Farms: Victorian Farm Episode V
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Victorian Farm is a historical documentary TV series in six parts, first shown on BBC Two in January 2009, it recreates everyday life on a small farm in Shropshire in the mid-19th century, using authentic replica equipment and clothing, original recipes and reconstructed building techniques. Episode 5 In this episode, the team embarks on a trip by steam train, Ruth begins a tough task in the dairy, Alex tries his hand at beekeeping, the sheep get sheared using the latest time-saving technology, and the lengthening summer days allow Alex and Peter to try out the new Victorian sport of cricket. It is also time for the hay harvest, weather permitting. Ruth makes cheddar cheese in the dairy with her daughter, Eve Goodman, with milk from the cow Forget Me Not, using the rennet from a neighbour's male calf. The sheep shearing is a life saver because it turns out that the sheep have severe fly strike. It is Alex's birthday and Ruth makes him a cake and a picnic, while Peter buys him a book about setting up an apiary. The boys make a predator-proof cover for the landlord's raspberry patch.
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I didn't know Sean Connery became a bee keeper...
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The plants are currants are they not??!!!!
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34:32 Nice Dad's Army reference.
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Enjoying this series, very informative and funny :)
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My ancestors came alive , God bless the BBC😇
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Hemp seed? The kind that you can grow and smoke? Jolly crowd those girls were...When is that crop due? ihihihih
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About rennet, I'm from Portugal and we used to spend Easter holidays with an who lived in a small village just outside Coimbra. She would buy a kid, still being milk fed, and have a man come round to slaughter it. The pay was an amount of money, the skin, and the stomach to make rennet for cheese. This was called the mezinha. For us, Lisbon born and bread children, all this was fantastic, meat was already dead in the butcher's shop..., but the grownups would never let us see the actual killing...
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pity Ruth's not also a quiet cow
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I love that sheep farmer. He's so funny.
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Anyone know the book he got the ginger beer recipe from???
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RUTH IS THE SHIT.
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RUTH IS THE SHIT.
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I'm pretty sure that bee keeper is Sean Connery's brother
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Fonz in a suit... oh my... 😍😍😍
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I love to see Ruth interacting with children. She seems like she genuinely loves them and whenever she sees one she immediately flocks to it, haha. It's Adorable.
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Ruth daughter is very cute,she looks like an old fashioned feminine young woman,an english rose
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@ 9:31 These became a delicacy when lightly brushed with honey, and then roasted and lightly salted for the hard working Victorian farmer families in hot summer months, they are crispy to crunchy, bursting quite wonderfully with full bodied overtones of nutty aroma, or steamed for a delightfully delicate and creamy gutsy flavor, roasted sheepcandy ( : o
You have to check a beehive every week to prevent them from swarming.