The Complete Wartime Farm [DVD]

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They also construct a 'Horse Gin' to slice swede, and convert a 1930s petrol-powered ambulance to run on gas from an onboard coal furnace. Later in the episode, Alex and Peter build a straw-bale outhouse for visitors and evacuees, complete with a thatched nettle roof; harvest grass from the local churchyard to make hay for their dairy herd; and start their own bee-keeping concern. The series, the fourth in the historic farm series, following the original, Tales from the Green Valley, was made for the BBC by independent production company Lion Television in association with the Open University, and was filmed at Manor Farm Country Park, now Manor Farm and River Hamble Country Park respectively, close to Southampton.

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But the wettest summer for a century has devastated the crop at Manor Farm, and if Alex and Peter are to save it they must take drastic action. They first obtain sugar beet tops and nettles as raw materials, and then construct a small silo out of corrugated steel, with the help of two volunteers from the Women's Land Army (Nicola Verdon and Caroline Bressey).People were understandably eager to put the horrors of war behind them - if only for a day - but this was the first Christmas under rationing and compromises had to be made. Ruth finds out how about the impact rationing had in the kitchen as food became strictly limited - and also explores the temptations of the black market. Manor Farm's flax field—a crop heavily used by the military—has suffered in the unusually wet summer of 2012. In this first episode, the farmers find themselves in a new location, a new time period and with a new team member.

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While Peter is getting to grips with a vintage hay baling machine, Ruth and Alex attend a party at the village hall, where they experience a new dance phenomenon brought to Britain by African-American GIs, the jive. The grain is too damp, however, so they improvise a grain dryer from bricks, scrap metal and recently dismantled concrete from local road checkpoints and defences.

However, with time running out and their improvised subsoiler literally buckling under pressure, they are forced to plough and sow through the night without draining the field, despite warnings from the local "War Ag" over potential water damage.

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A nation at war has many demands on its machinery and manpower - can you share resources more effectively than Lord Woolton and help the war effort?Alex and Peter train some pigeons by releasing them from a 1930s fishing boat which saw service in World War II in the English Channel—and within half an hour, the birds have completed the 30 mile journey back to their loft. When Britain entered the war, two-thirds of all Britain's food was imported - and now it was under threat from a Nazi blockade. Alex has a surprise up his sleeve to make the party go with a bang, as the team prepare to leave the Wartime Farm. The farming team consisted of historian Ruth Goodman, and archaeologists Alex Langlands and Peter Ginn.