The War Time Farm.

Adding this to my list of videos to watch!

Thank you!
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Watched these over the weekend and finished last one just know. I found this very interesting. To be honest, as a Yank I had a time with some of the words and names of items I had to look up. Like sweedes? WTH... oh a rutabaga...LOL Interesting though in a lot of the resourcefulness of the farmers. Also a bit surprising how the government just ruled completely over their lives. Like if you don't farm how we say, we'll take your private property. Cull these animals, don't plant that, etc... Oh I have no misgivings that our handlers on this side of the pond would do the some. Heck I guess so far as our interment camps go they did just that and worse to our citizens. Also not much of a surprise that some govt bureaucrat who likely didn't know much if anything about farming would tell the farmers what and where to plant regardless if it was a good place. I wonder how many millions of tons of foods were lost or that never produced because of that. Conversely, if the War AG had listened to the farmers on what to plant and where, how much food might have been produced. Also the idea of destroying all the animals. Guess that backfired as they lost the ability to put manure/ dung back into the fields to fertilize.

Those various booklets of info and ideas and recipes would be an awesome treasure trove. I wonder if there are pdf's of them anywhere out there on the web.

 

Thanks Keith. I signed up for it so see what they email. I think this is just a guide to the show but maybe it'll have further info. I sort of hoped there might be links or info in the description on the YouTube video but no such luck.

 

Watched that a couple years or more ago, it was great. Some the same people made another, shorter, series about living in the 1300's or 1400's.

 

I guess another advantage of living where I do is that there are work horses everywhere around me due to the heavy amount of Amish and Mennonites that still live like it's the late 1800's. It is awesome to see the huge draught horses pulling a plow. But even the Amish rely a lot on modern equipment despite their claims. Like they'll pull a hay bailer that has steel wheels by a horse but that has a gas motor on it to power the unit. They rely on a lot of propane powered lights and other items. Their dairy farms often have propane powered chill tanks for their milk or some have small solar panels for various equipment or even use solar fence chargers for dividing up their pasture for feeding.

Amish also have many horses they use to pull buggy's and wagons that are their main mode of transport. I think the biggest thing post SHTF might be protecting them, even against their wishes. They are all pacifists so likely would put up no fight and would be prime picking for the ruthless to just go thru and pillage food and supplies and destroy stuff they have no clue to the importance of. Most likely they would stand by and do nothing and even try to keep others from violence on their behalf.

 

Mules are also useful for farming.
There are draught horse breeders who aren't necessarily serving only Amish or Mennonite.
Most farm fairs or 4H Fairs will have the large horses, either on display or pulling something, or competitions. They're pretty amazing creatures.

 

As you say Radar, and I did overlook them, many of those around us also use mules. It seems the draught horses are used for the very heavy loads and work.

 

Here's one for you Keith if you missed it


Other series were made going up and including WW2

 

Great series, along withTales From Th3 Green Valley, Tudor Farm and Victorian Farm. All worthwhile, but we binge watched them over a couple of days so became a little repetitive, so we recommend that people NOT do it that way. Learned something from all of them

 

In the US during WW2 it was called a Victory Garden.

 

I was going to post what you just posted, TxDan -- victory garden stuff. Just love these posters. Great art and inspiration.

Draft animals. My uncle could walk by stepping from body to body across a field, WWII. But there were also a bunch of dead animals. Their artillery and supplies were brought forward by German draft animals. Motorized vehicles and trains were NOT a given. My uncle was at times a forward observer calling in artillery and mortars over his head -- heaven only knows how many humans he killed, but he also got a lot of very strong animals killed. Never asked him if he'd ever machine-gunned an ox. He cut a lot of people in half.

 

Good morning Tex Dan and Old Geezer,

Great pictures !

I remember the term "victory garden" as per my post-war memory.

 

I love those old posters

http://blogs.nottingham.ac.uk/adventcalendar/files/2011/11/digforvictoryBIG.jpg

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/DIG-FOR-...GH-GIFTED-GARDENER-GREEN-TROWEL-/153407831034

The WW2 food rationing in the UK is well worth looking online for. A very limited ration but well balanced and post war research showed it had actually improved the health of a lot of the poor working class brits, the war ration was healthier than what they had been eating.

 

Just when I was becoming a bit arrogant in my preparedness level , I meet someone that makes my survival acreage look amateurish . Yesterday I went to another preppers acreage to buy another milk goat Billy . That guy is actually a bit famous in this part of the United States but I wasn't expecting his survival level to be to the scale I found it . Notably he and I are around the same age " old " but both of us are in very good physical shape . I contribute some of that antiaging , on as we both stay very active working on our prepper sites . For me it was new , as he was growing potatoes under leaves instead of dirt and using cardboard to layer his strawberries and increase earthworms . He said some lady that writes gardening articles for some type of publication comes to his site and help him plan his garden strategy . -- I told my wife on my return " that guy won't be starving to death " .