It's Not Easy Being Green
It's Not Easy Being Green

It's Not Easy Being Green

2006 3 Seasons 23 Episodes ⭐ 0.0 Documentary

It's Not Easy Being Green is a television series on BBC Two starring Dick Strawbridge and focusing on how to live an environmentally friendly, low impact life. To date there have been three series. Series one followed former Lieutenant-Colonel Dick Strawbridge, his wife Brigit, son James, and daughter Charlotte as they moved into Newhouse Farm, a 400-year-old listed building in Cornwall, England from Malvern, Worcestershire. The series documented the family's attempts to convert the building and garden into a comfortable yet entirely ecologically friendly place to live. The show was perhaps unique in that the family did not want great sacrifices in achieving their goal, and Dick Strawbridge said "I don't want to wear a hemp shirt and hairy knickers, I want a 21st-century lifestyle with a coffee machine". In the first series they received advice from permaculture expert Patrick Whitefield and green auditor Donnachadh McCarthy. They were also helped by friends Jim Milner and Anda Phillips as well as at points a small army of friends and relatives. A book entitled ‘It's Not Easy Being Green: One Family's Journey Towards Eco-Friendly Living’ ISBN 0-563-49346-1 by Dick Strawbridge was released to accompany the series and is still available to buy.

It's Not Easy Being Green is a television series on BBC Two starring Dick Strawbridge and focusing on how to live an environmentally friendly, low impact life. To date there have been three series. Series one followed former Lieutenant-Colonel Dick Strawbridge, his wife Brigit, son James, and daughter Charlotte as they moved into Newhouse Farm, a 400-year-old listed building in Cornwall, England from Malvern, Worcestershire. The series documented the family's attempts to convert the building and garden into a comfortable yet entirely ecologically friendly place to live. The show was perhaps unique in that the family did not want great sacrifices in achieving their goal, and Dick Strawbridge said "I don't want to wear a hemp shirt and hairy knickers, I want a 21st-century lifestyle with a coffee machine". In the first series they received advice from permaculture expert Patrick Whitefield and green auditor Donnachadh McCarthy. They were also helped by friends Jim Milner and Anda Phillips as well as at points a small army of friends and relatives. A book entitled ‘It's Not Easy Being Green: One Family's Journey Towards Eco-Friendly Living’ ISBN 0-563-49346-1 by Dick Strawbridge was released to accompany the series and is still available to buy.

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Seasons & Episodes

EP 1

Episode 1

The family move into the house, and with the help of friends - beer guzzling students and local businesses, they plant c

EP 2

Episode 2

A greenhouse is erected with a unique heatsink designed by Dick and made from recycled bottle glass to keep it warm, and

EP 3

Episode 3

Dick attaches a generator to the water wheel that powers all the lights in the house and the family enjoys a bumper firs

EP 4

Episode 4

A heating distribution system is installed to help spread the warmth from the efficient wood burning stoves to the rest

EP 5

Episode 5

Winter is closing in, but the heating distribution system is not working as well as intended - the wood burners can't qu

EP 6

Episode 6

Both the heat sink and the water wheel have proven reliable. Dick installs a solar hot-water panel to complement the woo

EP 7

Episode 7

A second wind turbine is erected, and a composting toilet is installed. Brigit gets into the cosmetics business by makin

EP 1

Episode 1

In the first programme, Dick helped the Keenan family in Wirral build an eco-house, setting up a ground-source heat pump

EP 2

Episode 2

In programme two, Dick helped Duncan and Steve in Bath to give their scruffy city garden the green treatment. Using only

EP 3

Episode 3

In programme three, Dick and James revisited would-be green gardeners Duncan and Steve to see how their urban garden was

EP 4

Episode 4

James meets Maggie, who is determined to decorate her 1930s house using eco-paints, whilst restoring and reusing the ori

EP 5

Episode 5

In this episode, we meet Andrew Martin from East London, who wants a solar panel but has no budget. Dick comes up with a

EP 6

Episode 6

Dick Strawbridge and his son James venture out from New House Farm in Cornwall to meet aspiring individuals and families

EP 7

Episode 7

In this programme, Dick met Matt, who has a heavenly New Forest house by the beach, but a hellish heating bill. He had a

EP 8

Episode 8

Dick Strawbridge and his son James venture out from New House Farm in Cornwall to meet individuals and families in citie

EP 1

Solar PV Panels and Natural Deodorant

:Newhouse Farm has the outbuildings re-roofed and there is a major investment as we get solar photovoltaics (PV) so when

EP 2

It's All About The Bee's

Dick Strawbridge and son James team up with Lauren Laverne to find out more about living the green life. Dick tries to u

EP 3

Meat or No Meat?

This week at Newhouse Farm we are dealing with the reality of eating bacon sandwiches and Christmas turkey. Apologies to

EP 4

Green Pub

Here at Newhouse Farm local life takes on a huge role in our day to day activities. From popping into the local butchers

EP 5

Grow-Dome

This week at Newhouse Farm we go a bit space-age. Taking delivery of a geodesic dome and setting up a new organic hydrop

EP 6

Homebrew Cider

This week at Newhouse Farm it’s homebrew moments fermenting away. The team collects bucket loads of local apples to ma

EP 7

Recycle Dirty Oil Rags

Dick and his team get their rags oily building a ram pump. It is technical stuff - will it work? Lauren visits an eco-ho

EP 8

Turkeys and Organic Vegetables

At Newhouse Farm this week Dick and James are preparing one of their home reared Turkeys and their organic vegetables fo

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