The Complete Wartime Farm [DVD]

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This three disc set contains all eight episodes of the hugely popular BBC series which follows our experts across a year, using only historical tools and materials.

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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. After making a new dress from old flour sacks, she gets a makeover from a pair of wartime hair and beauty experts. They are visited by a 94-year-old conscientious objector who was conscripted as a farm labourer because he refused to fight on religious grounds. Since the herd's feed makes a noticeable difference to the quality of their milk, Alex and Peter finally begin to use the silage they produced in Episode 2. Manor Farm's flax field—a crop heavily used by the military—has suffered in the unusually wet summer of 2012.It remains so wet, in fact, that Alex has to re-waterproof his coat, using linseed oil, paraffin and beeswax from the colony he started in Episode 6. Five years of constant farming have degraded the quality of Britain's fields, threatening crop yields. They grapple with weeds, one of the wettest summers in memory and wartime machinery to bring the crop home, but take a giant leap into the modern era with the arrival of a 1940s combined harvester. 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.

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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. Half of the pork is split between the club members, and half is donated, as required, to the government.There were renewed shortages of animal feed so Alex and Peter resort to producing a hay crop from grass in the church yard and use some clever 1940s technology to get the job done. Alex and Peter are confronted with vastly reduced supplies of feed for the animals, so attempt a method encouraged by the government: making "silage".

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Ruth enlists eager child labour to collect herbs that were desperately needed by the pharmaceutical industry to make medicines during the war.

Subsidized by the government to provide cheap food off ration for air raid victims, these 'British Restaurants', as Churchill dubbed them, quickly caught on.

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The team soon hear about the Allies' conquest of Berlin, and on 7 May 1945, the end of World War II in Europe. With a second European war looming on the horizon, the team set about making a number of improvements to the farm. Alex has a surprise up his sleeve to make the party go with a bang, as the team prepare to leave the Wartime Farm.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. Ruth and Alex get to grips with a troublesome wartime tractor - and must plough through the night to get the wheat crop sown in time. Victory in Europe meant that Britain had to share the responsibility for feeding populations across the war-torn continent whose food supplies had been devastated.