Villages, Farms and Countryside
Broadcaster and gardener Sarah Raven is on a mission to halt the rapid decline in the UK's essential bees, butterflies and pollinating insects.
Writer, broadcaster and gardener Sarah Raven is on a mission to halt the rapid decline in Britain's essential bees, butterflies and pollinating insects by bringing flower power to towns, cities and the countryside.
The world's bees and other pollinating insects are in crisis. It is a complex problem that scientists the world over are trying to fathom, but the prognosis is grim - without healthy populations of insect pollinators across the world, our future food security is under threat.
Sarah Raven takes her mission out into the Great British countryside to encourage farmers and village communities to help recreate a network of crucial habitats for struggling bees, butterflies and pollinating insects.
With the loss of Britain's wildflower meadows and grasslands estimated at around 98 per cent, Sarah finds out whether we have simply lost our connection with the wildflowers and habitats that were once so common and supported our pollinators.
Sarah starts by attempting to change the attitude of just one small Northamptonshire village. Today tidiness rules and the village green is a close mown carpet of green. Will the village take to her plans and embrace wildflowers, or will tidiness prevail?
Sarah also meets the Farringtons - a Northamptonshire farming family spanning three generations. Duncan, who now runs the farm, investigates sowing perennial wildflower borders around his crops to increase habitats for insect pollinators and possibly to increase crop yields.
And at home, Sarah visits wildflower meadows and harvests wildflower seed in order to develop her own wildflower meadow, something everyone can do in their own community or at home.
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Clips
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A Breakfast Without Pollinators
Duration: 02:49
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Protecting Britain's Bees
Duration: 01:44
Music Played
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Mumford & Sons
The Cave
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Goldfrapp
Voicething
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Joni Mitchell
Big Yellow Taxi
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Mumford & Sons
After the Storm
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Hot Chip
Brothers
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The Bees
Pressure Makes Me Lazy
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Florence + The Machine
Between Two Lungs
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Eliza Doolittle
Rollerblades
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Ellie Goulding
Your Song
Credits
Role | Contributor |
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Presenter | Sarah Raven |
Presenter | Sarah Raven |
Producer | Andy Vernon |
Producer | Andy Vernon |
Director | Andy Vernon |
Director | Andy Vernon |
Executive Producer | Sarah Moors |
Executive Producer | Sarah Moors |
Broadcasts
- Wed 8 Feb 2012 20:00Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ HD & Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Two
- Fri 10 Feb 2012 00:00Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ HD
- Sat 25 Feb 2012 18:00Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ HD
- Sat 3 Mar 2012 02:20
- Thu 8 Mar 2012 00:00Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ HD
- Wed 18 Jul 2012 18:00Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ HD
- Mon 7 Jun 2021 15:15Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Two except Scotland