Shucking Corn In Appalachia v64

[@jess6327]

Your view off the porch is so pretty

[@metcalfmills5679]

Thank you Jess !

[@adventuresinmichiganwlisa9852]

Thanks for sharing 👍🤓

[@metcalfmills5679]

Thank you

[@bjgigout9832]

My hubby and I are in our 70s and we LOVE watching your videos and family, as society has advanced and lost many of the old ways. Thank you for sharing life with us. We appreciate you, Justin, and your family excellent work ethic. God bless you.

[@metcalfmills5679]

Thank you BJ ! Glad to share and happy it is enjoyed. God bless you too my friends

[@audreybarnes6527]

The chair, wow 💕💖❤️. I'm looking forward to hearing more on how you promote fertility.

[@metcalfmills5679]

Thank you Audrey !

[@marieanderson6215]

Oh son I enjoy watching you so very much I am old 77 and I love the old days I remember doing all these things with my grandpa

[@metcalfmills5679]

I am so glad you are enjoying this. Thank you.

[@BosnWayne]

You are a blessing for.sure.

[@metcalfmills5679]

Thank you Wayne, made my day friend

[@died4us590]

I shucked a lot of corn as a kid, miss them day's. God bless.

[@metcalfmills5679]

Thank you for sharing! God bless you too

[@steveruby2120]

I remember, as a kid, the church members would all get together and go out to a farm and have corn shelling contests. I don't remember prizes or anything, it might just have been bragging rights or maybe I was just always on the losing team. We always had a meal together. It was a lot of fun. I do remember our hands got really sore. :o) Thanks Justin, you brought back some good memories to an old guy. God bless.

[@metcalfmills5679]

Thank you for sharing that with us Steve ! Glad to share. God bless you too my friend

[@thegreatowl4912]

This has been one of my favorite videos. I could clog the whole comment section with all the ways you've touched my soul. Instead, I'll just say thank ya for the upload and God Bless you and yours.

[@metcalfmills5679]

Aw thank you so much. This made my day. God bless you as well

[@angelacross2216]

What a heavenly view.

[@metcalfmills5679]

Thanks Angela !

[@springgoodhart8676]

pretty colors on the corn!

[@metcalfmills5679]

Sure is Spring !

[@RGMRT]

My granma use to take me and my cousins to our farm up in the mountain to husk corns before bring it back to our house so we can eat together with the entire family. This brings back memories lost to time. Even for me, born and raised in a part of the world you probably never heard of, in language you probably ever spoke, this connected to me in a spiritual level. The world has truly changed....

[@metcalfmills5679]

Thank you for sharing ❤️

[@1972BRJ]

Enjoy your videos sir, new subscriber here from NC

[@metcalfmills5679]

Thank you and so glad to have you !

[@tagladyify]

Very pretty corn.

[@metcalfmills5679]

Thank you Tracy !

[@vickisavage8929]

Folks who have the old skills and knowledge are priceless treasures that the rest of us will NEED come SHTF (and in my opinion (IMO) SHTF isn’t an if, it’s a when). In your copious spare time (😳😂🤣😂🤣) have you considered developing a home sized grain mill? I know you are not impressed with what’s available on the market now. If it can be devised, it can be made, and I know that there is a market for it. I expect that there are those who would be happy to invest in its production. Many blessings to you and yours.

[@metcalfmills5679]

Thank you Vicki ! I agree. I have been working on my plan for that type of mill for some time now. I am ready to start putting it together as soon as I get caught up a little bit. I will share my progress for sure. That is a kind thought, thank you. Folks are so good, I never dreamed you all would be so kind and helpful. So thankful for you ALL ! Many blessings to you all as well!

[@paulmcwhorter]

Thoroughly enjoyed watching this video. I grew up on a ranch in West Texas and we had a 5 acre corn patch, pigs chickens and then the main business was raising cattle. Your video takes me back to sweet memories of my childhood. Few today would appreciate the richness and abundance of a simpler life and simpler times. You are wealthy beyond measure.

[@metcalfmills5679]

Thank you Paul, that’s for sure.

[@bhamby9305]

I was reading in Alex Stuart portrait of pioneer. They said back in the day. They would store sausage in the rafters of there cabin in corn shucks. That's a awesome book if you have never read it.

[@metcalfmills5679]

That is one of my favorite book !! Thank you !

[@kristinebeedle657]

Thanks for sharing. Blessings

[@metcalfmills5679]

Thank you Kristine ! My pleasure

[@LeaC816]

I think that would be a favorite task of mine too if I could sit there with that view! You are a heck of a talented farmer AND decorator to grow corn that matches the trees! 😃 Heck, I’d happily sit there and do it without the jug but would have to taste a sip if one was around just for old times sake. I just couldn’t stand up too quick…. It’s been a minute since I’ve drank anything as strong as that! 😂☺️ That chair is really beautiful! I love that you know the history of so many things and share it. It is beyond cool you know someone who can still make those too. That would really be something neat to see done and learn!! Grandma had some like it so I know how sturdy they are. I know hers were all well over 50 years old probably easily over 60 and looked every bit as nice as yours. I have her rocking chair that’s about the same size and style but the bottom of it is made from some kind of rope that I haven’t seen before. Whatever it is is tough too because the seat still looks brand new and she rocked a lot of miles in that thing! I also have a corn husk doll from her. I’m not sure who made it or when but pretty sure it’s a lot older than I am, not that I’m ready to call myself old yet! If Charlotte likes dolls maybe y’all could make some from your husks just for fun this winter. If she don’t then just make tamales, everybody likes those! LOL I hope you enjoyed a peaceful afternoon shucking and had good company helping you or at least those trusty supervisors around. Thank you for the story and for letting us hang out with you for a bit today!

[@metcalfmills5679]

Thanks for sharing Lea ! I enjoyed hearing about these things. I have built some chairs before as well. Chairs are really something that I enjoy. Virginia has made corn shuck dolls in the past. She did a good job. Thank you for sharing and thank you for watching Lea ! Always enjoy your comments, glad you are here . Have a great day !

[@kristycook6041]

Justro, this video's got all the fixins for a fine life. A great porch, a lovely rocker, beautiful scenery, gentle breezes, gorgeous chimes, a love of history, a calm pace, perfect conversation, Irreplaceable memories, and the gift of corn. And, as if that ain't enough, Char has the makins for enough corn husk dolls to entertain her creativity for a good long while. Thanks for sharing this. Many continued blessings to you and yours.

[@Skashoon]

I’d help you just for the experience and your stories about the old ways.

[@BosnWayne]

Me too

[@metcalfmills5679]

Thank you RR !

[@metcalfmills5679]

Thank you Wayne !

[@metcalfmills5679]

You do PPF. And more to come !!!

[@007darryl]

Thank you for sharing brother. It's so nice to hear about old traditions and how to do them. I'm 58 and I can just barely remember my grandparents doing some of the things you're doing. Thank you again.

[@metcalfmills5679]

Glad you enjoyed. Thank you for watching!

[@ronniesmith4915]

That brings back childhood memories. I used to stay with my Grandparents and we shucked and shell corn. I still have the old corn sheller that we used clamped to a wooden box. That was our rainy day project

[@metcalfmills5679]

Thank you for sharing Ronnie !

[@connieblasingame7996]

Happy Halloween from Somerville, Alabama.....Larry & Connie

[@metcalfmills5679]

Thanks folks !

[@elizabethjohnson475]

Justro, I think yours is really a history channel. I sure enjoy it. Unconventional. Your accent is something else! Com' mon!! Corn shucks are chair bottoms! Wow! and so beautifully done! It's remarkably quiet where you live. I'd love to see your corn milled. How fun! You're such a Blessing. Regards from far north California

[@metcalfmills5679]

Thank you Elizabeth. I am glad that you enjoy. That you for the feedback. ❤️

[@riversideacres8853]

My dad use to do seats like that in the late 70's. He used the the twisted paper to weave the seats. I still have a chair he wove and it is still like new. He also use to cane chair bottoms. He would get a bucket of water and soak the cane to get it pliable and start weaving. Dad was born in 1922, some of the stuff he would do was the old fashioned way. I wish today I would have paid more attention. I do remember a few things, but wish I remembered more, or should I say cared enough to pay closer attention.

[@metcalfmills5679]

Thank you for sharing this with us! My dad taught me to weave chair bottoms with flat reed when I was 10 years old. I learned the rush seats myself. Thank you !

[@cumberlandquiltchic1]

Ive never seen corn shucked that way. That’s so neat! That’s a beautiful sight with the corn and rocker and chair and background off the porch. So peaceful.

[@metcalfmills5679]

Thank you CQC. It surely is

[@cumberlandquiltchic1]

Corn for the Appalachian’s was like potatoes for the Irish. Id be tire to say.

[@cumberlandquiltchic1]

Im curious about the grits part. It’s a bu product I’d cornmeal, isn’t it?

[@cumberlandquiltchic1]

I have some corn shuck dolls

[@metcalfmills5679]

Grist or “Gryst” is an old word that means grinding

[@chickenmama4384]

Thank you for explaining the corn crib. I never really understood how they were used. Lovely corn

[@metcalfmills5679]

Glad you enjoyed

[@Jane-b9k]

I sure did enjoy the corn sucking and learning about the making of the chairs. I never knew that before. 😊

[@homesteadingpastor]

Learn something new everyday. Very informative video my friend! Thanks for sharing! Nice lookin corn and a very nice view of the fall colors in the background. GOD BLESS YOU MY FRIEND!!!! 👍🏻🙏🏻😇🙌🏻

[@metcalfmills5679]

Glad you enjoyed ! God bless you my friend

[@kouchang13]

This young man is authentic.

[@metcalfmills5679]

@@kouchang13 thank you, I hope so

[@mattst4444]

That is some beautiful beautiful corn

[@metcalfmills5679]

It sure is, thanks Matt !

[@hawkrose8403]

Oftentimes I find myself wishing I was born way back when❤ love this one ❤ youve got some really pretty ears of corn

[@metcalfmills5679]

Oh me too, very often. Thank you

[@twooldcrowshomestead]

I had no idea those chairs were made from corn husks. I would love to learn to do that. Thanks for sharing!

[@metcalfmills5679]

This type of weave is common with fiber rush material. The corn shuck bottoms are rare. Thank you !

[@SilverLining650]

Your corn is beautiful! I’ve seen chairs like yours many times growing up and never realized it was woven from corn husks. It’s such a beautiful lost art.

[@metcalfmills5679]

Most of the chairs with this weave pattern are woven with fiber rush material. The corn shuck are rare. Thank you Lesa !

[@SilverLining650]

@@metcalfmills5679 what is fiber rush?

[@metcalfmills5679]

Lesa it is twisted paper.

[@harrythewoollyman]

I have not done that in a long time.

[@metcalfmills5679]

Glad you’re here buddy. Hope you are better soon.

[@harrythewoollyman]

@@metcalfmills5679 Glad to be here I have been missing a lot.

[@suzannebazeghi5698]

justin i really injoy watching your chanel thanks for sharing your memory and your farm experience with us god blass good people.

[@metcalfmills5679]

Thank you Suzanne ! God bless your family as well !

[@prudence4493]

My mom made me a corn husk doll when I was little (5ish), I still have it.

[@metcalfmills5679]

That is great !

[@tpaw6908]

I used to have chairs still have ladder back but dont remember some got redone I'll have to look. But I remember dolls made out of the corn shucks. Do you have email for orders when you start in spring I'm interested in a lot of your matters and corn. Hows your dad today? We know you've been busy keep him in our thoughts and prayers. You know I got to get on my friend to look you up again. Take care of that cough still fighting whatever this was. Yes you and your stories are a blessing . Keep them coming we love the journey. Have a great week next weekend looks bad weather. Need help hollar.

[@metcalfmills5679]

TPaw thank you so much ! This made my day ! Yes I will get set up to sell soon. Dad is about the same, thank you for asking! You have a great week too and I appreciate you!

[@Kelly_Mae_C]

Learn something new every day. I didn't know those seats where made of corn shucks. I have 3 of those ladderback cornshuck chairs. I'm looking for another for a complete set.

[@metcalfmills5679]

Well Kelly there are that type of bottom that is fiber rush, it is the same weave pattern but the material on most of them is fiber rush. I don’t know where you are but if you can send me a picture of your chairs I might help you find the fourth.. Thank you!

[@Kelly_Mae_C]

@@metcalfmills5679 Thanks Justin. I'm in SC. I have to figure out how to send you the chair photo. Not sure how to do that on here.

[@metcalfmills5679]

Face book or Instagram…

[@metcalfmills5679]

Kelly can you do FB or Instagram?

[@Kelly_Mae_C]

@@metcalfmills5679 I have instagram

[@jboyer1028]

A video on making grits would be great.

[@metcalfmills5679]

I am looking forward to it Jeff !

[@EarlybirdFarmSC]

That is awesome Justin. Thanks for sharing buddy.

[@metcalfmills5679]

Thanks EBF !

[@EarlybirdFarmSC]

@@metcalfmills5679 Anytime Bo!

[@UrbanWhiteBuffaloFarm]

Hey Justin, I do love that Jimmy Red can't wait to grow some next year I'm a be thinking about that all winter. Y'all take care bye for now

[@metcalfmills5679]

That’s great UWBF ! You too !

[@crowznest438]

I love those old style chairs and have a collection from nearby dumpsters. One is stuffed with pine needles, one with newspapers. I have a couple of corn shucking tools with metal tips but never saw one actually used before. Thanks for your vids. I really enjoy them.

[@metcalfmills5679]

Thank you for sharing this with us. Glad that you enjoy!

[@LaGrandeBayou]

Had no idea that's how those chairs seats were made. From corn shucks. Wow. I thought it was made from straw or grass. Great video information. "Jimmy crack corn and I don't care"

[@metcalfmills5679]

Most of them nowadays are rush fiber(paper)

[@dianapollex3266]

One thing I love about your channel is the history you share. Makes me wonder if my grandmother, who was widowed with 13 children, in the hills of West Virginia in the early 30's, how they all survived. Maybe shucked corn also. Anyway, I appreciate you sharing.

[@metcalfmills5679]

Thank you Diana. I would say that is a good possibility. Thank you for sharing!

[@rogerbeck5704]

Thank you for another history lesson Justin!

[@metcalfmills5679]

Hope you enjoyed, my pleasure Roger

[@131dyana]

Loved seeing you and the corn shucking. Thank you. God bless.

[@metcalfmills5679]

God bless!

[@gregpage9471]

Do you freeze what you mill to kill bug I a small plot this year we will hand miil what we got . Thanks I enjoy your channel Always go stuff .

[@metcalfmills5679]

Yes or freeze the grain out to kill anything that might be present.

[@metcalfmills5679]

Thank you Greg !

[@paulblankenship7865]

You taught me something on that corn shuck chair bottom and the shucking tool. On a completely different note, Justin Rhodes put out a video recently where he considered restoring a spring well to give his family a backup water source if they ever needed it. He said he’d probably need someone to refurbish it to get it going again. I mentioned you in a comment but I don’t know if he read it. You might reach out to him if you’re interested. It looks a lot like your well setup that you recently did a video on. Anyway, I really enjoy watching your videos. I’ve never met you before but I feel like I’ve known you all my life. I guess we’re like the old folks say, kindred spirits.

[@metcalfmills5679]

Glad you enjoyed Paul ! I appreciate that and would be glad to help if I can. That is good to hear, I hope more folks feel that way. Thank you

[@jvin248]

We had the fancy version of that husking tool back in the day, ours was bent metal with leather finger loops. We'd use the tip to spear the husk near the ear tip and squeeze the husk between the steel and our thumb to pull it back. It's been forty years since I did it, but an opportunity again this fall I'll compare both ways as I have a corn field again.

[@metcalfmills5679]

Thank you for sharing this with us

[@otto8049]

My grandmother came from Sweden and settled in Iowa. They used to have shucking bees, followed by drinking and dancing. And more drinking. I assume they got the shucking done first, but Im not sure. Lol Thanks for sharing the good life with the rest of your Northern cousins.

[@metcalfmills5679]

Thank you for sharing this with us!

[@blueishxx]

fabulous video , thank you

[@metcalfmills5679]

Thank you !

[@edvangilder4424]

Place I use to hunt had a old separate corn crib . It was probably 4 foot wide and 10 foot long. Post where set on a flat rock. The floor was about 3 foot off the ground.. this was a area that people raised hogs. The roof was hinged where you could raise it to throw the corn in. The floor was slanted so the corn would run down to one end that had a small door you could pull a bucket load of corn out. The only one I ever seen built like this.

[@metcalfmills5679]

Ed thank you so much for sharing this with us. This was very interesting to read

[@fightingbear8537]

I really liked your video!

[@metcalfmills5679]

Thank you

[@donmoga7546]

Love this guy

[@metcalfmills5679]

❤️

[@monmixer]

I bet the horses and cows love that corn!!!

[@metcalfmills5679]

They would!

[@lastdayshomesteading6288]

One of my favorite things to do. I usually have a couple friends come over and to get this done and we end up grilling out and fellowshipping. Enjoying your channel. Take care.

[@metcalfmills5679]

Thank you for sharing

[@StevenvonBriesen]

learned so much! Thanks!

[@metcalfmills5679]

Thank you, glad you enjoyed it.

[@lwons1313]

That sure is some pretty corn 🌽

[@metcalfmills5679]

I agree

[@Dave-ty2qp]

Your channel has grown a bit in the past couple of months. You have an abnormally large ratio of comments which shows people are really interested in what you are providing. Keep doing what you are doing and I hope people start sharing this channel with their friends.

[@metcalfmills5679]

Thanks Dave ! I am glad people enjoy my channel. So glad I can share !

[@annalisette5897]

Thank you!

[@David-kd5mf]

Great video

[@metcalfmills5679]

Thanks David!

[@dannyjackson4661]

Again let me say how much I enjoyed this video,I have shucked a few ears of corn and never had one of those pegs you were using handy for sure,is the Jimmy Red an heirloom seed and can you still by it thanks again for sharing part of your day with us.

[@metcalfmills5679]

Thank you!

[@horticultureandhomes]

I would love to see how shucks were woven into chair seats! I have some of my papaw's ladder back chairs which he made in the 20's. He wove the chair bottoms out of hickory.

[@metcalfmills5679]

It is a process. I hope to try it one day and I will share. Thank you!

[@homesteadrevivals]

Cornmeal mush was my favorite breakfast. Every morning my mother made hot cereal. I wasn't crazy about oatmeal, but grits and cream of wheat and hot rice (with butter and sugar) were pretty good. Still, nothing was as good as mush!

[@metcalfmills5679]

It is very good, we do eat the same things. Hot rice is so good! Thank you for sharing Amanda.

[@Autumnswirl71]

Im gonna ask you a question that no one seems to know the answer to. I remember when I was very very young, my dad fed the chicken just straight corn kernels. Not cracked corn, and the kernels were small enough that the chickens could eat it with out an issue, no matter the birds size. In todays world, people insist that they need chicken feed, and if you give corn to your chickens it needs to be cracked corn. When did people make that shift, and why are the kernels so much larger today?

[@tagladyify]

I’ve fed my chickens wild finch food, fermented grains, and unprocessed mixes. I don’t trust the highly processed feed.

[@Autumnswirl71]

@@tagladyify yes, we've done fermented and cracked corn on this farm (my friends place) but we JUST got our own land and Id like to grow out my own corn for my own chickens, but havent found a smaller kernel corn variety :(

[@tagladyify]

@@Autumnswirl71 I hope you find one.

[@metcalfmills5679]

Thank you Terry ! I think they fed whole kernel corn because they didn’t have a way to crack it. That is why the chickens need grit for their craw, which helps grind up what they eat. You can find a small hand crank grain mill to crack corn on..

[@tagladyify]

@@metcalfmills5679 wow! Did not know that. Great info Justin. Thank you.

[@tagladyify]

That’s one pile of corn right there!

[@metcalfmills5679]

It is small compared to my Hickory King when I harvest it ! Thanks Tracy !

[@jerryhuntjj2885]

Reminded me of shucking corn with my papaw. That sure is some pretty corn. What variety is it? I've never seen a shucking peg before

[@metcalfmills5679]

Thank you JJ. Hickory King

[@agreatalternative]

Wow that corn is so beautiful!! I've just found your channel as I'm about to make a video about making cordage from corn husks and I'd never come across "shucking" before, or using the tool that you have so this was an interesting insight! I'll give you a shoutout in the video so if you're interested keep an eye on my channel! Ok no I'm off to watch more your videos 😁

[@audreydeweese4827]

Hi Justin, Do you know anyone who strings chairs with corn husk rope? I would love to see a video of them making cord and weaving a chair bottom.

[@metcalfmills5679]

I have a friend that does. I hope to make a video with him someday.

[@bishopcorva]

I had four corn shuk bottom chairs for the longest time. They came up missing a few years ago. Only just found out what happened to them, younger brother took and sold them because my older brother just waved a hand and said "anything in there that you can sell, do so." Referring to the living room of the house. Nevermind everything that was mine was marked as such with string tied on tags. Four tags in the trash, buried under a few things. I still am hot about it, more so that for three years now when I'd ask about them. No one seemed to know anything, especially my younger brother and his wife. They're still family so I don't do any good to hold a hot grudge about it. But I'll never trust them again to do anything for me without supervision. If that offends them, fine. I and deeply offended at being lied to for years all because one was too lazy to sit and supervise as I asked him to, and the other knew they were stealing and tried to hide it. I can forgive a lot, doesn't mean I'll forget it happened though. While not from the mountains myself, more coastal history for me. I hear you about the fertilizer and growing up in the eighties, shelling out crabs and shrimp, cutting up fish and clam waste. Rabbit and squirrel trash, ashes, egg shells and table scraps that weren't for the dogs. All get laid in a trench in the garden. Soil put over, repeat that for the whole thing and leave it for a week. Turn it all over again the plant. Never was a small harvest as long as the dirt enrichment was done. Also grew the best weeds during the off season which we'd field burn a week before first turn to re-enrich. I still have an antique forged iron shucker. It's about pencil thin in places from being used from if I had to guess when my state was still a colony before the revolution.

[@soupertrooper3864]

How do you keep weevils out of corn in the crib?

[@metcalfmills5679]

After May here you don’t..

[@soupertrooper3864]

@metcalfmills5679 I'm fixing to pick some Trucker's Favorite, I'm going to try making meal out of it and wondering how to keep the bugs out of it until I get it ground. I thought about shelling it and putting it in a plastic barrel but I reckon it will mold if I do that?

[@metcalfmills5679]

Yes it would, you don’t want to do that. Dry it good and then shell it. You can sack it and put it in the freezer or refrigerator. That is the only way I know of to guarantee

[@uncledanny7]

What do you use the red corn for

[@metcalfmills5679]

Corn meal, grits and makes some of the best fish/chicken breading you can get!

[@uncledanny7]

@@metcalfmills5679 I may have to try some of it

[@gkseeton]

Did they ever nixtamalize the corn?

[@metcalfmills5679]

They made hominy a different way. I will do a video about it sometime.

[@gkseeton]

@@metcalfmills5679 would love that. I tried making Masa and while the result made a delicious cornbread, I have a ways to go to manage tortillas.

[@metcalfmills5679]

Ann did you have a way to grind the masa?

[@gkseeton]

@@metcalfmills5679 yes but I think it needed to go through a second time to be smooth enough to make the tortillas. But it made amazing cornbread. I used my food processor. A proper wet grinder would have done a better job.

[@gkseeton]

@@metcalfmills5679 just thought of another question. If I dried the nixtamalized corn, could that be ground like regular dried corn?

[@jerrykates4601]

where I Come From

[@metcalfmills5679]

Thank you