Farms: Victorian Farm Episode VI
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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 6 It is the end of their year on the farm. They sell off the pigs and sheep they successfully bred and raised. Ruth learns straw plaiting and makes a hat and cooks a Victorian style curry. Everything is now focused on the wheat harvest. Peter and Alex get the dray and a reaping and binding machine repaired and brew beer for the harvest. The harvest is completed just before the rain comes with Ruth harvesting the last corn. Once the wheat is dried and stored they ring the church bells, enjoy a harvest festival and reflect upon their time on the farm. They hand over the key to their landlord and depart the farm.
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I love these living history programs! I'd so enjoy participating in a project like this.
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chamber pot brew anyone?
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As a guy from Wisconsin I'm glad we had a hand in helping someone make their life easier (even if it was something as simple as tying a knot).
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I so enjoyed this series. I developed a little crush on Peter but loved all three together. Yes, I think we have lost something inherently important and beautiful in how society has advanced.
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there is something about living like this so connected and in tune with the land that i think is missing from our lives. we can go to a shop at 2am and buy a fruit or vegetable out of season.
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I think Ruth is an absolutely a great Mother. Thanks a lot for those great episodes.
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This was great at showing the good and bad...and what would have happened...outcomes. I love history because it shows us so much about ourselves today! Why we have certain attitudes, why we eat the way we do, why some traditions stay and others regretfully have gone to the wayside and why we want change. There is so much to learn from history...things we did right and things we did wrong...I wish teachers would present history in a different fashion in school. I like history in high school they made it so tedious and boring though.
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I love how jazzed Ruth is about her straw hat. She is adorable.
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I HAVE REALLY ENJOYED THIS SERIES
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Peter and Alex were so funny, brewing beer with the stolen chamber pot and pillowcase.
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Victorians didn't like garlic in their recipes?? Is that what she implied?
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There are no words for how much I love Ruth.
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The regular families that they put into these kinds of series, tend to bitch, half to three quarters of the time. These people flung themselves into the roll. That Ruth sure seemed to know a lot. Like they plucked her from a real Victorian farm.
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What an absolutely amazing and fascinating series! Thank you so much for posting this glimpse into our ancestor's daily life. It gives me that much more of an appreciation of all they went through just to survive.
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I love the simplicity of this series. Makes me want to be a farmer.
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Feel like I was born a century to late. Have a new love for buckets and baskets
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Richard Spencer is great, the man has such deep enthusiasm for what he does.
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i've so far seen the Victorian Farm and the Edwardian Farm. both are wonderful series, just what great television was meant to be. these are so much better than the dreck in the movie theatres these days. i'm off to the Tudor and the Wartime Farms now, and i know i'll be just as vastly entertained. BBC is da bomb! that's why American tv has to copy their shows. but NOTHING beats the documentaries imo.
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really good series. this American really enjoyed watching it all.
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Where do I sign up? Also, anyone else interested in bringing it back?