One thing that really stands out in these videos is the quiet. No tv in the background, no music blasting, no traffic. That quiet is one thing we have lost in the modern world.
No gunshots, no atvs, dirt bikes, or anything other sort either. I live in a similar area lots of nature but can't enjoy it really because of the modern crap people take into the woods.
@@grimsonforce7504 heh, I live next to a woodland by an air base. Can be quiet until the warbirds take off. Oh, and gunshots in the distance some nights.
I remember shucking peas at my grans table when I was a youngster. She grew peas, spring onions and shallots, Brussel sprouts, cabbage, potatoes, tomato, and beets! They tasted amazing! 😋
add some more water to the pot and aim for cooking them as a soup or stew and let it simmer for an hour or so to help with the chewy factor! those are all hearty vegetables and so would need the extra time to break down and be less chewy. lovely video as always!
Yeah, though the greens and lighter stems should be added a fair ways towards the end of that. I find beet stems and leaves are wonderful for bulking up a soup. They're basically chard if you think about it.
This is the first channel where I have seen an realistic description of why majority of people mostly didn’t eat meat back in these times as opposed to modern people believing people ate steak 3 times a day like we eat McD now. This is also precisely why many cultures in India were historically either vegetarian altogether or relied on it heavily, apart from religious reasons. Meat was a luxury that mostly rich and royalties had access to, an average person could not afford expensive habit of hunting or to use their livestock for meat. They relied on simple ingredients they could grow and had easy access to, and kept livestock for dairy. And then it got ingrained into culture of many families.
Everybody ate meat, but most of the protein came from beans, fava beans, lentil beans, lupine beans,... beans. All the forests were used to raise pigs and there was fishing and sheep and goats and cows and horses and donkeys to do work and the meat was not wasted.
It's a well-known fact that people ate less meat in the past (unless they were rich). I even learnt this as a child in school. What are you talking about?
VERY pleased to see you including the tops of the root crops in the feast!!! It wasn't until I was in my thirties that I learned that they were edible. Specifically carrot tops, as I knew the others were good for salads. For anyone reading this that doesn't know - radish greens are spicy raw, but not cooked. I was disappointed when I added them to my hash browns expecting a little zing. Very much enjoying your content!! Well done and looking forward to more!!
@@gesithasgewissaна Руси чай делали из моркови и её ботвы. Это очень полезно. Посушите её. А после второй мировой войны такой чай продавался у нас в магазинах🥕🥕🥕
They're great, I've hardly touched them all season, they took care of themselves! Yes, pateras have been found in Anglo-Saxon graves; a bit of romanitas!
This is a much preferred way of living. Simply going about one’s day without punching a time clock and driving in traffic. Healthy home grown veggies too
What a beautiful scene. When i watched the video of building of the house, i began to wish i was young again. The vegetables look great, i love the house too. Thank you for sharing, from a little Granny in northern california.
Looks great I would really enjoy a meal like that, I especially love Field beans! Be sure to work the bean stalks and shells back into the ground after the garden is finished for the year. They are a nitrogen fixing crop and if you break them up and work them back into the ground with a hoe, they enrich the soil!
@@gesithasgewissa yeah i know ! in my village there was Salt produced during the middle ages and traded all over Europe..today some Towns carry the name SALT in it due to Salt Producing
Growing a garden and a UA-cam channel. Plenty of hard work! I guess one feeds the other. We’re certainly all enjoying the fruits of your labour, even if we didn’t all get a bowlful 😊
Despite some saying peas arrived with the Normans, peas and beans were traded along the Silk Road as early as 2200BCE and were a staple crop in Britain from that time. As you mention, it was used as animal feed for centuries before some hungry farmer decided to eat one. And the rest is history. Got a bumper harvest, there. I love the carrots. The natural yellow and white carrots have a superior flavour to the manmade orange. Almost foraging time. Looking forward to seeing what you find, if you go that route.
Those were nice looking veg 🥕!! Be sure to save a pod or 2 of those beans to dry out for next years harvest, they all did REALLY well! Did you grow the Hogweed or was that a wild find? And omg are those your cows?! Either way, it's nice to have them near. Cows are funny🐄. Seems you've had a lovely season and now your bed is ready for their winter crops! Methinks you need to find a potter friend to do some trading with to store your seeds. I'm sure you'll be getting into it on your own at greater depth down the road, but developing working/trading relationships with others in the Historical Recreationist communities can yield some items you may not be ready for or interested to learn just now. It can also be inspiring and helpful to both parties when you give another tradesman some work. I'd stick as local as you could though, long distance business suuuuucks😆 If I may also suggest one new skill you'll find quite handy now and in the Future, is taking up knotwork. Even macramé. You could whip up a hanging sling or wall net to hold your root crops in a jif anytime you needed one without taking up space for special shelving. Plenty of air to keep them from rotting, reusable materials should you not need a sling just now, inexpensive to craft and can be made to go anywhere (ceiling, wall, post, etc.). If you want to get real fancy, some of those long grasses when fresh could be used to make them as well should you not want to go the rope route. Always enjoy your videos, Alec! Happy Harvest & winter sowing to you, friend!
Thank you! The hogweed is growing wild everywhere here. They aren't my cows, but very sweet. I'd love to have animals sometime soon. Pottery and knotwork, both great ideas to add to my list. Thank you friend, as always, for the support. Best wishes to you!
I can't believe how full the garden looks now! That's crazy. And seeing the garden grow is one thing, but getting to actually cook and EAT what you grew must have been even more satisfying. I don't recognize the pink flowers in the beginning at all but the scotch thistle I recognized immediately!
Wow, a cozy thatched house in the forest with a beautiful green vegetable garden. I’d love to live a life like that! Thanks so much for sharing, everything in the video is amazing.
I love your content. I had long wished for something like a living history channel based on the Anglo Saxons. You're are like a dream come true. One suggestion i would humbly give is that you can create some filler videos between your awesome planned content. Like for example you could record a video of you just sitting by the fire in the house in the evening or daytime sharpening your seax or axe. This would require very little planning and can keep your channel active in between your main content. Another video could be just a tour of your house and the surrounding. Maybe another one showcasing all the tools that you use.
Thanks Saracen! I'm actually working towards making this a bit more full time in the coming months, which will hopefully allow me to share a video every week or two! Thanks for the suggestions, I'd like to make more ambient videos too
This is so great, thank you for doing (and sharing) this. I've just finished lots of reading and writing about the Early Middle Ages, the Anglo-Saxons, in the context of Manorial and Feudal Systems and the enclosure project which saw so many tillers of the soil moved off the land. Seeing your videos certainly brings it to life for me. Im very lucky to have four acres here in Australia where i can grow a bit of food and otherwise just have that land connection. It should of course be denied to no one. Look forward to more, thanks again.
@@gesithasgewissa happy to discuss research with you at any point, including to assist you with the creation of your content as it concern land tenure/conflicts/enclosure/dispossession etc. 🙂
That was amazing! Love this channel and seeing what you are doing in real time! Love that you used everything: You can also eat the leafy beet greens in salads and the carrot greens can also be eaten in soups for example. Are you going to start a compost pile somewhere?
You start with a natural thing of beauty and continue with great visuals. The sounds now make it as if we were there. The history, the story, the editing are all very good. I was worried for a moment, fearing you would eat the beautiful veg raw. Worried the next episode would be making a spare pair of pants.
Nice to see You again. Good job. The biggest challenge at the time was preserving food and storing seeds until the next spring. As for cooking; add a lot of water to the pot, and cook everything to a paste. For cooking at start, add a piece of smoked fatty bacon. May the Gods bless You! Greetings from A Viking from Poland.
I love how authentic your videos feel! Your crops look so nice, even though it's a little weird to see white beetroot and carrot (despite I knew they were white for a long peroid of time). By the way, white beetroot is grown in my country for sugar industry because it's sweeter than red one. I hope to see your harvest fest one day! Oh, did bees found your hive? Do you have any honey this year?
Nice harvest. I wonder how common apples were during this era. They definitely existed, as apples are mentioned as grown by the goddess Idun in the Norse Eddas. I've just picked two crates of apples from my apple tree, only about 2 metres tall. They're perfect! (such a strong scent compared to shop bought, good size, rosy red, lovely taste) Easiest thing to grow, especially compared to carrots. 😆Highly recommend you get an old traditional variety for your veg garden. Perhaps a plum tree as well, if they were grown in the Anglo Saxon era?
As far as I know apples looked very very different. Much smaller. Probably also way less per tree as today. Modern apple trees are insane in a wood to fruit ratio. Some are basically a stick with 6 leaves, but like 5 kg apples on them😂
I have an old apple tree growing nearby. The apple wasn't grafted onto dwarf stock, so the tree is very difficult to pick from, and the fruit is often rotted or gnawed by the time I can reach it. They are relatively small, very intensely flavoured, and incredibly juicy. Grafting survived in monasteries, but it's unlikely that the early anglo saxons had access to such orchards. I would imagine any trees would be to similar to the type I have. Perhaps it would benefit from pollarding? I know coppicing was common.
@@gesithasgewissa Great, such a great thing to grow. Fruit trees will be a great addition to the garden. I've never tried Damsons before. I'll have to look out for them.
My allergies to beans, carrot, and onion not withstanding that looks delicious! I would have happily eaten that (and 3 hours later wondered why in Wotan's name I was so sick later!)
I realize I'm late (UA-cam not sending notifications like it should ugh), but looks like a pretty good harvest, for one guy in the woods and no modern equipment. Better than I would do, certainly! Must've smelled excellent cooking. Bummer about the onions though, but then, I like way more onion than most people, so you may not need as many to get through the winter as I would haha. May the spirits bless next year's harvest too (and bless the onions in particular).
This can't be your first time growing vegetables with results like that. I am impressed! I love that you chose varieties that may have some semblance to those they would have actually grown. I was wondering how developed their vegetables would be by selective breeding.
It is! Although I'd give more praise to the good soil than any ability on my part 😄 Yeah it's hard to tell just how developed the roots would have been back then, perhaps not this much, but I won't spurn the centuries of careful cultivation that has gone into these more modern (19th-20th century) varieties
Damn, thought you were going to make a stew of it. Based on the ingredients it would have been a pretty good stew. The beets, beans, and kale growing well was not a surprise, they are very hardy plants. Beans have a tendency to turn into pretty stubborn weeds if unintentionally seeded somewhere.
Your meal looks good, when I had an allotment found fresh veggies tasted way better than supermarket bought probably due to being cooked within hours of picking. Only just discovered the channel and really enjoying the content as history lover keep up the great work 👍👍👍
Just what I've been looking forward too. Harvest time. Looks like you did pretty well for your first go at it, I'd be proud of that meal. I bet it tasted amazing knowing it's from all your own had work.
Your videos really help me appreciate how much ingenuity and persistence it took for our forbearers to succeed in the world. I would have loved to see our planet before we chopped it up and made a mess of things! ☺✌🐝
You’re sitting comfortably at home, leisurely watching this video online because we “chopped it up and made a mess of things”. Today’s youngest generation, the other fools that fall prey and their cult leaders are the only ones making a true mess of things. Everything we as humans have done up til now has given all you enjoy now. Spoiler, people weren’t different back then either. They still had problems, large problems.
Looks like a great harvest!!! My mums been trying to grow crops for the last few years in her garden, but they always get eaten by slzgs and rose beetle larve! Great job man, keep it up!!
Your channel is just simply amazing, starting from the name to the content, it's been like a year or something that I check on your stuff, but this video was simply amazing, finally subscribed. Maybe it was the beans... I was born in Brazil, beans just speaks home...
Well done! Your garden fared better than mine this year! The collards, strawberries & blackberries were the only things that made it, plus 2 green beans. Sigh...
Love your videos but can I suggest putting a little note at the beginning to turn on CC. I enjoy reading the explanations and thought process, but sometimes even I forget to enable CC.
One of the things we have lost sight of is how daily life would be shared with other creatures. I learned this staying with a friend in the Solomon Islands where rats would come in at night and leave teeth marks in food, lizards, mice etc all came in
Смотрю на Вас и вспоминаю детство😊. Еда на свежем воздухе ,самая вкусная еда!. Родителям нас не загнать было домой. Зелёный крыжовник, репа и яйца со своего курятника. Это рацион юных хулиганок
Congratulations on your bountiful harvest! A garden doesn't have to be perfect to be delicious and rewarding. I think you've done a great job with it. I also enjoyed seeing how you prepared the food. It looked very tasty and filling!
Always happy with a new video :)! To make the broad beans more palatable, you could double pod them (i.e. remove the tough skin around the bean). The carrot & beet greens + the onion can be turned into a nice broth, that would work better than eating them fried.
nicely done, especially with those turnips. the onions will always want to pop out of the ground, when they do they stop growing as large. see if keeping the bulbs buried for longer helps their size. I also saw your field beans had some damage on the leaves, did you get a sudden cold snap? one final question, did the Gewissa have field cats to reduce mice population or did that come along later?
With things like Onions when they are growing if they try to grow flower buds (bolting), make sure to cut off the bolts so the plant doesn't put nutrients into flowering. It forces the bulbs to grow bigger. That said, you want some portion of your crops to actually grow flowers and seed so that you can plant seeds again in the spring. Note: most variety of onions are bienniel so they shouldn't flower their first year but if you have harsh weather climates it can cause them to bolt prematurely which is why you need to trim the flower stalks if they do. This same technique goes for garlic except you plant garlic in the fall. Also its called a "scape" on a garlic and the scape is not only edible but carries the same distinct flavor of the garlic bulbs themselves and make for a delicious addition to any meal.
@@gesithasgewissa дорогой друг видил только что в рекомендациях Ютуба твой ролик переведенный на русский язык советую поискать и кинуть жалобу если ты с ним не договаривался а то это воровство твоего прекрасного контента
And now I'm hungry. I also know what I did wrong with my field beans this year. You learn something new at the strangest places... Will you also try to store your produce like they did back then?
One thing that really stands out in these videos is the quiet. No tv in the background, no music blasting, no traffic. That quiet is one thing we have lost in the modern world.
It's very peaceful here!
yep. that´s what I also appreciate the most.
No gunshots, no atvs, dirt bikes, or anything other sort either. I live in a similar area lots of nature but can't enjoy it really because of the modern crap people take into the woods.
@@grimsonforce7504 heh, I live next to a woodland by an air base. Can be quiet until the warbirds take off. Oh, and gunshots in the distance some nights.
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it would be awesome to see more about the anglo-saxon dairy, and food preservation/seed storage
I'm looking forward to showing more as the farmstead progresses!
I like the noise when root vegetables come out of the ground. 🥕
You and me both!
I remember shucking peas at my grans table when I was a youngster. She grew peas, spring onions and shallots, Brussel sprouts, cabbage, potatoes, tomato, and beets! They tasted amazing! 😋
Fantastic, I can imagine!
I so happy that he actually grows old varienties, or heritage I suppose... so lovely in his choise , making everything as exact as possible
Thank you, I'm glad you appreciate the attention to detail!
add some more water to the pot and aim for cooking them as a soup or stew and let it simmer for an hour or so to help with the chewy factor! those are all hearty vegetables and so would need the extra time to break down and be less chewy.
lovely video as always!
I think pottage was the most common meal
That's what I thought he intended but he surprised me with the end result.
Yeah, though the greens and lighter stems should be added a fair ways towards the end of that. I find beet stems and leaves are wonderful for bulking up a soup. They're basically chard if you think about it.
Sure, but frying tastes better haha! The veg was fine, it was just the carrot tops that were a bit chewy. Thanks for watching!
You’re gonna need to write a book about all of this
This is the first channel where I have seen an realistic description of why majority of people mostly didn’t eat meat back in these times as opposed to modern people believing people ate steak 3 times a day like we eat McD now. This is also precisely why many cultures in India were historically either vegetarian altogether or relied on it heavily, apart from religious reasons. Meat was a luxury that mostly rich and royalties had access to, an average person could not afford expensive habit of hunting or to use their livestock for meat. They relied on simple ingredients they could grow and had easy access to, and kept livestock for dairy. And then it got ingrained into culture of many families.
Glad you appreciated it ☺ it's amazing how many comments I've had trying to argue against it too 🙃
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Everybody ate meat, but most of the protein came from beans, fava beans, lentil beans, lupine beans,... beans. All the forests were used to raise pigs and there was fishing and sheep and goats and cows and horses and donkeys to do work and the meat was not wasted.
It's a well-known fact that people ate less meat in the past (unless they were rich). I even learnt this as a child in school. What are you talking about?
okay that bowl of root veggies and greens actually looks pretty good
Glad you think so!
Looks tasty
VERY pleased to see you including the tops of the root crops in the feast!!!
It wasn't until I was in my thirties that I learned that they were edible. Specifically carrot tops, as I knew the others were good for salads.
For anyone reading this that doesn't know - radish greens are spicy raw, but not cooked. I was disappointed when I added them to my hash browns expecting a little zing.
Very much enjoying your content!! Well done and looking forward to more!!
😄 carrots greens are great, but kind of chewy! Not gonna waste them though. Glad you're enjoying the videos, thanks for watching!
@@gesithasgewissaна Руси чай делали из моркови и её ботвы. Это очень полезно. Посушите её. А после второй мировой войны такой чай продавался у нас в магазинах🥕🥕🥕
Спасибо большое, что рассказали, я этого не знал! Теперь хочу попробовать морковный чай ☺️🥕☕️🫖
@@ОксанаСиманкова-э3фТак у него там поляна целая кипрея. Наферментировать и посушить. Хотя можно и морковный чай.
I watched this 3 times, i was feeling deflated with my gardeninng but you've got me inspired.
Glad you're feeling inspired now!
Nice beans bro... nice beans! And by the way, nice Patera! Didn't know that anglo-saxons used those too
They're great, I've hardly touched them all season, they took care of themselves! Yes, pateras have been found in Anglo-Saxon graves; a bit of romanitas!
@@gesithasgewissa That's really interesting! ^^
some day this channel will have a million subscribers and we'll be able to say we watched it back when
I hope so, thanks for the support!
This is a much preferred way of living. Simply going about one’s day without punching a time clock and driving in traffic. Healthy home grown veggies too
I couldn't agree more!
And nonstop work just to stay alive. Not for me.
@@dawnjohnson8739 and a modern 9-5 isn't nonstop work? 😆
What a beautiful scene. When i watched the video of building of the house, i began to wish i was young again. The vegetables look great, i love the house too. Thank you for sharing, from a little Granny in northern california.
Thank you for watching, I'm glad you're enjoying the videos!
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Looks great I would really enjoy a meal like that, I especially love Field beans! Be sure to work the bean stalks and shells back into the ground after the garden is finished for the year. They are a nitrogen fixing crop and if you break them up and work them back into the ground with a hoe, they enrich the soil!
Already done, I've knocked them down and mulched over! But thanks for the great advice!
It is interesting to see how these products are prepared for storage for the winter.
I'd like to get into preservation and storing soon!
@@gesithasgewissa some kind of early sauerkraut maybe? Fermentation etc and where do you get salt from?
@@SternenruferinPatchouli1 Salt would have been imported from foreign salt mines or more likely salt pans around the coast. It was quite valuable!
@@gesithasgewissa so since you are NOT close to the sea, no homemade salt i guess
@@gesithasgewissa yeah i know ! in my village there was Salt produced during the middle ages and traded all over Europe..today some Towns carry the name SALT in it due to Salt Producing
Autumn is rolling in Happy Harvest
First day of spring here! 😄🙃
Thank you!
Growing a garden and a UA-cam channel. Plenty of hard work! I guess one feeds the other. We’re certainly all enjoying the fruits of your labour, even if we didn’t all get a bowlful 😊
Indeed, and I'm glad you're enjoying! Sadly not quite enough to go round haha
Despite some saying peas arrived with the Normans, peas and beans were traded along the Silk Road as early as 2200BCE and were a staple crop in Britain from that time. As you mention, it was used as animal feed for centuries before some hungry farmer decided to eat one. And the rest is history. Got a bumper harvest, there. I love the carrots. The natural yellow and white carrots have a superior flavour to the manmade orange. Almost foraging time. Looking forward to seeing what you find, if you go that route.
Good old peas and beans, the staples! Yes, I'm enjoying finding alternative vegetable colours hahah. I'll try and get some foraging in this autumn ☺
Se hærfest welig on wæstmum...the harvest (autumn) rich in fruits of the earth. Beautiful video, thank you.
Thank you Charles!
Wow. Amazing. You richly deserve your achievements. Looks good to eat as well. A sense of calm in thus mad world. Well done. Thanks for sharing.
Thank you for the kind words!
Those were nice looking veg 🥕!! Be sure to save a pod or 2 of those beans to dry out for next years harvest, they all did REALLY well! Did you grow the Hogweed or was that a wild find?
And omg are those your cows?! Either way, it's nice to have them near. Cows are funny🐄.
Seems you've had a lovely season and now your bed is ready for their winter crops!
Methinks you need to find a potter friend to do some trading with to store your seeds. I'm sure you'll be getting into it on your own at greater depth down the road, but developing working/trading relationships with others in the Historical Recreationist communities can yield some items you may not be ready for or interested to learn just now. It can also be inspiring and helpful to both parties when you give another tradesman some work. I'd stick as local as you could though, long distance business suuuuucks😆
If I may also suggest one new skill you'll find quite handy now and in the Future, is taking up knotwork. Even macramé. You could whip up a hanging sling or wall net to hold your root crops in a jif anytime you needed one without taking up space for special shelving. Plenty of air to keep them from rotting, reusable materials should you not need a sling just now, inexpensive to craft and can be made to go anywhere (ceiling, wall, post, etc.). If you want to get real fancy, some of those long grasses when fresh could be used to make them as well should you not want to go the rope route.
Always enjoy your videos, Alec! Happy Harvest & winter sowing to you, friend!
Thank you! The hogweed is growing wild everywhere here. They aren't my cows, but very sweet. I'd love to have animals sometime soon. Pottery and knotwork, both great ideas to add to my list. Thank you friend, as always, for the support. Best wishes to you!
I can't believe how full the garden looks now! That's crazy. And seeing the garden grow is one thing, but getting to actually cook and EAT what you grew must have been even more satisfying.
I don't recognize the pink flowers in the beginning at all but the scotch thistle I recognized immediately!
The pink flower is Malva alcea, Greater musk-mallow.
So satisfying!! Thanks for watching! And Floranova is right, it is indeed a mallow flower.
Me ha dado hasta un poquito de envidia verte disfrutar de una comida tan sana y libre de quimicos!!! Mis respetos!! Saludos desde Chile!!❤😂
Thank you and greetings!
Great, my zen moment !
Glad to hear it!
Wow, a cozy thatched house in the forest with a beautiful green vegetable garden. I’d love to live a life like that! Thanks so much for sharing, everything in the video is amazing.
Thank you for the kind words!
Looks like you got some cabbage white catapillers. We had loads this year, good to see butterflies improving
Lots and lots here! But that's fine, more than enough kale to go around 😆
คุณมาอยู่บ้านฉันที่เมืองไทย สบาย เลย มีโอกาสมาเที่ยวเมืองไทยนะ❤❤❤🇹🇭🇹🇭
Thanks for the offer!
I love your content.
I had long wished for something like a living history channel based on the Anglo Saxons. You're are like a dream come true.
One suggestion i would humbly give is that you can create some filler videos between your awesome planned content.
Like for example you could record a video of you just sitting by the fire in the house in the evening or daytime sharpening your seax or axe.
This would require very little planning and can keep your channel active in between your main content.
Another video could be just a tour of your house and the surrounding.
Maybe another one showcasing all the tools that you use.
Thanks Saracen!
I'm actually working towards making this a bit more full time in the coming months, which will hopefully allow me to share a video every week or two! Thanks for the suggestions, I'd like to make more ambient videos too
The process is so seamless
Thank you!
obsessed. this is what my mind is thinking about all day. so glad to have found your channel
Welcome!
Would love to see more cooking videos in future. Maybe a pottage next? Give those beans a bit more time to soften up lol
Gotta love pottage 😄
Nooo! Broad beans are best when they still have some crunch (keeps the sugars in) yum.
@@SoniaH-m4g I do like them fresher and crunchier! 😄
I love your channel so much! It's always a bright point in my day when I see you've posted something new 😊
Thank you, I'm happy to hear it!
Very interesting. You grew a better garden than any of my own poor efforts ever did. I think I’d enjoy eating the meal you cooked.
Thank you, it was hard work!
Warmest greetings once again and happy harvesting ✌️😊🌽🫑🥬🍅🫛
Thank you!
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Thanks for watching!
Glad to see some new content my friend. Your videos are always a pleasure.
Glad you enjoyed!
This is so great, thank you for doing (and sharing) this. I've just finished lots of reading and writing about the Early Middle Ages, the Anglo-Saxons, in the context of Manorial and Feudal Systems and the enclosure project which saw so many tillers of the soil moved off the land. Seeing your videos certainly brings it to life for me. Im very lucky to have four acres here in Australia where i can grow a bit of food and otherwise just have that land connection. It should of course be denied to no one. Look forward to more, thanks again.
That's a cool research project, I'm really interested in that myself! Fantastic that you've got 4 acres, land access is so important, I agree
@@gesithasgewissa happy to discuss research with you at any point, including to assist you with the creation of your content as it concern land tenure/conflicts/enclosure/dispossession etc. 🙂
Stunning. Thanks for the video my friend
Thanks for watching!
This gave me a glimpse of how Europeans thrive back then. So cool that we can recreate their previous lives today. I hope to watch more.
I'm glad you enjoyed it!
That was amazing! Love this channel and seeing what you are doing in real time! Love that you used everything: You can also eat the leafy beet greens in salads and the carrot greens can also be eaten in soups for example.
Are you going to start a compost pile somewhere?
Thanks. Yeah, greens are great! Already got a compost pile, just haven't shown it yet ☺
Tge intro is nice then beautiful fliwer and burds singing.
Glad you enjoyed it!
You start with a natural thing of beauty and continue with great visuals. The sounds now make it as if we were there.
The history, the story, the editing are all very good. I was worried for a moment, fearing you would eat the beautiful veg raw.
Worried the next episode would be making a spare pair of pants.
Thank you so much for the kind words!
He's already got a video making new trousers! Very snazzy ones at that!
Nice to see You again. Good job. The biggest challenge at the time was preserving food and storing seeds until the next spring. As for cooking; add a lot of water to the pot, and cook everything to a paste. For cooking at start, add a piece of smoked fatty bacon.
May the Gods bless You!
Greetings from A Viking from Poland.
Looking forward to trying food preservation sometime!
love it, so nice and calm and did not know they also eat the green stuff from beets and carrots
Tasty greens!
Being half Scottish and half German I just had to sub. What a lovely channel ❤
Welcome!
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That was such a helpful video for a story I am creating, thank you.
Glad you found it helpful!
I love how authentic your videos feel! Your crops look so nice, even though it's a little weird to see white beetroot and carrot (despite I knew they were white for a long peroid of time). By the way, white beetroot is grown in my country for sugar industry because it's sweeter than red one.
I hope to see your harvest fest one day! Oh, did bees found your hive? Do you have any honey this year?
Thank you, that means a lot! Unfortunately no bees this year, hopefully next year!
Nice harvest. I wonder how common apples were during this era. They definitely existed, as apples are mentioned as grown by the goddess Idun in the Norse Eddas. I've just picked two crates of apples from my apple tree, only about 2 metres tall. They're perfect! (such a strong scent compared to shop bought, good size, rosy red, lovely taste) Easiest thing to grow, especially compared to carrots. 😆Highly recommend you get an old traditional variety for your veg garden. Perhaps a plum tree as well, if they were grown in the Anglo Saxon era?
As far as I know apples looked very very different. Much smaller.
Probably also way less per tree as today. Modern apple trees are insane in a wood to fruit ratio. Some are basically a stick with 6 leaves, but like 5 kg apples on them😂
I have an old apple tree growing nearby. The apple wasn't grafted onto dwarf stock, so the tree is very difficult to pick from, and the fruit is often rotted or gnawed by the time I can reach it. They are relatively small, very intensely flavoured, and incredibly juicy.
Grafting survived in monasteries, but it's unlikely that the early anglo saxons had access to such orchards. I would imagine any trees would be to similar to the type I have. Perhaps it would benefit from pollarding? I know coppicing was common.
Certainly apples grown by the Saxons. Not sure about plums, but damsons were definitely around! I'm planning on planting some fruit trees this winter.
@@gesithasgewissa Great, such a great thing to grow. Fruit trees will be a great addition to the garden. I've never tried Damsons before. I'll have to look out for them.
Found ur channel today.loved this lifestyle
Welcome!
Very interesting.Its good to see how you made the house in that era.Thank you.Really enjoyed it .❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
Thanks for watching!
Nice to see an update to the garden.
Glad you enjoyed it!
I ADORE this channel! Thank you for all your hard work, the results are deeply soothing to witness! 😊💕
Thank you so much, I really appreciate the kind words and support!
Nothing more satisfying than seeing it through from seed to sustenance. Beautiful video, as always!
Indeed! Thank you!
Those broad beans look so plump!
Plump 'n juicy!
My allergies to beans, carrot, and onion not withstanding that looks delicious! I would have happily eaten that (and 3 hours later wondered why in Wotan's name I was so sick later!)
Unfortunate allergies! Glad it looked tasty all the same!
I realize I'm late (UA-cam not sending notifications like it should ugh), but looks like a pretty good harvest, for one guy in the woods and no modern equipment. Better than I would do, certainly! Must've smelled excellent cooking. Bummer about the onions though, but then, I like way more onion than most people, so you may not need as many to get through the winter as I would haha. May the spirits bless next year's harvest too (and bless the onions in particular).
Thank you! I'm a fellow onion muncher so hoping to do better next year too 😉
This can't be your first time growing vegetables with results like that. I am impressed!
I love that you chose varieties that may have some semblance to those they would have actually grown. I was wondering how developed their vegetables would be by selective breeding.
It is! Although I'd give more praise to the good soil than any ability on my part 😄
Yeah it's hard to tell just how developed the roots would have been back then, perhaps not this much, but I won't spurn the centuries of careful cultivation that has gone into these more modern (19th-20th century) varieties
Damn, thought you were going to make a stew of it. Based on the ingredients it would have been a pretty good stew.
The beets, beans, and kale growing well was not a surprise, they are very hardy plants. Beans have a tendency to turn into pretty stubborn weeds if unintentionally seeded somewhere.
Oh...not stew again?!?! 😉
@@gesithasgewissa What can I say? I'm a fan of stew.
@@DefaultFlame Me too, it's actually one of my favourites 😆 but people seem to imagine that's all there was to eat in a Medieval kitchen
Brilliant.What better than your own cooked veggies,well done from Scotland.
Indeed. Thank you!
Your meal looks good, when I had an allotment found fresh veggies tasted way better than supermarket bought probably due to being cooked within hours of picking. Only just discovered the channel and really enjoying the content as history lover keep up the great work 👍👍👍
Thank you! It's so great to be eating home-grown food. Welcome to the project!
amazing it brings me back in time
Glad to hear it!
Fascinating learning and watching ❤
Glad to hear it!
Just what I've been looking forward too. Harvest time. Looks like you did pretty well for your first go at it, I'd be proud of that meal. I bet it tasted amazing knowing it's from all your own had work.
Thank you! It feels incredibly satisfying to start growing my own food!
Your videos really help me appreciate how much ingenuity and persistence it took for our forbearers to succeed in the world. I would have loved to see our planet before we chopped it up and made a mess of things! ☺✌🐝
Very glad to hear it! It would be incredible to go back and see the primeval forests of Britain, I agree
You’re sitting comfortably at home, leisurely watching this video online because we “chopped it up and made a mess of things”. Today’s youngest generation, the other fools that fall prey and their cult leaders are the only ones making a true mess of things. Everything we as humans have done up til now has given all you enjoy now. Spoiler, people weren’t different back then either. They still had problems, large problems.
Looks like a great harvest!!! My mums been trying to grow crops for the last few years in her garden, but they always get eaten by slzgs and rose beetle larve!
Great job man, keep it up!!
slugs can be kept away by blackberry brachnes. they hate the thorns
@@fertblu5514 Slugs can crawl over a razer blade so do they really mind the thorns?
@@christopherstein2024 yes because the thorns push into their flesh
Thank you!
Your channel is just simply amazing, starting from the name to the content, it's been like a year or something that I check on your stuff, but this video was simply amazing, finally subscribed.
Maybe it was the beans... I was born in Brazil, beans just speaks home...
Haha, thank you so much!
@@gesithasgewissa Thanks for your content, Anglo-Saxon brother!
Well done! Your garden fared better than mine this year! The collards, strawberries & blackberries were the only things that made it, plus 2 green beans. Sigh...
Ah that's tough, it was touch and go with mine for a while!
A beautiful video, thank you 🙏 ❤
Thanks for watching!
Love your videos but can I suggest putting a little note at the beginning to turn on CC. I enjoy reading the explanations and thought process, but sometimes even I forget to enable CC.
There should be a notification bar reminder for subtitles ☺
Absolutely loving these!
Thank you!
One of the things we have lost sight of is how daily life would be shared with other creatures. I learned this staying with a friend in the Solomon Islands where rats would come in at night and leave teeth marks in food, lizards, mice etc all came in
Interesting, thanks for sharing!
❤❤❤ Thank you 🙏🙂❤️ Reminds me of my hometown and my dad
Sweet! Glad you enjoyed it
Very nice garden… enjoy your harvest…!
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Thank you!
Bon appetit, I can imagine how good it smelled :-)
Thank you, butter and onions always smells good 😄
Lovely to watch, thank you for sharing!
Glad you enjoyed it!
It was really nice to see plants and vegetables that I didn't find in Indonesia
Glad to hear it!
the food you cook is so delicious..🎉
Thank you!
Смотрю на Вас и вспоминаю детство😊. Еда на свежем воздухе ,самая вкусная еда!. Родителям нас не загнать было домой. Зелёный крыжовник, репа и яйца со своего курятника. Это рацион юных хулиганок
Fantastic. That sounds like a great childhood!
Congratulations on your bountiful harvest! A garden doesn't have to be perfect to be delicious and rewarding. I think you've done a great job with it. I also enjoyed seeing how you prepared the food. It looked very tasty and filling!
Thanks you so much!
Nice garden! 👍
Thanks!
Thank you. Enjoyed this
Glad you enjoyed!
I never knew they ran the roofs all the way to the ground. Eliminates the splattering anyway. No need for gutters 🇺🇸
And slightly warmer too!
Glorious
Thanks!
Absolutely love this channel and the content. Keep up the good work!
Thank you!
Always happy with a new video :)! To make the broad beans more palatable, you could double pod them (i.e. remove the tough skin around the bean). The carrot & beet greens + the onion can be turned into a nice broth, that would work better than eating them fried.
Cool, thanks for the advice!
nicely done, especially with those turnips.
the onions will always want to pop out of the ground, when they do they stop growing as large. see if keeping the bulbs buried for longer helps their size.
I also saw your field beans had some damage on the leaves, did you get a sudden cold snap?
one final question, did the Gewissa have field cats to reduce mice population or did that come along later?
Cool, thanks for the advice! Not sure what happened to my beans really 😅 they certainly had cats yes, they are present in the mythologies
With things like Onions when they are growing if they try to grow flower buds (bolting), make sure to cut off the bolts so the plant doesn't put nutrients into flowering. It forces the bulbs to grow bigger. That said, you want some portion of your crops to actually grow flowers and seed so that you can plant seeds again in the spring. Note: most variety of onions are bienniel so they shouldn't flower their first year but if you have harsh weather climates it can cause them to bolt prematurely which is why you need to trim the flower stalks if they do.
This same technique goes for garlic except you plant garlic in the fall. Also its called a "scape" on a garlic and the scape is not only edible but carries the same distinct flavor of the garlic bulbs themselves and make for a delicious addition to any meal.
Thanks for the advice!!
wow! amazing. I like this channel😊😊😍
Thank you!
what is that cool big medal bowl you used? loved the garden and this video!
It's a bronze hanging bowl, which is missing its handles
Your garden did better than mine. As always great video.
Thank you! Wishing you a fruitful harvest all the same
Harmony with nature, man and the Earth.)
It's a great way to live
Pasti enak masakan sayuran kamu😘
Thank you!
great video bro, classy❤❤❤
Thank you!
Отличный контент очень нравятся ваши видио долго ждали 😊
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@@gesithasgewissa дорогой друг видил только что в рекомендациях Ютуба твой ролик переведенный на русский язык советую поискать и кинуть жалобу если ты с ним не договаривался а то это воровство твоего прекрасного контента
@@Кираизтрущёб Thanks for he heads up!
bonne appétit, S est super bon
Thank you!
A fine harvest feast
Thanks!
I just got an Education on a healthy vegetarian diet “ I’m going to try this concept out “ thanks
Nice! Hope it goes well for you!
Lovely life
It is indeed!
And now I'm hungry.
I also know what I did wrong with my field beans this year. You learn something new at the strangest places...
Will you also try to store your produce like they did back then?
I'll be keeping most of this to save for seed, but I am really interested in trying preserving with traditional methods. Soon!