1943 - lowest level of food imports
https://youtu.be/LyGdRw6vK8Q?t=1m16s
Straw house (billeting 90K Land Girls) & rodent problem
https://youtu.be/LyGdRw6vK8Q?t=3m57s
Rodent damage had doubled - £60 million/year = 2 million tons of food = 100s of ships => bait boxes
https://youtu.be/LyGdRw6vK8Q?t=12m29s
Nettle thatch
https://youtu.be/LyGdRw6vK8Q?t=8m21s
Stamina sagging
https://youtu.be/LyGdRw6vK8Q?t=6m37s
Scraps of grass for hay - cows, milk - 1.3 billion gallons in '43
https://youtu.be/LyGdRw6vK8Q?t=10m53s
Allen scythe - new '43 model could be leased from Ministry of Agriculture
https://youtu.be/LyGdRw6vK8Q?t=15m28s
https://youtu.be/LyGdRw6vK8Q?t=23m21s
https://youtu.be/LyGdRw6vK8Q?t=44m56s
Baling machine - could be leased from Ministry of Agriculture
https://youtu.be/LyGdRw6vK8Q?t=45m14s
https://youtu.be/LyGdRw6vK8Q?t=51m51s
Extra 20K workers needed in '43 - children's harvest camps = almost 70K children (most over 14)
https://youtu.be/LyGdRw6vK8Q?t=19m11s
Collecting herbs - 90% of medicines were plant based - meadowsweet (ASA), white willow bark (ASA), cleavers (infection) - 4K tons/year
https://youtu.be/LyGdRw6vK8Q?t=21m4s
https://youtu.be/LyGdRw6vK8Q?t=24m36s
Drying herbs (35C, well-ventilated, dark) - 80% of weight lost - sage 5d/lb, foxglove (digitalis) seeds 7s 6d/lb & leaves 1s 3d/lb, Atropa belladonna (atropine)
https://youtu.be/LyGdRw6vK8Q?t=31m18s
Honey, beekeeping - straw & bramble for skeps - £3 for colony of honeybees => 2s 6d/lb
https://youtu.be/LyGdRw6vK8Q?t=29m11s
Queen exclusion mesh, straw & nettle shelter for skep
https://youtu.be/LyGdRw6vK8Q?t=33m46s
https://youtu.be/LyGdRw6vK8Q?t=41m5s
Feeding harvest camp children (fresh fish scarce b/ fishermen called up and many areas out-of-bounds to fishermen
https://youtu.be/LyGdRw6vK8Q?t=24m40s
May '43 - Dambusters - Wings for Victory fundraising scheme
Flour sack cloth, ersatz cosmetics
https://youtu.be/LyGdRw6vK8Q?t=37m45s
https://youtu.be/LyGdRw6vK8Q?t=43m7s
https://youtu.be/LyGdRw6vK8Q?t=48m24s
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLtakTnKQQMCx0RPTVRn-XIp6kdtol7shK
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