Great TV Series Recommendation

I was having trouble with either my ISP, or YouTube, and the first segment took over 45 minutes to load, so I downloaded the whole set. Watched it last night. Extremely interesting show. Makes me appreciate the many conveniences we have today, even when we think we are 'roughing it'.

If anybody is curious about Stephen's "The Book of the Farm" which was frequently mentioned, it is available on line as a Google eBook (free reading) here:

The book of the farm - Google eBookstore

Enjoy! And thanks for the link. Now I just have to figure out how to merge the 36 episodes into a single file.

another good one is dexter on showtime, gives great ideas on how to dispose of people

Tim from OH - when I was young, I was in a 4-H group in California that had its own farm. We would take all the apples off the trees (great for pies and cider, but not really for eating) and dump them in a big smasher (no idea the real name)... We would leave them there for a long time (who knows how long, I was young!) and then when all the apples got nice and squishy (but not yet bad/fermented) we would turn the wheel on it, which would smash all the apples into mush, and the machine (I use the word loosely - there was no electricity, just human power!) had a spout at the bottom that you could open up to let the juice come out... We would fill a ton of reusable gallon containers with the juice, take it into the kitchen, strain the fine pulp out of it, add spices (and sugar, if desired), and take it home. It was one of our yearly 4-H projects and we loved doing it! Plus, all our families would get fresh cider to last us quite a while! Yeast and sanitizing??? Not on that farm! Squish, strain, pour, flavor! Most of us took the cider straight (quite sweet already) but some of the mothers liked it with a touch of cinnamon, or other "fall" flavors... That was the best 4-H group I've ever been a part of!

And now, back to the scheduled topic. *lol*

SilverFlame - that cider making sounds great! I can definetly see drinking fresh cider that way, but my impression was that they were going to let the cider ferment and make hard cider. In that case, you are taking your chances regarding the yeast strains that are present and the taste of the resulting product. I've read that before people understood the fermentation process, they would add all sorts of odd things to the cider barrel if fermentation was not progressing along - dirt, raw meat, etc. Really nasty stuff!!!

Thanks for posting this! Super show!!!

Kathie

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Thanks for the recommendation!

I'm enjoying this show as we speak

I'm up to episode 20, suppose to be cleaning house for the holidays but I keep coming back for "just one more episode". Think I'll just give up and sit here and watch the rest. Long live the dust!!

We made cider two years. First year filled a wood barrel, then you could still get them, with cider and put a bubbler on it and stored it in the basement at about 50 degrees. Excellent hard cider about January, kick you if you weren't careful. Second time we put raisins or brown sugar or whatever in it. Not so good.

Mom used to tell of the barrels that were in the basement of her childhood home, one was cider (hard it seems) the other they added mother and had a keg of vinegar, very important ingredient in the diet back then.

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This series is great fun. You keep wondering what is going on that they aren't showing, but of course they had to edit and package it for television. Fascinating.

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Yeah for sure, but I do like how they bring in experts all along the series.

For me it makes it more about how things were done or could be done, rather then how these folks are supposed to be living full time.

Makes it more..hmm..credible to me. I'm still enjoying the series, so fun.

Thank you for giving me a new educational show to watch. I'm not much of a TVer, and haven't had much to look forward to spending an hour a week watching. Now, I do. Thank you for sharing. I really enjoyed reading "See You In One Hundred Years" which follows the same idea of living for one year in a different time. I'm not so interested in the farming aspects, but on building practices as our house is of this same era.
Of course, this goes against my New Year's Resolution of trying to focus my mind on the projects/chores I've been neglecting at home!!

: )

Here is another great way to spend some time.
It's Not Easy Being Green.
A family gives up their city flat for a 300 year old farm in Cornwall and proceed to do amazing things on it. Gardens and pigs and greenhouses and solar hot water and windmills and water wheels etc..
I watched it on Sundance Channel, but now I can redo it on Youtube!

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Is there any of you computer savvy enough to copy the Victorian Farm series off of youtube on a cd? I would LOVE to have it on one cd and would pay someone to do that for me. Any takers??

Actually, I guess it is a dvd I want... not a cd. (Now you can see just how ignorant I am about these matters)

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Stephanie

Wife, Mom to 4 ( 2 in Tn, 2 in Gloryland), caretaker of chickens, rabbits, kittys, 2 dogs, 2 milk goats, 2 jersey cows, and 1 messy house

Where can I buy the dvd for it/ Victorian farm

Bump.....

Just wondering if anybody knows if the series can be taped from you tube onto dvds?

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Stephanie

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I think you can buy the DVD of this show,you just need to make sure it is compatible with your DVD player.

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One less batch of cookies, one less loaf of bread, one less load of laundry done! My family says thank you! LOL

I guess nobody does know where to buy it on DVD

I believe The Victorian Farm was number 2 in a series of 4. The first being Tales from the Green Valley (set in the 1620's era), The Victorian Farm, Victorian Farm at Christmas, and The Edwardian Farm (set in 1920 period). Then there is a Victorian Kitchen Garden, Victorian Flower Garden, and Wartime Kitchen and Garden. The last 3 you can get on DVD from Acorn Media, UK. I don't know where I read this but I wrote it down and just found it. [url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ They also had a Victorian Pharmacy that was part of the farm. Several of them are available on DVD from Acorn Media IK

Well I know that Tales from the Green Valley is all on Youtube.. I haven't checked the rest. Crud! I have stuff to do, you know? It's the week before Christmas!! But Nooooo I have to sit and watch youtube all day and night... great.

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There also is a book Victorian Farm by Langlands, Ginn and Goodman that was published in 2009 that was very popular (from this show I believe) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victorian_Farm is where I got this from