70. Summers. A damn, good watch

[CPF]

A very forward, thinking farming family , to record the farming history through the lifetime, of one man .

 

[CPF]

 

[CPF]

 

[Bruce Almighty]

I remember watching it in the 80s

 

[CPF]

 

[Radio]

The book is very good as well , if still available.

 

[CPF]

 

[bluebell]

I bought the book as well, shows how bad UK farming had got between the wars, then when war was likely, how farming suddenly changed and become very important, this lasted right up to the 1980s?

 

[will_mck]

Watched the first episode last night, I was 2 when it first aired. I wonder how many of that 800 acres is farm land today? The gentleman said the farm was 30 miles from London back then. Bet there's been alot of London sprawl since then. More farmland and less people I say, it'd solve alot of 'environmental problems'

 

[zero]

It is very good to watch. Got the impression he was in the right place at the right time.

 

[Cjm]

Watched the first episode last night, I was 2 when it first aired. I wonder how many of that 800 acres is farm land today? The gentleman said the farm was 30 miles from London back then. Bet there's been alot of London sprawl since then. More farmland and less people I say, it'd solve alot of 'environmental problems'

Looks like it’s still there. Grove Farm, Chesham

 

[will_mck]

I listened to the rest of the episodes while spraying today. Tony seemed like a proper gentleman. I wonder what his outlook would have been for a young farmer trying to start up a traditional farm enterprise today. He said after the war farmland was £40/ac, in 1987 it was £2000/ac, rented land was £40/ac.

Locally good land now makes 15-20k ac, rented land here this last year or two is going for £500/ac for dairy ground. Probably best not think too much about the direction it's all heading

 

[Bruce Almighty]

IIRC from watching it in the 80s, he wanted visitors to the farm to have a sh!t and a pick up a stone and that would improve his farm.
Things like that stick in my mind !

 

[CPF]

IIRC from watching it in the 80s, he wanted visitors to the farm to have a sh!t and a pick up a stone and that would improve his farm.
Things like that stick in my mind !

 

[czechmate]

IIRC from watching it in the 80s, he wanted visitors to the farm to have a sh!t and a pick up a stone and that would improve his farm.
Things like that stick in my mind !

I must admit, when he was talking about raw sewage coming out of London on barges to then be spread on the farm, it didn’t have me hankering for the good old days

 

[trebornella]

Re watched the whole series on YT recently which then prompted me to watch Richard Seabrook shepherd series again on YT. Why cant BBC still make programmes like that anymore or am I just getting old.

 

[bluebell]

What changed farming, and full employment was WW2, suddenly food was important, after the end of WW2, the americans realised if they didnt bring out the "marshal plan", much of devestated europe could be in conflict, that and the formation of the EU, was the bedrock, of european, food security and prosperous farming in europe?