Wartime Farm Season 1 Episode 6 - Episode 6

Airdate: 2012-Oct-11

Episode summary:

The team have to deal with the conditions faced by British farmers in 1943, as food imports slumped to their lowest level during the war. Alex and Peter use some clever 1940s technology to produce a hay crop from grass in the church yard. Ruthgets some children to help her collect herbs that were needed to make medicines during the war and finds out about the methods women used to look good despite the restrictions of rationing.

About Wartime Farm series:

“Wartime Farm” follows historian Ruth Goodman and archaeologists Alex Langlands and Peter Ginn as they take on their biggest ever chall...Show more >