On Your Farm
Getting to the heart of country life with a look at individual farming endeavours
On Your Farm - 01/11/2009
Alex James visits the Isle of Man to meet George Steriopulos, the final nominee for the 2009 BBC Farmer of the Year award.
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On Your Farm - 02/01/2011
Adam Henson visits a large-scale pig farm in Indiana to find out how pigs are raised in the USA.
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On Your Farm - 02/08/2009
More people than ever are camping on British farms. Once a year at Hill Farm in Oxfordshire, campers take over the cowsheds as the farm becomes home to Truckfest. Alex James visits.
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On Your Farm - 02/09/2007
Clarissa Dickson-Wright meets Raymond Blanc and some of the people who supply his restaurants.
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On Your Farm - 02/11/2008
Topical farming magazine. Alex James is in Norfolk to meet the third finalist of the BBC Food and Farming Awards Farmer of the Year competition.
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On Your Farm - 02/12/2007
Elinor Goodman discovers how traditional methods of making cider are keeping the orchards of Devon alive.
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On Your Farm - 03/01/2010
Curry will never be the same again for Steve Peacock after visiting a spice farm in the Indian state of Kerala to discover secrets of growing pepper, cardamom, coconut and clove.
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On Your Farm - 03/02/2008
Country magazine. Adam Henson visits Silverhill Farm in Ireland, breeders of duck for Chinese restaurants for 45 years. Chinese New Year is a very busy time for them.
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On Your Farm - 03/05/2009
Charlotte Smith meets Beate Kubitz, who went from being a high-flying executive working with charities in London to a sheep farmer and running a knitwear firm in West Yorkshire.
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On Your Farm - 03/06/2007
Topical farming magazine. Elinor Goodman visits the estate of David Fursdon, President of the Country Land and Business Association.
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On Your Farm - 03/10/2010
Venison can now easily be found in supermarkets but much of it is farmed rather than wild. Caz Graham visits Round Green Deer Farm in Barnsley to ask if farmed can be better.
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On Your Farm - 04/01/2009
Topical farming magazine. Matt Baker returns to his family's farm in Durham to find out whether the credit crunch is affecting demand for their organically-grown lamb.
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On Your Farm - 04/05/2008
Country magazine. Elinor Goodman meets women farmers and artists who collaborated to produce pictures of life on Dartmoor.
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On Your Farm - 04/10/2009
Adam Henson meets engineer-turned-farmer Tamara Hall at Molescroft Hall in Beverley to find out about her passion for wetlands as part of commercial farming.
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On Your Farm - 04/11/2007
Elinor Goodman meets Georgina and John Emerson as they prepare to reopen their farm shop in Surrey. Their animals were culled as a precaution during the foot and mouth outbreak.
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On Your Farm - 05/04/2009
Steve Peacock visits Sir Donald Curry, the man who drew up the blueprint for modern British agriculture, at home on his farm in Northumberland.
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On Your Farm - 05/07/2009
Tom Heap visits pig farmer Malcolm Hicks and his award-winning herd of Gloucester Old Spots as he prepares to take 20 of his animals to the last Royal Show.
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On Your Farm - 05/10/2008
Topical farming magazine. Steve Peacock reports from Cheshire on a farming family who are replacing their dairy cows with goats.
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On Your Farm - 06/01/2008
Adam Henson reports from Bhaktivedanta Manor, the UK headquarters for the International Society for Krishna Consciousness, home to Krishna devotees from across the world.
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On Your Farm - 06/04/2008
Country magazine. Adam Henson visits a Cornish family farm where daffodils are exported to the flower markets of Holland.
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On Your Farm - 06/05/2007
Alex James meets a Hampshire farmer whose solution to low milk prices is delivering doorstep pintas.
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On Your Farm - 06/07/2008
Alex James explores what small-scale farmers in Africa could teach their counterparts in Britain.
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On Your Farm - 07/03/2010
Alex James visits opera singer Simon Keenlyside, who splits his time between a glittering career on the stage and his remarkable ecology project in the remote Welsh mountains.
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On Your Farm - 07/10/2007
Topical farming magazine. Alex James visits some newcomers to farming in Shropshire, along with their pigs.
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On Your Farm - 08/03/2009
Elinor Goodman witnesses the end of an era for a family-run battery farm in Dorset which is scaling down its caged egg production because it is no longer making any money.
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On Your Farm - 08/08/2010
Tom Heap travels to Gloucestershire to talk to Paul and Kirsty Westaway at Gamage Hall Farm about their Aberdeen Angus cows.
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On Your Farm - 09/01/2011
Anna Varle visits a Devon entrepreneur who is helping 30 struggling farms stay in business. Pipers Farm shares its work around to help keep local food and small family farms alive.
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On Your Farm - 09/08/2009
Charlotte Smith visits hill farmer Simon Bland, who has an unusual way of dealing with the problems of unwanted sheep's wool and bracken from the Cumbrian fells around him.
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On Your Farm - 10/01/2010
Tom Heap visits Pheasant Oak Turkey Farm near Coventry to see what happens once Christmas is over. He finds out if any birds survive the season and what happens to the empty sheds.
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On Your Farm - 10/02/2008
Country magazine. Alex James meets a Worcestershire pickled onion magnate who has turned to farming Highland cattle.
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On Your Farm - 10/05/2009
Alex James meets Julian Hodge, a Devon butcher with a passion for meat and motorbikes who is offering a unique service to farmers.
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On Your Farm - 10/06/2007
Topical farming magazine. Alex James tours Bredon Hill in Worcestershire with a farmer who is throwing open his gates to the public on Open Farm Sunday.
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On Your Farm - 10/08/2008
Alex James visits Norfolk to assess the state of this summer's harvest.
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On Your Farm - 10/10/2010
Getting to the heart of country life with a look at individual farming endeavours.
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On Your Farm - 11/01/2009
Topical farming magazine. Alex James visits Orchard Farm in Leicestershire to meet three brothers who have inherited 80 acres of land and are about to enter the world of farming.
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On Your Farm - 11/04/2010
With no land or agricultural background, how will Gareth Barlow make it as a farmer? Charlotte Smith meets Gareth as he strives to launch a career doing what he loves.
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On Your Farm - 11/05/2008
Country magazine. Alex James visits an Aberdeenshire pig farm which turns dung into power for the National Grid. He also finds out why farmers lose money on every pig they sell.
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On Your Farm - 11/10/2009
An organic farm in Sussex is changing the lives of London's homeless. Adam Henson meets people who have vowed to stay drink and drug free for a day as they work the land.
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On Your Farm - 11/11/2007
Steve Peacock and the BBC Food and Farming Awards judges meet Martin Hamilton from County Down, the first contender for this year's Farmer of the Year title.
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On Your Farm - 12/07/2009
Elinor Goodman visits an estate which grows tea, not in Kenya or India, but in Cornwall. She also takes to the water to find a unique plum orchard.
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On Your Farm - 12/08/2007
Alex James visits a Gloucestershire farm which suffered in last month's floods.
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On Your Farm - 12/09/2010
Moira Hickey visits crofters working the machair, the Outer Hebrides' sandy coastal plain.
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On Your Farm - 12/10/2008
Topical farming magazine. Adam Henson visits a family who moved from Scotland to the Massif Central region of France to start a new life in farming.
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On Your Farm - 12/12/2010
Venison can now easily be found in supermarkets but much of it is farmed rather than wild. Caz Graham visits Round Green Deer Farm in Barnsley to ask if farmed can be better.
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On Your Farm - 13/01/2008
A report from Oathall Community College, which began farming during the Second World War. The pupils work on the farm before and after school and at lunchtime.
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On Your Farm - 13/04/2008
Country magazine. Alex James meets a Sussex family who are selling milk straight from their cows to the customer, without pasteurisation.
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On Your Farm - 13/05/2007
Topical farming magazine. Elinor Goodman mingles with the buyers and sellers at the Stow Horse Fair in the Cotswolds.
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On Your Farm - 13/07/2008
Farming magazine. Adam Henson visits a farmer in a TB infected area of south west Wales whose cattle have so far avoided the disease.
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On Your Farm - 13/09/2009
Caz Graham meets Hamish Wilson, a former camel boy in Somalia. He now runs a Welsh hill farm helping inner-city Somali communities learn about their heritage.
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On Your Farm - 13/12/2009
Adam Henson visits Butser Ancient Farm in Hampshire to learn how Iron Age Britons grew and produced food. What can we learn from ancient times that could help us today?
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On Your Farm - 14/03/2010
Elinor Goodman visits Milton Keynes to find out if a scheme to feed lamb and beef reared on the new city's parkland could be the future for farming in the UK.
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On Your Farm - 14/09/2008
Topical farming magazine. Alex James visits Baylham House Rare Breeds Farm in Ipswich, the first farm to be hit by the Bluetongue virus last September.
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On Your Farm - 14/10/2007
Topical farming magazine. Adam Henson visits a farmer from Sussex who has moved to Spain to grow almonds.
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On Your Farm - 15/03/2009
Alex James meets youngsters who visit Highfields farm in Derbyshire and its owners Roger and Beryl Hosking. They run a care farm that allows young people to learn new skills.
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On Your Farm - 15/04/2007
Alex James asks how farmers will benefit from the reopening of the Cotswold Way.
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On Your Farm - 15/07/2007
Charlotte Smith visits Fordhall Farm in Shropshire, which is celebrating a year since it was saved from being sold off to developers.
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On Your Farm - 16/01/2011
Sarah Swadling visits Fentongollan in Cornwall where the Hosking family grow around twenty million daffodils a year - but after the snow, harvesting could start up to a month late.
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On Your Farm - 17/01/2010
Caz Graham investigates why one artist is building a house out of wool to highlight the decline in sheep farming in Wales.
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On Your Farm - 17/02/2008
Country magazine. Elinor Goodman visits a Hampshire farm shop selling fresh produce inside a hospital.
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On Your Farm - 17/05/2009
Countryfile's Adam Henson sees how England rugby veteran Julian White tackles life on his farm in Market Harborough.
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On Your Farm - 17/10/2010
Alex James meets the first of three finalists for this year's BBC Farmer of the Year. Jon Birchall has put the environment at the heart of his mixed farm in Hertfordshire.
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On Your Farm - 18/01/2009
Topical farming magazine. Alex James visits a flock of sheep that are famous for their milk rather than their wool, and samples the cheese.
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On Your Farm - 18/02/2007
Clarissa Dickson-Wright meets a couple who have made Venison a way of life in Scotland.
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On Your Farm - 18/05/2008
Country magazine. Adam Henson joins a group of veterinary students as they go out onto the farm, taking their text book skills into the field.
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On Your Farm - 18/10/2009
Alex James visits Andrew Dennis at Woodlands Organic Farm in Boston, one of the BBC's 2009 Farmer of the Year nominees.
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On Your Farm - 18/11/2007
Steve Peacock and the BBC Food and Farming Awards judges meet the second contender for the Farmer of the Year title. Robert Wilson from Dundee now turns over millions selling herbs.
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On Your Farm - 19/07/2009
Caz Graham meets Daisy, an 11-year-old with a thriving chicken and egg enterprise and a flock of rare breed sheep.
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On Your Farm - 19/09/2010
Anna Varle discovers the ancient art of horse logging, using heavy horses to clear woodland. Helping clear a site in Shropshire, she finds out how horses can do what machines can't.
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On Your Farm - 19/10/2008
Topical farming magazine. Alex James with the first of three visits to the finalists in this year's BBC Food and Farming Awards Farmer of the Year title.
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On Your Farm - 19/12/2010
Caz Graham visits the lab in Surrey which is developing a cattle vaccine for Bovine TB.
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On Your Farm - 20/01/2008
Country magazine. Caz Graham visits a halibut farmer in Scotland, who once set up a fish farm in the Iraqi desert.
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On Your Farm - 20/04/2008
Country magazine. Elinor Goodman joins Joyce Smith as she returns to Step Farm in Wiltshire where she was based as a Land Army Girl over half a century ago.
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On Your Farm - 20/05/2007
Topical farming magazine. Indie rocker Alex James meets distinguished conductor John Eliot Gardiner at his organic farm in Dorset.
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On Your Farm - 20/07/2008
Charlotte Smith visits Berners Hall Farm at Ongar in Essex, a cooperative which gives primary school children a fascinating outdoor learning experience about the food they eat.
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On Your Farm - 20/09/2009
Charlotte Smith meets the Duchess of Rutland to find out about plans to encourage younger farmers on the Belvoir Castle estate.
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On Your Farm - 20/12/2009
Adam Henson visits Hunmanby Grange Farm in Yorkshire to discover how Tom and Gill Mellor decided to use their own crops and water supply in a new way to secure its future.
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On Your Farm - 21/03/2010
Charlotte Smith visits the Sheffield school which is growing its own food to teach pupils where their meals come from. The project aims to connect youngsters with local city farms.
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On Your Farm - 21/06/2009
Bison, rhea and guanaco, just some of the unusual animals which are farmed at Bush Farm in Wiltshire. Elinor Goodman meets Pepe and Colin Seaford who were the first to farm bison in Britain.
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On Your Farm - 21/09/2008
Topical farming magazine. Ten years ago, the National Trust bought the farm on the top of Snowdon. Adam Henson finds out how new ownership has changed the mountain landscape.
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On Your Farm - 21/10/2007
Caz Graham visits one of Britain's few remaining school farms at Oathall Community College in Sussex, where the pupils look after the animals and sell the produce.
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On Your Farm - 21/12/2008
Topical farming magazine. Elinor Goodman examines the work that goes into producing the nation's Christmas trees.
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On Your Farm - 22/03/2009
Chris Impey visits pig farmer and restaurant owner Sally Jackson in north Lincolnshire, who is abandoning her organic status after 10 years.
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On Your Farm - 22/04/2007
Adam Henson follows the fortunes of Worcestershire farmer Julia Evans as her cattle undergo tests for tuberculosis.
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On Your Farm - 22/06/2008
Country magazine. Elinor Goodman visits expat farmers Robin and Caroline Pollitt in the Lot-et-Garonne region of South West France.
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On Your Farm - 23/01/2011
Ten years on from the Foot and Mouth crisis, Caz Graham visits two farming brothers whose lives went in opposite directions after they lost all their animals to the disease.
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On Your Farm - 24/01/2010
Tom Heap visits Nick Padwick at the Stoughton estate near Leicester, a flagship farm for the Co-operative Group which is a pioneer of new technology.
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On Your Farm - 24/10/2010
Alex James visits a salmon farmer in the Isle of Mull. Geoff Kidd, the Marine Farm Manager at Loch Spelve, tries to mass produce salmon in an environmentally sensitive way.
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On Your Farm - 25/01/2009
Elinor Goodman talks to a leading English pig farmer about bacon, slurry, foreigners and celebrity chefs.
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On Your Farm - 25/02/2007
Elinor Goodman discovers how Dorset is catching up with Germany in the race for alternative energy.
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On Your Farm - 25/07/2010
Caz Graham discovers how farmers can make their farms wildlife friendly by making a few simple changes to the way they farm.
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On Your Farm - 25/10/2009
Alex James and Chris Haskins visit Bluebell Dairy near Derby to meet one of the nominees for the 2009 BBC Farmer of the Year award.
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On Your Farm - 25/11/2007
Steve Peacock and the BBC Food and Farming Awards judges meet the final contender for this year's Farmer of the Year title. Iain Tolhurst is a vegan organic farmer in Berkshire.
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On Your Farm - 26/04/2009
Alex James visits Oxfordshire to see how pheasants are reared for the game shooting industry. An increase in the popularity of the pursuit has led to a rise in demand for the birds.
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On Your Farm - 26/07/2009
Elinor Goodman visits a herd of ruby red cattle in the Devon countryside. Their owner, Kate Palmer, is passionate about the breed and about the local landscape.
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On Your Farm - 26/08/2007
Elinor Goodman meets some Sussex farmers who are turning their land back to nature.
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On Your Farm - 26/09/2010
On Your Farm catches up with Gareth Barlow as he strives to make it in the world of farming. On Your Farm first met Gareth 6 months ago, and we find out how he's progressed so far.
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On Your Farm - 26/10/2008
Topical farming magazine. Alex James visits the second finalist in the Farmer of the Year category of the Food and Farming Awards, an organic vegetable grower in Aberdeen.
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On Your Farm - 26/12/2010
Adam Henson visits a dairy farm in the USA that milks over three thousand cows three times a day.
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On Your Farm - 27/01/2008
Country magazine. Elinor Goodman joins a traditional syndicate shoot in Wiltshire, meeting the landowner and game keeper, local beaters and the guns who travel up for a day's sport.
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On Your Farm - 27/04/2008
Country magazine. Charlotte Smith visits an intensive chicken producer's farm in Devon. She also meets one of the farmers meeting the growing demand for free range birds.
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On Your Farm - 27/05/2007
Topical farming magazine. Caz Graham visits Islay's newest whisky distillery, following the process from the barley field to the bottle.
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On Your Farm - 27/07/2008
Caz Graham visits a farmer who is re-creating rare breeds of animals.
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On Your Farm - 27/09/2009
Elinor Goodman meets the Devon farmer who has decided to embrace the predictions of warmer and wetter summers by climate change experts to grow a diverse range of crops.
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On Your Farm - 27/12/2009
Adam Henson visits Charbel Akiki, a Lebanese who farms biodynamically and grows produce familiar from his childhood.
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On Your Farm - 28/03/2010
With half of British pig farmers going out of business in the last decade, Caz Graham visits a cliff-top pig farm in Devon to find out the challenges facing the industry today.
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On Your Farm - 28/06/2009
Tom Heap visits the farm of Pat and John Stanley, who breed pedigree Longhorn Cattle, as they prepare their animals for the Royal Show in Warwickshire.
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On Your Farm - 28/09/2008
Topical farming magazine. Caz Graham meets a Cumbrian farmer who is producing beef the Japanese way, and exploding a few myths about diet and pampering animals.
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On Your Farm - 28/12/2008
Topical farming magazine. Visiting the family that are keeping Alderney's farming tradition alive.
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On Your Farm - 29/06/2008
Lucy Lunt visits Meadow Court Farm in Guernsey, home to one of the few dairy herds left on the island. In the 1970s, there were 240 herds, now there are only 20.
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On Your Farm - 29/07/2007
In the week of Glorious Goodwood, Elinor Goodman explores the farm behind the racecourse.
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On Your Farm - 31/10/2010
Alex James is in Kent visiting one of the country's biggest orchards. Fruit producer Paul Mansfield is a finalist in this year's BBC Farmer of the Year category.
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On Your Farm - Agrarian Farmer
Adam Henson visits a radical farmer who sees farmers as slaves to the supermarkets. He aims to take back power from the supermarkets and alter the farming landscape of Britain.
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On Your Farm - Bee Unit
Charlotte Smith visits the laboratories of the National Bee Unit to hear about the latest research to help the under-threat honeybee.
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On Your Farm - Community Farm
Caz Graham visits a community farm in Sheffield run by people who met online, rented land from a farmer and learned the hard way how to keep bees, pigs and chickens.
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On Your Farm - Fishermen Choir
Ann Varle hears how a group of sailors in Cornwall, The Fisherman's Friends, have combined making records with being fishermen.
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On Your Farm - Fishing no trawling zones
Caz Graham explores the impact a 60-square-mile exclusion zone off Lyme Bay in Devon is having on local fishermen.
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On Your Farm - Heavy Horses
Elinor Goodman meets a Devon farmer who has swapped tractors and combine harvesters for heavy horses. But it's not all plain sailing.
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On Your Farm - Intensive dairy farm
Adam Henson visits an industrial-scale dairy farm in Somerset with 950 cows which are mainly kept inside and asks 'what is intensive farming?'.
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On Your Farm - Masterchef
Ever wondered what happens to the finalists of Masterchef after the cameras stop? Caz Graham visits one of them, Alex Rushmer, on his smallholding in Cambridgeshire.
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On Your Farm - NHS
A Nottingham hospital trust is supporting local farmers by sourcing all of its fresh food and drink for it patients from local producers.
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On Your Farm - Pig Keeping
The number of people keeping fewer than ten pigs rose by a third in the five years to 2008. Elinor Goodman attends a pig-keeping course in Wiltshire to learn how to make it pay.
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On Your Farm - Rewilding a Country Estate
Rewilding a Country Estate: Elinor Goodman visits the Knepp Castle Estate in West Sussex to discover how Charlie Burrell is attempting to return to nature his 3,500-acre estate.
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On Your Farm - Village Pigs
Adam Henson visits members of the Marton Pig Club, a community group raising 10 Berkshire pigs for meat.
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On Your Farm - Walna Scar Shepherds
Topical farming magazine. Caz Graham meets the shepherds and shepherdesses of Walna Scar in Cumbria.
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On Your Farm - Watercress
Bill and Tim Jesty are third- and fourth-generation watercress farmers who know the secret of their crops success. Elinor Goodman visits them on what was once their farm in Dorset.
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On Your Farm - Welsh sheep and wool
Adam Henson visits Cwmchwefru Farm in the Cambrian Mountains and talks to Lesley Wickham about her passion for coloured sheep and the cows and goats on her 100 acres.
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