femmenietzsche:

Just finished watching Tudor Monastery Farm, a 6 episode BBC series (on YouTube) where historians/historical reenactors take you through a year in the life of a farmer on monastery land in the 1500s, just before the Reformation, and all the associated technologies and techniques you had to know. How to shear sheep, smelt iron, catch eels, make a floor, harvest peas, and so on. At one point they put shoes on geese to protect their feet as they walk to the market. It’s really remarkable how many things you had to know how to do, and how intricate, time consuming, and back breaking almost all of the labor is. And how much rudimentary chemistry was involved. Anyway, I enjoyed it a lot, and if it’s the sort of thing that you think you’d enjoy too, then you’re probably right.

Endorsed by Rod Dreher as well!