Here is a really interesting series from the BBC called "Wartime Farm":

Play your part and dig for victory with the brand new series from the BBC and The Open University: Wartime Farm.

In Wartime Farm Alex Langlands, Peter Ginn and Ruth Goodman will take on their biggest challenge yet. As with Victorian and Edwardian Farm, they will be taking up the running of a farm for a full calendar year, using only the tools and materials of an historic era.

But this time they will be turning the clock back to World War Two – and mirroring the demands of an agricultural endeavour unparalleled in British history.

Alex, Peter and Ruth are about to embark on nothing short of a revolution in British farming - one more akin to Soviet-style collectivization than anything else. With quotas and targets imposed by the Ministry of Agriculture, new sweeping national standards were set down, irrespective of what type of farm you had or where it was located.

They don't focus much on growing fruit, but still I think you all would enjoy it.

There are 8 one-hour episodes.  You can watch them on youtube: Wartime Farm

A fun way to spend these long winter evenings.

Dave