Tales from the Green Valley - 11 & 12

July comes and goes on the farm, which means the team has one more month left in their experiment.  They work the hay fields, catch up on laundry and work on harvesting the garden.

The boys work in bringing in the hay harvest.  Ruth and Chloe work on bringing in the fruit.  Ruth discusses the period attitude towards fruit.  Period people tried to avoid fruit as much as possible, unless it was cooked.  The farm has variety of fruit that was from the period.  The garden is starting to come to life.  The beans are starting sprout in the garden.  Ruth makes rosewater.

Alex explains how he uses the scythe when he was haying.  Peter explains the use of the rake to spread out the hay in order to dry it quicker.  An experienced mower should be able to clear a hay field in a single day, however Alex and Peter are not experienced mowers.

For use in the classroom: just highlight, copy and paste into a word document or a google document for use in the classroom.  You can easily format these questions to your specifications.  All questions should fit onto one page after formatting.

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Tales from the Green Valley 11 Questions:

1. What was July’s biggest challenge?
2. What did Ruth and Chloe pick from the garden?
3. What type of fruit should people eat?
4. What gooseberry-using recipe showed up in recipe books?
5. How long would it take to clear a meadow?
6. How much were hay mowers paid?
7. What was a use for roses?
8. What was a major chore for the farmer’s wife?
9. What did Chloe and Ruth use to make lye?
10. What did they also use for laundry?

Tales from the Green Valley 12 Answers:

1. What was July’s biggest challenge? - Cutting Hay
2. What did Ruth and Chloe pick from the garden? - Gooseberries
3. What type of fruit should people eat? - cooked
4. What gooseberry-using recipe showed up in recipe books? - Gooseberry fool
5. How long would it take to clear a meadow? - A day
6. How much were hay mowers paid? - 10 pennies a day
7. What was a use for roses? - rosewater
8. What was a major chore for the farmer’s wife? - laundry
9. What did Chloe and Ruth use to make lye? - ashes
10. What did they also use for laundry? - Fermented urine
    

Tales from the Green Valley Episode 12
The series concludes with the team taking in the wheat harvest.  They have a good morning to bring in the harvest and they are successful.  Goose has a lot of uses and not just for meat or eggs.  The feathers are used for cleaning and making quills.  The small breast feathers were sold for feathers for pillows or mattresses.

Peter discusses the differences between reading about the chores on the farm versus doing the chores on the farm.  Chloe and Ruth work in making rush lights.  It was a good time of year to bring in rushes as well as gather the tallow.

For use in the classroom: just highlight, copy and paste into a word document or a google document for use in the classroom.  You can easily format these questions to your specifications.  All questions should fit onto one page after formatting.

You can find the link for the YouTube video here.

Tales from the Green Valley Episode 12 Questions:

1. What month marks the end of the agricultural year?
   
2. What harvest did they bring in?
3. What did they use to harvest the wheat?
4. How long would it take for a man to clear a field?
5. How tall was the wheat?
6. How did Chloe get the geese out of the pond?
7. What did they use the geese for?
8. Why did they do that?
9. When holiday did they eat goose?
10. What did they lay out on the grain barn floor?

Tales from the Green Valley Episode 12 Answers:

1. What month marks the end of the agricultural year? - August
2. What harvest did they bring in? - wheat
3. What did they use to harvest the wheat? - sickle
4. How long would it take for a man to clear a field? - Half a day
5. How tall was the wheat? - 5 feet high
6. How did Chloe get the geese out of the pond? - Threw a stick in the pond
7. What did they use the geese for? - To eat the leftover wheat
8. Why did they do that? - To prevent disease and not allow left over wheat to self seed
9. When holiday did they eat goose? - Michealmas
10. What did they lay out on the grain barn floor? -Goss