Tales from the Green Valley is a historical documentary TV series in 12 parts, first shown on BBC Two in autumn 2005 and it follows historians and archaeologists as they recreate farm life from the age of the Stuarts. They wear the clothes, eat the food and use the tools, skills and technology of the 1620s. The series recreates everyday life on a small farm in Wales in the 1620s, using authentic replica equipment and clothing, original recipes and reconstructed building techniques. Much use is made of period sources such as agricultural writers Gervase Markham and Thomas Tusser. The series features historians Stuart Peachey and Ruth Goodman, and archaeologists Alex Langlands, Peter Ginn and Chloe Spencer. IMDb Rating: 8,8.
Episode 1
September: Ploughing with oxen, baking in a hearth.
Episode 2
October: Gathering pears, thatching the cowshed roof with a bracken undercoat and a wheat thatch, period clothes and boots, driving pigs to forage.
Episode 3
November: Slaughtering and butchering a pig, building a daub and wattle wall, harvesting meddlars, salting a table, combing thatch and pegging it down, making hog's liver pudding.
Episode 4
December: Building a hovel (a woodshed), period clothing, peas, preparing for Christmas.
Episode 5
January: Preparing period medicines, wood gathering, and hedge laying.
Episode 6
February: A heavy fall of snow, rebuilding a lavatory, checking the sheep in preparation for lambing, musical instruments, preparing a meal of fish and bagged puddings for lent.
Episode 7
March: Preparing the garden for sowing, wheat threshing, brewing March beer, pig yokes, fun and games, egg and pear pie with stewed salt cod.
Episode 8
April: Spring cleaning, rebuilding a dry stone wall, a new baby calf.
Episode 9
May: Preparing a new field for spring sowing, making charcoal, and butter.
Episode 10
June: Washing and shearing sheep, cheese making, and mid-summer revels.
Episode 11
July: New harvest from the garden (beans and gooseberries), making hay, clothes washing.
Episode 12
August: Fattening geese, goose pie and carrot puree, wheat and straw harvest, reed lights.
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