A Farm Life Part V 🐓 I Moved from NYC To a Small Bulgarian Village Lost in Time 🐑 Живот на Село 🐖

Hey everyone, welcome to A Village Lost in Time part 5. Today we finally get to the official downtown and I actually had a question for you guys. So the question is, would you guys want to see the meat and butchery of the animal? I'm not talking like the actual part where it's happening but everything that happens afterwards. So let's say we've already done the deed and afterwards what happens with the meat? How it's processed? What we do with it? And the reason I ask is because our main, well actually all of our celebrations revolve around food as it is with most people and basically the main thing that we eat on a big celebration is called chivarme which is a lamb on a spit where you roast it pretty much for the whole day. We do this at the river, we do this at houses, we even do this at the center sometimes. It's such a, how do I explain it? It's such an important part of daily life and Bulgarian tradition and celebration. When I say daily life I don't mean we do this every day but you get the idea. That we have a special chivarmejinica which is a special part of our house that's dedicated specifically to chivarme. So I wanted to know if that's something you'd be interested in seeing. We also have kurban which is when everyone in the village gets together and in this huge pot like like the Wicked Witch of the West giant black pot we make it's not exactly a lamb soup but lamb in broth I could say and this is done during again big celebrations but more so when the whole village is involved. So chivarme as you can imagine it's for more more of a limited amount of people 10-20 something like that but when you get the whole village involved which is closer to like 40 something people then you're have kurban so there's enough for everybody. There are a lot of other things we make what's it called in English okay well I'll say it in Bulgarian make lukanka which is our salami we make pastirma which is like our prosciutto we can the not can but we jar the meat for the winter along with freezing it. I think it's also very important to say that we truly genuinely deeply love our animals all of them. My grandfather he would actually cry whenever time came when we had to slaughter one of his goats or chickens or or rabbits whatever it may be. Slaughter in Bulgaria at least on the small farms or at least I can say on my farm is more of a sacrifice it's actually looked at directly as a sacrifice not more of a sacrifice it is a sacrifice it's not just okay let's slaughter the animal and let's eat. The whole celebration that happens after the animal is slaughtered is actually a celebration of the animal of life and of the circle of life that's just something that I think is very important to remember and I have an uncle who I didn't notice this when I was little I didn't pay much attention but now that I'm older I realize he always says thank you to the animal he raises a glass and says thank you after each slaughter now I realize what he's doing he is literally thanking the animal so personally I think that there is a level of respect that comes along when you're gonna eat the meat it is hard to see the animal but also I feel like it is respectful to see the animal and to know exactly where it came from so I think it's something very interesting and genuine that should be incorporated in any farm video or channel but I really want to hear your opinion so if you could comment and let me know if this is something you'd like to see anyway let's just jump straight in today's video I feel like that was a pretty long intro so welcome to a village lost in time part five and I really hope you guys enjoy hello new day and we are officially in downtown and here you can see very clearly this house was actually taken apart you can tell for whatever reason I don't know the reason myself but you can see how it was built where the chimney was and the roof is still I wouldn't say it's intact it's not intact but there you can see what I'm talking about the drops they start falling on the wood over and over again what makes the roof fall we're gonna keep walking movie theater remnants of an old house and here we got to our friend Rosa's house we're gonna go see what she's gonna do what she's doing I should say she's gonna do we're gonna invite her to the bonfire tonight okay so Rosa isn't home she's probably sleeping here's her yard I want to show you I don't think she'll mind we'll come back to visit her later I just don't want to wake her in case she's napping and we'll just continue our journey just close this door all right I guess since we've started we'll continue our tour I was really hoping she'd be there so we're planning a bonfire tonight because I don't know why I've just been wanting to do this for we used to do this when we were little we used to gather and have bonfires all the time and for some reason we stopped and the guys are gonna be doing some party with some fish that they caught and I gathered the women and told them let's do our bonfire tonight some of them are a little nervous I'm not exactly sure why pretty sure we can do whatever they can do instead of a day there's some party going on over there and this is downtown personally I like uptown better but it's because I'm from there most likely here's a cool house I mean authentic authentic you can see all the firewood everyone's gathered for the winter and again it's all out in the open no one touches them everyone knows you touch your own and that's it another bathroom old uh old time bathroom okay I've actually wanted to point this out for a couple days this is not a very good example right here because it's been cut however you can see up there look how straight the angles are I mean this is all built by hand you can imagine how long ago and it's just such professional work and the way it would work back then is when the new family got married the whole village would get together and help them build their new house which is we still pretty much do that in Bulgaria it's not so much the whole village anymore but the family the immediate family and here we are back to where we started downtown up down the center I mean I think you're oriented by now okay I'm going to stop part five here there were a couple more things I wanted to show you but there were a weird amount of people out you didn't see them on the camera and when I say many I mean like 10 but still I didn't really want to film them and without their permission and all of that so either way I'm going to redo all of these videos I think anyway in the summer months because I just it's more beautiful obviously spring in my opinion is the most beautiful it's very green um so I'll just show you some more of downtown next time this video I guess turned more into my question to you whether you'd like to see the meat and butchery process I hope you guys enjoyed I think whoever has seen all of the videos you've now seen pretty much the whole village I'm going to show you guys the upper village as well there's another village almost identical to ours except it's completely almost completely abandoned there's two people there that's it to a grandma and I don't know who the other person is thank you so much for watching if you guys could like and subscribe as always it really means genuinely just the world to me and I will keep these videos coming and hope to see you there