
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.
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Air Date: 2005-08-19
Reality series in which archaeologists and historians reconstruct a 17th-century farm and maintain it for a year. Eac...
Air Date: 2005-08-26
The pressure of 17th-century living mounts as the farmers race to harvest a crop of pears, and try to build a shelter...
Air Date: 2005-09-02
Alex Langlands and Peter Ginn make a wattle-and-daub wall for the cowshed, and a slaughterman arrives to kill the mal...
Air Date: 2005-09-09
The historians and archaeologists try to take time out of their busy farming schedule to celebrate a 17th-century Chr...
Air Date: 2005-09-16
There's little food to be harvested in January, so a meal is created using the ham that's been preserved since Arthur...
Air Date: 2005-09-23
A storm leaves the toilet damaged, so the team face the unenviable task of building another from scratch, while expla...
Air Date: 2005-09-30
Spring arrives, bringing the promise of longer days and respite from the cold weather. The farmers begin to sow seeds...
Air Date: 2005-10-07
The farmers give the house a spring clean, sweeping the chimney with a holly bush and dusting the place with a goose ...
Air Date: 2005-10-14
Alex and Fonz work overtime catching up on the spring sowing, opting to cut the furrows with their period breast plou...
Air Date: 2005-10-21
Alex and Fonz face the daunting task of washing and shearing the sheep by hand, and are less than impressed with thei...
Air Date: 2005-10-28
The women make the most of the July weather by washing all the clothes and bedsheets in 'lye' - a mixture of ashes, w...
Air Date: 2005-11-04
The arrival of August sends the group into a frenzy of agricultural work as they prepare to leave, cutting the wheat ...