Meet the Farmers

Ben heads to Georgia in the US to meet Avery Wrigglesworth who runs Lily Hill farm.

April 21st was World Curlew Day and today's episode is partly about celebrating the curlew, as well as profiling Leigh Weston who farms with her partner Neil Heseltine in the Yorkshire Dales.

Ben heads to Cornwall to speak to Cornish beef farmer Ben Thomas, who recently featured in the film 6 Inches of Soil.

We look back at some previous episodes with Fred Price, Abi Reader and Nikki Yoxall.

Ben speaks to Bal Padda who grows soft fruit in Worcestershire. Bal's parents moved from Punjab to the UK and started growing in 1997 on just 7 acres. Today the business has grown to 136 acres.

Ben speaks to soft fruit grower Anna Barton who used to work in interior design before meeting her husband and moving to the farm.

Ben meets beef and hazelnut farmer Ian Farrant. Ian was Farmers Weekly's Beef Farmer of the Year in 2023.

Ben travels to Somerset to interview former MP and MEP Neil Parish who resigned his Parliamentary seat in 2022 after watching porn in the House of Commons. He has now returned to his family's farm in Somerset where he farms beef cattle.

Ben speaks to the producer, director and two stars of new film Six Inches of Soil.

Ben meets apple grower Kait Thornton who is from Washington State in the US. Alongside the family fruit business Kait launched her own business Kait's Crates using Facebook Marketplace.