A Welsh hill farm on the English border becomes a working time capsule for five historical specialists who spend a full agricultural year living as tenant farmers did under James I, around 1620. Produced and directed by Peter Sommer for Lion TV and BBC Wales across twelve half-hour episodes, one per month, the series never lets the team cheat with modern shortcuts: a team of oxen pulls a replica period plow, a cowshed gets thatched with authentic materials, and hay and wheat come down with scythes and sickles. The five even mix their own laundry liquid from scratch. Their clothing is chosen for function rather than costume, breeches to keep men's trousers out of the mud, thick skirts to protect women from brambles and cold. Each episode closes with a dinner built from period breeds of animals and heirloom fruit and vegetables, cooked to recipes pulled from four-hundred-year-old housewives' diaries and farming manuals. The result reads less like a survival show than a season-by-season record of how the land, the food, and the labor were bound together.