Tales from the Green Valley — Season 1, Episode 12: August
Documentary, Reality • 30 min • 1 season, 12 episodes • ★ 9.0/10
Episode synopsis
The arrival of August sends the group into a frenzy of agricultural work as they prepare to leave, cutting the wheat and cooking the grain. Historian Stuart Peachey prepares the farewell dinner, including rustic goose pie, pureed white carrot and fermented cider - which the team use to toast their year of hard graft on the 17th-century farm. Last in series
About Tales from the Green Valley
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.