Ten of the very best farm food producers in the South West walked away with 22 of the top awards at the National Trust’s annual Fine Farm Produce Awards, presented at BBC Countryfile Live at Blenheim Palace.
Now in their thirteenth year, the awards celebrate the finest produce from the Trust’s 1,500 tenant farmers and estates, who between them look after more than 500,000 acres of farmland in England, Wales and Northern Ireland. As well as being judged for taste, products are assessed against a range of environmental standards to guarantee their quality and origin.
Killerton Estate in Devon walked away with the top Overall Drinks Award at the National Trust’s annual Fine Farm Produce Awards, presented at BBC Countryfile Live in the grounds of Blenheim Palace. Conygree Farm on the Sherborne Park Estate won the Farming with Nature Award and, in all, 12 National Trust places and products in the South West came away as winners.
Now in their twelfth year, the awards aim to prove that sustainable food isn’t just good for nature, it tastes better too. They celebrate the very best produce from the Trust’s 1,500 tenant farmers and estates – looking...
The remarkable story of Devon’s wild beavers goes on with the announcement that the Westcountry rodents have now won a top national award.
Readers of BBC Countryfile Magazine have selected the River Otter Beaver Trial based in East Devon, along with the Scottish Beaver Trial, as their ‘Wildlife Success Story of the Year’ for 2017. The public poll attracted 56,000 votes across its 12 award categories.
The accolade is recognition of the work being done with the East Devon beavers by the charity Devon Wildlife Trust. The beavers are the first wild population of the animals to...
Adam Henson is perhaps the best-known farmer in the UK, presenting his own section on BBC TV’s Countryfile to around 7 million viewers every Sunday evening. This year sees the publication of Adam’s autobiography, Like Farmer, Like Son, which tells the story about how his father, Joe Henson, opened the world’s first Farm Park, the Cotswold Farm Park, which Adam now runs.
Join Adam as he shares stories about his farming life, his TV career, and the running of the Costwold Farm Park, together with his thoughts on British...
Countryfile comes from Devon on Sunday (21 September) where Matt Baker discovers the story of a Second World War bomber which crashed on the moor and hears about one man's mission to find the truth behind what happened on that fateful night.
Matt helps with a geophysics search of the site to see if the key to the crash can be unearthed. The continued research into the crash site is just one of the projects being funded by the Heritage Lottery Fund as part of the Moor than meets the eye project on Dartmoor
He also meets with a farmers' co-op in Dartmoor, where 50 farmers...
East Devon’s own Axe Estuary Wetlands are set to feature on popular BBC One programme Countryfile this weekend.
East Devon District Council’s Countryside team recently welcomed presenters Matt Baker and Julia Bradbury to the Wetlands as they filmed a series of stories about the area.
The programme is set to be broadcast on BBC One on Sunday 17 March at 6:30pm.
During their visit to East Devon on Friday 1 March, cameras caught up with the Axe Estuary Ringing Group, who were ringing birds following cannon netting at dawn; looked at salinity monitoring and control of...
