First Harvest of the year from our Three Sisters Gardens!

Harvesting Wapsie Valley dent corn, Hopi Blue flour corn and Cherokee black beans to store for Winter. Love this time of year with friends and family in the garden!

Learn More About Our Gardening & Foraging video lessons:

00:00 Intro
01:11 Harvesting Wapsie Corn
05:55 Harvest Potluck
07:08 Harvesting Hopi Corn
09:55 Harvesting Black Beans
12:06 Pulling Corn Leaves
15:31 Outro

[skinker]

It is great to see the harvest. But I think the most important crop you are cultivating is community. Videos on community building would be as interesting to me as videos on gardening and self-reliance. Keep up the great work! You have something special going on in Pittsburgh.

[joypayton]

This makes me think of weekends at my great-aunt Ethel's. She lived like she was Amish; not because she HAD to, it was because she WANTED to. She had a wood-burning stove in her "summer kitchen" off the back porch where she did her canning (all the jars were on pegs in the back wall-as she needed them, she just took them down, washed them, and filled them with the garden's and surrounding wood's bounty). She had chickens and rabbits for meat and eggs, a medicinal herb garden, a culinary herb garden, a 2 acre vegetable garden, a large berry patch, fruit trees and beautiful flowers everywhere. She gave my cousins jars of pickles, sauerkraut and preserves (always with the admonishment to bring the empties back because jars were expensive), and they gave her honey from their bees, and maple syrup and maple sugar from their maple grove. No TV, oil lamps...it was heaven to me as a child. I'm so grateful for the time I spent with her, learning to garden, can foods, quilt, sew, etc. She was a true blessing.

[JellyFish]

I feel like I could watch your videos for hours

[Deee]

Not gonna lie, that amethyst looking corn really is a gorgeous piece of natures art!

[KristelViljoen]

Ethan isn't just OK. His music transforms you content from great to, as the Italians says...: Spectacular!

[babadukk]

Your video transported me to an idyllic time in early childhood when I would hang out in the backyard while my grandma tended to the garden.

[AlanaLee-xvqy]

Yep it is a labor of love. This week I probably spent 8 hours making broth and harvesting and chopping veg and meat for a year's supply of canned veg beef soup. I always doubt myself but when I open a can for lunch in February, I'll be so happy.

[saraherber]

What a beautiful harvest. The children were involved and a delight to see. I remember granny walking through the garden and filling her apron pockets with what would become supper. Nice to see you young people with a zest for gardening, family and community. Sunshine to you.

[juliabeaulieu]

I've watched so many of your videos this week, and I've learned so much! I don't currently have a garden, but my parents do and there's so much in your videos that could help and inspire them. I love the mix of clips from harvesting, processing, and (in other videos) cooking that really ties everything together and emphasizes how we're part of an ecosystem and growing your own food is a way to appreciate that. Ethan's music is so beautiful and relaxing, too!

[ac]

I grew up in a family where all of our family would make wine and can tomato sauce. We would invite everyone over and can hundreds of jars of tomato sauce in a single day with everyone's help, and everyone would go home with sauce. Maybe that's labor, but processing tomatoes with loved ones is not work.

[yickyhite]

16:26 Thank you guys for being you and allowing us to be a part of your journey. Those purples really were popping this year. Great job!

[LaineyBug]

Hey next year can y'all try a fresh produce version of 3 Sisters also? Sweet corn (and/or baby corn), green beans and some kind of summer squash? Then you can do some fusion recipes with stir fry or grilled veggies at a cookout! Always great served with wild rice and salmon or venison. I love rounding the dishes out with some caramelized bell peppers of all colors, sweet onions and garlic either combined with the wild rice or with those pretty little gem potatoes chuncked a roasted. If you're going with the cookout, grilling the veggies and adding to some fresh fry bread is also amazing!

[AlicedeTerre]

I read Jared Diamond’s book “the world up until yesterday” about traditional human societies and one of the aspects he talked about was how some groups or individuals, rather than having all their farmland concentrated in one location, had smaller scattered plots in different areas, some inconveniently far.

It seemed counterintuitive and inefficient until he learned that they did so in order to diversify their garden plots. If disease or pest struck one area then they had other gardens that could still provide.

Anyway, the way you have smaller separate plots around reminded me of that!

[lisacornett]

Your voice + Ethan's music + wonderful, interesting content = new subscriber.

[justinweaver]

I can never get enough of your content! ❤ Those long corn leaves are also great for making corundas, a type of tamal that is usually prepared without a filling. Since this is also peak tomato and chile season, you have everything you need for a great salsa, too.

[PEN]

Could you make a video on your nixtamalization process please?

[nanchesca]

I love how you have combined your love of gardening, self sustenance, cooking and video creation. Such great story tellers❤

[KOLLEKZIYA_FASOLI]

💚💚💚I grow more than 500 varieties of beans. This is a very amazing plant. Thanks for the video.💚💚💚

[glen]

These videos are so relaxing. I've been making cordage using the husks of my own homegrown corn, and your videos are perfect to have on in the background!

[sofiamikaela]

you guys can also save the little corn hairs for corn silk tea, a very popular tea in south korea!