If you want to find out about the original series that led to the creation of all these programmes take a look at Tales from the Green ValleyĪll of these TV series were made for the BBC by Lion Television. By the same author Victorian Farm (with Alex Langlands & Peter Ginn) Edwardian Farm (with Alex Langlands & Peter Ginn) Wartime Farm (with Alex Langlands. If you want to find out more about the specialists involved, you can visit their websites: Alex Langlands Victorian Farm: Rediscovering Forgotten Skills Hardcover Octoby Alex Langlands (Author), Peter Ginn (Author), Ruth Goodman (Author) 158 ratings See all formats and editions Hardcover 40.80 21 Used from 22.02 There is a newer edition of this item: Victorian Farm 29.16 (36) Only 1 left in stock - order soon. It is available now for order on DVD – just £19.99 including free delivery in the UK. There’s Christmas food and festivities to prepare from 1850’s mincemeat to butter, bread, Christmas puddings and a multi-bird Christmas pie gifts to be made, ribbons to be dyed, and old fashioned remedies to be prepared for what ails them. In the special Victorian Farm Christmas episodes, Ruth, Peter and Alex returned to the farm to rebuild a blacksmith’s forge and undertake all the elements of a rural Victorian Christmas. From the warmth of summer to the depths of winter, the clock has been turned back over a hundred years to rediscover this almost forgotten world.įrom planting and harvesting crops to animal husbandry from tree-felling to driving steam engines and operating period machinery, this hardy group – in their search for the authentic experience – undertook it all, wearing period costumes and using only tools and materials available in 1885. The next morning it'll be time for the team to bid a fond farewell to Mr Acton as they depart Acton Scott for good.In Victorian Farm a specialist team – Ruth Goodman, Peter Ginn and Alex Langlands – devoted a year of their lives to re-creating life in a 19th Century rural environment. With a rapturous toast to Queen Victoria and a quick trip to the cattle shed to wassail the animals, day turns into night and the drunken Victorian parlour games commence. Finally it's time for the Christmas meal in the estate's School Hall. It was the fore-runner of the popular Victorian Farm/Edwardian Farm/Tudor Monastery Farm series and featured Ruth Goodman, Alex Langlands, Peter Ginn and. At the cottage, Ruth meets Debbie Bamford to dye an array of colourful Christmas ribbons to decorate the tree and the presents that sit beneath it. Alex goes in search of a Christmas tree for the banquet, while Ruth and Peter head for the Victorian town of Blists Hill for Christmas shopping. Meanwhile, Alex and Peter light the forge for the first time to re-shoe the farm workhorse Clumper - the first time a horse has been shod at this forge in over five decades. Ruth Goodman and food historian Ivan Day try their hand at making a Christmas pudding using the same methods as Bob Cratchit's wife in A Christmas Carol. Christmas is coming to Acton Scott, but first there's a huge amount of preparation to do.

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