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  • Опубліковано 22 сер 2024
  • Historian Ruth Goodman and archaeologists Alex Langlands and Peter Ginn recreate the running of a farm as it would've been in the Edwardian era. Alex and Peter milk goats and train the ploughhorses. They begin a market garden of strawberries. Ruth pickles apples, salts a ham, and smokes bacon. Alex and Peter press apples to cider (scrumpy), freighting first the apples, then the barrel on the river. They visit a cooper and make lime putty. They read government agricultural leaflets, collect eggs, make chicken stew, and celebrate Halloween in Edwardian style.
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  • @judithharp6389
    @judithharp6389 3 роки тому +631

    Oh my, I wish I could hear the narrative better. The music is so loud at times, it’s hard to hear what is being said. I really love watching “Absolute History”. I think I’ve seen 20 different episodes since I found your programs three days ago. I can’t seem to get enough of it! I’ve also introduced my sister to your shows. We are both in our 70’s and many nights have a hard time sleeping, we both binge watch in our separate homes till the wee hours of the morning. Thank you so much for all your wonderful work.

    • @EllieChristine744
      @EllieChristine744 3 роки тому +37

      Hi - if you search for " Edwardian farm" on youtube, someone called Brad Collett has downloaded a really good video, with no issues. The same goes for Tales from the green valley, someone called permahome... etc. You can find all the farms these three people made with the BBC if you check out Ruth Goodman on the net.. I love these series! Good luck - stay safe.. greetings from Sweden!

    • @jameswootton3941
      @jameswootton3941 2 роки тому +19

      This is a common complaint that I keep on seeing on here

    • @queencerseilannister3519
      @queencerseilannister3519 2 роки тому +23

      I was wondering if I was the only one!! No idea why they uploaded it like this

    • @AshesAshes44
      @AshesAshes44 2 роки тому +12

      While far from ideal, turning subtitles on allows you to lower the volume

    • @AVBolt
      @AVBolt 2 роки тому +11

      Am I the only one who finds this adorable?! I wish me and my sister had such wholesome shared interests ♥️♥️♥️

  • @lukebarber9511
    @lukebarber9511 3 роки тому +172

    Livestock expert: "The Ruby Red is a really quiet breed of - "
    Cow: "MRRRRRRRROOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!"

  • @plum_pie6402
    @plum_pie6402 4 роки тому +569

    i love how they never really break the general time theme, is in you never see a car to obvious in shot or a phone or something, it makes these docos way more interesting and kinda almost lets you suspend reality

    • @organologist
      @organologist 4 роки тому +36

      Good old BBC! Who actually made these ...

    • @darkfireeyes7
      @darkfireeyes7 4 роки тому +19

      Agreed. The modern pen in the limestone scene earlier almost spoiled things for me a moment.

    • @angelwhispers2060
      @angelwhispers2060 4 роки тому +44

      BBC originally made these programs. They really know their stuff. Still happy they sold on the licenses for this so that the programs could be on UA-cam

    • @christinafidance340
      @christinafidance340 3 роки тому +27

      And how they use old books for information rather than googling it!!

    • @plum_pie6402
      @plum_pie6402 3 роки тому +7

      @@christinafidance340 yes! just like that, makes it really interesting and just different!

  • @horseslove45
    @horseslove45 4 роки тому +298

    Ruth should do a cookbook i bet lots of people would buy it

  • @jenniferholden9397
    @jenniferholden9397 4 роки тому +860

    Could you turn the music up a bit, I nearly heard the narrator.

    • @blabla-rg7ky
      @blabla-rg7ky 4 роки тому +7

      :)

    • @megancrager4397
      @megancrager4397 4 роки тому +24

      All of them are like this 😫

    • @peteacher52
      @peteacher52 4 роки тому +31

      Well said. I was going to be less polite but refrained because everything else was good.

    • @natehill8069
      @natehill8069 4 роки тому +24

      Oh go on; theres no way you almost heard the narrator. That'd be like hearing the Enola Gay after the bomb went off...

    • @pollymonopoly8803
      @pollymonopoly8803 4 роки тому +13

      Hahaha. Totally agree. Though I’ve found the auto-generated captions to be exceptionally good on this one. Turns a big problem into a minor inconvenience.

  • @Lulabellexd
    @Lulabellexd 3 роки тому +268

    Ruth is one of those people who is super handy to have around. Not only is she knowledgeable and pragmatic, but she's a real grafter. She really reminds me of my mum in that respect

    • @patriciahiguera1724
      @patriciahiguera1724 3 роки тому +12

      I could see myself doing this kind of farming, who needs TV or cell phone or electricity

    • @courtneywalsh9780
      @courtneywalsh9780 3 роки тому +29

      She’s someone you definitely want on your Zombie Apocalypse Team!

    • @eddiesroom1868
      @eddiesroom1868 2 роки тому +6

      I told my mom about her.
      She's amazing

    • @TheAw1963
      @TheAw1963 2 роки тому +5

      She never fails.

    • @eddiesroom1868
      @eddiesroom1868 2 роки тому +6

      I don't know what a grafter is because I'm for California and extremely self centered, but that lady Ruth would be a great companion. She has a lucky husband/partner (you get what I'm saying)

  • @alexj3637
    @alexj3637 3 роки тому +271

    Honestly, the best part of this series is seeing all the artisans showing their craft

    • @MH-jt3lx
      @MH-jt3lx 3 роки тому +2

      The English are great craftsmen. I learned my trade from one and he was truly a master.

    • @TOAD7464
      @TOAD7464 3 роки тому +4

      I often wonder how many of them are doing it as a hobby and who is making a living off it.

    • @kingdill87
      @kingdill87 2 роки тому +8

      Geez this year stint must have cost a pretty penny just setting up starter stock. That insta-herd of cattle was upwards of 20k alone. I yearn to return to this way of life. A tad different existence if I was to return this time period being Canadian but I feel much more attached to this then this plastic life we encounter today. I go out of my way to acquire new skills at any chance possible.

    • @SweetSassyMuffins
      @SweetSassyMuffins 2 роки тому +4

      I think it was that man trying to milk that goat from behind 🤣

    • @ashleelarsen5002
      @ashleelarsen5002 2 роки тому

      5:45 🤭 dignity

  • @marylarsen2288
    @marylarsen2288 4 роки тому +162

    Those clothes really suit Peter. He looks so handsome. I can actually imagine him in something by the Bronte sisters.

    • @seantodd8875
      @seantodd8875 4 роки тому +19

      I could imagine him being in...well...:)

    • @shawnsisler3743
      @shawnsisler3743 3 роки тому +5

      @@seantodd8875 You are not alone in this... ;P

    • @olainfree905
      @olainfree905 3 роки тому +9

      I think that he is a doll. He has such a charming smile and attitude.

    • @tootsie3612
      @tootsie3612 3 роки тому +7

      He's absolutely gorgeous 😍

    • @Persephone76
      @Persephone76 3 роки тому +5

      Peter 🤩🥰 look grec or est europeen. He is not english 100 %

  • @Queen_of_Hearts-Sharnell
    @Queen_of_Hearts-Sharnell 3 роки тому +12

    I am a huge fan of that Professor that comes in to party with all the Folklore. I can never hear his name, and Closed Captioning doesn’t pick it up. I LOVE his portion of the show. He would be my favorite person at any party!!!

    • @stanlygirl5951
      @stanlygirl5951 2 роки тому +3

      Professor Ronald Hutton, maybe?

    • @darkfireeyes7
      @darkfireeyes7 Рік тому +1

      @@stanlygirl5951 that's correct, it's Prof Hutton. He has several books out including Stations of the Sun.

  • @aharder5765
    @aharder5765 4 роки тому +94

    "No one is under an illusions that market gardening is easy."-Ruth Goodman
    As a modern day market gardener, I completely agree since we're doing all of the work by hand.

  • @suet.r.4815
    @suet.r.4815 3 роки тому +49

    That "compromising position" for goat-milking is the way that my Grandmother taught me to milk them. It keeps them calm and makes things quicker-done, overall.

    • @Konkata
      @Konkata 2 роки тому +7

      I can see that. You might even have more control of their back legs from that position

  • @uncle_thulhu
    @uncle_thulhu 4 роки тому +30

    The goat standing in the milk bucket is a dominance display. You need to catch it's leg as it's raising it to step in the bucket, and keep raising it. It throws them totally off balance and they're too confused to try it again. Plus, it's hilarious.

  • @zenolachance1181
    @zenolachance1181 4 роки тому +187

    Having to hand milk goats when I was a child of 10 I learned very quickly, probably from an old farmer who told me so, you tie up the one foot because they can't take 2 ft off the ground so by tying one foot up they will not step in the pan nor kick you while you are milking

    • @ColonelSandersLite
      @ColonelSandersLite 4 роки тому +61

      Goats hate this man because of this one weird trick!

    • @zeenasworld
      @zeenasworld 4 роки тому +9

      valuable info. thanks for sharing.

    • @zenolachance1181
      @zenolachance1181 4 роки тому +3

      @@ColonelSandersLite ha ha

    • @Katharina-rp7iq
      @Katharina-rp7iq 4 роки тому +12

      My grandparents taught me how to milk cows and kill a chicken.
      You kill a chicken with a long knitting needle you push into their brain through the beak because then they don't contract the muscles and the feathers come off much easier.

    • @megangreene3955
      @megangreene3955 3 роки тому +3

      Good to know...at least for those who have goats.

  • @jennifermcdonald5432
    @jennifermcdonald5432 4 роки тому +89

    Good Lord those horses are wonderful! Absolutely magnificent. I understand why tractors were introduced, but such a lot was lost when those magnificent horses were replaced!

    • @faytheweber8578
      @faytheweber8578 4 роки тому +15

      working horses had very , very hard lives, [not to mention they were sent to war to pull wagons and guns]. and were sent to slaughter when their working days were over. thank God for tractors which spared the horses. There will always be draft horse enthusiasts who keep the horses as a hobby with comfortable lives for us to enjoy

    • @Stoogewriter
      @Stoogewriter 3 роки тому +8

      Horses are magnificent animals.

    • @TheBoabby50
      @TheBoabby50 3 роки тому +9

      Check out "Heavy Horses" by Jethro Tull. A lament to the loss of these working horses

    • @InWinds
      @InWinds 3 роки тому +6

      @@faytheweber8578 well, these horses only work here and there. And are specifically bred to work, and NEED to work. Tractors introduce vast amounts of smoke and toxic chemicals into the environment, and the introduction enabled factory farming to bloom, which is a large cause of global warming due to tilling and lack of soil care.
      Coming from a farmer & homesteader.

    • @kathychildress18
      @kathychildress18 3 роки тому +2

      So sad after their usefulness & replaced by cars they were sent to the knacker

  • @mrsteamie4196
    @mrsteamie4196 4 роки тому +48

    Ruth and her daughter are just hilarious and so alike!!

  • @LuisAldamiz
    @LuisAldamiz 4 роки тому +285

    This series is absolutely priceless. I'm in love with it.

    • @darcyjohnson6771
      @darcyjohnson6771 4 роки тому +3

      Luis Aldamiz ....me too!

    • @emilygilbeyful
      @emilygilbeyful 4 роки тому +6

      Growing up in rural Britain this series has really made me feel connected to my village and ancestors. My great grandad was born in this time and I've just done my ancestry. We have lived in this village since time immemorial but we were very wealthy originally owning the best house in the valley but my great grandad squandered all the money and has lots of mistresses and wives and kids 😂

    • @mrsg8996
      @mrsg8996 4 роки тому +4

      It really is great. It helps too that these guys doing a good job at sharing how much they enjoy making this and other historical recreation series.
      ☺️I accidentally fell asleep watching this episode and woke up to my kid sitting close to the TV absolutely entranced.

    • @charitysheppard4549
      @charitysheppard4549 3 роки тому +6

      Make sure you dont miss Wartime Farm, Victorian Farm, Tudor Monastery Farm, Green Valley Farm, Victorian Farm Christmas, and Victorian Pharmacy

    • @sarahadair7320
      @sarahadair7320 3 роки тому +1

      I agree. My favorite is the Tudor series.

  • @stephanieroberts4474
    @stephanieroberts4474 Рік тому +7

    I wish these shows were still being made. I enjoy all of Alex's, Peter's and Ruth's trials and triumphs through the ages.

  • @JG-td3qw
    @JG-td3qw 4 роки тому +162

    This is not only re - making history but also learning survival skills.

    • @servraghgiorsal7382
      @servraghgiorsal7382 Рік тому

      Years ago, an Idaho woman named Karla Emory wrote a wonderful book about homesteading inamerica. If you are interested in this, I think you'd really be interested in this. Go-to a second hand book dealer andaask him to help you find one.

    • @servraghgiorsal7382
      @servraghgiorsal7382 Рік тому

      Correction.... interested in this kind of information and skills, you'd like Karla book on homesteading.

  • @JoaoPessoa86
    @JoaoPessoa86 4 роки тому +269

    " and they're very quiet" *MOOOOOOOOOOO!!!*

  • @martyshannon7542
    @martyshannon7542 4 роки тому +89

    The flavor of chicken, I can relate to. My 103 year old Aunt and 80 year old Mother talks about the no flavor chicken we have today.

    • @laurafuoco7046
      @laurafuoco7046 4 роки тому +12

      No shop bought chook will ever taste like a home reared one. utterly different animal!

    • @gracecookie4604
      @gracecookie4604 4 роки тому +16

      No joke supermarkt chicken is flavorless compared to home grown chicken raised chicken for eggs when they stop laying we fatten them up for the pot so yummy

    • @maxdecphoenix
      @maxdecphoenix 3 роки тому +11

      That's because supermarket chickens are culled very young so they have no fat in them. The birds are just injected with hormone to put on a lot of meat but they have no fat on them to flavor anything. Turkey's are even worse, significantly more meat, roughly same amount of fat. We've just accepted that the flavor has to come from the oil (fried) or 'flavor injectors.' You want a good flavorful meat, you need an old bird, with a good amount of fat. It's the difference between taste/sustenance.

    • @hermeticmoth
      @hermeticmoth 3 роки тому +15

      I was just having this conversation today. I stopped eating chicken for a while when I returned from provencal France. It was alarming how much better the chicken from the small markets were there vs. how they are here in the States 😕

    • @laceneil4570
      @laceneil4570 3 роки тому +16

      The meat you get from a small, locally sourced butcher is way better than supermarket meat. I buy meat from the local butcher whenever I can afford it cuz it's just so much tastier. Also, it supports local farms and since the meat doesn't travel very far, is better for the environment.

  • @cleverusername9369
    @cleverusername9369 2 роки тому +11

    Prince and Tom are truly magnificent animals. Well cared for, healthy, happy, and blessed with that Shire quality of humble majesty. Good boys.

  • @adreabrooks11
    @adreabrooks11 4 роки тому +49

    For those having trouble: I've noticed that the audio issue (loud music, quiet vocal track) seems to be a problem with a lot of BBC productions. It seems I can always solve the issue by wearing headphones - it seems to even things out.

    • @fish_bacon
      @fish_bacon 3 роки тому +5

      Noticed it while wearing headphones, ... so nope :P

    • @angiejones3714
      @angiejones3714 3 роки тому +1

      I mirror screen to my television and I only notice occasionally.

    • @MisanthropicOcellus
      @MisanthropicOcellus 3 роки тому +2

      Having seen these air on TV originally I also noticed that the audio is weird on here, I do wonder if its to do with being made for television.

  • @selenabonilla2281
    @selenabonilla2281 4 роки тому +379

    Wish the music wasn't louder than the person talking . They're already talking soft enough when the music is going.

    • @spoon1968
      @spoon1968 4 роки тому +5

      The captions don't help either because they keep turning off after two minutes or so.

    • @adit1001able
      @adit1001able 4 роки тому +5

      Use headphones

    • @rickwold3864
      @rickwold3864 4 роки тому +2

      Stop crying 😢

    • @angelwhispers2060
      @angelwhispers2060 4 роки тому +16

      It's a trick to keep the copyright infringement Bots confused. All of these shows are actually produced by the BBC.
      Update since I originally posted this it has come to my attention that absolute history and timeline actually have rights to show this from the new owners since BBC sold the rights to these particular shows. BBC archives still contain all the old websites related to the show

    • @organologist
      @organologist 4 роки тому +4

      @@angelwhispers2060 That makes a lot of sense! I don't remember the audio being so unbalanced when I watched them in the original

  • @eugenegrant3611
    @eugenegrant3611 4 роки тому +52

    I am surprised that Ruth Goodman is surprised (at 17:50) tasting pickled apples. Growing up in Ukraine, that was one of my favorite common-folks foods. You could buy them on any farmer market in winter time, when other fruits were not available. My grandma knew at least TWO DOZENS recipes of pickled apples, plus few recipes of apple cider and apple wine.

    • @ritageorge8748
      @ritageorge8748 3 роки тому +3

      Wow but are they good-well mind they must have been-like a relish-just rolling over in my mind-best be off after 5am here🤭

    • @funsizedi88
      @funsizedi88 2 роки тому +8

      Haha. I'm American, of German and Ukrainian decent. My great grandma used to make pickles apples, always had them at Christmas. No one over here knew what the hell they were.

    • @servraghgiorsal7382
      @servraghgiorsal7382 Рік тому +2

      @@funsizedi88 mine too. Mom was from Pennsylvania and set the table with "7 sweets and 7 sours' little bowls of baby dill and bread and butter pickles, spicedpeaches 3 crabapple, Cole slaw vinegared w and sour cream, cottage cheese and apple butter, pickled beets beeteggs, corn relish.. The LouisianaCajunscallthese "LAGNIAPPE" ( thelittleextra).

    • @AdamBechtol
      @AdamBechtol 9 місяців тому

      :) I've a Ukrainian heritage and I've never heard of them, but I'm so very fond of pickles, so I'm looking forward to trying them.

  • @southernwanderer7912
    @southernwanderer7912 3 роки тому +7

    Professor Hutton always adds a little extra to the end.

  • @justanotherperson584
    @justanotherperson584 3 роки тому +32

    Peter does what it takes to get results. All of them actually.

  • @lone6718
    @lone6718 3 роки тому +30

    I love these series. The only criticism I have is the volume of the music drowns out the narration often.

    • @celtoloco788
      @celtoloco788 Рік тому

      thats cuz this is a pirate copy of a dvd that this crap youtube page uploaded thru a $2 mono headphone cord. Try buying the dvd's from the BBC if you want quality. You get what you pay for and you pay nothing for youtube, so...........

    • @AdamBechtol
      @AdamBechtol 9 місяців тому

      Did quite at the end there :/

  • @annaratliff4638
    @annaratliff4638 4 роки тому +70

    This is my favorite thing to watch right now. I'm from America but my ancestors are from Scotland and England so I love seeing how they would have lived. Also this trio is fantastic together

    • @blabla-rg7ky
      @blabla-rg7ky 4 роки тому +17

      I'm from Romania and so, I have absolutely NOTHING to do with how Brits have lived ages ago, but damn if this documentary is not entertaining as fuck! I have wasted 2 days worth of daily chores by not being able to stop watching the "Secrets of the Castle", "Victorian Farm" and now "Edwardian Farm" series. And I'm not even fond of history in general (not even my own country's history, much less England's history) but this re-enacting show is so good that I can't even....

    • @Stoogewriter
      @Stoogewriter 3 роки тому +5

      I also have ancestry in the UK (England, Scotland, Ireland)! I also love watching historical documentaries! It gives me a greater respect for those that have come before.

    • @joesmith5095
      @joesmith5095 3 роки тому +2

      @@Stoogewriter must be odd not knowing the ins and outs of your ancestry, i mean - you could know a lot, but if you live here a lot of people are well aware of what their family's job was or what happened to their ancestors hundreds of years back. Quite fascinating really. I just love walking around and seeing 400 year old houses like it's nothing

    • @laurieb3703
      @laurieb3703 3 роки тому +2

      @@Stoogewriter same! I love it ❤️❤️ I'm 40% British, 37% Scottish, 13% Irish and 10% Norwegian. My family finished coming to the US around 1775. I just love Britain and it's history 🥰🇺🇲🇬🇧

    • @stephaniemcpherson2558
      @stephaniemcpherson2558 2 роки тому

      Me too!!! Oh how I long to visit the lands of my ancestors 🥺

  • @rougepilot5513
    @rougepilot5513 4 роки тому +62

    27:40 I now understand what "I'm in a pickle" means - that you are in a situation that is hard to get out of, "preserving" your state

    • @megancrager4397
      @megancrager4397 4 роки тому +7

      My kind of analogy.....the over analyzed kind 😂

    • @staytuned2L337
      @staytuned2L337 3 роки тому

      I liked the "all out of sorts" saying from the tudor times

  • @jacquelinenieves4061
    @jacquelinenieves4061 3 роки тому +26

    Many many times our modern life can be taken for granted, experiencing past historical eras with these incredible knowledgeable geniuses, really opens up my heart to see the real value in life....

  • @annika_panicka
    @annika_panicka 4 роки тому +43

    55:30-56:15 An ascotted Professor Hutton at his dramatic best! He even gets atmospheric music this time, not that he needs it.🎃

    • @MoonLitChild
      @MoonLitChild 3 роки тому +4

      I love Professor Hutton in everything he shows up in-- this, Time Team, he's such a gem!

    • @annika_panicka
      @annika_panicka 3 роки тому +2

      @@MoonLitChild He really is very informative and quite the lovable eccentric. Some people think he's weird (yes, but in a good way) and that I'm weird for enjoying his appearances (sod them-Lol). I'm not sure I've seen him on "Time Team"-I've seen Ruth once and Alex a few times, but never Hutton ... I'll have to look up which episodes he's in. Thanks!

  • @kaptainkaos1202
    @kaptainkaos1202 4 роки тому +53

    I was a docent at Sotterley Plantation in Southern Maryland, US. In the smokehouse they still have a ham trough to salt the meat in. The trough is almost a meter across and almost 2 meters long and was hollowed out from a solid piece of oak back in the 1700's.

  • @philupdegrave731
    @philupdegrave731 2 роки тому +9

    The entire Farm Series is a triumph. I re-watch them over and over. Television at its very best.

  • @dfsnsdfn
    @dfsnsdfn 4 роки тому +26

    that halloween dinner was such a vibe. i wish i was invited.

  • @angiejones3714
    @angiejones3714 3 роки тому +17

    I love all the "farms" y'all have done. Ruth rocks she's cool as hell. Peter is a brute what a stud muffin.

    • @duaneputnam9923
      @duaneputnam9923 3 роки тому

      You sound like a Southern girl from the U. S. Are you?

    • @angiejones3714
      @angiejones3714 3 роки тому +1

      @@duaneputnam9923 from the U.S. yes, but I am an army brat. I lived in the south briefly. I spent most of my younger years in Germany.

    • @celtoloco788
      @celtoloco788 Рік тому

      'yall' didnt do anything. These are old BBC shows mate......you didnt actually think this bullshit youtube page made these?

    • @angiejones3714
      @angiejones3714 Рік тому

      @@celtoloco788 no we know they are old BBC shows. We just watch them on you tube. I still enjoy them.

    • @AdamBechtol
      @AdamBechtol 9 місяців тому

      :)

  • @paulmanson253
    @paulmanson253 4 роки тому +42

    Ah,scrumpy. Nectar of the Gods,that. 40 years ago I visited England and and a friend took me out to Devon. 3 pints of scrumpy and a pub lunch,we fell asleep on the train back,and woke up feeling wonderful. Found a place in Putney that sold the stuff bulk. Very different from beer. I can only hope that it is still available for those who like it.

    • @caitlynway5274
      @caitlynway5274 4 роки тому +8

      paul manson I live near the scrumpy farms. It is sold in the supermarkets near me, I’ve also seen it in Swansea, don’t know if its sold anywhere else.

    • @drewgehringer7813
      @drewgehringer7813 4 роки тому +7

      Scrumpy will always be around: the process for making it is about as simple as "pulp apples, leave in sanitized container a few months so nature can take its course"

    • @beth8775
      @beth8775 3 роки тому

      Sounds like what I see labeled hard cider.

    • @OpalWilde
      @OpalWilde 2 роки тому

      I live in Bristol (South West England), scrumpy is alive and well here! As is mead.

    • @paulmanson253
      @paulmanson253 2 роки тому +1

      @@OpalWilde I am absolutely delighted to hear it.

  • @zeenasworld
    @zeenasworld 4 роки тому +23

    i want the board of agriculture and fisheries leaflets. Wish covid 19 I think we need to go back to the days that is in this series. Found it on Google books for free. fascinating read.

    • @laurieb3703
      @laurieb3703 3 роки тому +1

      @Silicon Nomad I think they just mean a more traditional way of life lol!

  • @JayVBear45
    @JayVBear45 4 роки тому +70

    The sound mixing needs to balance out the music with the voice over. Really hard to hear the narration over the music.

    • @EllieChristine744
      @EllieChristine744 3 роки тому +2

      Hi - if you search for " Edwardian farm" on youtube, someone called Brad Collett has downloaded a really good video, with no issues. The same goes for Tales from the green valley, someone called permahome... etc. You can find all the farms these three people made with the BBC if you check out Ruth Goodman on the net.. I love these series! Good luck - stay safe.. greetings from Sweden!

  • @lizzie5543
    @lizzie5543 4 роки тому +26

    i absolutely love these series. The only thing this season that's bothering me is the imbalanced sound quality of the videos. The background music so far has been vastly too loud. then the mic sound from our people is either too loud, or muffled. the quality of this season so far has been subpar with editing quality

    • @EllieChristine744
      @EllieChristine744 3 роки тому +2

      Hi - if you search for " Edwardian farm" on youtube, someone called Brad Collett has downloaded a really good video, with no issues. The same goes for Tales from the green valley, someone called permahome... etc. You can find all the farms these three people made with the BBC if you check out Ruth Goodman on the net.. I love these series! Good luck - stay safe.. greetings from Sweden!

  • @bobbyhood101
    @bobbyhood101 4 роки тому +65

    Imagine a country lad walking up and watching Peter's goat milking technique! LoL we hobble the nannies when you milk no muss no fuss! We also strain the apple cider and feed the mush to the hogs along with the acorns and forage makes for some very nice pork !

    • @Coree5911
      @Coree5911 2 роки тому

      Where are the real Edwardian now who lived there years back?

    • @darkfireeyes7
      @darkfireeyes7 2 роки тому +2

      Hobbling sounds like a very good idea. I'll have to remember that if I ever have goats.

  • @marialiyubman
    @marialiyubman 4 роки тому +90

    Were you allowed to call a farm animal “king Edward” or “prince” without being arrested for blasphemy?
    “One word, Peter: dignity” 🤣🤣🤣

    • @galadballcrusher8182
      @galadballcrusher8182 4 роки тому +7

      blasphemy? i think someone confuses it with Lèse-majesté here en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%C3%A8se-majest%C3%A9 this isnt ancient rome for emperors to call themselves gods and Edward wasnt like ... head of church was he?

    • @theheartoftexas
      @theheartoftexas 4 роки тому +19

      Galad Ballcrusher Actually yes. King Edward was the head of the Church of England, just as Queen Elizabeth is today.

    • @marycanary86
      @marycanary86 3 роки тому +12

      @@theheartoftexas head of church and actual GOD are two different things tho

  • @LynxSouth
    @LynxSouth 4 роки тому +35

    A great many standard varieties of apple tree bear fruit only every second year. The off year may see a small crop -- maybe 10% of the bearing year's, a handful of apples, or simply no fruit at all.

    • @indy_go_blue6048
      @indy_go_blue6048 3 роки тому +9

      There's a small forest near my home in which an apple tree is growing wild and it's pretty old. I can't recall the name of the apples but it's Norwegian or Danish. Anyway it produces apples every two years; they're pretty small and not very sweet but they make very good juice and sauce.

  • @whyme7897
    @whyme7897 3 роки тому +8

    I cant stop binging these three, it really is 10/10 entertainment

  • @robc3586
    @robc3586 3 роки тому +23

    Those shire horses are truly magnificent!

  • @ashleyspratlin1811
    @ashleyspratlin1811 3 роки тому +35

    "He has got aristocratic lines."
    King David II: _taking a massive piss_

  • @joakimblomqvist7229
    @joakimblomqvist7229 3 роки тому +19

    This is soooo good! Educational, reviving history, traditions, aiming for a more self sustainable life, closer to nature. And... amusing. The archeology/history team is a brilliant mix! I just wish they made more if this stuff!

  • @angus3963
    @angus3963 3 роки тому +13

    That's a profit between 4,953.48 and £7,430.22 per acre in 2019. Also, I'm ADDCITED to these series' and have been binging every one.

  • @dangwancie4797
    @dangwancie4797 3 роки тому +8

    RUTH is a frakin' legend

  • @marycanary86
    @marycanary86 3 роки тому +8

    the banjo as the bulls big red arse was fucking off in the completely wrong direction had me creased xD

  • @megb9700
    @megb9700 3 роки тому +10

    How did Ruth learn all this? She’s amazing! I wanted to tell her daughter, “Listen, listen, remember!”

    • @gailcbull
      @gailcbull 3 роки тому +7

      Have you watched the Tudor Monastery Farm series? It features an adult Eve. She has followed in her historian mother's footsteps and learned the art of Tudor-style bookbinding. She does a whole segment on her own, explaining and showing how books were made in the 1500s.

  • @zachikhothingo1
    @zachikhothingo1 4 роки тому +29

    What a gem this channel is, so glad came across this.

  • @sherierodriguez7708
    @sherierodriguez7708 3 роки тому +7

    Ruth is awesome. Always full of cheer

  • @Electrovolutiona
    @Electrovolutiona 4 роки тому +71

    Ruth's daughter; "and the trotter"
    Ruth; "that's for tea"
    Ruth's daughter; *Absolutely disgusted.
    I suppose mum doesn't bring work home with her often ey?

    • @jackdurston8073
      @jackdurston8073 3 роки тому +4

      @Silicon Nomad Tea is a synonym for dinner in some places. I use it interchangeably.

    • @sarahadair7320
      @sarahadair7320 3 роки тому +1

      @@jackdurston8073 oooh!!! In Texas, it means literal tea. Usually iced tea. 😂 probably not the most appealing combination.

    • @spookayitsme
      @spookayitsme 3 роки тому +2

      @Silicon Nomad tea = dinner in England

    • @michealpersicko9531
      @michealpersicko9531 3 роки тому

      @@spookayitsme I thought tea was an afternoon around 4 pick me up thing before supper?

    • @spookayitsme
      @spookayitsme 3 роки тому +1

      @@michealpersicko9531 some people in England (and some other countries ie- Australia) use the word tea to mean dinner. It's often interchangeably used to refer to both. Tho I've not specifically heard it used as a reference specifically to a 4pm pick-me-up

  • @justmek3395
    @justmek3395 3 роки тому +24

    Love the channel but seriously a commercial or two every frickin few minutes is obnoxious.
    Just counted 18 commercials! UA-cam is bonkers.

    • @ritageorge8748
      @ritageorge8748 3 роки тому +1

      So it's like that everywhere?

    • @littleredhen8695
      @littleredhen8695 3 роки тому +3

      If you fast forward to the end then hit replay the commercials aren't there anymore

    • @michealpersicko9531
      @michealpersicko9531 3 роки тому +3

      Just download either uBlock Origin or fucking AdBlock Plus and join us in the 21st century.

    • @sabrinastratton1991
      @sabrinastratton1991 2 роки тому

      I have premium which takes out the ads but still supports channels

  • @mikitz
    @mikitz 3 роки тому +13

    These were the days when operation Market Garden was still a great idea.

    • @indy_go_blue6048
      @indy_go_blue6048 3 роки тому +5

      99% of those over 25 have no idea what you're talking about.

  • @cadetkellie69
    @cadetkellie69 2 роки тому +3

    Ruth is such a Beautiful Soul!!! I could watch her research daily. Alex and Peter are such a cool combination of hard work, open minds, and teaching.
    May God’s Blessings Always be theirs.

  • @terisoto8230
    @terisoto8230 3 роки тому +5

    I love 💕 watching this program. How they did things back then and how people actually lived. I love RUTH AND PETER. I love seeing the Edwardian Era.

  • @666mrdoctor
    @666mrdoctor Рік тому +2

    The sailor singing Santy Anno was a gem.

  • @Itscannatella
    @Itscannatella 3 роки тому +2

    These are my favorite videos to fall asleep sleep to.

  • @panoreapan470
    @panoreapan470 3 роки тому +6

    I have noticed this in most english documantaries, the music is so loud it covers the voices of the people

  • @KanaidBlack
    @KanaidBlack 4 роки тому +66

    "This is the season when the wild geese come over, and their voices and voice of the wind, wailing about the moor. You hear... the gabriel hounds, the witch hounds, the hounds of Hell, dark with fiery eyes and tongues... coming for you in the night! And as you pass the abandon mine shaft the more you hear the air trapped, sobbing withing...! You hear the voices, the souls in Hell, rising... in torment...
    And that's how you know Christmas was on it's way!"

    • @TheAnnArnold
      @TheAnnArnold 4 роки тому +2

      KanaidBlack “...they call the wind, Maria...}

    • @TheAnnArnold
      @TheAnnArnold 4 роки тому

      Autumn?

    • @jennifermorton9083
      @jennifermorton9083 4 роки тому +2

      Thats a relief! Christmas is on its way . The day our saviour was born so that if we believe in Him we don't have to join the writhing and wailing of the souls in hell.

    • @jennifermorton9083
      @jennifermorton9083 4 роки тому +1

      Personally I prefer all saints to Halloween which is celebrated on Ist November. It's generally more cheerful.

    • @jaxsterspaku
      @jaxsterspaku 4 роки тому +2

      Peter looked scared. 👻

  • @fangtasmic7641
    @fangtasmic7641 4 місяці тому

    Three people who are so important to me, three friends that have gotten me through so much in my life and they’ll probably never even know about it. Thank you Ruth, Peter, and Alex. ❤

  • @Seamlesscontinuum
    @Seamlesscontinuum 3 роки тому +8

    I'm always so impressed when I see Eve's nails. :o

  • @caelestisnox7045
    @caelestisnox7045 4 роки тому +115

    Can't hear the narration over the booming music forcing them to the background

    • @dannydethanos6994
      @dannydethanos6994 4 роки тому

      Caelestis Nox I’ve heard at some point it was something about putting the video on UA-cam that messes with it, But that doesn’t make much sense to me so I’m not sure.

    • @mrcmoes
      @mrcmoes 4 роки тому +1

      @@dannydethanos6994 they licenced this show from the bbc. Some people claim that on original broadcast it was fine. But every official upload on streaming services I have tried watching it on sounds like this

    • @nmosfet5797
      @nmosfet5797 3 роки тому +1

      ua-cam.com/video/hrSB6RZbIhY/v-deo.html this with good sound

    • @caelestisnox7045
      @caelestisnox7045 3 роки тому

      @@nmosfet5797 thank you

    • @EllieChristine744
      @EllieChristine744 3 роки тому

      Hi - if you search for " Edwardian farm" on youtube, someone called Brad Collett has downloaded a really good video, with no issues. The same goes for Tales from the green valley, someone called permahome... etc. You can find all the farms these three people made with the BBC if you check out Ruth Goodman on the net.. I love these series! Good luck - stay safe.. greetings from Sweden!

  • @sandrajames7961
    @sandrajames7961 3 роки тому +34

    It's great to see Alex finally being MORE part of the heavy work instead of putting it all on Peter!

  • @loriscook5231
    @loriscook5231 4 роки тому +14

    Love the Edwardian era, my mothers, mother grew up in a tiny village in the south of England. The family decided to move to New Zealand, two sons were to go first with their sister (about 18yr old) to cook and clean for them. WW1 broke out and the rest of the family couldn’t travel to join them. It was 10years later that they were reunited. My Nana had married in NZ and had my mother. The family left in England had another son the same age as my mother when they finally arrived in NZ. As a child I couldn’t understand how Mum had an uncle the same age as her.

    • @harrietw7571
      @harrietw7571 3 роки тому +3

      My village in south west England, was the birth place of Francis Trask.(1840 - 6 April 1910) He was a 20th-century Member of the New Zealand Legislative Council and Mayor of Nelson.
      You can look up the 1911 Census on the internet, maybe learn a little more about where your family was from.

  • @ZoeyCLR78
    @ZoeyCLR78 4 роки тому +39

    What happens to the property after the experiment is done ? Does it become a community garden or donated to agricultural department at a local college or what ?

    • @7rotorhead
      @7rotorhead 4 роки тому +57

      Zoey R This series was filmed at Morwellham Quay, in Devon, England. It's actually a working village visitors attraction... www.morwellham-quay.co.uk/edwardianfarm

    • @ZoeyCLR78
      @ZoeyCLR78 4 роки тому +22

      @@7rotorhead Wow ! Thats awesome, I'll have to add it to my bucket list. Would love to see this in person. 😄

    • @leechowning2712
      @leechowning2712 4 роки тому +34

      Each series has been on properties actually dedicated to the time. Which is why you don't see cars and such. They are all places I would love to visit.

  • @zeenasworld
    @zeenasworld 4 роки тому +7

    i am learning a lot from this show. how cute they eat from his hand. Aww.

  • @xDHAYMAN
    @xDHAYMAN 3 роки тому +12

    Edwardian sound mixing at its finest

  • @martynaostrowska7150
    @martynaostrowska7150 Рік тому +1

    Professor Ronald Hutton is an absolute treasure. I LOVE him!

  • @ernest-kemplar
    @ernest-kemplar 10 місяців тому +1

    man ive got to say as a history nut seeing this farm, it really brings this era of farming and people to life.

  • @worldtraveler930
    @worldtraveler930 4 роки тому +11

    So once all the juices are pressed out of the cider cheese is it then used to feed the livestock or is it cut into bars and sold to the Hipsters as energy bars?!?

  • @celticlass8573
    @celticlass8573 3 роки тому +5

    To all the people asking/complaining about the sound--this channel didn't make the series (the BBC did, 10 years ago).

  • @SeraphinaPZ
    @SeraphinaPZ Рік тому +1

    Remember watching this back in like, 2013. So good to see it on here now.

  • @BDThomas
    @BDThomas 3 роки тому +7

    I am loving this series, and Peter is my new man-crush.

  • @karenknicely1788
    @karenknicely1788 3 роки тому +12

    I would so love to be taught by all three of them!

  • @morenofranco9235
    @morenofranco9235 3 роки тому +5

    I love Ruth. Such a Gem!

  • @Dellicatspurr
    @Dellicatspurr Рік тому +1

    I've watched this multiple times but this is the first time I actually saw a glimpse of the camera crew, well their shadows when the horses were first on the field

  • @savannahshane2231
    @savannahshane2231 Рік тому +2

    Shout out to Ruth for being a complete legend and straight up bare handing that chicken to clean out the innards. It had to be done, but she didn't even blink twice.

  • @osgeld
    @osgeld 4 роки тому +10

    I can tell this is one of Eve's more favorite appearances in the show :)

  • @nancybeveridgetaylor3256
    @nancybeveridgetaylor3256 3 роки тому +6

    This reminds me of growing up on the farm and pickling & canning in the fall with my mother from our truck garden for the winter. 🥰 her pantry looks like the pantry for the pickled, dried, smoked & home canned foods i grew up with. As well as the dry grain ready to mill to make breads. We had friends that we traded for eggs and milk as well because we were well known for our good breads and rolls and canned goods.

  • @cheriegonzales7632
    @cheriegonzales7632 Рік тому +2

    I finished the Victorian Farm series on Christmas Eve and now on to the Edwardian series. I can't stop!
    Prof Hutton is the best Halloween party guest ever!

  • @koplup
    @koplup 3 роки тому +2

    I love Ruth, Alex and Peter!

  • @francespowell6923
    @francespowell6923 4 роки тому +7

    I love these shows!

  • @Madame_Butterfly_13
    @Madame_Butterfly_13 3 роки тому +7

    Whoever was in charge of wardrobe did Peter so dirty during this series! He looks uncomfortable doing all that work in clothes that are too tight for him. Poor guy.

  • @iLitAfuseiCantStop
    @iLitAfuseiCantStop 4 роки тому +9

    I love this program & love this trio even more!!

  • @aninastorm4709
    @aninastorm4709 7 місяців тому

    This series in INCREDIBLE!!!
    I love the fact that the strawberry plants that were planted a hundred years ago were still growing and thriving on the platou, just waiting for someone to return and give them a chance again...

  • @Faeriehood
    @Faeriehood 4 роки тому +8

    Thank you soooooooo much for posting this! I just adore these types of programs! Super excited to watch 🤓

  • @annika_panicka
    @annika_panicka 4 роки тому +14

    5:47 I've never been more jealous of a goat before in my life, and I've been jealous of several goats ...

    • @annika_panicka
      @annika_panicka 3 роки тому +1

      @Straight Razor Daddy Lol-It has nothing to do with cider, but the milk is potable.

    • @darklymoonlit
      @darklymoonlit 3 роки тому

      🤣🤣🤣

    • @annika_panicka
      @annika_panicka 3 роки тому +1

      @@darklymoonlit 😉

    • @annika_panicka
      @annika_panicka 3 роки тому +1

      @@wynterwren1155 Lol! 🐐🐐

    • @laurieb3703
      @laurieb3703 3 роки тому

      🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣💀💀💀💀

  • @mtsenskmtsensk5113
    @mtsenskmtsensk5113 2 роки тому +2

    At 1 minute 15seconds , saying cheap imports from America made it uneconomic to grow them in England. What they are carefully not saying, is the scandal of the corn laws to prevent imports had doubled the price of bread, and this was to protect the landed gentry owners of most farming.The Corn Laws were tariffs and restrictions put in place from 1815-1846 in the United Kingdom. Economist David Ricardo (1772, London, England-died September 11, 1823) believed landlords tended to squander their wealth on luxuries, rather than invest. He believed the Corn Laws were leading to the stagnation of the British economy. Parliament repealed the Corn Laws in 1846.

  • @mariaoakley8246
    @mariaoakley8246 3 роки тому +4

    I have no idea why I love this stuff, it's soon hard to explain to others

  • @richardmoss3018
    @richardmoss3018 3 роки тому +4

    Great stuff! Decent quality video not the usual crappy uploads of old videotapes. Still tired of UA-cam's saturation bombings of the same commercials again and again.

    • @EllieChristine744
      @EllieChristine744 3 роки тому

      Hi - if you search for " Edwardian farm" on youtube, someone called Brad Collett has downloaded a really good video, with no issues. The same goes for Tales from the green valley, someone called permahome... etc. You can find all the farms these three people made with the BBC if you check out Ruth Goodman on the net.. I love these series! Good luck - stay safe.. greetings from Sweden!

  • @innocentsweetiepie
    @innocentsweetiepie 2 роки тому +3

    Wish you guys would do this experiment for a lot more old eras.

  • @LotteBubbles1995
    @LotteBubbles1995 2 роки тому +2

    I adore these series, I have no illusions about how hard this life is but the idea of being able to grow and eat as much of my own food as possible is my end goal for my life

  • @jakericcitelli8044
    @jakericcitelli8044 3 роки тому +7

    I am 18 and growing an apple tree from seed. I know I wont get the same apple that I planted, but if I can get some apples in a few years when I am of drinking age in my country, I will make the same apple cider and ale they made.

    • @utej.k.bemsel4777
      @utej.k.bemsel4777 Рік тому

      Well not all apples are for making a good cider.
      Some have to be sweet, so there is enough sugar for the alkohol to build, and some have to be sour to get it better tasting.
      You can even make cider with pears and quinces.

  • @tflics
    @tflics 3 роки тому +6

    I am really glad I found this channel! Absolutely fascinating!!

  • @Bille994
    @Bille994 4 роки тому +33

    Aww I'd love it if we still celebrated the traditional un-Americanised Halloween here in the UK! I feel like we've lost touch with all that tradition, as much as I enjoy how we do it these days

    • @maxdecphoenix
      @maxdecphoenix 3 роки тому +13

      the un-Anglicized Saxon Halloween tradition was a pilgrimage where family carried the bones and ashes of their relatives who died that year to a communal burial site for a 3-4 days long festival.

    • @Itscannatella
      @Itscannatella 3 роки тому +3

      @@maxdecphoenix yeah I think I’d prefer the American version then.

    • @LeviRHogan
      @LeviRHogan 2 роки тому +2

      At one point in America the American Halloween was known as "Irish Halloween".

    • @Bella-fz9fy
      @Bella-fz9fy Рік тому

      American Halloween traditions came from England originally then re-enforced later by Irish immigrants.We had mischief night and door to door trick or treat fancy dress traditions etc that died out here but carried on in America and now are coming back!

  • @mrs.g.9816
    @mrs.g.9816 3 роки тому +2

    I can't get over those Shire horses! I think heavy horses are beautiful.

  • @milhousevanhoutan9235
    @milhousevanhoutan9235 2 роки тому +2

    Watching Eve do all these things when she was younger knowing she eventually became an apprentice bookbinder is awesome!

  • @tonguepetals
    @tonguepetals 3 роки тому +3

    I want a pair of giant horses. I’m also low key in love with the lass who owned the magnificent beast.