Food and Farming Awards finalist: Throne Farm

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Throne Farm in Herefordshire is a VERY mixed farm. Alongside acres of agroforestry, sheep and poultry production is a shed containing what the farmer, Stephen Ware, sees as the "Future of Farming" - insects! Stephen's philosophy is based on producing the most complex, nutritionally dense food with minimal inputs from outside his own farm. After losing a contract to supply cider apples to a large drinks producer, he chose to reconfigure his orchards into an agroforestry system. But he didn't stop there, and has planted more than 22,000 new trees in rows down his arable fields. As well as growing cereal crops between the trees, he now produces apples, pears and sour cherries for juicing. The apple pomace left over after juicing can be fed to his insects, which he hopes to use to make protein-rich products for human consumption - as soon as the rules allow. So what will Charlotte Smith make of his farm? She's there to judge his entry into the BBC Food and Farming Awards after she picked him as one of three finalists in the "Farming for the Future" category. Presented by Charlotte Smith Produced by Heather Simons