Harvest

BBC Two Northern Ireland HD

4:15 PM to 5:15 PM

Friday 4 October

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The team reports from the West of England, meeting three generations of the Thatcher family as they begin harvesting their cider apples - a fruit whose growth is aided by region's increased rainfall. Philippa Forrester stops off at a soil-free hydroponics farm in Somerset, where one visionary farmer is growing a plethora of produce fuelled by fish, and hears from a Gloucestershire oilseed rape farmer about the army of hungry insects he has to contend with. Gregg Wallace is in Somerset to visit the largest mushroom farm in Europe, where 30 tons are harvested every day, and James Manning heads to Shropshire where one farmer is painting the countryside vivid yellow with quinoa - the latest 'superfood' to hit Britain