"Tales From the Green Valley" is on youtube!!!

Not finding It Ain't Easy Being Green - do you have a link to it City Bound?

Just finishing up Victorian Christmas tonight. (Takes a bit for them to load, but it's still better than dial-up.)

Have you read John Seymour's books, esp The Self-Sufficient Life and How to Live It? Good stuff (also UK), and he has great lay-outs for urban garden, community garden, 1 acre farm, and 5 acre farm. Good stuff, God rest 'im.

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BTW, don't know why they called Peter Ginn "Fonz" but I think it has to do something with a dig he and Alex did prior to Green Valley.

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Pam I saw it on the sundance channel years ago. I will look on you tube for it.
THe first season is the best, it is about the family moving to an old farm house in cornwall england, fixing it up and trying to go green. They make a composting outhouse, set up solar, learn to make bio diesel. The best parts are how the family get along.

Pam, there are a million different versions of the River cottage...it is bewildering. There is urban river cottage, there is return to the river cottage, there is river cottage forever, river cottage returns, and they are all by the same guy. Which one did you watch?

Amazing - I've got his book on my Amazon Wish List! I'm hoping Santa Claus brings me a Kindel for Christmas & I'll gladly pay to d/l it.

Thanks for trying to locate that for me. I can't wait


If you go to the zodiacca page on YouTube, he/she has them lined up pretty much in order. Start with "Escape To River Cottage" Here's a link to get you going: http://www.youtube.com/user/zodiacza#p/c/B1F0774CC5C31851/0/cNAAFApeXDo

Pam I could not find anything useful on you-tube, but here is a page fro the sundance website telling you about the show. http://www.sundancechannel.com/its-n...y-being-green/

The first season is the best, the second season is good, and then after that it gets all trendy and commercial with popstars and junk like that.

I've found some 1-2 min. snippits of IAEBeingGreen on YouTube. I just know I'd love it if I could find entire episodes. Maybe we can talk Zodiacza to add it to his/her YouTube page. I'm at least going to make a request.

Sounds like a good idea pam. I went to zodiacza's page and started watching Escape to River Cottage from the start. I like it. The way they set up pig pens in England is so simple, and they can be moved...I like the system they have.

Oh I agree about the pig pens. No electric, just a tightly stretched strand of barbed wire along the bottom of the fence to keep them from burrowing. I plan on getting a couple weaners in the spring...just like Hugh on RC

Im amazed that there isnt someone here makeing a american pioneer version of this. I have been to a place outside Debeque Ia, where they have a indian village where they farm Further along, and out of sight, they have a 1850s farm, then further along and out of sight of that they have a 1900s farm. Because it has a steam engine, one dosent hear any sound from one to the other. I had heard they were thinking of makeing a 1930s farm. Maybe that didnt work as a tractor could be heard everywhere., and ruin the ambivance

I'm watching the first episode. They said "Peter Ginn nicknamed Fonz", so they must call him by both names.

I remember a few years back, we were all watching a show that was on TV and there were quite a few threads with people discussing it. It was something like this but they had brought in modern day people to live in an old farm setting. I remember that one man on the show had a fiance and she came to join him on the farm after he'd gotten his place ready for her. There were some families on the farm, too, and seems like there was a lot of arguing and fighting. Does any of that ring a bell to anyone? I liked that show and would like to see it again but I can't remember the name of it for the life of me.

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Frontier House is what you are looking for. Hubby and I just watched it again a few weeks ago.

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Yes! That's it Thank you so much!

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Alas the Fonz-Peter mystery solved! Thank you Trisha

Wow - I just watched Frontier House online a few weeks ago also! Does anybody else hear Twilight Zone theme music? lol

There was a show on PBS I think called 1900 House, where they did the same thing as Frontier House, just the 'city' version. Here's a link to it:

Thanks so much for posting these links. I've only seen Victorian Farm so am anxious to see the others.

Does anyone have any idea what the breed of oxen are on Green Valley. Those huge down-turned horns are really something!

Take a look at the oxen they used in Braveheart to bring Wallaces dad home with,

I started to get into frontier house, but then they turned the attention of the show to all the drama between the hands and the ranch owners, that was corny. The English shows have more class they teach you more.

There was show on PBS where they recreated a pilgrim village and people tried to live there. I did not see all of it.

I liked 1900 house when it was on.

Hate to say it but the Brit shows are better than what we're offered on TV these days. Their Channel 4 seems to have a ton of shows we here at Homesteading Today like.

When I try to watch any of the Channel 4 shows, I get the msg. that it's not available in my area...meaning anywhere outside of the UK.

They are simply called English Longhorn Oxen. BIG beauties aren't they!