Country Focus

Dec 07 2024 4 ep. 27 mins 5.3k

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Programme serving everyone living in the countryside and tackling the issues affecting them. With rural, farming and environmental news

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Sheep Milk Cheese

Dec 07 2024 27 mins

Using natural ingredients and traditional methods - and a little bit of patience....this week we're at an award-winning dairy in Gwynedd that specialises in cheeses and creamy yogurt - made from sheep's milk. Dr Carrie Rimes used to make cheese on her family farm growing up and honed her skills at a fromagerie in France before setting up her own enterprise Cosyn Cymru in 2015. She

Sustainable Farming

Nov 30 2024 27 mins

A revised version of the Welsh Government's Sustainable Farming Scheme - "Tree planting and hedgerow creation" replaces the 10% tree cover requirement and the checklist of actions farmers would have to sign up to in order to access the scheme's universal layer have been cut from 17 to 12. Country Focus presenter, Caroline Evans attends the Royal Welsh Winter Fair in Llanelwedd, Pow

Farmers Protest and a Christmas Tree

Nov 23 2024 27 mins

Farming news - we look back at the farmers' protest in London over the Agricultural Inheritance tax and look forward to the changes the Welsh Government will announce at this year's Royal Welsh Winter Fair on the Sustainable Farming Scheme.Cegin y Bobl - a new Welsh charity is to form an army of chefs to change the way we eat and think about our food.and we have a sneak preview of

The Prison Dairy

Nov 16 2024 27 mins

Overcrowding and lack of capacity in prisons has been dominating the headlines recently but at the UK's only prison dairy farm, state of the art milking machines have been installed, in the hope of improving the chance for prisoners to gain employment on release and cut reoffending rates. Mariclare Carey-Jones goes on a visit to Cilwrgi Farm, near Pontypool in the historic county o