The Art Of Making (Poisonous) Ink In A 17th Century Farm

The Art Of Making (Poisonous) Ink In A 17th Century Farm | Tales From The Green Valley

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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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@gabriellevillecourt5777 Жыл бұрын

This is such a great show.... I am learning so much.... how people had to be self sufficient in order to survive....how many skills have been lost now. Thank you to everyone who participated in this.

@irideaunicorn1620 Жыл бұрын

It’s astounding how much hard work went into every day life. And we as a society today can barely stand a 9 hour a day office job. But I appreciate it. 😊

@TheDanSurv Жыл бұрын

Alex is the best patient ever!

@my67falcon Жыл бұрын

If you can bust ice with a stick on your coldest winter day, life is good.

@1st1anarkissed Жыл бұрын

And now for the real healer advice. While it is too late for Alex, there are a lit of people who are trying this sort of thing. Alex us too light weight for the labor. That's why he's having problems and Fonz isn't. I would have prescribed a doubled portion of fatty meat and don't neglect the skin and gristle. I'd also double hos beer and bread and cheese. Then I'd instruct him to stretch morning, noon, and night, and frequently between. Also to work himself like a horse, with easy slow work at the start and finish of the day. Lastly, to allow a little laziness. It's no good trying to keep up with the times set by trained professionals until you are one and if you break yourself first, you never will. This applies to all heavy labor. Stretch often, alternate heavy and light work, eat right, don't bully your body. It's irreplaceable and may not be so kind as to die when it breaks.

@OofusTwillip Жыл бұрын

He didn't know it then, but he had a serious genetic heart defect. It wasn't diagnosed until several years later.

@7hilladelphia 3 жыл бұрын

best channel on KZfaq. Big THANK YOU

@srice8959 Жыл бұрын

I couldn’t agree more I love this channel and all of the other channels they have

@frankz1125 Жыл бұрын

You guys are lucky with so little snow. Where I am we get feet of snow and it has already snowed here in Oct. Thanks for sharing

@robertwaguespack9414 Жыл бұрын

My great great grandfather used to make his own ink.

@artyzinn7725 Жыл бұрын

i had mustard plasters 20:30 as a child. It gave symptom relief with the heat that lasted a while, and most times the phlegm was from a cold or flu thing and the plaster concentrated it on the chest. I also got relief with hot water bottles which I often had after the plaster.

@DipityS Жыл бұрын

I loved watching Ruth distil and brew and seep - it all seems so witchy. Though, I'm sure to the ladies at the time it would have been as prosaic as trotting into the chemist for some Codral Cold & Flu.

@Shifty51991 Жыл бұрын

Try doing this in a Canadian winter ;p Only November and we have already had over a foot of snow in areas lol

@widowrumstrypze9705 Жыл бұрын

I'm in Washington State! When I woke up a week ago, it looked like NARNIA outside, lol!

@wizardofoz1390 Жыл бұрын

Thank you from Australia

@robertl6196 Жыл бұрын

Interesting. My Grandfather and Great-Grandfather also took part in home distilling. 😶

@Katharina-rp7iq Жыл бұрын

In germany we still make our own local apple and berry wine ourselves.

@Fpl8646 Жыл бұрын

“Its not bath night for another 5 nights” 😭😭😭😭

@Mady-lo6qb Жыл бұрын

28:30 🤦No wonder Americans had to break away. lol.

@christinegreen6736 7 ай бұрын

Yeah cos it's so much better to have slaves rather than enabling poor people to earn their own money eh? Lol

@Kavriel Жыл бұрын

Getting pretty good at edging are we ? Sorry about that.

@blackreazor 11 ай бұрын

The ink is missing steps and ingredients

@robertwaguespack9414 Жыл бұрын

Nobody milks the cows?

@homesteadorbust Жыл бұрын

Idk of they've shown it, they did mention using the milk so I assume they do. I think when they were making butter

@notallowed33 Жыл бұрын

These are things you've just learned in recent years. What's the point in being deceptive in pretending that these are ancient techniques? That's really sad. Just tell the truth about how you just learned these things and put them to use.

@clairehamilton9509 2 жыл бұрын

f****ts is an offensive term in America that refers to a gay. The offensive term in reference to a gay person. (f*g) mixed with a maggot, hence the name f*ggot. the series is very good, just be aware of of that please though.

@mvshenhon8966 2 жыл бұрын

This was unnecessary information

@Loostyc 2 жыл бұрын

Well, it's a proper word for that bundle of twigs, so why not use it.

@Cook-hb2nf Жыл бұрын

That is what a bundle of wood is called. It has nothing to do with the derogatory reference you are talking about.

@cathypickard4615 Жыл бұрын

SO UNNECESSARY! Why does everything have to be twisted to where we can no longer use proper words???

@graceamerican3558 Жыл бұрын

Fag is also slang for SMOKE in England. Deal. Don’t like it - MOVE ON. At least for got THREE minutes into a HISTORY video. 🙄🙄