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25 Forgotten Vegetables That Grandparents Grew to Survive the Great Depression!
« on: March 06, 2025, 05:53:24 AM »
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    • Great video about 25 food staples families grew during the Great Depression, many of which I had never really heard of until now.

    https://youtu.be/5mEpiqw7Yho?si=oiyE-wHao0vVaaqh
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    Re: 25 Forgotten Vegetables That Grandparents Grew to Survive the Great Depression!
    « Reply #1 on: March 06, 2025, 08:46:11 AM »
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    • I'll watch this when I get home from work.

    A lesser known vegetable that I love to grow is the Jerusalem artichoke. Very easy to grow and always get good results.
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    Re: 25 Forgotten Vegetables That Grandparents Grew to Survive the Great Depression!
    « Reply #2 on: March 06, 2025, 01:24:44 PM »
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    • Truly an excellent video worth the watching by any "prepper" gardener:

    rutabagas
    mangelwurzel
    salsify
    Jerusalem artichokes
    winter radishes (daikon)
    parsnips
    Hamburg rooted parsley
    turnips
    collards
    swiss chard
    winter cabbage (Danish ballhead)
    navy beans
    Kentucky wonder pole beans
    ground cherries
    field peas
    field corn
    storage onions
    cardoons
    skirret
    good King Henry
    American ground nut
    runner beans
    dandelion
    lambs quarters
    sea kale

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    Re: 25 Forgotten Vegetables That Grandparents Grew to Survive the Great Depression!
    « Reply #3 on: March 06, 2025, 02:37:16 PM »
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    • Thanks for posting the video! Some sources for the mentioned vegetable seeds/tubers:

    https://www.restorationseeds.com/
    https://www.nativeseeds.org/
    https://victoryseeds.com/
    https://territorialseed.com/
    https://trueleafmarket.com/
    https://www.rareseeds.com/

    For a couple of the really oddball varieties, I had to resort to Amazon.
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    Re: 25 Forgotten Vegetables That Grandparents Grew to Survive the Great Depression!
    « Reply #4 on: March 08, 2025, 09:29:57 AM »
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    • Not sure why the vid is entitled "forgotten vegetables,"... my dad still grows in his garden about 2/3 of those identified.

    Now, if you really want to know of a "forgotten" food eaten during the great depression, read about Purslane (see below articles). This plant grows like a weed on my dad's farm, and it is nearly impervious to chemicals and/or being pulled up by the root but let on the ground... it simply will not die.  Growing up, these were everywhere, and until just recently, after my dad told me, I had no idea that they were collected and eaten during tough times.

    https://marybarrettdyer.blogspot.com/2018/06/the-weed-our-ancestors-ate-in-tough.html

    https://www.thegardenofeating.org/2014/08/purslane.html

    Another "weed" that has really good herbal qualities is the dandelion. Not the flower itself (but you can eat them,I think), but the leaves.  My father-in-law was visiting us, and he pointed to all the dandelions in my yard, and said you should collect them and make tea out of them.  I had no idea what he was talking about.  I then ask my wife, and she shows me some packets of tea she had purchased in S.America, and sure enough, it was dried dandelion leaf. We'd been drinking it for years and I had no idea that we could have just harvested it from my front yard.
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    Re: 25 Forgotten Vegetables That Grandparents Grew to Survive the Great Depression!
    « Reply #5 on: March 08, 2025, 10:56:15 AM »
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    • Quote from: Bonaventure on March 08, 2025, 09:29:57 AM
    Not sure why the vid is entitled "forgotten vegetables,"... my dad still grows in his garden about 2/3 of those identified.

    Now, if you really want to know of a "forgotten" food eaten during the great depression, read about Purslane (see below articles). This plant grows like a weed on my dad's farm, and it is nearly impervious to chemicals and/or being pulled up by the root but let on the ground... it simply will not die.  Growing up, these were everywhere, and until just recently, after my dad told me, I had no idea that they were collected and eaten during tough times.

    https://marybarrettdyer.blogspot.com/2018/06/the-weed-our-ancestors-ate-in-tough.html

    https://www.thegardenofeating.org/2014/08/purslane.html

    Another "weed" that has really good herbal qualities is the dandelion. Not the flower itself (but you can eat them,I think), but the leaves.  My father-in-law was visiting us, and he pointed to all the dandelions in my yard, and said you should collect them and make tea out of them.  I had no idea what he was talking about.  I then ask my wife, and she shows me some packets of tea she had purchased in S.America, and sure enough, it was dried dandelion leaf. We'd been drinking it for years and I had no idea that we could have just harvested it from my front yard.

    Thanks for the links.

    I think that many of the "forgotten" veggies are not so much forgotten as they are no longer admired on the American palate due to the sad state of store-bought veggies. A few of them did really got me: skirret, Good King Henry, and American ground nut. Never heard of those. Mangelwurzel got me until I found it; it's just a giant beet varietal.

    I used to exclusively grow ornamentals (roses, dahlias, and rhododendrons), but started to branch out into veggies. On a whim I tried a variety of Japanese heirloom turnips, tennouji kabura, that so shocked me with its sweet nutty flavor that I explored lots of items that I had previously eschewed because the store-bought items were unpalatable.… turnips, beets, rutabagas, parsnips… It really opened my eyes (and palate) to revisit veggies that I had long before rejected. My cookbook shelf began to accuмulate veggie cookbooks.

    In addition to the links I posted above, here are some specialty sources that I have been pleased to use:

    https://www.delectationoftomatoes.com/
    https://tatianastomatobase.com/seed-catalog/html/
    https://pepperjoe.com/
    https://www.sandiaseed.com/ (peppers)

    Kitazawa Seed that previously provided me Japanese specialties, like the tennouji kabura turnips mentioned above, was sold to TrueLeaf by the third-generation heirs. (True Leaf link above).
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    Re: 25 Forgotten Vegetables That Grandparents Grew to Survive the Great Depression!
    « Reply #6 on: March 09, 2025, 09:00:38 PM »
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    • Just reposting the link without the share tracking info so we can watch it on the forum:

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    Re: 25 Forgotten Vegetables That Grandparents Grew to Survive the Great Depression!
    « Reply #7 on: March 09, 2025, 09:04:57 PM »
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    • Beef Butter Bacon Eggs


    Fish for lent and fridays


    Veggies are a waste of money and of time
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    Re: 25 Forgotten Vegetables That Grandparents Grew to Survive the Great Depression!
    « Reply #8 on: March 09, 2025, 09:12:51 PM »
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    • Vegetables contain vitamins, antioxidants, and other beneficial chemicals.
    Roughage, the indigestible (for humans) cell wall component of vegetables, decreases colon cancer and diverticulitis risk.

    Year 'round. Every day.
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    Re: 25 Forgotten Vegetables That Grandparents Grew to Survive the Great Depression!
    « Reply #9 on: March 09, 2025, 09:25:58 PM »
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    • Quote from: Mark 79 on March 09, 2025, 09:12:51 PM
    Vegetables contain vitamins, antioxidants, and other beneficial chemicals.
    Roughage, the indigestible (for humans) cell wall component of vegetables, decreases colon cancer and diverticulitis risk.

    Year 'round. Every day.
    Vegetables contain antinutrients . 

    fiber rots in your colon, and destroys nutrients while it is at it.

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    Re: 25 Forgotten Vegetables That Grandparents Grew to Survive the Great Depression!
    « Reply #10 on: March 09, 2025, 09:29:36 PM »
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    Re: 25 Forgotten Vegetables That Grandparents Grew to Survive the Great Depression!
    « Reply #11 on: March 09, 2025, 10:24:29 PM »
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    • Predestination sez:

    Quote from: Predestination2 on March 09, 2025, 09:25:58 PM
    Vegetables contain antinutrients .

    fiber rots in your colon, and destroys nutrients while it is at it.


    God says:


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    And God said: Behold I have given you every herb bearing seed upon the earth, and all trees that have in themselves seed of their own kind, to be your meat… Genesis 1:29

    And every thing that moveth and liveth shall be meat for you: even as the green herbs have I delivered them all to you…. Genesis 9:3

    From the very beginning God created us to be omnivores.

    Opposing God, even on dietary matters, is a doomed plan.
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    Re: 25 Forgotten Vegetables That Grandparents Grew to Survive the Great Depression!
    « Reply #12 on: March 09, 2025, 10:32:14 PM »
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    • Quote from: Mark 79 on March 09, 2025, 10:24:29 PM
    Predestination sez:


    God says:


    From the very beginning God created us to be omnivores.

    Opposing God, even on dietary matters, is a doomed plan.
    Plants now are very different from, plants then, nearly all pre modern cultures cooked and lactofermented plants as much as they could. 

    just because God has given us the ability to eat plants that doesn’t mean we have to eat plants 
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    Re: 25 Forgotten Vegetables That Grandparents Grew to Survive the Great Depression!
    « Reply #13 on: March 09, 2025, 11:46:49 PM »
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    • Quote from: Predestination2 on March 09, 2025, 10:32:14 PM
    Plants now are very different from, plants then, nearly all pre modern cultures cooked and lactofermented plants as much as they could.…

    I am not alone in cooking and fermenting vegetables. Virtually every culture today still does so.

    In fact, because of the gut microbiome phenomenon, I focused a good part of my recent two month Asian trip pursuing and exploring regional fermented foods, including both vegetable and meat items. The gamut spanned natto (fermented soybeans) in Sapporo,  plaa ra (fermented fish) and som tam (fermented unripe mango) in Udon Thani, puu khai dong (fermented crab roe) in Bang Na, and hoy nangrom (oysters) with SCOBY (Symbiotic Culture Of Bacteria and Yeast) in Phuket. I even had a few juice blends and even cocktails that used fermented herbs.

    So, whether raw, cooked, or fermented, I see no rational "difference" that gives us license to nullify God's provision of vegetables for us as food.

    Of course, I eschew GMO vegetables. Unnatural genetic modification is, to my thinking, "playing God."

    Quote from: Predestination2 on March 09, 2025, 10:32:14 PM

    just because God has given us the ability to eat plants that doesn’t mean we have to eat plants

    You have it ass-backwards.

    Precisely because God explicitly gave us vegetables to eat them, we should neither condemn them nor eschew them in our diets.
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    Re: 25 Forgotten Vegetables That Grandparents Grew to Survive the Great Depression!
    « Reply #14 on: March 10, 2025, 05:00:09 AM »
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    • Quote from: St Giles on March 09, 2025, 09:00:38 PM
    Just reposting the link without the share tracking info so we can watch it on the forum:


    Oh!  Thank you for that!  :cowboy:
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