Farming Today This Week
Farming and countryside news. As many farmers gear up for the festive season, Charlotte Smith hears how Christmas dinner is a key moment for many British food producers.
As many farmers gear up for the festive season, Charlotte Smith hears how Christmas dinner is a key moment for many British food producers.
Charlotte visits Bill Homewood, a third generation tenant farmer in Oxfordshire, who rears turkeys and geese. For him, Christmas begins in January.
The Farming Today This Week Christmas meal is completed by parsnips, brussels sprouts, goose fat and cranberries, which one brave man is trying to grow in Kent.
Presented by Charlotte Smith and produced in Birmingham by Rich Ward.
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- Sat 17 Nov 201206:30BBC Radio 4 FM
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