Episodes
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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 of Monmouthshire and hears how it's a working dairy farm but with a difference - it's home to a herd of 120 pedigree Holstein cattle, managed by staff and prisoners working as a team at HMP Prescoed.
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Climate Change: as world leaders gather at Baku, in Azerbaijan for COP 29 in the next two weeks we take a look at projects focused on tackling the impacts of climate change. We take a look at efforts to conserve a rare lichen at Dinefwr Park in Carmarthenshire and hear how slag waste could hold the key to better biodiversity. The Spotabee App - scientists from Cardiff University call for help to save endangered Welsh bees by registering your bee sightings on an app.
It's good news for free range egg farmers with changes to the marketing of free-range eggs when hens are housed during Avian flu outbreak.
And for this month's bird of Conservation Concern we take a look at the small, golden, "king of the birds"
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Episodes manquant?
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Open to applicants between the ages of 25 and 45, each year the Nuffield Foundation offers people working in farming, horticulture, forestry or other countryside industries an opportunity to study and travel overseas. Scholars are selected with a view to developing tomorrow’s leaders within their individual business and the industry as a whole. Caroline Evans meets some of this year's scholars from Wales and hears about their experiences
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Restoring Welsh Rivers summit - we speak to the Archbishop of Wales about why the Church in Wales is getting involved in tackling our waterways and we hear how the Dean of St David's in Pembrokeshire is "doing the little things" and caring for a small river that runs by the Cathedral. Polder fields - a Natural Resources Wales' project to restore saltmarsh along the Rhumney Great Wharf by reinstating and extending the sedimentation polders - small fences on the mudflats.
and for our Bird of Conservation concern, we're on a farm in Pembrokeshire to feed the Yellowhammers.
