In Victorian Farm, a specialist team – Ruth Goodman,Peter Ginn and Alex Langlands – devoted a year oftheir lives to re-creating life in a 19th century ruralenvironment. From the warmth of summer to thedepths of winter, the clock has been turned backover a hundred years to rediscover this almostforgotten world.From planting and harvesting crops to animalhusbandry; from building pigsties to bee-keeping; fromtree-felling to driving steam engines and operatingperiod machinery, this hardy group - in their search forthe authentic experience - undertook it all, wearingperiod costumes and using only tools and materialsavailable in 1885.In the special Victorian Farm Christmas episodes,Ruth, Peter and Alex returned to the farm torebuild a blacksmith’s forge and undertake all theelements of a rural Victorian Christmas. There’sChristmas food and festivities to prepare from 1850s’mincemeat to butter, bread, Christmas puddings and amulti-bird Christmas pie; gifts to be made, ribbons tobe dyed, and old fashioned remedies to be preparedfor what ails them.