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BBC Radio 4 FM BBC Radio 4 FM September 6, 2017 044500

Near misses and incidents involving rural rail crossings during harvest have risen sharply Network Rail and the N.F.U. Have now launched a campaign to tackle that we ll hear more about that in a moment first though it s time to get back to school and there could be a new face for your children to meet opiate on a screen a new initiative has been launched called Face Time a farmer our reporter Greg Jackson dropped in on a session at Hope a school in New Haven to find out more. So. Something if I was very very reticent to have. That. And so on Fridays we face time for much more and he tells us new facts pretty much every week so it s really fun I like E G you get to do something different for a change because my school stay very long about farming. And what sort of subjects and topics to cover we ve done quite a lot of work on the police lately on the base he s been telling us that lately These are beginning to directly. At this point it only seems right to meet the man himself. Tom Mar ....

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BBC Radio 4 FM BBC Radio 4 FM September 5, 2017 044500

Into winter feed we ll have more on that in a moment and why is the shelf life of Welsh lamb up to twenty two days when New Zealand lamb last sixty first though this morning this week we re exploring traditional countryside crafts finding out how they have been preserved and promoted around the U.K. From blacksmithing to Willow weaving Now you may think the traditional coracle drifted out of you some time ago but not so Carr calls a small round boats made of Wicca well covered with water type material they were commonly used across the country hundreds of years ago but now they may be used by fisherman on the rivers in west Wales but could the small craft be making a comeback in other areas Mary Claire Carey Jones has been to meet coracle fisherman Malcolm Reece income often we fish it at night time and you get the only light you ve got traditionally is Moonlight you know what I mean and it s on a calm night there is nothing that my family have fished the river TOWIE for at least thre ....

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BBC Radio 4 LW BBC Radio 4 LW September 4, 2017 044500

Early smashes World Records for crop yields what lessons does he have for other Arab farmers but first all this week on farming today we re looking at traditional countryside crafts from skills that are still very important in terms of Land Management like page length or dry stone walling through to those crafts like basket making or coracle construction that perhaps seem a bit lost even point this in the modern countryside but granted Bertram from the Heritage crafts Association argues even the most obscure crafts skills are still very important but before we get on to that I began by asking Grettir what exactly is a crafts skill we think that a craft skill is a practice which employs manual dexterity and skill and an understanding of traditional materials design and techniques and when we talk about heritage crafts or traditional crafts we re talking about something that s been practiced for two or more successive generations and we re also focusing on the aspect of crafts which hav ....

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BBC Radio 4 LW BBC Radio 4 LW August 31, 2017 044500

And you fast from has decided to try his hand at growing Chia seeds the tiny black kernels come from the salvia Hispanic a plant a member of the mint family which has grown primarily in Central and South America but this isn t the first time the Andrews grow to crop used to sunnier climes deal found out we pride ourselves and we really enjoy the challenge of trying to grow something that people eat locally but it hasn t been available locally say you know the first crop that we ever grew that came also from South America and that was King Well tell me why you decided to delve into chia seeds them because it s a totally different product isn t it is totally different product I think the consumer is now much more aware of what he s getting into their diet and into their food and I think it s farmers it s time that we started to look at what the consumer was demanding and offering it to them if we possibly can locally chair is a Say that has become much more widespread within our diet an ....

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BBC Radio 4 LW BBC Radio 4 LW August 28, 2017 044500

With. Hollow farming today this morning comes from Southern and in the north of Scotland where a community is about to make a highly significant purchase we re buying along the we we live on so it makes us secure and that s the difference we are the directors of what happens next so it s just to make sure that it doesn t happen again you know that would be the that would be the main thing for me feeling insecure and are not having any rights was was the thing that got people here in the first place because the taking over by the community of three thousand acres of land Helms Dale is a neat reversal of what happened there two hundred years ago when the people who lived there had no choice in the matter they ve been forced off richer Crofts by the local landowner the Duke of southern and lots of people who still live here have the connection from my granny was talking about her granny it was it was about the sadness and it was the great being. That just having your rights removed you k ....

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