It's always worth remembering that someone in the future will eventually be saying the same thing about us.

History classes always leave out the chemistry and science behind why people did what they did, like using urine to wash laundry.

They are historians so they must have great respect for old ways.

Take most people's phone away under 35 and well they are like a child lost alone in the woods.

If someone doesn't know you, it really doesn't matter how many times you've said something. You didnt exist to us before now.

same here. I really enjoy these series

I feel the same way. Peter, Ruth and Alex are so personable and relatable, they feel like friends.

yeah.... these guys are already legends, and I think they should have their website or even do more old era-related farm documentaries

Alex, peter and Ruth make it look so ancient and more astonishing.. Love them

Same, I cherish them and all their work. ❤️ You must watch them in the Tudor Farm series!!

This is my third time around watching every series. After a long break between watching, I will never get tired of them.

Yep, that's what I was doing all afternoon.

No thanks Dee. I'd rather put my feet up in front of the telly. But you crack on love.

I've watched every one of them many times myself. I so very wish there were more.

fully agree with everything you said

I’d find a way to save the pigs. We don’t eat bacon her or pork here lol

Don’t like it.

@@elizabetha2601 I love both so I'll eat double for you. 😉😇

Dry basically straw roof open fire indoors what could possibly go wrong? Maybe that's why slate became so popular for those that could afford it.

I had not even noticed..... what a coincidence

I had no idea rocket and arugula were etymologically related--fascinating!

indeed

The skills they used are amazing

Lorelei Elkins I love it too! I think I've watched it 2 or 3 times myself! The whole historical farming series is fascinating!

wattle fencing

I simply adore that you did this with your son. I am planning to create a waddle fence myself.

I prefer WATDLE. 😉

Spelling was never my strong suit. Without autocorrect I'd be lost. If it's an uncommon word I have to start using it in a sentence with google till I get it rite.

Absolutely. Anyone who has spun from the fleece knows about lanolin. In one of the other FARM series Peter uses pig's grease to sooth his hands after some rough work. Just before this scene is a scene of some sleep wandering by. Shepherds always had soft hands.

I also can't imagine why they wouldn't have some sort of poncho/hooded overcoat that they could wear. There's historical illustration of the pestilent doctors going about in what look like hooded raincoats made of animal hide. If kept well lubricated, then what this guy tells us makes no sense.

He said they were shower proof. Not waterproof. Wool is not waterproof no matter what its coated with if its pissing it down all day.

A traditional Irish bratach or cloak was spun with the lanolin left in. The English found Ireland hard to conquer, before the advent of modern firearms, because they weren't dressed for the climate.

Greased leather over wool is more waterproof but no one wore it?

Team work indeed

They somehow ease my anxiety in a way little else does

*wattle

WADTLE.🤭

I so understand that. But if I could find a way to get my walker out there I might give it a go. 😉 LL

@@Laura-Lee I'd be with you,

A little at a time, you may not make it all the way to that level, but a little is okay.

No surprise considering your name

the kid probably grew up on the countryside and knew instinctively what to do. I have grown up in the countryside as a young kid in the 80s and I have reacted the same as this kid. When I have been 10 years old I would drive the goats to pastures daily along with my same-age cousin, we would also veggie gardening, milk the goats, tend to our grandmother's daily chores and so many more. I am not really the hard-working type, but my grandma and cousin have been this type and they'd automatically pull me in with their abnegation and passion. Believe it or not, my cousin (which is a guy) would cook at 9-10 years of age. He had often baked bread in stone oven, and had cooked meat rolls covered in cabbage sheet, and cooked soup, and built a barn for the animals and many other things and yes, at THAT age. He's one of those rare people on earth who are born under the curse of continuous work. They are doomed to never find rest and peace unless they work every hour of their existence. Even today (he lives 50 meters away from me) whenever there's a party thrown by his wife or he and his wife are making a BBQ and are inviting us over to their house he's doing most of the work in the house. We sometimes play cards and barely manage to convince him to join us and in the rare instances he does join us he's snoring within 40-50 seconds as he's too tired from all of the work he's doing continuously since he's been born. But, if we shake him to wake him and tell him "Cristi, can you help us paint our house tomorrow?" As soon as he hears that there's work for him he's fresh as new, all sleepiness down the drain, and in the next 5 seconds he's in the basement of his house preparing the tools for tomorrow's job. He really is a cursed guy in what concerns me.... But anyway, that's not the point I was trying to make. The point is that me and my cousin, and many other people who have been young kids in communist Romania in the 80s have done the same as the kid in this clip. Caring for the livestock and poultry and gardening and wetting the plants, sometimes even cooking had been very common in those years for young kids like us, boys or girls. And if the kid in this video had grown up in the countryside he, too, would know what to do in various circumstances that you have no idea what to do.

It's Stuart's kid.

I'm a bit surprised that Stewart with all his 'we should have&they did' in 1600+)hasn't gotten 'the Rock arms' 15+yrs he's been there like his boy enjoying the group

We had an old butternut tree in the front yard by the rural road we lived by in rural Pennsylvania, USA. My brothers and I loved climbing it. I used to take a book up and sit in one of the more comfortable crooks and read for hours.

In 1620 ,they wouldn’t have known about BBQ .

She could let them go to seed in a couple of weeks...or, I should say, they WILL go to seed again.

'supposed'

'Wear'

@Sheila T. Apparently, they are desperately needed.

Apparently not so much. It seems that people did indeed wear their shoes into left and right shoes. American Duchess talk about this and reference period sources talking about right and left shoes from a time when shoes were originally made neutral.

@@adorabell4253 Random but pointe shoes that ballet dancers wear are the same - they're just made as two same shoes and then as you wear it (because the inside is made of essentially paper mache) they adjust into lefts and rights. I can't imagine wearing them on the wrong foot because it just feels wrong, and if I were to rotate them I'd actually wear them out faster, because the parts that need strength on one foot if I rotated shoes would be where it needs to be softer for the other foot, and then that'd be the end of them. Of course, leather is more forgiving than silk, canvas, and paper, but even still...

Well... it was peaceful as long as there was peace in the land ( and such periods were few and far apart) and in between the visits of the tax collectors and the tithe collectors, who had the right to take (by force) what they "perceived" was appropriate and had the right to punish "disobedience" by means that they then again believed to be the "appropriate" means and amount of force. If you couldn't make the payments the Lord and the Church representatives could torture, maim, or kill you or throw you into slavery (and as a villein or serf you were hardly a rung above that as it were, because at those times the Lord owned not just the land but also you) and give the piece of land to a new serf. You needed the Lord's permission if you wanted to get married and then the Lord could come in on the day of your wedding and demand his right of prima nocta and anyone who struggled or protested could be flogged or killed on the spot. When a war was on, all the able-bodied men got drafted to go fight for their lord (no exceptions or excuses). If the army was passing through, you had to give them all they demanded, if they were on "your side" of the war. If they were the enemy, they would just raid your farm, rape and kill the women and take everything they wanted. The same goes for deserters from both sides.

Until it wasn’t.

@@r8p6 What you're describing is feudal society, not the Renaissance or the 1620s, which is the time depicted here.

I would have been dead from infection...no doctors back then.

@@spazmonkey3815 They had doctors. They just weren’t very good and were few and far between.

if only they thought that way... I am not a vegetarian yet (I could give up eating meat at any point, though) so I do eat pork, but this doesn't mean that I don't feel sorry for pigs... and other animals and poultry in general. I absolutely LOVE fauna, and I suffer for any slight discomfort they're enduring, so go figure what I feel about slaughtering them to satisfy our insensitive and greedy bellies

...would *HAVE* ...

What? What can he get?

He's a cutie for sure. :P

@@terrigaines1812 Ladies... :P Because he's handsome.

@@Springfairy92 He is but what can he get? What is the it that he can get?

@@terrigaines1812 lol....

Same, makes me sad. I'd absolutely be vegetarian if I had to see my food alive...

@@morrigan191 If you feel that way, you should probably go vegetarian regardless. But back then, it only made sense to do SOMETHING with aging farm animals that had outlived their other purposes, especially considering lack of much else to eat in winter.

One bite at a time.

Believe me, it's just the way you grew up. If you'd live in this time, you would not just eat them you would also slaughter them.

You wouldn't have had these thoughts back then. People thought different. This was the way of life for them. Animals were just food... They didn't think they had feelings or emotions or anything like that... It's us these days that have the options and choices. But not back then..

My house was built in 1834. The rafters in the dirt cellar still have the bark on.

it's not exactly great practice, but so long as they are kept sheltered so that they continue to dry bugs will not be that interested. The problem with removing bark off green wood, they will dry out too quickly and prone to split longitudinally, which means they will loosen up significantly.

@Nora, he's Stuart's son.

Sometimes frost overnight in Oct and def in November but it varies a lot depending on where in UK. This is welsh border. It's very hilly and quite open so will be cooler. Avoid winter temp is below freezing at night but not that much and getting up to around freezing or just above during day time. Winter daylight in UK is only around 6-7 hrs so it's short days long nights. Some years its warmer but that's average. Also wind chill is a factor. That wind is evil when it comes. Usually around November. Not sure about eating beet greens, they do in summer I think. Growing season in UK would be very different from west coast USA. UK is about a month in front of east coast USA, but summer is june- August. Come September it's usually all over. Starts to warm up around mid March.

Yes, beets can winter over if there's no freezing. Mulching helps. The old standard beets of a size to winter over became very tough and woody, so were definitely good only for early spring greens.

@@LynxSouth Also good winter feed for pigs.

Much better than all the mass production farms, with their cramped spaces, terrible conditions and lack of connection with the animals that gets processed and sent to the grocery stores. At least they put in the labor and gave the animals a happy, well cared for life. The right way.

Maybe they kept cats around?

Cats

Unless they had cats or boys who were good with a slingshot, they didn’t. One of the biggest challenges in life of this era was keeping vermin out of food, clothing, and bedding.

I hope you don't eat cats xD

Probably a nickname in reference to Happy Days The Fonz, never short of fans among the ladies.

It is his nickname

Snorkel Ops The Anime hey I’m here too Jonah

Blarg

He he

Black thorn the horse does not have eyes

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that's something only people like you will notice. For the casual watcher this detail is not important, we are just enjoying the experience

@@blabla-rg7ky Apparently, you seem to think noting something out of place in a recreation period video is being disrespectful. lol If you bothered to read my post, I stated nonetheless much enjoy the experience. But what else can you expect from someone called bla bla .. lol Regardless, you have a nice day anyways

@@andrewthompson6192 whatever, bro

@@blabla-rg7ky lol tsk tsk tsk

It is likely that the structural material (like the joists) needs to be specific due to building codes.

He’s got on period clothing- his doublet is open in the front so it looks like a modern jacket. What does his accent matter? An accent can be learned or unlearned. He’s been studying thatching for a long time.

I think this was one of the first and the series evolved over the years

The boy is like any farm kid regardless of the era. It's what they do because of how they are raised. As for the "abhorrent" killing and eating of animals: If you eat meat of any kind, they must be killed to be eaten. If you are a vegetarian or vegan aren't you basically "killing" what ever previously "living" thing you are eating when you prepare and cook it?

@jfebacher Absolute tosh. That kid should not be allowed to climb those trees in such a fashion, no matter what the year. It may have been acceptable 400 years ago when life was very different, but it is NOT acceptable in the modern era. I will not deign to give your nonsensical comment about vegan or vegetarians the dignity of a reply.

I hope this comment is a joke...

@@Pesky_Anon their name IS trollmeister

You're definately the Troll Master, with this comment. Just go hide in a cave and leave the people alone.

Thankfully, not every 'modern equine person' projects their own ideas of how a human in a horse suit would react or think. Some horsemen (humans with an affinity for and ability with horses) still appreciate a horse AS A HORSE.

Jefferdaughter hmmmm very true. Ill agree with you on that.

You should probably learn to do away with the casual misogyny while you figure out how to detect a joke.

Like most people commenting on here, shes probably viewing the experience with 21st century vision, which is utterly pointless.

michaelccozens and learn some English