Getting to the heart of country life with a look at individual farming endeavours
Radio 4,·610 episodes
The judges visit the first of the three finalists, Grazing Management.
02 Nov 2025,·22 mins
A century of farming - a Cornish beef farmer remembers.
26 Oct 2025,·22 mins
How wind power is financing a crofting woodland scheme in the Western Isles.
19 Oct 2025,·22 mins
Sarah Swadling discovers top jockey Harry Cobden’s passion for beef farming.
12 Oct 2025,·22 mins
A fledgling micro dairy and ‘ethics experiment’ located in the steep hills of North Wales.
05 Oct 2025,·22 mins
Harvesting the native plums of Gloucestershire.
28 Sep 2025,·22 mins
Milkshakes, glitter balls and vending machines on a Yorkshire dairy farm.
21 Sep 2025,·22 mins
Cambridgeshire farmers turning their oats into gluten-free milk.
14 Sep 2025,·22 mins
Charlotte Smith visits a fruit farm in Kent which uses insects for pest control
07 Sep 2025,·22 mins
In Laggan in Inverness-shire farmers continue to unite for annual communal shearing.
31 Aug 2025,·22 mins
Farmers burnt out by Scotland's biggest moorland wildfire in living memory.
24 Aug 2025,·22 mins
Charlotte Smith wades into the River Great Ouse to see the rush harvest.
17 Aug 2025,·22 mins
Caz Graham meets the Kirkhams who make traditional cloth-wrapped Lancashire cheese
10 Aug 2025,·22 mins
Antonia Bolingbroke-Kent discovers the rare woodland at the heart of a Cornish farm.
03 Aug 2025,·22 mins
Mariclare Carey-Jones meets the team at the UK’s only leech farm.
27 Jul 2025,·22 mins
Rose Ferraby explores a Yorkshire upland farm where they are cultivating sphagnum moss.
20 Jul 2025,·22 mins
Mariclare Carey-Jones meets a Muslim family who have swapped the city for the countryside.
13 Jul 2025,·22 mins
A community-owned estate in the Outer Hebrides.
06 Jul 2025,·22 mins
Somerset farm making pasture fed cattle pay by selling the beef in their own restaurant.
29 Jun 2025,·22 mins
Kim Fleming's path from Chicago florist to flower grower via Hollywood and the White House
22 Jun 2025,·22 mins
Meet the Robinsons – celebrating 150 years of nature-friendly dairy farming in Cumbria.
15 Jun 2025,·22 mins
Theo Whyte visits the off-grid farm selling to some of the country’s best restaurants
08 Jun 2025,·22 mins
Caz Graham meets Ryan Perry - a young man with a passion for rare breed livestock
01 Jun 2025,·22 mins
Sarah Swadling meets a farmer whose mental health recovery goes hand in hand with nature.
25 May 2025,·22 mins
Caz Graham visits a potato farm in Northumberland where they specialise in producing chips
18 May 2025,·22 mins
Meet the sisters who run a sheep farm in the Peak District National Park.
11 May 2025,·22 mins
The new farmers trying to revive locally produced clothes from their Wiltshire farm.
04 May 2025,·22 mins
We visit a farmer and circus performer growing shitake mushrooms in Pembrokeshire.
27 Apr 2025,·22 mins
Robin Markwell visits a new orchard being planted in Somerset.
13 Apr 2025,·22 mins
A couple took a holiday in the Isles of Scilly and ended up running a vineyard.
06 Apr 2025,·22 mins