The Best Ways to Learn Farm Skills - FHC Q & A

[@susanhaertel294]

I was gifted the Foxfire books in the 70's. I am leaving them to my kids. Wonderful information!

[@benbloomer7503]

I appreciate your dedication to the old ways. I enjoyed working with my grandpa and learning. Now I try to teach my children to appreciate the old times and ways.

[@tannerc900]

The knowledge you hold is priceless… in a way you’re smarter than any kid with the highest medical degree. You can start with a piece of land and build everything from it, no technology, no nothing besides some hand tools and you can sustain yourself. I appreciate you sharing your knowledge

[@siljatanner1318]

My parents and my husband's parents had to do farm work as kids. They worked hard to make sure that their children wouldn't have to. So we grew up as suburbanites and now we are desperately trying to get back to the farm life! 🤣

[@Barbarra63297]

My mom was born in 1910 on a farm with 5 siblings. I have pics of her driving a 4 horse team, sunbonnet, work dress, they didn't live on a prairie but they lived the life, no electricity, all kerosene lamps. I am so glad I listened when she told me about her life on the farm, those stories are more precious to me than all the gold in the world.

[@JasonSchmidt-1979]

“Through failing you learn to be successful.” Pa Mac Absolutely love this channel. To God be the glory!

[@JGDIXON88]

Hey Pa Mac, would you consider doing a farm tour. Just a small look around your place. Your workshop, garden etc. just a kinda update on some of the buildings we’ve watched you build. Thanks

[@sloburnjo]

CHEERS PA ! my late mother was Finnish born 1930 on a farm outside of Turku lived thru the Winter War of 1939-40 she was ambitious studied hard moved to London UK then settled in Montreal QC IN 1958. She did share her love of animals, nature and healthy independent living. I just bought a property in Ontario farmland !

[@j_omega_t]

I learned how to tan rabbit hides with alum from the Foxfire books - I think it was volume 1, but it might have been 2 or 3. I read those from cover to cover when I was in high school in the 70's. My uncle told me those hides would probably last 2-3 years, but I still have them today.

[@Frogger383]

This reminded me of my grandpa, born in 1913. God rest his soul. I learned so much from that old man. He still remembered coming across in covered wagon. Yes there were cars but only the wealthy could afford them. They settling down in the Midwest, earned some money and Bought a car then traveled to the west coast. They sure did things different. I loved him

[@MarkWYoung-ky4uc]

Old people are a treasure trove of all kinds of information especially the old ways. God blessed me with a love for being around and talking to these folks and I learned much from them. I am familiar with the Fox Fire books and they are a valuable resource.

[@commonweakness9060]

I could not recommend the Foxfire books more. They are a treasure. Thanks for the walk down memory lane.

[@twentypdrparrott694]

I've got all of the Fox Fire books. My grand parents grew up in the 1890's

[@CleaveMountaineering]

I wish I knew what to ask my grandpa (dairy farmer born in 1918) while he was around, now that I'm getting into homesteading and hand tools. Also, I had books 1-3 ordered (for those of us choosy with our budget) before you were done with the video. Thanks for sharing!

[@davet.4945]

I remember those Foxfire books in the late 70's. Whenever I found one I would read it cover to cover. There is just so many things that are good to know in those books!

[@RGabeDavis]

A great fictional series is CH Cobb’s outlander chronicles. Three book story of restarting civilization after a catastrophic event. Learning to use livestock and tools. Really interesting.

[@tri339090]

Great video, I find that the passing of good information is what's life is really about. If anyone here is interested in seeing the tools and machines that were used to develop this country there is a huge Museum called "Pioneer Village" in Minden Nebraska. There is so much to see and experience there that it's overwhelming. From steam driven tractors with 12 foot wheels to the barbed wire collection its really hard not to find something interesting.

[@davidcurry9292]

I built a dry sled for my farm,as illustrated in the foxfire books.my dad passed down to me the the foxfire volumes 1 thru 3. one of the most memorable sections was devoted on ,hiding your moonshine steel lol

[@spudhut2246]

Very wise words. Amazing stories of your family. Thank you.

[@kenthorsen4558]

I enjoyed reading Back to Basics and Putting Food By I also have the Fox Fire books.

[@donaldgarmon7368]

A Great Video! Thank You!

[@dustindavy4319]

Great video, as always. I agree that the best way is to gain a foundation of basic info then get out there and try.

[@Join.The.Partee]

Little House on the Prairie books are great at painting a picture of what life was like. I love to read those!

[@horticultureandhomes]

Teach about medicinal plants. My granny from East TN used them and many made fun of some of the things she did. Now come to find out, there has been research done on some of this stuff and some of it actually works. We are all still wondering why she would dissolve a square of camphor into a bottle of rubbing alcohol and proceed to pour some on her head and rub it in. For the cooling effect or open up sinuses?

[@meanwhilebackonthehobbyfarm]

Thanks for sharing very interesting

[@claudiamcbride9746]

My Dad was born in 1908, my Mom in 1911. I came along rather late in their lives and my only brother is 16 years older than me. My Dad's father, my grandfather, was a carpenter and my Dad learned a lot of carpentry from him. He was the second oldest of 12 siblings so he and his older brother had to take care of the farm when Grandpa was traveling around, plying his trade. There of pictures of my Dad driving 40 mule hitch pulling a combine in a museum in Brush, Colorado. When cars came along, he learned to be a mechanic and later, he became an airplane mechanic. My brother never cared much for learning carpentry or to work on cars, but though I was a girl and girls weren't supposed to do things like that at that time, I was always working with him and learning to build and repair things, fix plumbing, work on cars, and farming skills. I loved to get up early to have breakfast with him before he went to work and listen to his stories about life in the early 20th century. I spent more time working outside than helping with housework, but my Mom taught me to can food, kill and butcher chickens and to see the beauty of the land and sky around me. I was so fortunate to learn so many skills from them and I have gone on to learn to use a scythe and hand tools that are relics of the past. I will always be grateful to them for learning the value of hard work, simple living, and that fast isn't the only way, or necessarily the best way, to do things. Thanks for your videos that help me hone my ability to work with hand tools.

[@farmhandscompanion]

Thank you so much for sharing that!

[@ripdinecola4755]

Great info! Always look forward to your new videos!

[@douglasvantassel8098]

Thanks for making these.

[@deltonwatts9726]

Thanks for sharing this information so an unfamiliar generation can learn the historical methods of keeping a home and farrming..

[@olddawgdreaming5715]

Very interesting video Pa. Sure enjoyed listening to everything you were talking about today. So much history and FAMILY HISTORY has gone by the way side but every now and then someone opens a new keg of old nails and things start coming out of the woodwork . You opened a keg today that has the FOX FIRE books in them, they sound so interesting to me. I should get some of those books so I could see what I missed back then and have got away from trying to make a living and rasing a family through the years and now have time to read about what I should have paid attention to years ago. Fred.

[@adamjohnson7324]

I’ve been loving your videos and you strike me as a wise intelligent person. I was wondering what 10 books where the greatest influence in your life that you would recommend? Any books at all doesn’t matter. Could be on farming, philosophy, theology and so forth. What 10 would you grab if your home was on fire and you could only grab 10.

[@mrMacGoover]

Another good book that covers all these traditional skills is : Back To The Basics.

[@ciphercode2298]

I've heard of the foxfire books,but havent bought them yet. I'm gonna have to change that arent i?

[@emeltea33]

At least d/l the PDFs.

[@raycycleit8311]

My first foxfire book was foxfire 3..I was in 6th grade. Where did I buy this book you ask.....at the local piggy wiggly in Gurdon Arkansas...lol

[@farmhandscompanion]

You gotta be kiddin, Ray'!

[@raycycleit8311]

@@farmhandscompanion nope, good ole hoggly woggly.

[@anthonymusso5282]

My grandpaw had these books, i ready them as a kid, before ipads and cell phones took all a kids time. When he died I inherited them

[@bhamby9305]

Have you read. Alex Cooper portrait of a pioneer? The best book have read.

[@alonalanski7119]

it is "Alex Stewart: Portrait of a Pioneer", right?

[@the_eternal_student]

These older skills from the so-called stone age to the draft animal age should be learned in elementary school before moving on to the later skills in middle school and high school, and then to the latest skills and research in college. Every time someone dies the children have to start farther behind the beginning with simply learning to speak and count.

[@danielwaynehale1]

The voices of moccasin creek by Tate Page is a family memoir wrote by a locally famous historian about early 1900s life in the Ozarks of pope county AR. it's hard to get ahold of but well worth the investment.

[@TheRedneckprepper]

TY

[@cory9884]

Hi, love your channel. I started gardening this last year and you were about the only good video source I could find for information on different hoes and there uses. Please don't ever change. I would be interested to hear some of these historical ghost stories, other things the moon effects, about dowsing, general mysticism, mabey ufos or criptoids like bigfoot. I know its not quite your bag, but you are sort of a layman's historian and id be curious to hear what regular people thought and believed about these things. I know there's accounts in newspapers from the 1800s of flying objects crashing, they gave one of the 4 ft tall pilots a proper burial. Id be surprised if there weren't tons of mentioning in various diaries and writings. Then more historical farming, please never change your channel. I think I cut a half acre of weedy hay this year with a sickle and a pitchfork, resources like your channel are what helps me improve year over year. Thankyou for all your hard work.

[@farmhandscompanion]

Hey Cory, I think you'd be interested in my brother's KZbin channel: www.youtube.com/@GodandtheParanormalPodcast

[@ciphercode2298]

Theres a fella in Tennessee that has a KZbin channel that covers a good deal of what you mentioned. His channel is Donnie Law

[@TheVikingmaiden]

I was not expecting your voice to sound like that, lol.

[@edwardaldrich7213]

Holy Cow - farm folk live long lives and are healthy! They eat natural foods versus the poison we are feed as Americans.

[@rawbacon]

My Grandmother would talk about horse wagons and particularly when the horses got spooked and they crashed thru a fence with her and here sister in the wagon and also the time the KKK came visiting their farm (presumably because they were Catholic) burning a Cross and poisoning their dog..............Also had an Aunt from Germany that told the story of the Nazis forcing their way into the house and trying to get her Mother to take down the Cross and put up a picture of Hitler.

[@dannygoin6552]

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