Ruth is so brilliant in these. Her enthusiasm is so contagious! She’s always game, no complaints! A perfect example of choosing a cast for their quality and not for pointless aesthetics! Mind you, Eve is always a welcome surprise… Just Lovely!
I’m sure the ladies don’t mind watching our boys at work. But I agree, Ruth’s beauty shines from within and eve is such a natural beauty. No crass makeup or arrogant attitude even though she smarter than most of her generation.
I was born in Romford, Essex in 1929. I attended three harvest camps. The first was in Great Bentley, Essex. The second was close to Towcester, Northants. My third and last one was close to Blagdon, Somerset. Great Bentley was the location of Hall Farm. We were housed under canvas or in Nissan huts and to be honest, it was a great adventure. Yes, we worked 5-1/2 days weekly but we were well fed, as kids we slept well, and we were paid. We also learned that farming is hard work! I have never forgotten those weeks in the country. High school had never been so much fun.
This is the third Historic Farm series I'm watching. I've taught WWII history, yet this series has taught me far more than I ever taught my students about the daily life of everyday people. These series are the best documentaries I've ever seen. I hit 'like' before I even start watching because I know it's going to be fantastic.
Loved your comments-I'm glad to say most of the history(repeated facts🙄 yrs by old women in my family)I remember was pretty close to accurate-I guess if you live through the plague of war you are less likely to boast or talk much as most men of 3generations of mine let their women'do history' long winded anyway😉
I taught European History as well and used portions of this series in the curriculum because the way it's presented it doesn't immediately feel like a documentary so the students enjoyed it
The flour sacks made in reusable materials was used up until the 1970s in the states ,we used to get wash clothes off of 5lb sacks and towels off of 25lb sacks the sacks themselves were made of linen so that they could be used to make underclothes , jacket or Pocket linings , the ability to patch or make clothes was a good reason to buy certain brands of flour, cornmeal or sugar as the package was the ultimate recycling there was literally nothing for the trash bin ! The modern generation needs to look a little bit backwards to the past to make their products packaging and cut down on waste .
There was a brand of flour that was so aware of the fact people made clothes and dresses out of the bags that they would print flowers and other cute patterns on it.
Great show, both guys are great, but Ruth has added this curious dimension that probably caused the show to be sooo loved - she is so authentic, spontaneous and passionate. The old shoes did the job....
@@dl7596 Surprise, surprise, it's TV! And still very much better than most of the utter crap on television. If you really do want to learn skills, there are thousands of channels on youtube of people who honestly are homesteading, gardening, doing old-timey crafts, etc. This series and the others like it are simply entertainment with a bit of introduction to history. Relax. :)
How does she have so much energy? If I woke up on a farm, I would be so pissed. I would just go around yelling "you gotta be shitting me, this doesn't work either, I GOTTA GO! Nope I'm leaving."
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This history.....this is OUR STORY told in a way that ALL can understand it....Brilliant, great, and ALL OTHER WORDS OF PRAISE........
And the whining started from 2 Nations at least&I'd put money on it - How can you endanger children in 2011-while here in the US we have actor kids witness'Amish'murders in a film&all US&EU-re-enact slave killings&put kids in sex surrounded conflict flicks-Those little'extras'were into it&enjoying getting dirty-Hell even Henry looked happy-my fav is Alex standing like a drill sargent&1kid just twiddling the handle totally aware of his no power situation
I love this series soo much! It's amazing to really see how much everyone worked soo hard. Women and children contributed soo much. In todays society its soo easy to forget how much men and women had to work TOGETHER to get anything done. Soo much of women's work is the work that made it possible for anything else to be sustainable.
It's no joke! Life on a farm or homestead tends to be like that :p Almost nothing is ever quite as easy as it's supposed to be; even with modern equipment there are often little annoying headaches pretty often.
When the apocalypse happens , I’m going wherever Ruth, Peter and Alex are. I will have a much better chance of surviving .There is nothing they can’t do.
This is the most amazing example of solidarity I've ever seen, I'm amazed how a whole country can pull together like that, it's truly amazing. ❤ If we still cared like that the world would be much more advanced i think, or it would at least be nice having that close knit community feel.
If you think Brits had it rough and pulled together amazingly, you should do some reading on the Russians in Stalingrad and Leningrad, and a great many people in Eastern Europe. The blitz on the UK was horrendous, no doubt about that. But it paled in comparison to the wholescale suffering and slaughter in the USSR. China lost more people than any other country except possibly the USSR during WW2, and westerners seldom even acknowledge their horrifying losses. In even starker contrast, people in America thought/think they had it rough because they had to ration a few things. Us "Yanks" generally have no idea at all how truly awful war really is.
Our son and daughter-in-law live in the Palouse in Eastern Washington. Our daughter-in-lawn grew up on ranches in Eastern Washington and the Idaho panhandle. Our son is a retired mechanical engineer. When they retired, and moved to the Palouse of eastern Washington, they have been accepted in the coummity as family. Farming areas still has close knit communities. The Palouse is known for growing wheat, other grain crops. It also grows legumes and more lentils than any other area of the US.
Hi Robert ! I'm born 1962 in Norway, and I think the two decades following WW2 were all about "forwards and outwards". It seems to me that everyone was focusing on rebuilding, practical new inventions for everyday life, and exploring foreign places for vacations. (At least in Europe). People were possibly so traumatized and exhausted by wartime that they put a mental lid on it. So school books did not focus on wartime hardship, but on the celebrations as the war ended. And on some of the homefront heroes who had plottet against the enemy on the home turf. It's sad, but people under 50 know little to nothing about the first 70 years of the 20th century. As for WW2, they probably think it was lived in black and white.... 😞😶
and thats where the saying ... the victors write the history ... comes in ... the victors will write about what matters to THEM not to others who may have helped ... so from an american point of view of history ... Canadians served and fought some battles ... but we took on the suicide beach on d day to hold the germans in place to allow the usa to get their beach ... they dont say we took the first beach ... the one hardest to take ... and then had nothing left to do ... WWI the crazy ladies of the higlanders ... and their babgpipes and charge in full kilt ... overwhelming a long held enemy position ... even in britain their homeland forces had major contributions from german sub landings for intel ... to downed aircraft and pilots ... etc ... yet one countries history book doesnt focus on that ... just what they did ... one day we may have a history book that covers the history of the earth and bringing all different views of history together to show the actual history for ALL of US
We got it full force in high school in 60's-woops haha I'm probably tinch older everything needed candy coating-! Wars-1st disapated the 20s then 40's&freak out in US with less ships after pearl Harbor&then Adolf poking his nose up out of subs on our coast-Then Korea in 50's&finally Nam-Sheesh
You didn't go to school in two small towns-one in CT&Cali-where we did the cold war under the desk heard the '41 sky lit up after Pearl Harbor&Japanese Sub bombed coast in Feb 42&where my dad&His war buddies a few black-some crazy Italians like him&one islander's brother or cousin of 1dead friend-we would overhear what soon after his death&more so 50 yrs later weren't 'fish' stories🙊
You know that you're in love with this series when you get excited about them using an old rickety hay baler like it was NEW, lol! And Ruth is SO inspiring, throughout *all* of the Ages!
Flower Sacks - I remember in the 60's the 100lb bags of Chicken feed coming in printed bags that my mother would save to make clothing with. New shirt or blouse for us kids pillowcases. The one problem was you get a 100lb sake of feed one month and the next month the print pattern would be different.
The practice started in the Great Depression era, first the bags would be plain. Once the companies noticed that the bags were re-used they started using printed fabric. Here is a digital exhibtion on the practice: trc-leiden.nl/trc-digital-exhibition/index.php/for-a-few-sacks-more/item/242-0-cover-page
Having children around is always really nice. I don't want to have any children of my own, but they are really lovely. You can have fun times with them, and don't have to deal with the difficult bits.
Love being a grandparent you can spoil them feed them a lot of sweets and give them back to the kids that had you pulling your hair out,paybacks a bitch 😂🤣😉
I love all of the time periods they have featured and this is my second time watching the WWII farm! Cannot wait to see where they 'go' next. That being said, Henry is definitely the best part of this series.
Oh I Love it… as children we used to build huts like that on the farm and camp in them for days on end ...only we made the beds out of the straw cubes aswell. It was warm and dry and very cosy..😍 I am only 37 so here in Germany this tradition is still Alive in the countryside...with the young people at least 😂
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My Grandmother was one of the children evacuated during the war. She was sent to live with relatives who had a farm. & she told me how near where the farm where the Americans had set up an air base. They had a problem with the local grass snakes who use to love to sun themselves on the runway. Making it difficult for the planes to land safely. So the airmen would 'pay' the local children like my Grandmother. With chewing gum, chocolate, Spam & caned pineapple. To catch the snakes to 'permanently take them away' ie: to take them to the river in sacks & drown them. Of course what the children actual did was take them 5 miles down the road & set them loose in the nearby fields. & two weeks later the airbase had another snake infestation. & the local children would be recruited. By the airmen to once more to 'permanently dispose' of the snakes.
38:12 I wish flour companies would go back to the patterned cloth containers. What a brilliant concept to be able to reuse that fabric for clothes. Even for smaller packages today, they could be used as cleaning rags, or sewn into clothes, or patchwork quilts.
I've watched Peter through all the farm series...with a couple days growth of beard ,hes the spitting image of Oliver Reed playing Bill Sykes in the 1968 movie'Oliver'!
Wow yes-When in Victorian farm;he looked as I pictured Harry Potter(film) would look as a young man-most likely Harry's head size&in one show grain seed count to ten he said 9&three quarters & smirked
Kid actors all extras? - I wish we hear somewhere Alex&Peter 4&maybe his brothers, or Ruth's family-I was stunned all ate the fish meal lunch on great looking bread
@@ritageorge8748 if you watch all the episodes and/or the others in the series? Both of Ruth's daughters( you'll see Eve most but Catherine is in at least 1), her dad, and husband all appear. I don't know if Peter or Alex( I THINK he may have at least a son) have kids.
@@ritageorge8748 Alex's first child Hazel wasn't born until 2013, this last farm series he participated in was 2012. Her birth is part of why he left the show & didn't do Tudor Monastery Farm. Being away from his newborn for _any_ length of time was - absolutely rightly so - not even a consideration. I'm not sure either of Peter's two little ones had been born yet either & if so they'd have still been babies.
I think it would be a really good idea for todays farmers to do some of the 'Children's Camp' work. It would be great for the kids to get out in the country and nature with their friends. They would learn about doing work and having a good time at it. However no heavy stuff, just stuff suited to their age and size. I can remember how great it was to help my family by doing tasks at that age.
@@wewenang5167 I agree, however, it needs to be within their capabilities, such as a 2 year old could carry and empty a 2 gallon trash can with only paper in it or say 2-3 turnips/potatoes and only for say 30 minutes an hour with a one hour break every 30 minutes and a 4-5 hour workday.
At the start of the movie "Riverworld" one of the characters is a dead / revived American astronaut. Another, we find out, was a POW Brit who died in a German camp. The POW wants to know "Who won the war?" Big grin from astronaut: "We did!" Happy smile from POW. Mediocre movie but great book series by Philip Jose Farmer. Interesting to see Mark Twain and Hermann Goebbels, again ... and many, many others. Oh, and if you get killed in Riverworld you are "reborn" somewhere else. There' no way out. Yeah. Aliens.
It's intersting how it changed with the African American GIs comming compared to Amelia King (see episode 2) who had to fight to join the land army because of her skin colour. Edit: I had to find her name!
They never did practice segregation. As you can see her case was an isolated case of the women's farming union not accepting her while in America it will probably be written into law that she is not to work with white people. And as you can see, the farmers did accept her. It didn't change with the Americans GIs coming, in fact the Back American GIs where probably shocked that they were accepted because back in their country, they wouldn't be. There is racism in Britain but it was no where near America.
Segregation by law was not everywhere in the USA. In the South it was coded into law. In the north it would have been more like the social stigma around Amelia King but different in that local government may or may not have been an active participant in the bigotry. Over time humanity does get better. This is why you programs are so important. They show people today just how change had occurred. Thank you.
actually quite easy .... you just cant do HOT fires ... it takes longer for a hay bail to catch than a handful of hay ... like having an open fire inside a thatched roof ... there is no problem with it ... you just have to remember that you dont put a chimney in the round house or you burn it down ... in a hay bail house you put an oil stove or small hibachi style stove that uses a small fire and cook surface ... and is shielded from the walls or ground ...
@MichaelKingsfordGray Using real name over the internet in the era of constant database leaks done by hackers, user data being sold to other companies and even Google's data handling and security being questioned? A real idiot would... Did you get your internet connection yesterday, are you new here so you don't know this??? You make claims who is and who isn't an adult, but you yourself are more naive than a child... Go back under your rock, to your shitty channel that has like 90% dislikes on every video.
People used barometers for the weather until the late 1970s because weather reports were notoriously unreliable. I'm not sure about the UK, but in the States, farmers had a lot of folk tricks like cloud patterns and lunar cycles that helped back in the ancient days during WW2.
Oh god will it ever be over? I think after 1 year of covid or for some 2 years that's exactly how we felt. We were battling an enemy too this time a virus. I actually started seeing rationing because of hoarding in our stores......it made me nifty. I still practice it to this day. My mother was born in 1941 and even though she was small even at 4 and 5 she remembers helping grandma in the garden and helping her bring the groceries into the house. A real bath once a week. I think it made her the strong woman she was and she passed on her strength to me.
Cosmetics were in short supply in Britain, but in the USA, they weren't. As in Britain, this was part of maintaining morale. To conserve metal, people had to turn in the empty metal containers for reuse, in order to buy new ones. My grandparents, in Canada, had to turn in empty toothpaste tubes, to buy new toothpaste. Aluminum curlers were popular in the 1930s, but in WWII, they were replaced by pincurl-sets, secured with hairpins, which used less metal than curlers. Women bought their own personal pin-packs, which they brought with them to the salon each time.
Makes me think about grandma’s stories about being a migrant laborer even though her parents owned their own farmland. She didn’t even think about it at the time. She just told me about how’d she pick in other people fields all summer and sleep under a big old canvas tent that made her think of a circus tent at night
Flour sack clothing was an initiative of North American millers supplying the mass influx of homesteading immigrants in the ca1890 all the way through the 1950's.
I have a Wartime sewing book with a very clever method to make a woman's skirt-suit out of a man's suit. When the men were away at war, they left their civilian clothes at home. When clothing and fabric were rationed, women could just raid their husbands' or sons' closets.
I love the series this channel puts out: I've come to know and like the main cast and all about it, but aside from the issue of sound balancing the only issue I have problems with is the misleading titles: like the Gin Sloe video that only had 4 minutes about gin or this video, which, even more deceptively, features plenty of good honest child labour but does not have anyone harvest even a single child!
Patriotism then: Unity and sacrifice to achieve a common goal, in this case, the preservation of freedom in the long run. Patriotism now: Don't tell ME what to do! You're violating my freedom right now. God help us all. We've lost any sense of what it means to have long-term goals. All that matters is instant gratification of every single desire.
i thoroughly enjoyed this series, but I've noticed after several watch throughs that the TH-cam playlist is no compiled in order, and that made it confusing to follow along with the episodes
Massey Harris was a Canadian farm machinery manufacturer owned by the Massey family, also notable as patrons of the arts and letters. Two brothers Vincent and Raymond were also somewhat famous; Vincent as Canadian High Comissioner to England during the war and Raymond as an actor in such notable films as "Things To Come", 1936. "Prisoner Of Zenda", 1937, "49th Parallel", 1941, "Action In The North Atlantic", 1943. Vincent would have appeared frequently in the newsreels and the cinema would have been featuring Raymond's films.
It’s truly amazing to see what the general rural public went through during WW2, and contrasting that with our current behavior in 2020. Years of giving absolutely everything you have, growing food for the government, doing the best you can at risk of being thrown out of your own property, and now some of us can’t be bothered to wear a mask in public and stay home/away from people to protect others. It’s quite disappointing, to be honest. Maybe it’s just a British versus American thing, and Americans weren’t as collectively engaged at the time, I don’t know. “Rugged individualism” versus doing the absolute bare minimum necessary “for the greater good”.
It's not that we don't believe in "rugged individualism," or doing things for the greater good. But after having major elections stolen; and witnessing so much self-contradictory information in the news--and now v@xx mandates being forced on us, we are greatly concerned about losing the individual and religious liberties which (ironically) we had originally resisted and fought the British to gain.
I've been obsessively watching these, especially the farming ones of late. And now a lot of my TH-cam ads concern (VERY modern) farm machinery and services. It's hilarious, really. Um, no, much as I'd love a bit of land and a horse or two one day, perhaps some chickens or goats (and let us not forget the bees), I'm not really in a position to want an immense harvester just now, thanks.
a lot of British had small victory gardens of their own. I used to take care of a German ladies flowers and house when her and her husband went on vacation. She said a British soldier pulled the head off her doll. Towards the end end of the war. I suppose people even hated the children of the enemy.
As much as I love these series this one really brings home how the government can take over it's citizen's rights whenever they go into a war and they NEVER give you that freedom back. If you don't agree you are the problem. The farmer they killed because he knew enough to not plant crops in a swamp is a great example. I'm at a point where I really believe that if a leader of a country starts a war without an invasion in their country they should be charged with treason and executed. Their job is to stop this from happening in the first place not to encourage and profit from it. Churchill was born rich and constantly lived beyond his means but made loads of money out of his position during the war and it's the same with other leaders. Churchill wanted war and did everything he could to drag the US into the war as well. So many dead but the politicians and their rich buddies made out like bandits.
They should have used straw bales for the floor, covered with boards. That would be properly warm. A bale roof would also mean, with proper tightness, a winter hired-hand house. So that’s the flour sack material, Mom talked about! That’s very nice! Hahahah, I bust out laughing at the dance! So that’s the “JIVE”. Whoohooo, naughty!!! They must have had so much fun. As long as mother’s and father’s didn’t attend, they’d really enjoy that.
Seriously! Did the sound mixer have a grudge against this series!!!! The music and “background” sounds are louder than the narrator through the entire series.
The Lend-Lease Act was signed into law on March 11, 1941, and ended on September 20, 1945. A total of $50.1 billion (equivalent to $719 billion in 2021) worth of supplies was shipped, or 17% of the total war expenditures of the U.S.[2] In all, $31.4 billion went to the United Kingdom, $11.3 billion to the Soviet Union, $3.2 billion to France, $1.6 billion to China, and the remaining $2.6 billion to other Allies
with the broad leaf plants you want to dry why couldnt you use the stem on a liine and just tie it on with a little coil of thread .. then the stem holds it up and air gets at both sides ... when it starts to get brittle then place it on a shelf with twigs to make a raised platform to keep air flow ....
The problem with child labor wasn't that work is bad for children, it was the unsafe working conditions in factories that maimed and killed children that was the problem. It was when they were overworked for long hours that they got tired and they became sloppy and accidents happened. Nowadays if someone asks a kid to do a chore the kid complains and mentions child labor laws. If you weren't asked to crawl into a 30 ton machine, while it was running, to sweep up debris, for 10 hours with only one 15 minute break a day, then you have no valid reason to complain. It is no wonder this generation hates real work, they think any amount of physical work is dangerous, which is simply not true.
I'm very glad that they mentioned that British people weren't used to segregation. Americans tend to think that their brand of racism is a global phenomena. When the reality is that most countries in the world have never had segregation. I'm not saying that there are no racist in other countries. But it was never an acceptable thing by law in most countries. Except of course in places like South Africa during the apatheid regime. Whenever I say that there is little to no racism in some countries, people look stunned, especially Americans, they seem to think everything is worse everywhere in the world. They think if it's bad in America, then it must be worse elsewhere. Aside from Transatlantic slave trade, there was never a time when being a certain color means that you are a slave anywhere in the world. Slaves use to be of all colors and ethnicities, so walking down the street while being black in other countries did not automatically put a target of being a runaway slave in most countries. Because there were free people of all color and enslaved people of all color.
Why didn't they have any working cats to take care of the rodent and bird problem? I know someone said that the government discouraged pets, which is nonsense because working cats feed themselves. Also they had the police officer judging the dogs at the victory party, and they eat far more than cats.
Ruth is so brilliant in these. Her enthusiasm is so contagious! She’s always game, no complaints! A perfect example of choosing a cast for their quality and not for pointless aesthetics! Mind you, Eve is always a welcome surprise…
Just Lovely!
I’m sure the ladies don’t mind watching our boys at work. But I agree, Ruth’s beauty shines from within and eve is such a natural beauty. No crass makeup or arrogant attitude even though she smarter than most of her generation.
I was born in Romford, Essex in 1929. I attended three harvest camps. The first was in Great Bentley, Essex. The second was close to Towcester, Northants. My third and last one was close to Blagdon, Somerset. Great Bentley was the location of Hall Farm.
We were housed under canvas or in Nissan huts and to be honest, it was a great adventure. Yes, we worked 5-1/2 days weekly but we were well fed, as kids we slept well, and we were paid. We also learned that farming is hard work!
I have never forgotten those weeks in the country. High school had never been so much fun.
This is the third Historic Farm series I'm watching. I've taught WWII history, yet this series has taught me far more than I ever taught my students about the daily life of everyday people. These series are the best documentaries I've ever seen. I hit 'like' before I even start watching because I know it's going to be fantastic.
Loved your comments-I'm glad to say most of the history(repeated facts🙄 yrs by old women in my family)I remember was pretty close to accurate-I guess if you live through the plague of war you are less likely to boast or talk much as most men of 3generations of mine let their women'do history' long winded anyway😉
I taught European History as well and used portions of this series in the curriculum because the way it's presented it doesn't immediately feel like a documentary so the students enjoyed it
Literally swept off her feet whilst jive dancing. What a joyous dance to raise the spirit!
The flour sacks made in reusable materials was used up until the 1970s in the states ,we used to get wash clothes off of 5lb sacks and towels off of 25lb sacks the sacks themselves were made of linen so that they could be used to make underclothes , jacket or
Pocket linings , the ability to patch or make clothes was a good reason to buy certain brands of flour, cornmeal or sugar as the package was the ultimate recycling there was literally nothing for the trash bin ! The modern generation needs to look a little bit backwards to the past to make their products packaging and cut down on waste .
Yeah, whose idea was all that plastic packaging anyway?
Most glass jars took the same lids as canning jars. I am still using some of my grandparents mayonnaise jars in water bath canning.
@@Uffda. Some chemist in the oil industry probably.
My great aunt used to help her mother pick out the pattern on the cloth sacks she wanted for her school clothes.
There was a brand of flour that was so aware of the fact people made clothes and dresses out of the bags that they would print flowers and other cute patterns on it.
Peter is like a cuddly bear. I just love him.
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I don't normally like men but Peter is rather handsome isn't he?
You just want hug his face. ☺️🤣👍🏽👍👍🏼❗
Stand back ladies, he's mine!!! He's most definitely the picture of manlihood. Mmmm❣😋🥰👍
@@diananievesavellanet - You'll have to get through me first! 😉
I vote these three as "Most likely to survive the collapse of society" based on their mad farming skills.
I vote Ruth and Peter yes, 3rd not with the other two
Seriously. I want Ruth on my apocalypse team
Plot twist: they pulled a bear grills
rely is it that hard? i would survive easy but than again i live on a farm
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Great show, both guys are great, but Ruth has added this curious dimension that probably caused the show to be sooo loved - she is so authentic, spontaneous and passionate.
The old shoes did the job....
I so love this trio!! Ruth has a spectacular attitude and humor!
032022. Angela Mewes, "Ruth has a spectacular attitude".
@@dl7596 Surprise, surprise, it's TV! And still very much better than most of the utter crap on television.
If you really do want to learn skills, there are thousands of channels on youtube of people who honestly are homesteading, gardening, doing old-timey crafts, etc.
This series and the others like it are simply entertainment with a bit of introduction to history. Relax. :)
I love how much Ruth enjoys everything!
How does she have so much energy?
If I woke up on a farm, I would be so pissed. I would just go around yelling "you gotta be shitting me, this doesn't work either, I GOTTA GO! Nope I'm leaving."
This history.....this is OUR STORY told in a way that ALL can understand it....Brilliant, great, and ALL OTHER WORDS OF PRAISE........
All kids are armed with a pitch fork with at least 2 spikes, and all children have at least 2 eyes at the moment 😂😂
And the whining started from 2 Nations at least&I'd put money on it - How can you endanger children in 2011-while here in the US we have actor kids witness'Amish'murders in a film&all US&EU-re-enact slave killings&put kids in sex surrounded conflict flicks-Those little'extras'were into it&enjoying getting dirty-Hell even Henry looked happy-my fav is Alex standing like a drill sargent&1kid just twiddling the handle totally aware of his no power situation
@@ritageorge8748 it was what they said I was just quoting it and found it funny
uncle peter, just slightly overwhelmed xD
More like: "2 eyes..... at the moment". Gotta have that air of uncertainty in it. 😉
"Watch the Points!" lol😅
I love this series soo much! It's amazing to really see how much everyone worked soo hard. Women and children contributed soo much. In todays society its soo easy to forget how much men and women had to work TOGETHER to get anything done. Soo much of women's work is the work that made it possible for anything else to be sustainable.
A big thank you our Grandparents , for their hard work and feed the Nation .
Ruth is gorgeous, makeup or no. Her laughter and enthusiasm is infectious.
I love the running joke in this series that they have trouble starting every single machine.
It's no joke! Life on a farm or homestead tends to be like that :p Almost nothing is ever quite as easy as it's supposed to be; even with modern equipment there are often little annoying headaches pretty often.
When the apocalypse happens , I’m going wherever Ruth, Peter and Alex are. I will have a much better chance of surviving .There is nothing they can’t do.
@Celto Loco Eat a snack or something.
Good idea! Me too!!
Great to see Ruth having a blast dancing at the end. So many interesting tasks shown!
This is the most amazing example of solidarity I've ever seen, I'm amazed how a whole country can pull together like that, it's truly amazing. ❤ If we still cared like that the world would be much more advanced i think, or it would at least be nice having that close knit community feel.
The alternatives were dreadful. That might be too high a price.
If you think Brits had it rough and pulled together amazingly, you should do some reading on the Russians in Stalingrad and Leningrad, and a great many people in Eastern Europe. The blitz on the UK was horrendous, no doubt about that. But it paled in comparison to the wholescale suffering and slaughter in the USSR. China lost more people than any other country except possibly the USSR during WW2, and westerners seldom even acknowledge their horrifying losses.
In even starker contrast, people in America thought/think they had it rough because they had to ration a few things. Us "Yanks" generally have no idea at all how truly awful war really is.
Our son and daughter-in-law live in the Palouse in Eastern Washington. Our daughter-in-lawn grew up on ranches in Eastern Washington and the Idaho panhandle. Our son is a retired mechanical engineer. When they retired, and moved to the Palouse of eastern Washington, they have been accepted in the coummity as family. Farming areas still has close knit communities. The Palouse is known for growing wheat, other grain crops. It also grows legumes and more lentils than any other area of the US.
Outstanding detailed history we from high school in the 1960's in the U.S. never knew or were taught! All thanks to the internet and youtube.
I always got around that problem by reading.
Hi Robert !
I'm born 1962 in Norway, and I think the two decades following WW2 were all about "forwards and outwards".
It seems to me that everyone was focusing on rebuilding, practical new inventions for everyday life, and exploring foreign places for vacations. (At least in Europe).
People were possibly so traumatized and exhausted by wartime that they put a mental lid on it.
So school books did not focus on wartime hardship, but on the celebrations as the war ended.
And on some of the homefront heroes who had plottet against the enemy on the home turf.
It's sad, but people under 50 know little to nothing about the first 70 years of the 20th century. As for WW2, they probably think it was lived in black and white.... 😞😶
and thats where the saying ... the victors write the history ... comes in ... the victors will write about what matters to THEM not to others who may have helped ... so from an american point of view of history ... Canadians served and fought some battles ... but we took on the suicide beach on d day to hold the germans in place to allow the usa to get their beach ... they dont say we took the first beach ... the one hardest to take ... and then had nothing left to do ... WWI the crazy ladies of the higlanders ... and their babgpipes and charge in full kilt ... overwhelming a long held enemy position ... even in britain their homeland forces had major contributions from german sub landings for intel ... to downed aircraft and pilots ... etc ... yet one countries history book doesnt focus on that ... just what they did ... one day we may have a history book that covers the history of the earth and bringing all different views of history together to show the actual history for ALL of US
We got it full force in high school in 60's-woops haha I'm probably tinch older everything needed candy coating-! Wars-1st disapated the 20s then 40's&freak out in US with less ships after pearl Harbor&then Adolf poking his nose up out of subs on our coast-Then Korea in 50's&finally Nam-Sheesh
You didn't go to school in two small towns-one in CT&Cali-where we did the cold war under the desk heard the '41 sky lit up after Pearl Harbor&Japanese Sub bombed coast in Feb 42&where my dad&His war buddies a few black-some crazy Italians like him&one islander's brother or cousin of 1dead friend-we would overhear what soon after his death&more so 50 yrs later weren't 'fish' stories🙊
You know that you're in love with this series when you get excited about them using an old rickety hay baler like it was NEW, lol! And Ruth is SO inspiring, throughout *all* of the Ages!
Flower Sacks - I remember in the 60's the 100lb bags of Chicken feed coming in printed bags that my mother would save to make clothing with. New shirt or blouse for us kids pillowcases. The one problem was you get a 100lb sake of feed one month and the next month the print pattern would be different.
The practice started in the Great Depression era, first the bags would be plain. Once the companies noticed that the bags were re-used they started using printed fabric.
Here is a digital exhibtion on the practice: trc-leiden.nl/trc-digital-exhibition/index.php/for-a-few-sacks-more/item/242-0-cover-page
Lovely yo see how much fun Ruth and Eve had at the dance. Love the series!
Having children around is always really nice. I don't want to have any children of my own, but they are really lovely. You can have fun times with them, and don't have to deal with the difficult bits.
Yep! I love being the cool aunt who never had kids. 🤣 🤗
Love being a grandparent you can spoil them feed them a lot of sweets and give them back to the kids that had you pulling your hair out,paybacks a bitch 😂🤣😉
@@jamesspiker6024 They call me "Grandpa" because "partner in crime" makes me seem like a bad influence.
My maiden name was Cadwallader. Not a name you see much!
Peter seems to be going gray!! Too much stress, perhaps, but still ever so handsome. And the dancing!! "Chucking the women around" -- excellent.
Haha i thought the same thing!
They must have those hair products for men-I mean guys it's not actually 1942
Such a GREAT series! And Ruth CAN DANCE! I love it!
I love all of the time periods they have featured and this is my second time watching the WWII farm! Cannot wait to see where they 'go' next. That being said, Henry is definitely the best part of this series.
Did you see the damn sad but super add on Christmas in the shelter in London-Pete's cleaner Colin is in it too
Oh I Love it… as children we used to build huts like that on the farm and camp in them for days on end ...only we made the beds out of the straw cubes aswell. It was warm and dry and very cosy..😍 I am only 37 so here in Germany this tradition is still Alive in the countryside...with the young people at least 😂
#AbsoluteHistory Brilliant improvement on the narration audio level over the music. Thank you!
I noticed that as well! With Eduardian farm, on an older TV anyhow, it is nearly impossible to make out the narrator at times.
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My Grandmother was one of the children evacuated during the war. She was sent to live with relatives who had a farm. & she told me how near where the farm where the Americans had set up an air base.
They had a problem with the local grass snakes who use to love to sun themselves on the runway. Making it difficult for the planes to land safely.
So the airmen would 'pay' the local children like my Grandmother. With chewing gum, chocolate, Spam & caned pineapple. To catch the snakes to 'permanently take them away' ie: to take them to the river in sacks & drown them.
Of course what the children actual did was take them 5 miles down the road & set them loose in the nearby fields. & two weeks later the airbase had another snake infestation. & the local children would be recruited. By the airmen to once more to 'permanently dispose' of the snakes.
38:12 I wish flour companies would go back to the patterned cloth containers. What a brilliant concept to be able to reuse that fabric for clothes. Even for smaller packages today, they could be used as cleaning rags, or sewn into clothes, or patchwork quilts.
I completely agree! Society has become so wasteful 😞
Breaks my heart that Peter didn't get to go to the dance.
you almost forgot these children are modern children. they are so into it!
I've watched Peter through all the farm series...with a couple days growth of beard ,hes the spitting image of Oliver Reed playing Bill Sykes in the 1968 movie'Oliver'!
Wow yes-When in Victorian farm;he looked as I pictured Harry Potter(film) would look as a young man-most likely Harry's head size&in one show grain seed count to ten he said 9&three quarters & smirked
Yes!
I have been watching all of these trying to not think of him as Bill Sykes' kind & cuddly teddy-bear of a twin 😂
Whatever Ruth! You laugh but you know you look good! Love her so much. Literally my history idol ❤🎉
Just can’t get enough of these 3!
Other history stuff without them is just not as good.
I’m.so glad we have finally credited African Americans with the music and dance popular during WWII!
I have learned so much from Wartime Farm and similar historical videos.
The look on that little girl's face when Ruth said they needed lots more of that herb tho xD
Wonder if Alex's little girl or his tiny boy is in the series or any of Peters-Ruth's two have been
Kid actors all extras? - I wish we hear somewhere Alex&Peter 4&maybe his brothers, or Ruth's family-I was stunned all ate the fish meal lunch on great looking bread
@@ritageorge8748 if you watch all the episodes and/or the others in the series? Both of Ruth's daughters( you'll see Eve most but Catherine is in at least 1), her dad, and husband all appear. I don't know if Peter or Alex( I THINK he may have at least a son) have kids.
@@ritageorge8748 Alex's first child Hazel wasn't born until 2013, this last farm series he participated in was 2012. Her birth is part of why he left the show & didn't do Tudor Monastery Farm. Being away from his newborn for _any_ length of time was - absolutely rightly so - not even a consideration.
I'm not sure either of Peter's two little ones had been born yet either & if so they'd have still been babies.
Here at straw house industries we have a strict no smoking policy.
CRAIG, PUT OUT THAT CIGAR!
It's not Craig, it's Carl! (military joke)
I wish I would have had these series back when I was homeschooling my kids, I would have used them for history class.
I think it would be a really good idea for todays farmers to do some of the 'Children's Camp' work. It would be great for the kids to get out in the country and nature with their friends. They would learn about doing work and having a good time at it. However no heavy stuff, just stuff suited to their age and size. I can remember how great it was to help my family by doing tasks at that age.
well some liberal woke people would call that child labor and then try to persecute you lol
@@wewenang5167 I agree, however, it needs to be within their capabilities, such as a 2 year old could carry and empty a 2 gallon trash can with only paper in it or say 2-3 turnips/potatoes and only for say 30 minutes an hour with a one hour break every 30 minutes and a 4-5 hour workday.
Thank you! I got so happy juist hearing the sound of dose bee's with the birds in the background!
We should all show this video to our children, it helps them understand where we British came from and why we do the things we do.
Could be useful now with all the staff shortages ..... DIG FOR VICTORY !
"oh my, the Americans are here!" Lol that was fantastic
God that whole vibe screamed America! We're so loud and rambunctious. I love it. 🤣❤🤍💙
At the start of the movie "Riverworld" one of the characters is a dead / revived American astronaut. Another, we find out, was a POW Brit who died in a German camp. The POW wants to know "Who won the war?"
Big grin from astronaut: "We did!"
Happy smile from POW.
Mediocre movie but great book series by Philip Jose Farmer. Interesting to see Mark Twain and Hermann Goebbels, again ... and many, many others.
Oh, and if you get killed in Riverworld you are "reborn" somewhere else.
There' no way out.
Yeah. Aliens.
It's intersting how it changed with the African American GIs comming compared to Amelia King (see episode 2) who had to fight to join the land army because of her skin colour.
Edit: I had to find her name!
Glad you did I remembered the story but not her 1st name
True.
They never did practice segregation. As you can see her case was an isolated case of the women's farming union not accepting her while in America it will probably be written into law that she is not to work with white people. And as you can see, the farmers did accept her. It didn't change with the Americans GIs coming, in fact the Back American GIs where probably shocked that they were accepted because back in their country, they wouldn't be. There is racism in Britain but it was no where near America.
Segregation by law was not everywhere in the USA. In the South it was coded into law. In the north it would have been more like the social stigma around Amelia King but different in that local government may or may not have been an active participant in the bigotry.
Over time humanity does get better. This is why you programs are so important. They show people today just how change had occurred. Thank you.
I just love this trio.
After a HARD Day of labor....folks had the best sleep.
Thanks for sharing.
Cooking on a wood stove? Not in a straw house you won't.
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What did they say? "Those who live in straw houses should not light fires"
@@9inchpp Then why did they immediately bring a portable woodstove inside the straw house?
actually quite easy .... you just cant do HOT fires ... it takes longer for a hay bail to catch than a handful of hay ... like having an open fire inside a thatched roof ... there is no problem with it ... you just have to remember that you dont put a chimney in the round house or you burn it down ... in a hay bail house you put an oil stove or small hibachi style stove that uses a small fire and cook surface ... and is shielded from the walls or ground ...
@MichaelKingsfordGray Using real name over the internet in the era of constant database leaks done by hackers, user data being sold to other companies and even Google's data handling and security being questioned? A real idiot would...
Did you get your internet connection yesterday, are you new here so you don't know this??? You make claims who is and who isn't an adult, but you yourself are more naive than a child...
Go back under your rock, to your shitty channel that has like 90% dislikes on every video.
People used barometers for the weather until the late 1970s because weather reports were notoriously unreliable. I'm not sure about the UK, but in the States, farmers had a lot of folk tricks like cloud patterns and lunar cycles that helped back in the ancient days during WW2.
I remember my grandmother talking about (sack dresses) 👗 made from flour sacks, wow this episode brought back a memory 😊
Wow, Ruth is quite a dancer too! Is there anything this lady can't do?! 😂😊
She’s quite bad at curbing her enthusiasm! 😊
23:29 I love how this sentence implies there are children in the camp with more than two eyes
...at the moment :D
Oh god will it ever be over? I think after 1 year of covid or for some 2 years that's exactly how we felt. We were battling an enemy too this time a virus. I actually started seeing rationing because of hoarding in our stores......it made me nifty. I still practice it to this day. My mother was born in 1941 and even though she was small even at 4 and 5 she remembers helping grandma in the garden and helping her bring the groceries into the house. A real bath once a week. I think it made her the strong woman she was and she passed on her strength to me.
Cosmetics were in short supply in Britain, but in the USA, they weren't. As in Britain, this was part of maintaining morale.
To conserve metal, people had to turn in the empty metal containers for reuse, in order to buy new ones. My grandparents, in Canada, had to turn in empty toothpaste tubes, to buy new toothpaste.
Aluminum curlers were popular in the 1930s, but in WWII, they were replaced by pincurl-sets, secured with hairpins, which used less metal than curlers. Women bought their own personal pin-packs, which they brought with them to the salon each time.
Makes me think about grandma’s stories about being a migrant laborer even though her parents owned their own farmland. She didn’t even think about it at the time. She just told me about how’d she pick in other people fields all summer and sleep under a big old canvas tent that made her think of a circus tent at night
Flour sack clothing was an initiative of North American millers supplying the mass influx of homesteading immigrants in the ca1890 all the way through the 1950's.
Thank you for this informative and interesting video. Being from Canada I wasn't aware of the work children did during WWII.
Sound is much better in this episode
9 kids with pitchforks. Lol. You could hear the panic in dude's voice telling them to "watch the points"😄
Thanks for a fabulous video!!! 😊👍👏👏👏
Flour sacks to clothing was common in the US during the great depression, especially children's clothes.
Man that whole dance scene screamed America. We're so damn loud. 🤣🤣🤣
Kids with pitchforks was a ‘lord of the flies’ moment for a while..
I have a Wartime sewing book with a very clever method to make a woman's skirt-suit out of a man's suit. When the men were away at war, they left their civilian clothes at home. When clothing and fabric were rationed, women could just raid their husbands' or sons' closets.
I love a guy who can make a beeskep with his own two hands! 😍❤
I love the series this channel puts out: I've come to know and like the main cast and all about it, but aside from the issue of sound balancing the only issue I have problems with is the misleading titles: like the Gin Sloe video that only had 4 minutes about gin or this video, which, even more deceptively, features plenty of good honest child labour but does not have anyone harvest even a single child!
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The audio balancing is sooo much better this episode 😊👌
Kids like to be needed too.
The little girl in the brown dress goes, "MORE" is really cute.
Had to Google Peter's "Archimedes screw" never heard that term before! LOL
Flour sack clothes was used in Hawaii during the sugar plantation times too.
I nearly made it there&my friends said it really is what heaven looks like😉but after watching as many shows even 5-0 looks like it
Mom wore flour sack dresses to school until she got into the 7th grade. If memory serves,she said it took 6 flour sacks to make one dress.
WOW! 😮 Must have been pretty full skirts! 👗✂️
Patriotism then: Unity and sacrifice to achieve a common goal, in this case, the preservation of freedom in the long run.
Patriotism now: Don't tell ME what to do! You're violating my freedom right now.
God help us all. We've lost any sense of what it means to have long-term goals. All that matters is instant gratification of every single desire.
"But but but it's my god-given RIGHT to spread a potentially deadly disease wherever I go!!"
It's a very disappointing trend.
I can remember these Hayball macine at Home at the Farm, after the War , Grandfater liked it had no brake down with it.
i thoroughly enjoyed this series, but I've noticed after several watch throughs that the TH-cam playlist is no compiled in order, and that made it confusing to follow along with the episodes
Massey Harris was a Canadian farm machinery manufacturer owned by the Massey family, also notable as patrons of the arts and letters. Two brothers Vincent and Raymond were also somewhat famous; Vincent as Canadian High Comissioner to England during the war and Raymond as an actor in such notable films as "Things To Come", 1936. "Prisoner Of Zenda", 1937, "49th Parallel", 1941, "Action In The North Atlantic", 1943. Vincent would have appeared frequently in the newsreels and the cinema would have been featuring Raymond's films.
It’s truly amazing to see what the general rural public went through during WW2, and contrasting that with our current behavior in 2020. Years of giving absolutely everything you have, growing food for the government, doing the best you can at risk of being thrown out of your own property, and now some of us can’t be bothered to wear a mask in public and stay home/away from people to protect others. It’s quite disappointing, to be honest. Maybe it’s just a British versus American thing, and Americans weren’t as collectively engaged at the time, I don’t know. “Rugged individualism” versus doing the absolute bare minimum necessary “for the greater good”.
It's not that we don't believe in "rugged individualism," or doing things for the greater good. But after having major elections stolen; and witnessing so much self-contradictory information in the news--and now v@xx mandates being forced on us, we are greatly concerned about losing the individual and religious liberties which (ironically) we had originally resisted and fought the British to gain.
Sounds like the audio got fixed.
Was part of a swing club in high school and loved watching the jive
The english certainly are a crafty bunch. Its really impressive how much they achieved with such little
I've been obsessively watching these, especially the farming ones of late. And now a lot of my TH-cam ads concern (VERY modern) farm machinery and services. It's hilarious, really. Um, no, much as I'd love a bit of land and a horse or two one day, perhaps some chickens or goats (and let us not forget the bees), I'm not really in a position to want an immense harvester just now, thanks.
a lot of British had small victory gardens of their own. I used to take care of a German ladies flowers and house when her and her husband went on vacation. She said a British soldier pulled the head off her doll. Towards the end end of the war. I suppose people even hated the children of the enemy.
thanks
“*at least* two eyes”
One of his best
and then theres clive, but we dont talk about clive, hes sensitive about it
As much as I love these series this one really brings home how the government can take over it's citizen's rights whenever they go into a war and they NEVER give you that freedom back. If you don't agree you are the problem. The farmer they killed because he knew enough to not plant crops in a swamp is a great example. I'm at a point where I really believe that if a leader of a country starts a war without an invasion in their country they should be charged with treason and executed. Their job is to stop this from happening in the first place not to encourage and profit from it. Churchill was born rich and constantly lived beyond his means but made loads of money out of his position during the war and it's the same with other leaders. Churchill wanted war and did everything he could to drag the US into the war as well. So many dead but the politicians and their rich buddies made out like bandits.
Henry has recieved pets finally!!!!
They should have used straw bales for the floor, covered with boards. That would be properly warm. A bale roof would also mean, with proper tightness, a winter hired-hand house.
So that’s the flour sack material, Mom talked about! That’s very nice!
Hahahah, I bust out laughing at the dance! So that’s the “JIVE”. Whoohooo, naughty!!! They must have had so much fun. As long as mother’s and father’s didn’t attend, they’d really enjoy that.
Seriously! Did the sound mixer have a grudge against this series!!!! The music and “background” sounds are louder than the narrator through the entire series.
The Lend-Lease Act was signed into law on March 11, 1941, and ended on September 20, 1945. A total of $50.1 billion (equivalent to $719 billion in 2021) worth of supplies was shipped, or 17% of the total war expenditures of the U.S.[2] In all, $31.4 billion went to the United Kingdom, $11.3 billion to the Soviet Union, $3.2 billion to France, $1.6 billion to China, and the remaining $2.6 billion to other Allies
I think now, in Covid Year Two, that I can somewhat understand the existential exhaustion.
Ruth cleaned up pretty nice
with the broad leaf plants you want to dry why couldnt you use the stem on a liine and just tie it on with a little coil of thread .. then the stem holds it up and air gets at both sides ... when it starts to get brittle then place it on a shelf with twigs to make a raised platform to keep air flow ....
Drying a lot of things that way-Keeps reds&pinks-semi ok
Ruth’s shoes are weirdly fashionable…like the guys in ties and tweeds
We want everything that you grow for the war... but you still have to lease the automatic scythe.
well the government need money too to buy stuff from America especially guns and ammunition.
The problem with child labor wasn't that work is bad for children, it was the unsafe working conditions in factories that maimed and killed children that was the problem. It was when they were overworked for long hours that they got tired and they became sloppy and accidents happened. Nowadays if someone asks a kid to do a chore the kid complains and mentions child labor laws. If you weren't asked to crawl into a 30 ton machine, while it was running, to sweep up debris, for 10 hours with only one 15 minute break a day, then you have no valid reason to complain. It is no wonder this generation hates real work, they think any amount of physical work is dangerous, which is simply not true.
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who downvotes and why ? great video
nobody downvotes the video
I'm very glad that they mentioned that British people weren't used to segregation. Americans tend to think that their brand of racism is a global phenomena. When the reality is that most countries in the world have never had segregation. I'm not saying that there are no racist in other countries. But it was never an acceptable thing by law in most countries. Except of course in places like South Africa during the apatheid regime. Whenever I say that there is little to no racism in some countries, people look stunned, especially Americans, they seem to think everything is worse everywhere in the world. They think if it's bad in America, then it must be worse elsewhere.
Aside from Transatlantic slave trade, there was never a time when being a certain color means that you are a slave anywhere in the world. Slaves use to be of all colors and ethnicities, so walking down the street while being black in other countries did not automatically put a target of being a runaway slave in most countries. Because there were free people of all color and enslaved people of all color.
Why didn't they have any working cats to take care of the rodent and bird problem? I know someone said that the government discouraged pets, which is nonsense because working cats feed themselves. Also they had the police officer judging the dogs at the victory party, and they eat far more than cats.