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On Your FarmRhubarbPhotos from the Forcing sheds on Oldroyds Rhubarb Farm

With Janet Oldroyd, and presenter Caz Graham

  • Tourists flock into the forcing sheds
  • Inside the forcing sheds
  • Rhubarb growing
  • The stalks are deep pink, and the leaves a bright yellow
  • Their antique sign used to be the tailboard on Janet's Grandfather's truck
  • Taking the delicate roots from the outside fields, and planting them in the forcing sheds
  • An unusually bright waste-pile!
  • 'High Priestess of Rhubarb' Janet Oldroyd shows Caz around the factory floor
  • Busy work on the factory floor
  • A brisk trade in Rhubarb! Tourists flock to snap up a crips pink stalk
  • A host of different products can be made from rhubarb

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  • On Your FarmRhubarb

    Caz Graham visits the Yorkshire's 'rhubarb triangle', to find out about an unusual crop.

    BBC Radio 4

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