Wartime Farm
Peter Ginn, Ruth Goodman and Alex Langlands relive a battle as important to the war effort as Dunkirk or The Battle of Britain… the battle for food. In 1939, 60% of Britain’s food was imported. The risk of a German U-boat blockage starving the country into submission was all too real, so Britain looked to the land to feed its people. In this eight-part series, authors and historians Alex, Peter and Ruth spend a year turning the clock back and running a Hampshire farm as it would have been in World War Two. It’s all in a day’s work as they deal with everything from the desperate struggle to get as much land as possible under cultivation, to mobilizing the land army, cooking on rations and keeping themselves entertained.
Peter Ginn, Ruth Goodman and Alex Langlands relive a battle as important to the war effort as Dunkirk or The Battle of Britain… the battle for food. In 1939, 60% of Britain’s food was imported. The risk of a German U-boat blockage starving the country into submission was all too real, so Britain looked to the land to feed its people. In this eight-part series, authors and historians Alex, Peter and Ruth spend a year turning the clock back and running a Hampshire farm as it would have been in World War Two. It’s all in a day’s work as they deal with everything from the desperate struggle to get as much land as possible under cultivation, to mobilizing the land army, cooking on rations and keeping themselves entertained.
Ruth, Alex and Peter go back in time to face up to the day-to-day challenges of running a farm during the Second...
The team tackle the conditions of 1940, in the face of bombing in the Blitz. Ruth learns about the impact that...
Ruth gets involved in the work of the Royal Observer Corps, and Alex and Peter learn how to set up "decoy fires" to...
Ruth, Peter and Alex face a World War II-style government inspection - meeting an expert who tells them to grow...
Alex and Peter revert to a Victorian solution to the shortage of animal feed, and Ruth sets up an Emergency Feeding...
With tasks mounting up on the farm, the team turn to a popular source of wartime labour - children.
The wettest summer has devastated the crop at Manor Farm, and if Alex and Peter are to save it, they must take...
Ruth, Alex and Peter prepare to tackle the most crucial event of their farming year: harvesting the wheat crop.