• 2010
  • 59m
Edwardian Farm

Summary In this 12-part documentary series of Edwardian Farm, archaeologists Alex Langlands and Peter Ginn and historian Ruth Goodman go back in time to the early 1900s to live the lives of Edwardian farmers for a full calendar year. View more details

  • 2010
  • 59m

Edwardian Farm

Directed : Unknown

Written : Unknown

Stars : Ruth Goodman Peter Ginn Alex Langlands Stephen Noonan

All cast & crew

8.8

Details

Genres : Adventure Documentary

Release date : Nov 9, 2010

Countries of origin : United Kingdom

Official sites : Official site

Language : English

Filming locations : Morwelham Quay Living Museum, Calstock, Cornwall, England, UK

Production companies : Lion Television

Summary In this 12-part documentary series of Edwardian Farm, archaeologists Alex Langlands and Peter Ginn and historian Ruth Goodman go back in time to the early 1900s to live the lives of Edwardian farmers for a full calendar year. View more details

Details

Genres : Adventure Documentary

Release date : Nov 9, 2010

Countries of origin : United Kingdom

Official sites : Official site

Language : English

Filming locations : Morwelham Quay Living Museum, Calstock, Cornwall, England, UK

Production companies : Lion Television

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Episodes

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Episode 1 • Nov 09, 2010
Episode #1.1
The trio establish their domicile, scrubbing a flagstone floor and cleaning out a clogged chimney. They build a hayrick to put up hay, hire a stonemason to make a trough, learn to thatch, make a rag rug and begin keeping chickens and sheep. Ruth cooks a sheep's head stew.
Episode 2 • Nov 16, 2010
Episode #1.2
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, 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.
Episode 3 • Nov 23, 2010
Episode #1.3
Ruth prepares for the arrival of the farm's pigs and works on the privy, while Alex and Peter compare ploughing with horses to ploughing with the world's oldest working tractor. Peter begins a trout hatchery. In order to repair the hedgerows, Alex takes a trip to a water-powered smithy for a billhook. Ruth makes sloe gin for Christmas and entertains with a gramophone.
Episode 4 • Nov 30, 2010
Episode #1.4
As winter sets in, the three farm dwellers must look further afield to earn money. Peter and Alex fish for crabs while Ruth hires herself out for domestic work. Ruth rides a bicycle and tries period cleaning techniques, including early vacuum cleaners. They separate growing calves from their mothers. Peter finds out how leather is made. They celebrate Christmas modestly, as poor farmers might have, and listen to a Methodist Christmas message.
Episode 5 • Dec 07, 2010
Episode #1.5
The continuing winter forces Alex and Peter down a copper mine, while Ruth makes lace. The copper mine is the King Edward Mine, Camborne, Cornwall, and the lace-making is at Honiton.
Episode 6 • Dec 14, 2010
Episode #1.6
Six months into their year, Ruth, Alex and Peter explore the daily lives of Edwardian farmers. This episode has a slightly different format to the rest of the series; instead of covering a whole month's changes it uses a framing device of Ruth writing a letter describing the events of a single day on the farm.
Episode 7 • Dec 18, 2010
Episode #1.7
Spring arrives with the lambs and the potato crop planted with manure. Daffodils are harvested and sent by train across the country.
Episode 8 • Dec 23, 2010
Episode #1.8
April arrives and time is divided between the land and the sea.
Episode 9 • Dec 30, 2010
Episode #1.9
Summer brings the tourists, so the farm provides strawberries and clotted cream.
Episode 10 • Jan 05, 2011
Episode #1.10
It's June - and the team head up to Dartmoor to discover the ways in which Edwardian farmers took advantage of this unique and spectacular landscape to add to their income.
Episode 11 • Jan 11, 2011
Episode #1.11
July brings the harvest, cherries and potatoes. Ruth goes salmon fishing on the River Tamar with a seine net. Peter and Alex pick cherries from tall ladders and Ruth prepares cherry preserves.
Episode 12 • Jan 18, 2011
Episode #1.12
August brings to an end the year on the farm; weather dictates the harvest and the seaside brings much needed fertilizer.
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