Farmers often utilise modern techniques and technologies to help make their tasks quicker and easier. However, age old methods and time honoured traditions cannot be forgotten.
In this episode, Rob and Dave Nicholson learn the traditional method of ploughing using 1930s farming equipment and Shire horses with pro ploughman Colin Taylor. And the Nicholson's 13-year-old shire horse Orchid gets her hooves trimmed by Blacksmith Dan
Novice farmer Kelvin Fletcher visits Robert Tomlinson's rhubarb farm where they use candlelight to grow their famous crop. And JB Gill travels to Norfolk to meet seafarer Ashley Mullenger who is on a mission to keep whelks, a Victorian staple, on our dinner plates.
Dartmoor Farmer Phil Heard uses the "Wild West" horseback method to round up his Scottish Black Face sheep in the unforgiving Dartmoor National Park. And Yorkshire Shepherdess Amanda Owen travels to the North York Moors to try her hand at Blacksmithing.
Rob and Dave bring in a mega mowing machine to cut their 50-acre fields and then create hay for their hungry animals. And the brothers visit an apple orchard in Herefordshire to find out how cider was made in Victorian times.
Yorkshire Vet Julian Norton meets Elizabeth Kneafsey to learn the traditional craft of rug making. But first he needs to shear a sheep the old-fashioned way!
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