Tales from the Green Valley
Tales from the Green Valley

Tales from the Green Valley

2005 1 Seasons 12 Episodes ⭐ 9.0 Documentary Reality

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.

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.

Seasons & Episodes

EP 1

September

Reality series in which archaeologists and historians reconstruct a 17th-century farm and maintain it for a year. Each e

EP 2

October

The pressure of 17th-century living mounts as the farmers race to harvest a crop of pears, and try to build a shelter fo

EP 3

November

Alex Langlands and Peter Ginn make a wattle-and-daub wall for the cowshed, and a slaughterman arrives to kill the male p

EP 4

December

The historians and archaeologists try to take time out of their busy farming schedule to celebrate a 17th-century Christ

EP 5

January

There's little food to be harvested in January, so a meal is created using the ham that's been preserved since Arthur th

EP 6

February

A storm leaves the toilet damaged, so the team face the unenviable task of building another from scratch, while explaini

EP 7

March

Spring arrives, bringing the promise of longer days and respite from the cold weather. The farmers begin to sow seeds an

EP 8

April

The farmers give the house a spring clean, sweeping the chimney with a holly bush and dusting the place with a goose win

EP 9

May

Alex and Fonz work overtime catching up on the spring sowing, opting to cut the furrows with their period breast plough

EP 10

June

Alex and Fonz face the daunting task of washing and shearing the sheep by hand, and are less than impressed with their r

EP 11

July

The women make the most of the July weather by washing all the clothes and bedsheets in 'lye' - a mixture of ashes, wate

EP 12

August

The arrival of August sends the group into a frenzy of agricultural work as they prepare to leave, cutting the wheat and

Popular Cast

Ruth Goodman
Ruth Goodman
Herself
Owen Teale
Owen Teale
Narrator