This forty four minute reminiscence therapy download clip will allow you to walk in your ancestors footstep and see how they farmed in Aberdeenshire and also in other parts of Scotland. Here are some of the things you will see in the clip.
• Don explains that the clip about his farming ancestors
• The role the Clydesdales played
• How society was more self sufficient that today
• The agricultural seasonal work is seen—from ploughing to harvesting
• See the state of the art equipment and machinery used
• The skills of the horseman and his pair
• Respect for nature
• The different task about the farm
• The Doric dialect.
• Bothy ballad Princy and Jean
• See the tasks of harvest
• The steam engine thrash is seen
• Using the chaff for filling the farm mattresses is seen
• The contribution oatmeal had for the rural diet
The clip will show how life and work on the farm took place and the key role the Clydesdales played before the tractor came to Aberdeenshire from the late 1930s