Tales from the Green Valley - Episode Guide

Ploughing with oxen, baking in a hearth.

Gathering pears, thatching the cowshed roof with a bracken undercoat and a wheat thatch, period clothes and boots, driving pigs to forage.

Slaughtering and butchering a pig, building a daub and wattle wall, harvesting meddlars, salting a table, combing thatch and pegging it down, making hog's liver pudding.

Building a hovel (a woodshed), period clothing, peas, preparing for Christmas.

Preparing period medicines, wood gathering, hedge laying, ink-making, and home pharmacy.

A heavy fall of snow, rebuilding a lavatory, checking the sheep in preparation for lambing, musical instruments, preparing a meal of fish and bagged puddings for lent.

Preparing the garden for sowing, wheat threshing, brewing March beer, pig yokes, fun and games, egg and pear pie with stewed salt cod.

Spring cleaning, rebuilding a dry stone wall, a new baby calf.

Preparing a new field for spring sowing, making charcoal, and butter.

Washing and shearing sheep, cheese making, and mid-summer revels.

New harvest from the garden (beans and gooseberries), making hay, clothes washing.

Fattening geese, goose pie and carrot puree, wheat and straw harvest, reed lights.