The Complete Wartime Farm [DVD]

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This tv series , with the following characteristics commentary and also an aspect ratio : 4:3; A format reported as dvd; A cinematic movement : cult and also to a studio : bbc. Ruth gets involved in the work of the Royal Observer Corps, who often enlisted farmers in the work of spotting enemy planes. There were renewed shortages of animal feed so Alex and Peter resort to producing a hay crop from grass in the church yard and use some clever 1940s technology to get the job done.

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Shorty', the pig raised by Ruth's Pig Club from Episode 2, has fattened up over the last six months, and is ready for slaughter. The episode ends with Ruth and the WI members giving a rendition of the official Women's Land Army anthem, Back to the Land. Later that week, Ruth joins them to re-enact a baseball game that was played on the same spot, in 1944, between local farmers, POWs and American military personnel. In this first episode, the farmers find themselves in a new location, a new time period and with a new team member.They are visited by a 94-year-old conscientious objector who was conscripted as a farm labourer because he refused to fight on religious grounds. Ruth, meanwhile, explores the beginnings of rationing, and uses the family's meagre meat ration, and a bounty of vegetables and foraged mushrooms, to make stew in an improvised haybox. With tasks mounting up on the farm, the team turn to a popular source of additional wartime labour - children.

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Alex and Peter try to reinvigorate it using ammonium nitrate, a chemical fertiliser, but the rain does not let up. They hold a "Holidays at Home" party, with pilchard and cabbage sandwiches, outdoor games, the hokey cokey, and a firework elephant. Ruth enlists eager child labour to collect herbs that were desperately needed by the pharmaceutical industry to make medicines during the war. As with the previous series, the first episode begins with the team moving into a cottage on a farm, this time in Hampshire.But the wettest summer for a century has devastated the crop at Manor Farm, and if Alex and Peter are to save it they must take drastic action. People were understandably eager to put the horrors of war behind them - if only for a day - but this was the first Christmas under rationing and compromises had to be made. When Britain entered the war, two-thirds of all Britain's food was imported - and now it was under threat from a Nazi blockade.