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

here is a page about English longhorn's

http://www.thecattlesite.com/breeds/...ghorn/overview

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Greg

That's Living History Farms in Des Moines! Fantastic place! I could go there over and over. They have a town too (1870's I think?).

I wish these folks would do American ones too. Frontier House and Pioneer Quest were OK, but NOTHING like these.

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Sarah,

If there are no dogs Heaven, then when I die I want to go where they went.
-Will Rogers

Mainstream america would never go for a show with so much learning in it.
Those english shows are like taking a college history class. The american versions are like an 8th grade history class.

This was another good one:


The victorian Kitchen Garden

I wish I could find more of this show.
The Wartime Kitchen & garden

This is a nice old footage from ww2 england advertising the Dig For Victory program.

As often as I've seen that movie I should remember those oxen! I guess I need to watch it again!

Thanks all for the name of and info/link about the oxen.
Sue

That's funny. I picked up a DVD called 1940's House at the library a few weeks ago and I didn't care much for it. I didn't even make the connection to the other show.

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Just finished re-watching 1900 House. I've been watching so much Channel 4 English TV that I think I've picked up a Brit accent. lol

yep Golden Mom. I wish I could go back up there again too. When I lived outside Saint Jo Mo. it was ok. Its impossible now. Ive got lotsa pics of it tho. Have u u tubed When we farmed with horses? Somma its made there.

LOL!!!! Too funny!!!!!

I saie maite, its bloody well possible

Wasn't there someone else in Green Valley named Peter? I'm guessing he went by Franz in that one so folks wouldn't get mixed up.

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Wags Ranch Nigerians


"The Constitution says to promote the general welfare, not to provide welfare!" ~ Lt. Col Allen West

Never heard of them before seeing them here they are great! We spent all of our down time this weekend watching Tales From the Green Valley, Victorian Christmas and about half of Victorian Farm. Really enjoy the fact that they do not have any of the extra drama the other series have. Farm life has enough drama with sick animals, predators, and birthing, that none extra is needed!

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Im rather amazed that people dont want to comment on things that they saw that they could use on their places, things they liked, things they didnt like, things they didnt understand. But, it seems, like everybody is watching it the same as if they watched a series of Green Acres, The Real McCoys, or Lassie

I liked almost everything. I really like the herb distiller for making rose water and medicines. I liked the thatching and the wattle and daub. I like the the look of the ale they made. I like the lambs wool beer they made in the fall by adding ales to beer and sitting the jug near the fire. I liked the straw beds and the idea of adding herbs to the straw to keep pests out. I like that the people sang and danced a lot. I liked the hedgerows. I like that it gave me a glimps into the life of my ancestors and my native people.

A few things from the show I want to try: Wattle and daub, apple beer, weak ale, straw bed ( I am going to make one when my bed wears out), hedgerows (better and less expensive then buying fences), the herb distiller.

thank you!!!!!

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He who thinks he knows, doesn't. He who knows he doesn't know, knows.~ Joseph Campbell

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aeMrK...AE7062ADE5A19C

CB. Hedge fences are alright, if yer willing to wait 10yrs for them to be full and think and therefore stock stopping. Likely, when they cleared the land for farming, they left rows of hedge, or whatever it is over there. Unless they had LOTSA of timber and built wood fences to suffice while the hedge was growing, I cant imagine anyone planting it with the idea it would be a useful fence in a year, OR 2, or 5 or 10. Now, if it was multiflora rose, That could work in 3yrs or so

You make them when you clear the land or you can plant them.. Sometimes they make dirt mounds and grow hedgerows on top of them to further discourage the animals. I know very little about it, though.

Well, unless they were trying to keep in earthworms, The hedge would have to be around 6ft tall, and the row would have to be around 3 or slightly less ft thick to keep goats or sheep takeing it apart. Remember goats love shrubbery. Cows are taller. 6ft would keep them in IF the grass was lush and plentiful. 10ft would be better. The bottom wood is the stiffist, and its actually what hold back livestock, not the willowey upper wood.