Victorian Farm in Amazon

peterk123 · Nov 27, 2020

Three people spend a year living the way they did in the later 1800s in England. I could not stop watching this series. Damn, the people back then were tough. Some really neat stuff though. There is a follow up series as well where they go back for a month and prepare for christmas. Cool stuff. Oh, and electricity is awesome; they did not have it. This is next level homesteading. Pete

Fritz the Cat · Nov 27, 2020

Was this originally a PBS series?

peterk123 · Nov 27, 2020

Fritz the Cat said:
Was this originally a PBS series?

I believe so, or BBC, which is probably the same thing. We actually just ordered the farming book (three book series) that they used. The book was originally written in the 1800s.

peterk123 · Nov 28, 2020

My wife found a reprint of the book these folks used to figure out how things were done. I believe it is a three book series no longer in print. Found it on Ebay.

Fritz the Cat · Nov 29, 2020

The Foxfire books are pretty awesome, too. If you can find them.

Sparkey · Nov 29, 2020

I found these videos fascinating definitely a hard lifestyle but simpler times

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mW5PY46P_8c&feature=share

clampett · Dec 16, 2020

This sound similar to the PBS series Frontier House. Three families were each given a plot of land in Montana to homestead. They had to do everything with 1800's technology.
I enjoyed the series.

jhblaze1 · Dec 17, 2020

never saw either but I remember having the same feeling watching the Dick Proenneke story. Tough bastard.

namedpipes · Dec 17, 2020

There were a bunch of PBS and BBC shows on the theme.

Frontier House, Edwardian Country House, Colonial House, Coal House, Coal House at War, 1940s House, 1900 House, 1900 Island, Texas Ranch House, Edwardian Farm, Wartime Farm, Victorian Farm, Tudor Monastery Farm, possibly some others.

And we freak out if the power goes out for an hour.

EC1 · Dec 17, 2020

clampett said:
This sound similar to the PBS series Frontier House. Three families were each given a plot of land in Montana to homestead. They had to do everything with 1800's technology.
I enjoyed the series.

Yes I remember the series, I enjoyed it though I was a bit disappointed in the bellyaching some of the people did. They accepted the challenge and then proceeded to complain for most of the show.

not new guy · Dec 17, 2020

In Brazil?

peterk123 · Dec 18, 2020

EC1 said:
Yes I remember the series, I enjoyed it though I was a bit disappointed in the bellyaching some of the people did. They accepted the challenge and then proceeded to complain for most of the show.

I found Frontier House on Youtube. I'm having a tough time getting through this one. I agree with the bellyaching.

namedpipes · Dec 18, 2020

peterk123 said:
I found Frontier House on Youtube. I'm having a tough time getting through this one. I agree with the bellyaching.

IIRC at one point "Dad" goes to see a modern doctor because he was losing too much weight or something, thought he had cancer. Doc told him, nope. You're just in good physical condition for the first time in your life.

mibro · Dec 18, 2020

namedpipes said:
IIRC at one point "Dad" goes to see a modern doctor because he was losing too much weight or something, thought he had cancer. Doc told him, nope. You're just in good physical condition for the first time in your life.

There's nothing like chopping wood shirtless to get the juices flowing.

....or so I've heard.

Modern life ----> blobby manatee man. Speaking for myself only, of course. YMMV.

Inside Out · Dec 18, 2020

Started this series last night. Good stuff, thanks for the recommendation.

namedpipes · Dec 18, 2020

mibro said:
...
Modern life ----> blobby manatee man. Speaking for myself only, of course. YMMV.

No, you pretty well nailed it for most of us, including a bunch of us that don't realize it...

Shark_Cage · Dec 19, 2020

namedpipes said:
IIRC at one point "Dad" goes to see a modern doctor because he was losing too much weight or something, thought he had cancer. Doc told him, nope. You're just in good physical condition for the first time in your life.

If I remember “Dad” snuck in a modern mattress. He paid off the film crew to keep it quiet.

“Dad” was a little bitch.

There was also a show called Stone Age house or something. Total shit show. Bunch of old hippies. First night they undercook the chicken and make everyone sick. All the families had to leave because their kids got too sick. Good study on why SJW’s will f everything up.

namedpipes · Dec 20, 2020

Shark_Cage said:
If I remember “Dad” snuck in a modern mattress. He paid off the film crew to keep it quiet.

“Dad” was a little bitch.

There was also a show called Stone Age house or something. Total shit show. Bunch of old hippies. First night they undercook the chicken and make everyone sick. All the families had to leave because their kids got too sick. Good study on why SJW’s will f everything up.

I think I remember the mattress! [laugh]

I don't see anything like stone age house on imdb though. Maybe some other name?

not new guy · Dec 20, 2020

The Flintstones?

Shark_Cage · Dec 20, 2020

namedpipes said:
I think I remember the mattress!

I don't see anything like stone age house on imdb though. Maybe some other name?

It was British. I’ll look

Shark_Cage · Dec 20, 2020

I think it was called 10,000 BC. TV not the movie.

namedpipes · Dec 20, 2020

Shark_Cage said:
I think it was called 10,000 BC. TV not the movie.

Looks promisingly amusing. Thanks

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