Derbyshire
The team are in Derbyshire. Matt Baker joins a group who have been restoring Chesterfield鈥檚 canals, Anita Rani visits Tissington and Steve Brown learns how we can help pollinators.
This week the team are in Derbyshire. Matt Baker joins a group of people who have been restoring Chesterfield鈥檚 canals 鈥� bringing both employment and life back to the area. Anita Rani is in Tissington 鈥� a village owned by the same family for 400 years, but with some very modern ideas about land management and development of an agricultural estate. Anita hears all about the area's industrial past and meets a modern-day knife maker. Steve Brown meets the 'nectar inspectors' and learns how we can all help pollinators by calculating the 'nectar score' in our own back gardens and yards. Tom finds out whether a vision of chemical-free farming could ever become a reality. And Adam and Charlotte meet the first finalist in our search for the Countryfile Farming Hero 2019.
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Lalo Schifrin
Theme from Mission: Impossible
Cuckoo about Canals
Matt takes part in a 鈥榗uckoo boat pull鈥�.聽
These boats were particular to the waterways here in Chesterfield.听听
Cuckoos didn鈥檛 have engines and were horse-drawn along the canal.聽
But today pulling the boat is Matt鈥檚 job and along the way he meets some of the many volunteers who built the cuckoo boat from scratch.
Chemical-Free Future?
Countryfile Farming Hero awards
Nectar Inspector
Conservation charity Plantlife is running a survey called No Mow May this Bank Holiday weekend and Steve shows us how it鈥檚 done.聽
We also learn a few facts about bumblebees.听听
Credits
| Role | Contributor |
|---|---|
| Presenter | Matt Baker |
| Presenter | Anita Rani |
| Presenter | Steve Brown |
| Presenter | Tom Heap |
| Presenter | Adam Henson |
| Presenter | Charlotte Smith |
| Executive Producer | William Lyons |
| Series Producer | Joanna Brame |
