Meadows, Fledglings and are you keeping going with your box scheme?
Country Focus - Sunday 29th June at 7.30am, presented by Mel Doel.
Food inflation has hit 6.6% with prices rising at the fastest rate for 16 years. Financial analysts Ernst & Young predict that organic and fair trade items will be the areas shoppers cut back on. So will Welsh producers be hit? We speak to a grower from Lampeter and who is one of a number of producers that run the Organic Fresh food Company that runs a box scheme.
This is a busy time of year for all sorts of shows - not least for horse and pony lovers. Today it should have been the annual summer show for the Llandudno and District riders club - but the event has been cancelled due to a suspected outbreak of Strangles in the Glan Conwy area. We hear how the disease is on the increase in Wales and what to do to prevent it spreading.
The pressure on farming and the urge to keep amenity areas well mowed has led to a sharp decline in the number of wild meadows in Wales. In fact less than 3.3 percent of our Welsh countryside can now be classed as a wild meadow. But a campaign to reverse that trend is gathering pace.
Baby birds in the care of RSPCA wildlife centres are for the first time being played recordings of the dawn chorus to help them to learn to sing. And what to do if you find a fledgling.
And to the National Trust - How a three hundred year old cottage in Ceredigion will be leading the way later today as a good example of how to be friendly to the environment. And on the Stackpole Estate in Pembrokeshire it's not teddy bears you might find but misbehaving fairies and naughty sprites. Cardiff based "Taking Flight Theatre Company" recently teamed up with the National Trust to run a series of promenade performances of Midsummer Night's Dream in the ancient woodland.
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