Tales from the Green Valley

Tales from the Green Valley is a British documentary which aired on BBC Two. The series premiered on August 19, 2005.

Five archaeologists and historians work on a farm for a year on the precept that they run it according to life four hundred years ago when King James I was ruler. There is no electricity, refrigeration, mains water, tractors or chemical pesticides. They have to literally live off the land by growing their own food and making their own clothes, with only four hundred-year-old manuals for point of reference.