Wartime Farm

The farmers are in a new location, a new time period, with a new team member. There is a new farmhouse to modernise and strict new rules to abide by.

The team tackle the conditions faced by British farmers in 1940, when the full impact of rationing take hold, which also saw Britain face the onslaught of Nazi bombing in the Blitz

Ruth gets involved in the work of the Royal Observer Corps who often enlisted farmers in the work of spotting enemy planes.

The team discover that Wartime Farmers could lose everything – their home and their land - if the government didn’t think they were productive enough.

The Wartime Farm team tackle the conditions faced by British farmers in 1943, when food imports slumped to their lowest level during the war.

This time the team tackles the conditions of 1944 when Britain had been at war for five long years.

Alex, Ruth and Peter face the conditions of 1945 and prepare to tackle the most crucial event of their farming year: harvesting the wheat crop.