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- In this BBC documentary series we get to follow a small group of historians and archeologists as they recreate farm life in the age of the Stuarts. They wear the clothes, eat the food and use the tools, skills and technology of the 1620's for one year.
The eighth episode starts in April and it's time for spring cleaning, rebuilding a dry stone wall and taking care of a newly born baby calf.
I quite like Ruth having a companion worker. I wish they had continued that trend in the other farm shows.
I think that's why her daughters both make appearances, especially Catherine in the Victorian and Edwardian documentaries.
@@savannahshane2231 That was Eve.
Still watching in 2022. Love the series the old way of living
I watch these about 2 times a year. I lived on a pretty primitive farm and these take me back to the good times without the aches and pains.
2024 and just found this show! Ruth is so amazing. She works so hard. They all do. I love Peters eyes. Great show!
A sleepy Mr. Ginn waxing poetic about cows,calves and life absolutely charms my soul!☺️❤️
I love how Peter seems the true farmer...both exasperated and tender with the stock!
I love his proud papa look with the calf.
Same ❤❤❤
Watching again in 2023.
I'm a farm girl. And signs of a cow close to birthing is when their backend swells and jiggles like jello with they walk. That's the water bag moving down the birth canal. Duchess did not have that in the morning shot. I'm pretty impressed at how calm the herd was with the humans. That shows they are handled closely and often by human hands. Brings back fond memories as a kid when we rode our ponies to help my dad and uncle move their stock cattle from one pasture to another. Even still, handled closely by man, cows with calves cannot be trusted to not 'take you' or 'charge' you. I am so grateful for my farm upbringing, and miss it terribly. I have enjoyed all of these programs based on lifestyles from the past.
Your comment was so cool&fun to read
It's not real
@@airgunfun4248:Neither are the toy guns you play with. If your under 15 I mean no harm but if your over 15 your a freaking dork!
@@Azazagoth ya it's weird how many ignorant people think of that airsoft gimmick. My vids and my business deal with pcp pneumatic weapons. Completely lethal even to the largest game animals in the world. And then there's the semi auto's that have the same ballistics as a 45 acp. You probably don't know what that means but hey you get to learn something today. If your under 35 I guess that's damn near a hopless situation you peppl just don't know squat. If your over 35 and have never heard of airguns besides airsoft(I've never touched one) what a D.S. Sorry to burst your niav bubble about the show but it's about to get worse. Same goes for every "reality show " . Seems a lot of you were scarred by my statement of facts. Maybe I could have left it alone but I was blown away by the gullibility of the masses once again. Never ceases to amaze me baby.
2023 and I'm still watching this.
Peter Ginn and newborn farm animals....good for the soul.
tundrafop ☺️
That baby calf is so cute...i can see why Peter gets so attached to the animals in these shows. Love this series.
Although did anyone else ask where they got the veal?
Jackie Brangard I did!:(
Hayley Beth me too don't worry all animals are well cared for😍
I love this series, but would listen just for Mr. Teale's narration. Wonderful voice.
Lovely Welsh accent and a great actor to boot! :)
8 episodes into this series and I'm still struggling with Peter being Fonz.
YES! It's hurting my brain too😂
Hahaha... I think this is the only series where they use that nickname. Maybe w Tom too. But yeah.... uhm, no. 😂
This.
I only know him as fons what other ones are there?
@@randomchop in the other series with Ruth and Tom, they just call him Peter
Ruth and Cloe laying on their mattress while them men are working the field.I love the cooking they do.I have enjoyed watching this.I am sure they are tired at the end of each day
I could live like this. I lived much like this as a child growing up in poverty INC.
That dog is cracking me up.
My dad built 3 stone walls like above. Around the front garden. No experience but described it as the gentleman above did when constructing it.
12:39 : Never has a documentary gone so far into the mind of a man and what makes him tick. It’s a miracle to behold.
Farming is a multi-generational effort. 60-80 years to get the orchards and fields in order.
Wow Rod, great insight
Still watching this in 2021 and wishing I could live like this.
Nobody stopping you
If you really wanted to live like that you would have found a way.
It's illegal to live like this. They say it in the beginning of the series@@beaubrent
@@Ewe_stinkit’s not illegal, it’s just the production team couldn’t get health & safety signed off for the team to sleep there. Likely waste management issues etc. I know smallholdings in Wales that live very closely to this, but with plumbing and sewage.
@@beckiferret yeah it usually is to do with that and if the building is up to code which I doubt it would be. Probably hard to figure how to tax you on it as well
Thank you for re posting these, much appreciated.
Keith.
I love Duchess - she has a beautiful personality
lovely series and love the music that goes with it
2022 and enjoying this series
LOVE THIS SHOW!!!
Here it is mid 2019 and very much enjoying the series!!
Well here in the near end of 2020, Corona 19 all around us, and watching this makes me wonder how we would fared these days on how they lived those days. A lot far better I think.....
Untill you got smallpox. Or the plague. Polio. Lot of bad things happened back then too and a very large amount of infectious diseases were common.
😂😂😂 Scared of the flu, were you?
What a glorious time when Spring comes! Just the change of diet must have been delightful after winter's!!
I LOVE this series!
The main female character reminds me of the main female chicken on Chicken run.... From The Way she carries herself to the way she talks and looks.. trust me that is not an insult I love that movie and it makes me really like to watch her. Tell me I'm lying LOL!
She’s an historian, a real person, not a character.
@14.32
Awwwww❤️😁 look at that digitty dawg!!😁❤️😉👊🏻 if he/she doesn't put a smile on ur face ..nobody can!
Fonz: We have a new calf!
Ruth: We're having veal tonight!
The ash from the fireplace and bread oven would have been used as well for the soil.
also to wash stuff with. I don't know what exactly, but I do recall my grandma saving it to wash something with it (either her hair, or the clothing, I honestly don't remember cause it's been 40 years ago)
@@blabla-rg7ky wood ash is mixed with water and fat to make soap. it would be used for basically anything that needed soap, but it's a very harsh soap so that's why they talk about avoiding washing some things with soap, and instead beating the dust out of it
Wood ash would be used to make lye for laundry and soap. The rest would be used in the garden.
If one feels the ligaments on each side of the tailhead, one can tell if the cow is likely to calve that night. Or a ewe lamb, or a goat kid. This is harder to do with a mare, as mares typically have more muscle in that area, but the principle holds.
On mares the spot right above the tail gets soft and squishy feeling, area about a hand width.
This is a tv show. Not real playacting
I think Im in love with Miss Cloey
That’s Ruth’s daughter
Shawn Hambler no she isn’t
Na, she's not
@@shawnhambler Ruth is much nicer to her daughters.
@@girlnextdoorgrooming No, she was nice to Cloey all right. She is just more familiar with her daughters.
Thankyou x
Peter Ginn is always shoveling the shit…😳😳😳😳
Hahahaha, I noticed that too, the poor guy does the worst jobs!!!
Well, I did read somewhere Alex hurt his back rather badly during the series and Peter had to pick up the slack.
Poor old Arthur looked tasty, bless him.
Actually, nitrogen is readily lost to the atmosphere. Composting, or even oxidation of vegetation which is not eaten or trampled to the ground by herbivores, will lose a lot of nutrients to the air. The most efficient way to recycle nutrients in the plants is through animals, where the dung, hoof action, and animal saliva all help recycle the nutrients into forms that are held in the soil. The interaction of sunlight, green plants, and animals created fertile soils. In some areas, like the Tallgrass Prairie of the USA, these soils were many feet deep, created by herds of bison, elk, deer, pronghorns... and likely also many now extinct species of herbivores.
This is a tv show playacting. You know fake
@@airgunfun4248 nothing was fake here, they just did what people used to do in the olden days, the narrator already said the field that they are using the triangle field has not been used for hundreds of years and the fastest way to clear it is by the way they are doing it, if you expect them to put cows there and wait till its all decomposed and became dung the farmers during that time would starve to death in winter cuz they don't have enough food. The tallgrass prairie doesn't exist in just a few month...it took years to wait till it became fertile by nature or by animals. That is just not practical for a 16 century farmers...they are farm folks not some new age permaculturalist LMAO
@@wewenang5167 They don't really work or live there. Think of the injuries there would be in a year. Let alone I never saw them break a sweat. The narrator actually briefly admitted it at the beginning. Cute show but wow you think it's real? Look man they show up on set and film and then go home. They have trailers and catering and are on their phones between shots. Someone works and maintains the farm but it ain't them. You guys blow my mind
'and finally, the calf was born'
'....we've got lovely stuff to eat now. fresh veg from the garden, lovely fresh veal....'
:o
she's Ruth....less
And what did you think happens to male calves? To a farmer they are just another mouth to feed.
Ruth is not ruthless, she simply lives in the real world - unlike some.
gosh look how much weight shes lost by spring..i bet this is the fittest they've all been in their lives
You better stay away from my man Chloe. 😂😂😂 Love Mrs. Ginn. 😍
Funny-both women had more eyes on Alex
@@ritageorge8748 Alex is better looking.
I do not agree! Peter has my vote on looks! But then, I do have better taste.
Your man? Are you his wife then, or just some obsessed "fan"?
I’m certain, that when in the editing room, film of the whole home cleaning was cut out of sequence, as I’m sure the women would have cleaned their home from the very interior top storey then out the front door from the first storey floor.
I truly appreciate these well acted episodes. Thank you!
Acted? Ok we know there is a lot of licence taken, but they are not acting.
They are acting they aren't actually in that century so yes they are acting.
.Thanks.
Love Duchess
When the horse came in to pull the dung sledge, her harness was pointy ends down, then pointy ends up when she left. I wonder if it really was reversible like that ?
No, the harness doesn't fit the pony, and Chloe, much less anyone else has not bothered to do the time period fixes to ensure it DOES fit rather then rub the animal raw.
Good lords! Again with the custard!
It's almost sad to think that after this the house and fields will go back to collecting dust...And the wall will have no use
+CaitlinSk Well, not exactly, the series was filmed at Grayhill Farm otherwise known as Bullace Hill in, Monmouthshire.Renovation of the entire site to its late 16th early 17th-century condition began in 1987. There are 30 fields covering around 15 acres which have been returned to their historical land uses, hay meadows, pasture, woodland, arable, gardens and orchards.Ten of the period buildings have been restored so far including the ones shown in this series and restoration work is still continuing today.
+CaitlinSk All the places that they go to in the different series are historical sites that are being kept up as tourist attractions.
I thought they kept it going as a museum.
Kind of a late answer, but if you go a search online, the farm has a website and you can order various products grown/made on the farm. There's also info on what's happening with things currently.
@@sueclark5763 Kind of a late response, but thank you!
Idt I'd get satisfaction from arranging those rocks lol
Who made the ropes ? And how ?
They had specialists who made rope just as there were specialists in milling, blacksmithing, etc.
So glad I was born in the 90's... I prefer all the modern day luxuries and conveniences. :P And freedom.
They'd have been born in the 90's as well. (the 1590's)
You think you're free? How sweet.
Why is the more solid guy called Fonz in this series but something else (?peter) in another BBC series?
@LASummer thanks. I musta missed that. I'm always trying to skip the intro's and coulda just cut it out.
Fonz is his nick name. We don't know why.
@@girlnextdoorgrooming thank you.
It would help if someone knew how to put on a horse collar, it would also help if they did period things to FIT the collar, the poor pony. Also that pony can haul a lot more manure then they're putting on that sledge, though with the ill fitting collar maybe its wise they didn't load it up a bit more. Sacking with straw tied to the collar, or you know someone fixing what Chloe pointed out that the leather strap was to wide for the buckle on the hames, pulling those hames in properly would have helped. Collars would have been multi horse fitting for those that used horses, you must apply the fix
you need to understand that this is not their lifestyle. They're just re-enacting life in the 17th century to prove something, not to go into as much detail as possible. As someone who had grown up in the countryside in the 80s and 90s I KNOW first-hand that what you're saying is true, but these things come with a permanent lifestyle, when you have time to improve. These guys are merely trying to prove something, so they go as broad about it as possible :)
Wait just a minute- the guys clean the chimney, but don’t clean up the chimney debris? Why is that left to the women? The men should finish it up as part of their overall chimney job.
This is because there are only so many hours of daylight and the men were needed to do the harder labour on the farm. Simple biology and practicality. Men are biologically stronger and do the harder field and labor jobs on the farm, while the women (who still do hard work) tend to the ancillary jobs, which sometimes means cleaning up behind the jobs men are doing.
@@mvcharisma it has bugger all to do with biology. The work the women were doing was just was hard as the labour the men were doing. The REASON the women did the cleanup in the house was because that’s what women of their class did in the time they’re recreating. Funny how then, as now, “women’s work” could be as tough as all get out but it’s always justified by so called “men’s work” supposedly being harder.
@@catzkeet4860 that was my point, either way you slice it, no matter how much of a feminist you are, men are still biologically stronger than women. Our bone structures are completely different and men’s are meant to hold more muscle. Hence men typically did the harder labor work, take your woke feminist nonsense to a hippie convention
@@catzkeet4860 have you been watching any part of this show? I would much rather be sweeping up chimney ash than to completely tear down and muck out the privy and rebuild a new one, not to mention the backbreaking work of fighting the roots in the field.
The men didn't just sit on their asses and watch the women clean up after them. There were other jobs to get to. I think Ruth and Chloe were probably happy to clean up the house while the men went to work in the field.
I guess they could have left the ladder climbing and chimney cleaning to the women as well, but they're gentlemen.
Pauses video to google tansy
--- During the Restoration, a "tansy" was a sweet omelette flavoured with tansy juice. In the BBC documentary "The Supersizers go ... Restoration", Allegra McEvedy described the flavour as "fruity, sharpness to it and then there's a sort of explosion of cool heat a bit like peppermint."[32] However, the programme's presenter Sue Perkins experienced tansy toxicity. ---
DONT EAT IT RUTH
WHY
DONT
webmd "Tansy is a plant. Despite serious safety concerns, the parts of the tansy plant that grow above the ground are used to make medicine."
PLEASE DONT
How I wish they had invested more money in a longer musical soundtrack.
Why did they think they needed to hold a vigil with the cow due to calve? Animals like these generally preoduce a bit of adrenalin which blocks oxytocin, delaying calving until the cow is relaxed and feels secure. Even though she is somewhat used to the people around, she would be more relaxed on her own. Mares are the same, seldom foaling when watched.
Maybe it was part of the contract with the owner or to comply with insurance. Plus it makes good telly.
I think it was to actually get a shot of a cow calving. Not to mention many ranchers due in fact try to be there when cows calve so they can help them if needed. We lot many cows to calving in the field when we brought them in we would be able to help them if needed.
It's a show a fictional depiction for entertainment purposes only
I hope that veal wasnt Duchesses new born calf they are eating to celebrate the end of Lent 😝
I was worried too but they mentioned while they were eating the veal that they had a new calf to look after. So probably a 1/2 brother or cousin😥
There is only one thing, Ruth is ignoring. Price of iron. My eyes are full of ters when I see her doing such a horrible things with knife. She is albe to put it everwhere. But in those times, people would be aware of damaging their knives, using wooden stuff for cooking rather.
I have watched her cook in a lot of shows and her knife skills are atrocious.
A good knife was treasured and great care was taken to keep the edge sharp. My dad used knives from his grandfather and he used a whetstone on them periodically to sharpen them. I can attest to the fact that they were razor sharp because I got careless one time and cut my thumb to the bone. Eleven stitches went into closing the cut but at least it was clean. One heck of a scar running the length of it.
Those pants look like a skirt. Lol. I think there was no size back then. Xtra big.
Calving, cows produce young in a process known then, and now, as calving. The term 'giving birth' was generally reserved for women in parturition.
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Is the fact that Stewart is cooking just for the show? I wouldn't think that any cooking would have been done by men, unless they were single.
I love how all the episodes show what they ate.
Women would do all the cooking, men only did cooking as a professional role, hired by people with more money. And in those cases no women would participate, women did not work as cooks, only if they were in their own households
@@ROXCANADA2023 Women would and have participate, as assistant for the cook
Is this truly fair? They seem to be doing every "capital" activity for the whole farm. Hedges, border wall, roof, privy, cowshed- all in one year. It is though they saved up every job for a decade to be done at once.
It's a reenactment, meant to show what could have been done at certain times of the year. If they did the actual day to day tasks, viewers wouldn't learn as much, if they even would watch at all. It'd be really boring.
@@wendyeames5758 At half hour episodes? Daily tasks from history are completely fascinating and rather the point of reënactment. The day to day activities shown weren't even a little boring.
@@kitiowa I meant if they showed the repetitive work of a farm over & over. Which is what farming mostly is. My mom's family has farmed the same area since the 1800's, for those 5 generations, it's been mostly the same day in & out. Twice a day milkings, etc. It'd be hard to make a show of Interest from that sort of thing, you'd have to throw in the highlights of the year for folks to learn & be engaged.
@@wendyeames5758 Of course there is repetition in farm labour, hopefully nobody doesn't understand that. THAT is not to say that there is not variability. Milking occurs every day but haying doesn't. Planting, harvesting, slaughtering, and on and on vary in the farm year regardless of special projects.
@@wendyeames5758 What I find interesting is that One can watch this(these) series and not ever learn about the weekly cycle of work. You would not know that Monday is laundry day. What day does baking going on. Pressing and mending is/was done on Tuesday.
pick up a stone once.
17:19 ... Wish they would do the Permaculture method instead of the "kill the soil life" method.
That's what people did back then. There are plenty of permaculture channels about if that's your thing.
Anyone else spot the ginger ghost child hiding behind the wall at 24:52 ???
I can't see it.
Nope. No one there.
in the middle of the screen on the left side behind the wall i can see a kids head
@@Futureistixsoundz You need to get outside more often, lol.
What's it with them and peas? They're planting pea crop every time they do this.
@LASummer It's in every series
Any idiot can grow them, no matter what weather conditions happen. People and Animals eat them. Field peas and field beans were commonly grown on farms right up through the early 20th century in the USA based on their usefulness. They also fix nitrogen in the soil, improving the ground.
Have you noticed that anyone around a newborn usually has a dopey grin on their face and is talking about how "beautiful" everything is?
Have you noticed that they never showed "Big Ears" again after they started preparing the veal? 😧 LL
How can Chloe have got bitten by bed bugs when it was stated in the beginning that because of health and safety they would not be living there just working 😒
Precisely my question
Someone mentioned in a previous comment that they can stay there for a specific amount of time (I don’t remember how long exactly) without it being considered ‘living there.’ So they didn’t stay 7 days a week for 12 months but maybe they stayed for a little bit to get the full experience?
I was wondering about that too..glad they did stay there some..hated to think they were just making stuff up..
@@michellecranford9238 I was thinks about that too. Come on, do you really think they stayed there over night? No way!! Hahahaha 🤣🤣, going to thet toilet? I don't thinks so. I was wondering about it too but a deeper thought made ne realized it would have been pretty expensive to the pay someone to be there living there actually with no heat, sleeping in those hay matresses, cooking in the dark, and what kind of showering facilities!! This is just a good very good re re-creation that makes you think how lucky we are and don't appreciate it enough to realized we take so much for granted. Even thought what we see is REAL LIFE, and some of us would like to experience it a bit, when you think about it. It was hard, really hard. I just wonder though, because they don't show it, if these peasant would trade, how would you get money to buy a horse or a cow? ??? Cheers!
@@ROXCANADA2023 Actually there are a lot of people who would pay for living on a farm like that for some time.
There is a docu about a guy who lived for 300 days alone on a remote island, with much less comfort than they have here.
oh no, poor big ears. they slaughtered that calf everyone, reality.
That's what happens to male calves, get over it.
Don't think the word cool was was in the English language then ?
If this doesn't make you realize how the modern steam engine and electricity has change our lives nothing will. People complain about fossil fuel but do we want to go back to this kind of life. People complained the Nuclear Reactor out of use and now that some of the reservoirs are so low on water how will they generate electricity? Food production relies on huge petrol driven machines. People get the idea we can use batteries but batteries rely on electricity. If you can't use water than you have to use coal. Climate change could throw us back to the middle ages and reduce the population by billions. Huge food production is the only say in which the world have been able to have so many children. No food no people. No electricity no cell phone, no computers, no video games. no TV, no nothing.
I hate veal cause it's a calf. Let the darn cow grow. I accept adult beef but for some reason I don't like the idea of veal.
If you eat milk and dairy, that means calves are killed anyway, expecially male ones. A cow can't produce milk for both her calf and you (us)...
Is it true that the veal is from a calf more than 6 months but less than a year?
@@anneball683 It varies from places to places, but I think most of the times veal comes from calves less than 6 months old (and sometimes as young as a few hours or days after birth, especially for male calves born from dairy cows)
They explained that in Victorian Farm.
When you are raising Milk cows, male calves are essentially useless and eat too much of the food needed for the females. So they eat those if they cannot use of sell them as Studs.
@@_asphobelle6887 oh my God!! I didn't know that! Awfully cruel
Worst show to watch if you love animals. But reckon vegetarians weren't exactly plentiful in the day.
Early version of modern vegetarians appear at the end of the century according to Ian Mortimer's Guide To Restauration Britain, apparently
Love this show. But my God people it's NOT REAL!! They don't really work there. They don't manage the farm or work any meaningful amount of hours on the farm. It's a show, playacting.
You better now?
@@mortalclown3812 No it's gonna take some time.
😂 cry more! 🙄
@@jessehachey2732 use more cartoon faces to attempt to express your so called thoughts. If you're actually a toddler disregard this