Tales From The Green Valley - August (part 12 of 12) 

My take away from this is that all I have to do is look up anything that Ruth Goodman has been involved with and I'm guaranteed to learn something and be entertained.

The dog and the cat and the livestock are my favorite historical reenactors. They really committed to the project. :)

While they are sad to leave their farm, I am sad that this program has come to an end. I've felt like a part of history just watching this series. These people are HEROES in my book, actually experiencing their specialty of knowledge! A hard but extremely deep way of knowing a subject. Such work! I am personally grateful for their efforts and also the efforts of the folks who brought about this enjoyable program. Thanks!

After all these years it would be interesting to see how the site is now!! Love this and the other series, repeat watching teaches me something new every time!

One thing has got to me: the camaraderie between the people working on this farm. Without it the hard work would not have been possible to get done like they did. Congrats on this very successful project - although it is way back.

I want Blackthorn and the dog and kitty all to know that they are the BEST boys and girls.

I really hated to see this series end. I really really enjoyed it.

Bravo! I am a slightly improved human after watching this series. Cheers!

Older, harder methods of doing things being more satisfying is why I'm sitting here knitting a scarf for my sister instead of ordering one online.

Good thing that this is the last month! I don't think that Peter's shirt will hold together to much longer! Regret that this series is ending. I have watched all series that BBC has produced (that I know of). Enjoyed them all! Thank you BBC, Ruth, Alec and Peter. Also thanks to all others who have appeared in supporting roles. Sincerely! A major fan!

Oh my goodness that laugh of Ruth's!! So infectious!! You can't help but smile.

Another superb BBC series with Ruth, Alex, Peter, and the crew. Hoping there will be even more in the future!

Thank you to everyone who made this series possible, and brought it to us!!! Also, the comments of other viewers were enjoyable, and also informative. Nice to know others out there also enjoy programs about this type of thing. Though unmet, you feel like my tribe! All the best to all of you, wherever you are!

I'm so heartbroken. I chewed this series up in 3 days. It was fabulous. There are no words. I would love to see this continue/ go again. These are timeless skills and knowledge people should still have today

I discovered this just 2 days ago and now I have watched them all. I feel changed. What a wonderful group of people and animals, and what a year.

Good thinking buy Chloe on how to get the geese out of the pond!

I loved the way the dog kept looking at them like they were crazy while they were washing the clothes.

i love the cat

Again, another brilliant documentary has come to an end: I have learned so many useful lessons and loved watching all of you, especially Fonz (Peter Ginn) When cutting the wheat, Alex mentioned that an area of wheat didn't grow as high and blamed himself for poor spreading of seed, yet in truth, it actually happens due to underlying ancient structures ie walls, floors, etc. I learned this information from watching Time Team! I wish I could have worked along side all of you. I absolutely love these programs, much better than junk reality TV. Keep making more; I've watched all that have been produced. Cheers from the USA ❤🇺🇸🤩

I love the cat. It definitely has a personality. Like the ever vigil dog. Same they weren’t named.

Love this series,so glad that they made more of them with the Victorian,Edwardian,and WWII farm series. Usually with many historical re enactments the wealthy and the aristocrats are focused on,I love that with the series they look at the ordinary working class people of the UK!⭐

What a great series! Thank you to all who contributed, on two legs and on four.

I want to thank everyone from the experts, to the film crew who documented this informative and entertaining series. Also permahome for the uploads and my fellow commentators. You have greatly enhanced this enjoyable series. Especially since I'm viewing it during the COVID-19 quarantine. It made me feel less isolated. God bless you and keep you safe. Sincerely, Laura-Lee

I am so very glad i found this series. Hats off to them all!

These documentaries should be shown in every History class in the country!!

THAT FLUFFY CAT

I am re-watching the series for the umpteenth millionth time and never tire of it!

The cats have been sweet this entire series.

Chloe can manage the animals. Peter can bring the humor & the essential human elements. Alex can do period, farm things. Stuart can take up any slack from the previous, and cook the best. And Ruth can continually practice industriousness.

Growing up on a farm,I enjoyed this series IMMENSELY .

A delightful series, giving one a good appreciation for the hardships and ingenuity of our forbears (I'm a Brit from Norfolk, England) which we all benefit from today. Visit Colonial Williamsburg, Virginia and you will see a parallel of life in one of the original colonies of the future United States, at about the same time period as this series.

I can watch these shows over and over again💚💐🍀

Those cats look like tough customers, too!

Visual comfort food this is, all the farm series are just amazing.

I have watched this series once before and I enjoyed it as much as the first time. Thank you for posting.

I have enjoyed every moment of this series...... THANK YOU!!!

I really enjoyed and learned a lot from this series. It is amazing how climate and geography influence the life style of people groups. For example life in the tropics was so largely different in the 1600s.

Very well done. However, it also only showed what happened when everything basically worked out. None of the people or animals fell seriously ill or was badly injured. None of the women were pregnant, which would have been fairly constant during that time. None of the men was pulled away to serve in the military or the militia. None of the household died. Everyone's work was a vital part of the running of the farm and the loss of any one would have left a hole that would have made it hard to work around. It makes one realize just how vulnerable this kind of lifestyle was. Also, why people so often remarried so quickly after the loss of a spouse. There wasn't time to indulge in a long grief period. The tasks needed doing and someone had to do it.

I have watched all 12 of this series and enjoyed every minute of it. I am a country dweller in the state of Tn and live a different life than most people but nothing like what the people did 400 yrs ago and those 5 people did for a year. Excellent series !!!

Thank you for allowing us to see this series. This lets us see what our fore fathers have done; and where language and meanings come from plus the progression of farm life with the seasons.

I cant help but wonder how difficult, ( mentally and emotionally) it was to acclimate back into the 21st century after this year in such a different lifestyle.

I found this series through Alex's book Craeft, which I highly recommend. Having never heard of Tales From The Green Valley, I found myself enamored with it. Thank you for sharing it with us.

I felt like I was a part of their time in the valley, as that last episode ended I do feel the same kind of reflection they are expressing at the end of the series.

Alright, RU-vid, I'll watch the last part of this marvel, even though it is going to make me really, really sad that it is over.

The geese slipping into the pond was a very nice opportunity for Ruth to actually compliment Chloe upon Chloe’s own idea to fool Minky the dog into the pond with a stick. Instead, Ruth made a grand show of identifying the dog as having been the cunning one. I do really enjoy Ruth, and envy her vast wealth of information, yet I do find, through all these varied historical series’, that Ruth seems very reluctant to thank/compliment a younger female historian … especially when that younger female mentions a fact of which Ruth had been previously unaware. Certainly, Ruth couldn’t possibly feel threatened, via a younger female historian, as she herself, is obviously a treasured, fabulously interesting, breathing encyclopedia. I mention this only as I have noticed it as a sort of sad consistent variable in each farm/life series I have viewed when Ruth is included. I do truly adore, and find much relaxation, in viewing these series’. Ruth is, clearly, the most informed, with Alex understanding the small bits of detail and Peter putting into practice every aspect, right before our eyes. Keep up the fabulous work, you three, (and your hard working crew). A grand job to whomever uploaded!

I so enjoy these period farm series with Ruth, Alex, and Peter. They're so interesting, entertaining, and authentically educational. I only wish they had spent more time filming during each month instead of just the half hour shows.

This was such a good series. Well done, crew!

I didn't think that I'd be in to this series but I absolutely love it. It's strangely relaxing and inspiring at the same time. Thank you!

Sad to see this adventure end. Especially since I've accidentally seen what I think are all the newer seasons of these living history documentaries. (Edwardian, Victorian, WWII etc). Discovering this series was a wonderful surprise.

Why must all good things come to an end? Watching this show always makes me feel like I am richer than the Queen of England ever was owning my own washer and dryer...and I get to eat strawberries and raspberries with cream almost all year round.

I enjoyed this series immensely!

Ooof! I can't get enough of this series! Going to start over and watch them all again. I wish there were more.

One of the most satisfying things I've ever watched. Thank you for sharing this with us.

I love these shows. They share so much information.

Among all the other things, this show stands out through the beautiful music. That flute&drum in conjunction with that marvellous rural landscape gives me the chills every time.

Am sure to rewatch these series this time next year

Thank you for sharing the knowledge from this time in history. I wish a show like this was made for Canada in the 18th or 19th century. We have such cold weather for 9 months of the year that it would have been a extra struggle and such a different way of life.

After 12 episodes, I'm convinced Peter has a twin brother called Fonz 😆

Thank you for posting! I recently (semi)-retired and had to find a 17th century house. It's wonderfully organic! Not for everyone but definitely for me!

Oh I'm so sad this series has ended! I truly enjoyed it and learned so much I'm looking forward to watching the other iterations!

What a great series, very well made, and the fact that you separated it by month. It's nice to see what our ancestors went through in their day to day.

I really enjoyed watching this series. Thank you to everyone who made this for us to be entertained and educated.

Loved the bloopers at the end. X-D This series really paved the way for the later shows in a truly excellent way. :-)

thank you thank you thank you. So beautiful

That series was great!!!

I love all their docu's !!!

This was a fantastic adventure. Congratulations and thank you.

Thank you for this wonderful series!

Hate to see the series come to an end. Enjoyed and learned a lot. Hope there will be more.

Thank you so much for showing this series. I can watch it over and over.

I garden in the Texas sun & heat & have a high tech hat that does a good job blocking out uv rays, but I see the lovely straw hats in this show & would like to swap mine out.

Outstanding!!! Wow...I just binge watched this entire series and found it utterly satisfying. What an amazing experiment to have been a part of. The only thing that would've made it better would have been had they actually been able to live and sleep there full time, completely immersed in the experience of living the way they did 400 years ago. Really, really enjoyed that!

Congratulations ,folks ! What a great job you've done ! Authenticity, professionalism and love for old times skills and values ,this is what you have got across to me ! Looking forward for more to come ! Thank you lots !

I love to see the wheat stooks in the Amish fields near where I live. I just like watching everything they do on their farms.

Truly fantastic way to see and learn about history! These should be shown in schools. Loved all the episodes.

Very enjoyable 12 programs

I thoroughly enjoyed this series and I learned so much.

Saw every episode...what a marvelous time machine...and a deep appreciation for those 17th century farmers. Thank you for this enlightening production! The word farmer takes on new and profound meaning with huge respect for their jack/jill of all trades skills. But the producers failed to take us into the enactors' lives. E.g., what were their biometrics before and after? How bout a thumbnail about each one and why they were selected? Did they really sleep there? Did they entertain each other? Were there medical issues that cropped up (pun intended)? Still a very satisfying work that checks all the production values...smart spare narration...good photography...sound qualities...evocative music...solid editing...high education value...appealing actors. Well done!! My thanks!

This was so fun

My family has the same Sickle's. These instruments have come down to each generation to use. I'm so impressed.

This has been a fantastic series, thank you so much.

When Stuart were cooking, he talked about the colours of carrots and said you could even find purple carrots in the Netherlands. Actually before the 17th most carrots were purple. The Dutch genetically modified the purple carrots to become orange in the late 16th to celebrate the national colour of their country! :D

Absolutely beautiful I just love!! I wish I was there!

I have enjoyed these videos more than words can say. This is well done and very awesome. It's sad to see it end.

always grateful to those who upload these series. wish i could buy them on DVD, and have them work properly in the US

Thank you BBC and your staff! I want to see more please!

Marvellous stuff.

Thoroughly enjoyed all 12 episodes looking for more just love the people the time and the place ❤ especially the history ❤❤❤❤

thank you so much for sharing these videos with us !

Such a Blessing!!! God Bless you all!!! THANK YOU!!!

Thanks for the upload, we have sooo enjoyed them.

Thank you for putting these up. I have watched this, Victorian Farm and Edwardian Farm and enjoyed every one of them.

Ruth & her fellow researchers R a treasure, & if the U know what ever hit the fan, pockets of the past, like that farm, would B essential at rebuilding humanity.

Loved this series. Give us more please! The history is fantastic.

Love the ladies' straw hats. I wish they had shown how to weave the one Ruth wore.

With Stewart helping with the cooking and Cloe helping with the animals and some of the House chord Ruth is in good shape. In later series Ruth’s daughter Eve comes in to help with the domestic stuff.

Wow...how much I envy these guys!!!

@7:19 we need more kitty content in all of their series ;)

Such a beautiful series! We learned so much about farming during the 1600's! Can't wait to try some of those interesting recipes!

I learned much about the past watching this.I enjoyed this very much.Thank you for going what you did