Living In A 17th Century Farm: Harvesting By Hand | Tales From The Green Valley

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Living In A 17th Century Farm: Harvesting By Hand | Tales From The Green Valley | Retold

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3 жыл бұрын

How do you gauge gas mark 7 when you’re using a 17th-century bread oven? Why did people 400 years ago save up their urine to help with the laundry? Why did farmers in Britain traditionally plough with oxen and not horses? These are just some of the questions five historians and archaeologists asked themselves as they spent a whole year working a farm restored to how it would have been in the year 1620.
Tales from the Green Valley follows the five as they labour for a full agricultural year, getting to grips with period tools, skills, and technology from the age of the Stuarts, the reign of James I. Everything must be done by hand, from ploughing with a team of oxen using a replica period plough and thatching a cowshed using only authentic materials, to making their own washing liquid for laundry and harvesting the hay and wheat with scythes and sickles.
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@brandondunnegan3890 Жыл бұрын

I wish yall would make this a playlist of its own. would be one of the most useful documentaries soon if the world keeps falling apart

@pamp5797 Жыл бұрын

And maybe some recipes. That being said I love these documentaries.

@andrewgodly5739 Жыл бұрын

I think of it more as inspiration for the future. If we lived more like this today, I doubt we'd ever be in threat of an apocalyptic scenario

@novascotianow Жыл бұрын

With the current state of things, I find that I just can’t get enough of these wonderful videos to educate myself on how utilize my 1850 farm as it’s original builders did.

@csaboss Жыл бұрын

Give these people a Nobel-prize for documenting and archiving life! Bless you!

@Milena-ek6gm Жыл бұрын

Love how the dog and the cat are always just observing their activities 🥰

@francisdhomer5910 Жыл бұрын

I'm glad they talked about the importance of the hay being dry before it was mowed away. That was a prime importance to my dad when we had the farm. Sailors have nothing on a farmer standing on his porch during a driving rain looking at his hayfield that was dry enough to put away. Well it was before the rain. I learned some new words at the age of 4. The danger? I had a German mother. The other thing with the wet hay is if it rains the piles or rolls need to be raked so they can dry properly. Another PIA of farm life.

@Sharon-bo2se Жыл бұрын

I know it well.

@pamp5797 Жыл бұрын

My mother in law said she would lay stained clothes on the grass over night and the chlorophyll and dew would whiten and help with stains. I miss her.

@miriammigliacci9427 6 ай бұрын

Very wonderful! Thank you for posting this! I needed to hear this today!

@cf-kw5qo Жыл бұрын

Harvest is still a good 2 months of labor … even with combines , I have a large vegetable garden , as it’s been done for millennia

@Phylonyous Жыл бұрын

Just much higher yields 😉

@charlespemberton6784 Жыл бұрын

But much much more land covered, we can cut that field in about 2 hours for hay with our discbine

@francisdhomer5910 Жыл бұрын

Just thinking of the back after a day of picking your veggies. Not sure about your back c f but mine would pack its bag leave and tell me to call when I'm finished. It's not the weight its the constant cursing. bending cursing. turning cursing.twisting cursing. and did I remember to mention the cursing.

@Sharon-bo2se Жыл бұрын

@@francisdhomer5910 so true!

@andreaknibbs9328 Жыл бұрын

Those beautiful roses lighten my spirits

@trudycross4501 Жыл бұрын

absolutely wonderful! The entire series.

@MrFredstt Жыл бұрын

Love it. Really helps to visualize history instead of just reading about it in a textbook. Also gives some interesting things we could implement in the modern day

@francisdhomer5910 Жыл бұрын

THis and other series that some of these people are in. I love their one on Getalong (I spelt it as it sounds to me, trust me if I tried to spell it properly my motherboard would walk out nd demand to be placed with a sane person) While I love history some of the history videos are too boring. These people make you feel like they are just chattering you up and treat you as a normal person. If certain teachers I had were like these people children would stay in school, listen and maybe even enjoy learning.

@inusaranglaag230 Жыл бұрын

@@francisdhomer5910 I have just come across these documentaries and binge-watching them for the past couple days. I read the comments, too, and yours, sir, are the ones I enjoy reading most. Your sense of humor is just wonderful.

@francisdhomer5910 Жыл бұрын

@@inusaranglaag230 Thank you. It's nice to know others are reading my posts. I enjoy having an exchange of ideas on the videos and I'm drawn to ones on history. I'm open to either just talking about a subject or debating a subject. I'm not up to arguring about something. Sometimes I've talked with others and we start out with completely different views and in the end we have switched sides. That's when we go "Huh? Waaa wait" Sometimes we both change our mind and come up with a different take. If you enjoy cooking along with history check out "Tasting History with Max Miller" he does a recipe and gives a short history behind it or what was going on at the time the food he is making takes place. Look forward to hearing more of your comments.

@kuzadupa185 Жыл бұрын

The months this grouo comes to the farm must have been the most exciting for him!

@deadhorse1391 Жыл бұрын

I’ve seen a barn burn to the ground because the hay they put up ( in bales) was to green We always would scatter salt over the hay as we stacked it I have read that women would sometimes drown doing laundry slipping into the water

@francisdhomer5910 Жыл бұрын

As a medic I have done way to many standby for barn fire. People don't know how hot these fires get. The hay burn hot, around here most barns are over 100 years old so they are dry dry dry. We have wonderful volunteers in our area, but they have never been able to save a barn. In 15 minutes the barn is beyond saving.

@leviathanmdk Жыл бұрын

@@francisdhomer5910 A saying here goes: "When an old barn catches fire, there is no way putting it out." (Roughly translated from dutch)

@larrymansfield9393 Жыл бұрын

Absolutely love this show

@juliamarple3785 Жыл бұрын

Very interesting!

@snwedahex7488 Жыл бұрын

Sorry Guys you should have got a teaching how to use the scythe as it has to slide over the grass. it slides with the swing not with the power ;-)

@baddog9320 Жыл бұрын

yeah. I haven't used one much. But when I tried it..I learned that they use to do it and it windrowed while doing it just using the scythe. I did it. But my grass was very thick. it will give you a work out. I ended up using my tractor. Then I baled it by hand. I made a baler that was equal to a 2 strange bale. out of 2x6s. But my flakes came out going the opposite direction of normal bales. But it worked. I did about 75 bales like that and just loose stored the rest I was quite proud if my bales. About 2 years later my brother and I went in and bought a baler. my rake broke the year befote..It was a old rake from like the 40s or 50s . When we bought the baler my brother bought a modern rake. If I ever bale hay again I will get a rake like he bought. That year we baled a lot of hay. Dont know how many bales we got. But it lasted me for a few years. We baled someone field and we kept halve.

@baddog9320 Жыл бұрын

it looks like their scythe are also very dull. thats some thin grass. those scythe should be going like air through it. But again. it very hard to do it right. it felt abnormal to me. But I think I was doing it right. Because I was doing a wide sweep and had a windrow from the grass. Like I was told happens if done right.

@snwedahex7488 Жыл бұрын

Just to add, I love your videos. Everybody is so enthusiastic and into learning new skills!

@brianshields7137 Жыл бұрын

If you fenced off an area and let pigs loose in that area then the pigs will root up the bracken and ear the roots reducing the food you need to feed the pigs and learning your field

@Sharon-bo2se Жыл бұрын

Thst's how we used the pigs to start digging up ground for a bew garden plot. Used fencing to keep them in the right spot. A cougar thought it was a great opportunity for fresh pork but the dogs put the run on it. Was usually bears but had other predators.

@glentoner3689 Жыл бұрын

I love how the Girls Laugh : )

@vernonbowling5310 Жыл бұрын

Educational video; thanks for sharing.

@thehangmansdaughter1120 Жыл бұрын

I wish they'd introduce that gorgeous chocolate lab. He's just lovely. I have a weakness for labs.

@americannightmare2109 3 жыл бұрын

Richard Simmons making a recipe? Thought he just danced around in spandex

@winfieldjohnson125 Жыл бұрын

I can't seem to find anywhere these videos are laid out in sequence...Frustrating.

@alk6225 Жыл бұрын

the BBC at its´ best

@richardsangster7479 Жыл бұрын

I have horses. Fascinating

@NetVoyagerOne Жыл бұрын

Wet hay is no joke, it will gel into a flammable sludge!

@denyswoodroffe490 Жыл бұрын

You seem to be just cutting off the top 30% of the grass, leaving the thicker greener part behind. Pu the grazing animals back after, as there will be plenty of feed for them. It must be hard work. Kiwi

@msamour Жыл бұрын

Isn't the bearded guy called Peter Ginn? Why does the narrator keep calling Phons?

@Omapk Жыл бұрын

This "1080p" video looks like it was recorded on a camera from the 17th century.

@elchavoguero Жыл бұрын

12:35 Cat.

@annazaman9657 Жыл бұрын

Didn't realize hay was actually grass

@StutleyConstable Жыл бұрын

Does anyone know why they call Peter Ginn 'Fons'? Is he supposed to be a character?

@msamour Жыл бұрын

I was wondering the same thing as well.

@StutleyConstable Жыл бұрын

@@msamour I watched one of the other series and found out it is his nickname.

@msamour Жыл бұрын

@@StutleyConstable Thank you. That was confusing to me.

@patriciawalz7022 Жыл бұрын

What does the dog eat

@graceamerican3558 Жыл бұрын

I saw the dog and the kitty and was wondering the same.

@carriegraham6385 Жыл бұрын

Soap monopoly...good to know the king!

@lkkrv00rm3 Жыл бұрын

I love how we always talk about the past corrupted pigs like it doesnt happen anymore

@toddstropicals Жыл бұрын

They need to go foraging for mushrooms and other wild crops as well.

@btchard7409 Жыл бұрын

They don’t know how to use the scythe well :)

@JohnDoe-zl6ph Жыл бұрын

The hay was cut late, and the people don't know how to use a scythe. Get a better expert.

@cf-kw5qo Жыл бұрын

The progressives in America will send us back to this

@ReasonAboveEverything Жыл бұрын

Bro I was just thinking WEF is rubbing their hands thinking this is how your average individual should live with the absence of meat and land ownership.

@Tysto Жыл бұрын

This is literally how very conservative people live. Amish, ascetics, survivalists, homesteaders, etc.

@richardheinen1126 Жыл бұрын

@@Tysto yeah, but they do it by choice not force.

@wonderrob3225 Жыл бұрын

You have watched propaganda until you mistook it for your own opinion. You can't even watch a show like this without taking it as another excuse to spout your slanted political ideology. Thats because you've lost your mind to brainwashing like a person from a cult.

@jonathanwilliams1065 Жыл бұрын

@@Tysto but they want to live like that and not force their ways on anybody There are those however who feel that carbon emissions should be reduced and meat not eaten by anybody except themselves, who are important enough to be in private jets