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Ruth's daughter, Eve, arrives on the train to spend Mothering Sunday - an important occasion in the Edwardian calendar - on the farm. For the many daughters who worked away in service, it was the only time in the year when they could get time off to return home. Uploaded 14-07-20 Alex and Peter fertilise the potato crop - which requires ten tonnes of well-rotted horse dung. They also go up to Dartmoor for the annual pony trek - a time when wild ponies on the moor were rounded up. They select a new...
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Our mid-woody farm, the first signs of spring, come as a welcome relief for Peter and Alex. Finally we've got the first shoots of growth. An occasional bird is singing. Yeah, the sun is on our backs and it's feeling warm. All winter we've been staring out on that sort of dull, faded, frost-burnt grass
and now we're starting to see that rich, luscious, verdant green come through, aren't we? This is the re-emergence of the green and pleasant land after a bleak and bitter winter. Warmed by the Gulf Stream off the Atlantic, in Devon's Tamar Valley, spring arrives early. Farmers in the Tamar were able to supply Britain's towns and cities with luxury produce such
as fresh flowers, earlier than anywhere else in the country. This was because of the region's mild climate and the arrival of a railway line in the late 1800s. Daffodils, daffodils, everywhere, daffodils.
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