Getting to the heart of country life with a look at individual farming endeavours
Radio 4,·616 episodes
Sarah Swadling meets twin sisters who planted a vineyard on their family’s Shropshire farm
19 Jul 2026,·22 mins
Richard Baynes visits a farmer with a unique way of tackling her deer problem.
12 Jul 2026,·22 mins
Nathan Morrow talks about his love of farming and stone masonry in the Glens of Antrim.
05 Jul 2026,·22 mins
Caz Graham hears about a new era at Hill Top, Beatrix Potter’s Lake District farm.
28 Jun 2026,·22 mins
Rose Ferraby hears stories of ruined cottages at Gwerncarnyddion in Ardudwy, North Wales
21 Jun 2026,·22 mins
Anna Jones meets Penny Connorton to hear how her project Farm-Able helps military veterans
14 Jun 2026,·22 mins
Arable farmer turned archaeologist - Dr Nick Wilson.
07 Jun 2026,·22 mins
New tenant farmers putting artificial intelligence at the heart of their business.
31 May 2026,·22 mins
After four generations, Tom Clarke must decide whether to keep his struggling family farm.
24 May 2026,·22 mins
Three farmer’s children were given the chance to take over the farm.
17 May 2026,·22 mins
Sarah Swadling meets a grower of miscanthus aka elephant grass in north Cornwall.
10 May 2026,·22 mins
Sarah Swadling meets a young farmer aiming to beat the odds in the dairy industry
03 May 2026,·22 mins
Mariclare Carey-Jones visits a farm on the outskirts of Cardiff run by a Hindu temple
26 Apr 2026,·22 mins
Caz Graham hears about a Landscape Recovery project in Cumbria’s Upper Duddon Valley.
19 Apr 2026,·22 mins
How an enterprising couple are raising sheep and children on what was a blighted farm
12 Apr 2026,·22 mins
Marie Lennon goes to meet Jim Webster to understand what it means to live in rural poverty
29 Mar 2026,·22 mins
Nancy Nicolson meets Paul Rowlston who unites making dentures with life as a crofter.
22 Mar 2026,·22 mins
Robin Markwell explores the future of robots in agriculture at the University of Lincoln.
15 Mar 2026,·22 mins
Theo Whyte visits Westcombe Dairy to see how its cheesemakers built a network of ideas.
08 Mar 2026,·22 mins
Anna Hill visits Cedars Farm in Norfolk, where technology is able to monitor scarce water.
01 Mar 2026,·22 mins
Rose Ferraby meets a couple helping provide fresh food in Shetland.
22 Feb 2026,·22 mins
Rose Ferraby meets an archaeologist and crofter in Shetland.
15 Feb 2026,·22 mins
The wagyu farmer in Norfolk, whose animals have taught her to be more zen.
08 Feb 2026,·22 mins
Harvest Home on Everes’s Farm.
01 Feb 2026,·22 mins
Helen Mark is on the Kane family farm on the edge of Lough Foyle, Co. Londonderry.
25 Jan 2026,·22 mins
The couple who gave up city life to run a busy social farm in Northern Ireland.
18 Jan 2026,·22 mins
Strangers five years ago, Quentin Edwards and Tom Stinton now share-farm.
11 Jan 2026,·22 mins
Theo Whyte meets the rapper Fekky at his farm in Cambridgeshire.
04 Jan 2026,·22 mins
The egg business that grew from a family dairy farm's side income to a supermarket brand.
28 Dec 2025,·22 mins
Sarah Swadling is in Leicestershire, with the Red Leicester cheese making Clarke family.
21 Dec 2025,·22 mins
