Anglesey-based cooking oil producer Calon Lân has planted 50 olive trees next to a vine yard on the northern coast of the island. Wales' first olive grove is set to ignite the imagination of farmers and landowners about the real implications of climate change which could lead to warmer drier summers and milder winters.

Getting a foot on the farming ladder is not easy - but help is at hand with a new initiative, launched by the Young Farmer's Club. Increasingly, young farmers report difficulties in getting on the first rung. But its hoped this new project - Database for Opportunity - will bring together and match up young people who want to get into agriculture, with older farmers who may have opportunities to offer.

Earlier this year lonely-hearted Welsh farmers launched a campaign to promote their milk. The organic processor, Calon Wen put stickers on their bottles featuring single farmers looking for love. The promotion caught the public's imagination and now the co-operative has won 'Best Marketing Campaign for Natural and Organic Products' from the Soil Association. Denbigh farmer, Iwan Jones was one of the farmers featured on the bottles.

Trees ... We have a lot of them in Wales. But surprisingly we don't do much with the timber. All but seven percent of our hardwoods are imported from abroad. But in Monmouthshire the council has teamed up with Coed Cymru in bid to reverse that trend and help the long term unemployed back into work.Making the most of the humble herb: herbs can add flavour to any dish and many can keep us healthy too but few people realise just how many varieties there are to choose from. Horticulturist Andy Cook grows an astonishing 150 different herbs at his nursery on the side of the busy A478 near Crymych.

The art of roof thatching is set for a revival in West Wales as the local wildlife trust and a local thatcher start using a new machine to harvest reeds. The Teifi Marshes just above Cardigan have acres of reeds running wild, but now cutting them could see a major revival in the ancient art, and change the way the area looks.