Yamhill County Harvest Festival

[JesseAndMike]

Awesome! :D Looks really fun! There's something similar in Dollywood in the Fall, but not as big as this :D

[RogCBrand]

Thanks guys! That's cool! I've always wanted to visit Dollywood one day!

[petrolscooterboy]

Great vid lovely to see the good old tractors at work

[RogCBrand]

@petrolscooterboy Yeah!  Too often so many great old things just rust away and are gone forever, so it's good there are people out there that restore and keep running part of our history!

[smileykai77]

^^, Thank you for these videos Roger! It's like taking a trip via the internet.

[RogCBrand]

Thank you Kai! 

:D

Hope you're doing good!

[bdsninja]

I love going to places like that, it is so neat to see everything!!!

[RogCBrand]

Thanks!

[imintopunk]

hey good vid!

at around 3:00 when you were filming that stuff in the warehouse... could people buy that stuff or were they just showing it to people?

[RogCBrand]

Thanks Dylan!

Yeah, some of the stuff in there was for sale- there were home baked pastries, quilts & other crafts but the old style phone switchboard, telegraphs, old bicycles, butter churn, etc. are part of the museum.

[mantopilas]

The first part must have been really noisy in person. Also, were people able to try out the blacksmith equipment?

[RogCBrand]

Oh yeah! There was tons of noise in most of the stuff going on there!

:P

No, but it would have been neat to get to go in and take a turn at blacksmithing! But the older guy was making a lot of nails & handing them out to kids which was neat. He'd pound them out in a square shape, getting sharp toward the end, then stick it in a special mold and pound it to form the head.

The family of one of my brother's friends put together the saw mill too!

[assortedfish]

thats a cool video Roger! looks like fun!

i wonder if no one is looking, the people race those tractors! :D hahaha!

[RogCBrand]

Thank you Dion! It was a nice day & I really enjoyed it! There was a couple people playing violins of old time American music from 200 years ago, etc., and this teen aged guy who played guitar & sang all kinds of songs & he was really good with a great voice!

LOL! That would be fun to see them racing! Though most are at least 50 years old & some were close to 100, so many might have trouble going over 20 miles per hour!

:P

[curtisdabassist]

lol! cool vid!

[DeepTimeUnit37]

If Thomas Jefferson had his way, all Americans would live on farms like this. But Alexander Hamilton set up the economy, and national currency. I think everyone should live on a farm for at least a few years. I think work builds character. I don't like Obama's policy of taking away from those who work hard, and giving it to those who don't work at all.

[RogCBrand]

Yeah Mikhail, I think most people don't fully understand just where their food comes from! I remember many years ago seeing on the news as a woman was being interviewed on whether at the time the government should help the dairy farmers who were having problems. She said she didn't care because she didn't get her milk from a dairy but instead she got it from Safeway! I really don't know what she thought but it sounds like she figured milk is just manufactured!

:o

[WillNeverBackDown]

like to know the story behind the name of the county "Yamhill" lol

seeing all the farming stuff makes me wonder what life was or would be like if i was born 150 years ago or so and how everything would be different than what I know today

guess if I was to jump 150 years to like 2150, that probably would be a foreign world to me also

[RogCBrand]

LOL! Yeah, people often think it must have been because of Yams being grown on some hill. But it's figured it was the usual poor translation of an Indian word- for the local Kalapuyan tribe.

Yeah, I can't remember exactly, but it's like up to the 1940s or 50s the majority of Americans lived in rural areas and I think during the 1800s it was like 90%, so living off the land was what was typical.

I'm sure in 150 years the percentage of rural dwellers will be much smaller!

[RogCBrand]

Oh! My grandparents' farm was on the Yamhill River, about 10 miles north of where this was shot and I remember as a kid going down to the river with my grandma, where put in the sail boats I'd make with those styrofoam things meat comes in. Plus that's where when I was like 8 years old my grandpa let me drive the combine when the wheat was being harvested. It was so cool to be driving something that felt the size of a house!

[WillNeverBackDown]

wow so had an Indian name origin, very unique name though and one I won't forget

I know they are into the genetic engineering on fruits and vegetables like in a greenhouse environment, where they can grow more and wouldn't be surprised if 150 years from now it is that way, taking the Earth is still here then too

[RogCBrand]

Yeah, I bet most food will be grown in buildings, hydroponically, with no soil and genetically bred to be a "new food" that has all the nutritional requirements-sort of an advanced soy bean sort of thing & people will basically only eat it-made with different textures & flavors. If our population keeps growing the way it has we'll pass 10, 20 & 30 billion eventually & farming won't be enough.

[RogCBrand]

LOL!

Thanks Pat!