cache and Harvesting Potatoes | Off Grid | Log Cabin Build | Pioneer Life

[@notsosilentmajority1]

It's said that the potato is as close to the "perfect food" as there is to actually sustain human life. Apparently, if you could eat only one food to survive, the potato would give you enough of the nutrients needed to survive for a long period of time. I've seen that in several different places and it seems to be an accurate statement. Although I am not a scientist, doctor or a nutritionist, I did stay at a Holiday Inn Express last night. 😉 Thank you for such a diverse education that you deliver through your videos.

[@TheWoodlandEscape]

It keep a lot of Irish alive when they had little else! Apparently if on is stuck on a desert island with only one food, Xmas cake made in the old way has all the major food groups in it … who would have thought.

[@notsosilentmajority1]

@@TheWoodlandEscape Awesome!! 😅😂🤣

[@charlesleblanc6638]

One day your playing guitar and singing, the next your climbing trees ... You looked like Dick Prenakee going up that ladder Peter ! Sure is a fine looking cache & root cellar.

[@TheWoodlandEscape]

Thanks, Charlie’s … comparing me to Dick is need a compliment.

[@CRJines]

I just shared this video with my subscribers. I've been investing quite a bit of time in your channel. Lots of real information without all the gear pimping

[@TheWoodlandEscape]

Flattered Chuck and thanks for your support.

[@HeatherNaturaly]

I can't get over how much you remind me of David Caradine.. LOL

[@jackiegriffin7873]

Watching him doing these works on his homestead and the pretty scenery gives me peace.He is doing a great job on this time period.

[@TheWoodlandEscape]

Thanks Jackie.

[@johnclarke6647]

That’s some big NEW POTATOES!

[@harperramsey1305]

Words can not express the pleasure and serenity of your channel . Thank you . 😊

[@TheWoodlandEscape]

A very flattering comment Harper, thank you.

[@scarlethenderson6510]

That's always another wonderful video it reminded me of when I was a little girl we had a two and a half acre garden and oh my goodness at the potatoes I remember hauling two truck loads of corn to the house and sitting out there and shucking and silking the corn and then shelling purple hull peas and taking my purple thumbs to school with me lol so much work ,so much fun, one year we canned over 800 quarts a food and that would help our family of seven survive along with the wildlife for meat and only what we needed nevermore, those were the greatest days of my life

[@TheWoodlandEscape]

It sounds liken you and I had very similar childhoods, Scarlet. My mom lived to be 95 and once asked me if I had a good childhood … growing up on a small dairy farm there never was a lot of money. My response to her was “ if I could live my youth over again, I would change nothing”.

[@scarlethenderson6510]

@@TheWoodlandEscape absolutely 💙

[@kendavis511]

WAS REAL CURIOUS SEEING HOW YOU GET THE LAST BOARD IN. YOUR SOMEYTHING

[@TheWoodlandEscape]

Your too kind, thank you.

[@hobbyfarmer62]

I am feeling so disappointed everyone has been having good potato harvests when I haven't had a good one for 3 years now. Yours looked great by the way

[@TheWoodlandEscape]

It can be very frustrating when a crop doesn’t work out. Hopefully, you’ll get a good harvest next year!

[@relybiggunsbigguns5478]

Thank you. It wont be lone and you'll have 100,000 subscribers👍

[@TheWoodlandEscape]

Thank you, I do like a person who is optimistic!

[@kurtschulze9311]

Ein sehr kundiger Mann,fleißig und sehr Kreativ.Ich sehe sehr Gerne seine Filme und Bewundere oft sein Erfindungsgeist.Obwohl Ich leider kein Englisch verstehe,sehe ich doch was Er alles schönes Baut und auch in seinem Garten sehr gute Erfolge zu verzeichnen hat.Hut ab vor solch ein Fleiß und Leben mit der Natur.Ich wünsche noch viel Gesundheit und hoffentlich viele schöne Jahre auf dem Anwesen.

[@sandydaviswhytelewis5387]

The High Definition Film Quality Is Over the Top Bro. So Pro!

[@TheWoodlandEscape]

My Wife Cathy does an outstanding job with the filming and editing. I’ll pass on your compliment.

[@plainsimple442]

Peter, Great crop of potatoes! We are from Maine and like the Kennebec potato. We would plant 50 lbs. of seed potatoes and harvest 600 lbs. that would last a year. It took 6 years to build the soil with a lot of tree leaves and manure to grow really large, sweet crops. We raised 6 children on that garden, about 1/8 of an acre.. I like your root cellar, but we never had one.

[@TheWoodlandEscape]

We have 5 kids and I thought that enough to keep fed and clothed. My hats off to you with 6!

[@plainsimple442]

@@TheWoodlandEscape It is interesting to see what your children do with their lives. Also nice to enjoy the grandkids and great grandkids. We are all blessed for sure!

[@jameskirk5887]

I really love this channel. The blue jay and chipmunk eating the corn together was so cool. I have to say those were some HUGE potatoes!

[@lawrencekeller6029]

Peter, you must have a cedar forest around LOL Great job! Be Safe!

[@TheWoodlandEscape]

I pretty much live in a cedar forest.

[@lawrencekeller6029]

I have a Native American style flute made of sacred red cedar.

[@TheWoodlandEscape]

Sweet.

[@manonfire3642]

The history of the potato famine was most interesting and this history needs to be reinstituted throughout the USA. The Irish people have suffered much but the new world proved to be their new home and the nation was blessed by the population of the Irish.

[@richardliles4415]

I sure do enjoy the “ we bit of history”. Thank you for another wonderful video.

[@matthewstone8466]

Very cool, once again. Keep up the great work. I am also an arborist, may need to dip into my locust stock to make myself one of these! Maybe two, one for a hunting stand

[@TheWoodlandEscape]

Thanks for your continued interest in our channel. Always a pleasure to chat with a fellow arborist.

[@robertwise3235]

good morning from the california gold country

[@greywindLOSP]

This video should motivate folk to set up a system like this, being part Comanche, I truly believe in the tribal system, thank you Sir...ATB

[@TheWoodlandEscape]

We appreciate your interest, Grey.. Wind!

[@denisbelair8988]

So young at heart it's so nice to see in so much shape WOW!!! Always giving me the heart to do more outdoors activities thanks

[@bobmiller4343]

I always hit like at the beginning. You never disappoint. Enjoy your fall. Much easier to enjoy fall and winter when the spring and summer have been productive.

[@forestgnome55]

Thanks for Yet another great video! Love the music! "No sense gettin' old and stupid too..." (12:42) Sounds just like my grandpa' ("Son, I didn't get this old bein' stupid!") ;) Thanks again, Kindest regards and best wishes to you and yours, Pink.

[@kingrafa3938]

Nice video and looking forward to the next video 👍🇵🇭

[@shanek6582]

I would have assumed (wrongly) you’d want the humidity low to store vegetables. I love this channel man.

[@TheWoodlandEscape]

One wants the cellar to be like rain without the rain and everything keeps well into March and April.

[@shanek6582]

@@TheWoodlandEscape why doesn’t mold grow rapidly? That’s the perfect conditions? Thanks

[@MountainMariner]

Very refreshing to see someone coil rope up properly. Teaching new mariners to do it that way is the bane of my existence. Lol. By the way what do arborists call that coil?

[@TheWoodlandEscape]

Not sure but, after 36 years in the trees, one can do it with eyes closed.

[@wlkfpcwashington]

Another informative and entertaining display of life in the frontier back in the 1700s. Great job, Peter. Your tree work was as acrobatic as a circus performer. Well done!

[@jusike633]

I love it cool build. Enjoyed your garden, love tatters of all colors.

[@TheWoodlandEscape]

Thank you.

[@odiego_lima]

Now I've finished watching your entire channel. What a satisfaction.

[@TheWoodlandEscape]

Wow your hardcore, thanks for your interest.

[@mobiltec]

Man you grow some very nice looking potatoes...

[@donbethune383]

Great superfood for thought. Your work gives me ideas on how to improve my situation. Watching you trim those trees reminds of the gravity of the situation. Safety first and HOLD FAST. Love the history, it reminds me of the connection to the history of my family. Mostly, it makes me plan and take action for the uncertain future. Stay Safe. Hope to see you soon. HUZZAH!!!!!!

[@TheWoodlandEscape]

Glad you’re enjoying Don.

[@stevenshanofski6801]

Another very enjoyable one. Always like the stories you share. Didn’t get to know either of my grandfathers but it would have been a lot of fun to have one like you. Good looking potatoes. Going to try my hand at growing some next year.

[@TheWoodlandEscape]

I only knew my one grandfather … he lived till 96, emigrated from Ireland and cooked in the logging camps in the 1800’s. He had amazing stories to tell. Thanks for your interest.

[@albertmast4627]

The last part reminded me of when I was a lot younger and picking up tulip bulbs from the ground as a summer holiday job.

[@jantrewitt4058]

What a beautiful potato crop!! Those will sure taste good this winter!

[@Heavypsychoverdose]

Those potatoes are huge

[@benc1927]

I enjoy hearing your stories in your habitat,I forget sometimes that you're in the modern day as modern equipment seems so out of place when I see it in your video- Thank you

[@dannyburrell4014]

Wow that is a nice crop.

[@The1Ox]

Great video Sir Peter! Shalom Shalom!

[@earlshaner4441]

Hi from Syracuse NY brother and thank you for sharing your thoughts and adventures and your family and everyone else

[@adamcfmacdonald]

Great video. Also add my interest to seeing more about the root cellar. Thanks and stay well.

[@istepheniadeluca8531]

You'd better hurry & get that built ! We are sending over to ya. Pork & Venison😉❤🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸💪 👍 🎥

[@outsidewithstevep]

Another excellent video. Thanks for taking the time to produce it. The history portion is also a good part.

[@TheWoodlandEscape]

We appreciate your interest, Stephen.

[@markaugustus621]

Another great video. Thanks

[@nhmountains5683]

Another awesome video Peter. Lots of great information. You’re one of my favorite channels to go along with other tree guys: Buckin Billy, August Hunicke, Guilty of Treeson, and MetaSpencer. Keep them coming.

[@TheWoodlandEscape]

We do appreciate your interest.

[@8626John]

Another excellent video.

[@beckyjohnson3153]

Thoroughly enjoyed watching this episode.

[@frontierwoodsman4373]

The cache looks great Peter! Congrats on another completed project. I know how good it feels to be finished with something like that before winter hits... we already have 6" of snow and -15 C here in interior Alaska. No more outside projects for me... Thanks again for bringing us along on another great 18th century adventure. It's always enjoyable.

[@TheWoodlandEscape]

Love winter and can’t wait till we are in the thick of it.

[@swhod2190]

On that old plow, the moldboard looks like it has a Scotch bottom. Your chipmunk is showcasing it.

[@TheWoodlandEscape]

It does indeed!

[@ferenctakacs3138]

Szép videó!😀👍

[@cashexpress7125]

SHALOM.... SO GREAT TO SEE Y'ALL'S CHANNEL TODAY FROM BLOODY HARLAN KY. BLESS U AND FAMILY. THIS IS THE GREATEST ENTERTAINMENTING SHOW ON KZbin. INTERESTED IN HOW TO TAN CLOTH & LEATHER PANTS AND SHOES, GLOVES SO WATER DOESN'T GET THROUGH... 🛡🇺🇸🌟📜🌟🇺🇸🛡

[@TheWoodlandEscape]

I use rendered bear fat for waterproofing and protecting the leather.

[@davidcohen-crumpton5032]

Great job Peter.

[@katherynlamarche7308]

Peter last night you said to my comment that you and your wife use to farm with horses and you miss that. My wife Kathy and I farmed for 25 yrs ,me working full time , Kathy working part time. It was suppose to be hobby farming. What a joke. We where doing beef .meat birds. laying hens. Turkeys. Sheep and also working with horses which I loved.Do not know how I did it .Still have an active life no animals 35 acres and a dog life is good.All the best Julien.

[@TheWoodlandEscape]

Sounds pretty much like us. One could not afford a farm and not have a job, lol. We reluctantly gave up husbandry due to our love of canoeing. So instead of making hay we go for weeks at a time on remote canoe trips.

[@davidbean7125]

Just getting back to you regarding eating pigtails, yes very tasty. They are very popular around ‘Octoberfest’ time here in Kitchener ( German tradition) Ontario along with sausages and ale. The pig tails are very greasy, lots of small bones and fat. Old time German delis should carry these if not order them from Maple Leaf Foods a hugh pork processing plant. Really enjoy your videos. Just wondering, where you a teacher once upon a time? Jealous Dave

[@TheWoodlandEscape]

Octoberfest, a grand party indeed. I did teach arboriculture at Humber College as part time fact but, that’s the extent of my teaching. Glad your enjoying our channel and we appreciate your interest.

[@arleneisenberg5168]

The Food cache looks great, curious as to how you store the meat in it, on hooks/tied up ?? Your Red potatoes are huge great crop !! It will be sastifying to see the root cellar full before snow comes !! So much great information from your videos !! Have a great one Peter !!

[@TheWoodlandEscape]

We have hooks that I forge in our blacksmith shop for hanging meat.

[@badbadbob1]

Wonderful crop this year.

[@Lollomius]

Congrats, but would be too shaky for me?

[@offpherj7884]

Climbing down @11:05-11:13 that was not so smooth and looked like it hurt a little. I hope everything is where it should be! Thanks for posting...

[@TheWoodlandEscape]

Appreciate the concern, lol. Yup, all is well.

[@denislosieroutdoors]

Great information on the root celar... you made me realize that when I build mine it doesn't need to be as big as I thought... your quite right for a couple people should be more then enough again thanks for sharing

[@TheWoodlandEscape]

It is amazingly how small a cellar can be to feed a family.

[@paulopalhano6380]

Parabéns uma Bela construção 🇧🇷nota mil 🇧🇷🤝✊👍🌻

[@judyjenson2918]

Great videos. I enjoy

[@kathleenbrooks992]

That's awesome

[@markivany5253]

Hope to see some footage of your moose hunt.

[@shawndonohoe2789]

I figured the pulley was for hauling meat up.

[@TheWoodlandEscape]

One could use it for that, never thought about it. I just carry it up on my shoulder.

[@hartmuthvogler6341]

habe ich die tomaten in deinem garten übersehen oder hast du keine? deine videos sind grosse klasse! 😊👍

[@TheWoodlandEscape]

They didn’t can in the time period we portray, but full disclosure, we usually can between 50 and 75 jars of tomatoes.

[@hartmuthvogler6341]

@@TheWoodlandEscape😋😋😋ich habe jedes jahr ca 60 tomatenpflanzen in meinem garten und viele gläser im keller. 😊

[@ashleyanderson2859]

Appreciate your efforts and dedication. As always great content and keep up the good work. You explain the modern system of a root cellar, but I am curious about how it differs from a period structure. With the lack of PVC was there a vent type system even used? Thanks again and keep your powder dry!!

[@TheWoodlandEscape]

Not sure exactly how they vented them. I’ve tried to research it and come up empty.

[@ashleyanderson2859]

@@TheWoodlandEscape Thank you for your response

[@markhudspeth8503]

Love it

[@johnscruggs7942]

Always very good video and very good information. Thank you try to watch all you videos. What kind of boots do you have and where would someone get a pair or two?

[@TheWoodlandEscape]

They are historically accurate moccasins that I sew myself from brain tanned hides we make.

[@paulopalhano6380]

A sobrevivência nós faz ter grandes ideia 🇧🇷🙏👈

[@jtsterry]

❤😊😊

[@johncockerham5674]

Love the videos. I look forward to each and every one. Are you going to brace the food storage? It looked like it was swaying a bit when you were working on the roof.

[@TheWoodlandEscape]

Cross bracing to come but, as it settles into the ground it will stiffen up.

[@dragoua5544]

Thank you for your materials. Do you plan to build icehouse someday? Does your pond freeze deeply enough to provide you with ice?

[@TheWoodlandEscape]

An ice house is certainly a possibility. You may very well have planted the seed.

[@johnhempsall4644]

I thought the pulley would be for lifting heavy bags/baskets ect but the door goes up blocking it.

[@TheWoodlandEscape]

I simply carry the quarters of meat up and suspend on hooks from the ceiling.

[@macpalmer6611]

Have never seen or heard of anything like this before. Would you mind giving alittle history on it. Thanks

[@TheWoodlandEscape]

Essentially, Mac, it was an early method of freezing ones meat. Very common in Canada in the 18th and 19th century .

[@macpalmer6611]

Thanks,I apprecate that. Guess the reason I have never heard of one is because, I live in the South East U.S. Don't think they were common down here.

[@jamesmanley9521]

Great job, no not strike your saw, it willl miss up the Set and dull it over time.

[@milliebanks7209]

Do you not stake your tomatoes? They seem to produce so well!

[@TheWoodlandEscape]

We do stake up the tomato plants.

[@kevinscudamore2711]

👍🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

[@leithashowers4420]

What do y’all do for bathing?

[@TheWoodlandEscape]

The pond, lol

[@lynetteclauser3551]

I’ll bet your wife was holding her breath as she watched you swing down from the that roof, unsure of your footing on the ladder. I certainly was.

[@TheWoodlandEscape]

She is pretty used to my antics, Lynette.

[@judyjenson2918]

Awww you need the camera rolling and a big bear to raise cain with that. Then it would go viral and you would get all kinds of subscribers. Throw a steak in there and forget to take the ladder down........

[@TheWoodlandEscape]

That is hilarious Judy, I might just have to stage that.

[@rstainsbury]

@11.07 anyone else holding their breath? Phew!

[@kingrafa3938]

Me

[@rstainsbury]

@@kingrafa3938 I was so relieved - should never have doubted him, though. I think it was more, my brain knowing that I, MYSELF couldn’t pull of that manoeuvre!

[@dianegranger6864]

Maybe I missed something. But what food items, in particular are placed in a cache? Is a cache same as a root cellar up high ? I guess I could google. But would appreciate your informed explanation instead. If time permitting.

[@TheWoodlandEscape]

Normally, Dianne, the raised food cache was used to store ones winter meat. Other food items would freeze and spoil.

[@johnclarke6647]

I hope you do not have any bigfoots around. They would figure out that trap door pretty quick, by watching you open it.😊

[@TheWoodlandEscape]

😁

[@moorshound3243]

I know its not from the time period but what rig are you climbing on figure of eight with a prusik?

[@TheWoodlandEscape]

I use a taut line hitch … old school, lol.

[@dougm5341]

Peter, watching you monkey around on that ladder made me cringe. I fell off one earlier this year in my kitchen and tore my shoulder up. I vowed never to get on another ladder. My doctor told me it’s the number one injury for me my age and up. That being said, I loved the video and look forward to a new one each week. You’re making me dust off my bookcase filled with Colonial period books on New France, England and the five colonial wars between the two. Well done…..

[@TheWoodlandEscape]

Love to have a look at that there library, lol … sounds right up my alley Doug.

[@dougm5341]

Peter, anytime you’re in Melbourne, Australia come on over…😎

[@luisfernandocarvalho3210]

Brazil is Bolsonaro!

[@citomp1240]

Wont that high humidity make the food rot? Like mold and mildew?

[@TheWoodlandEscape]

Just the opposite as long as the produce is in good condition. Once a month we look through the potatoes and remove any that may be rotting usually caused from a shovel cut during the digging. All other crops are stored in peat moss making sure nothing touches each other. The peat moss is reused every year.

[@robaldridge6505]

please tell about your limbing saw

[@TheWoodlandEscape]

It is not historically accurate by any means. It is an arborist saw used by tree climbers.

[@robaldridge6505]

@@TheWoodlandEscape looks like a fast cutting saw, what brand is it ?

[@genenonya8458]

Might need some X bracing

[@TheWoodlandEscape]

Good feedback Gene. That will be the final step.

[@mikeolszewski4682]

What is the name of the rope you use for measuring?

[@TheWoodlandEscape]

It is a hand woven tumpline or burden strap.

[@gayahithwen]

Honestly, the Irish Potato Famine should probably be considered an attempted engineered genocide (and honestly, a semi-successful one - it's been a century and a half and the population still hasn't recovered to pre-famine levels). Ireland was producing plenty of food during the entire famine - it's just that the land owners knew they would make more money by selling that food somewhere else rather than using it to feed the workers, and didn't view the Irish Catholics as fully human. Also, a lot of land owners made rules against attempted biodiversity - in a lot of places, the Lumper was the only variety ALLOWED. Meaning poor people had to either take their chances with the potato blight or with the law. The Choctaw raised money to help the Irish people, despite the fact that the Choctaw had only a few years earlier been put through the Trail of Tears.

[@TheWoodlandEscape]

I could not agree with you more, Karin. My ancestors all hail from Ireland and were forced to leave their homes, due to the greed of the landowners. As to the Choctaw, one can only think how compassionate they must have been, given the circumstances.

[@Za-CAMNEM]

Уважаемый,чем картошку удобряете？

[@TheWoodlandEscape]

Animal manure.

[@Za-CAMNEM]

Ну,этого добра и у нас с избытком. Я то думал,что-то нововое,по науке.. Огород то большой？ Каков урожай нынче？

[@kennethclark-qm6vo]

Nice taters!!!

[@TheWoodlandEscape]

It was a good crop for sure!

[@hansjohansson8053]

👍🇸🇪❤️

[@bdhbdh2822]

Pete weres you banana peppers or pickled banana pepper rings to die for i made my first batch this year i cant live with out them

[@TheWoodlandEscape]

Might have to plant some next year.

[@shawnslaugh]

Peter- I sent you a message on facebook. Not sure if you were able to see it. Its under messenger. Just wanted to see if you got it. Thanks Shawn.

[@TheWoodlandEscape]

Hey Shawn, sorry for my tardy response. Not sure if your the fellow with the question about leggings, if so, I’ve attempted to answer you to the best of my knowledge.

[@fredflintstone6163]

Would love Mail order the old ways book from ad need Mail address no computer or power at my place thanks

[@TheWoodlandEscape]

I’m with you.

[@davidhamilton7628]

Sum purty taters

[@TheWoodlandEscape]

They are that David.