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Eating Snails
Julia Bradbury is surveying the Ash Levels with Kent Wildlife Trust. They’re looking for a tiny species of water snail, vital to Kent’s biodiversity, which thrives on the farming methods used in the marshes. While Kent may be known as the garden of England there’s more to the area than apples and pears. Savvy food producers are discovering that new tastes are emerging and another type of snail – our everyday garden snail – is very much back on the menu. But will Julia manage to stomach a snail pizza?
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The Pilgrim’s Way
If you know your Chaucer, you’ll be familiar with the idea of a pilgrimage to Canterbury. But was there ever a single, dedicated Pilgrim’s Way? Ellie Harrison is on the hunt for the trail. She learns what the journey was like for those seeking solace, healing and redemption by reaching the majestic Canterbury Cathedral.
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Matt, Julia And The Goats
Goat dairying is on the increase in the UK as more of us enjoy their cheese and milk. Matt is on a farm where alternative medicines are used to help relieve a spot of arthritis in the herd. But while we know that goats are delightfully inquisitive creatures, do we know how intelligent they really are? Julia Bradbury helps a group of researchers test a few theories on the residents of Buttercups Goat Sanctuary, with some truly remarkable results.
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John Investigates The Carbon Footprint of Food
Most of us realise the environmental impact that we are having when heating our house or driving our car. But what about the effect of the food we buy? For Climate Week, we’re being challenged to lower the carbon footprint of the things that we eat. So, John Craven joins a typical family to find out which foods have the biggest impact on the environment - with some surprising results.
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Adam’s Farm
As spring beckons, Adam needs to prepare his arable land for the growing season. His crops all need to be treated with fertiliser, but the job can only be done if the weather conditions are right. As soon as they are, it’s all systems go! Meanwhile Adam’s also got to make tough decisions about his young rare breed rams, as only some of them will make the grade as breeding stock.
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Woodland Coppicing
Kent is covered with trees and not just of the orchard variety. More than a fifth of the Kent countryside is woodland, harking back to the days when trees were at the centre of a thriving rural industry. Matt Baker gets stuck in with the people who are once again making the trees pay. They are reinvigorating their sweet chestnut coppices and providing renewable fuel for local businesses and schools. He also discovers that a dull axe isn’t as useless as it sounds when it comes to the traditional craft of pale-making.
LEARN MORE ABOUT KENT’S WOODFUEL PATHFINDER PROJECT
Credits
- Series Producer
- Teresa Bogan
- Presenter
- Matt Baker
- Presenter
- Julia Bradbury
- Presenter
- John Craven
- Presenter
- Adam Henson
