Country Focus - Sunday 19th October at 7.30 AM presented by Mel Doel.
Available for seven days afterwards on BBC iPlayer Radio.

Wildlife campaigners in Bangor are celebrating after the Countryside Council for Wales awarded SSSI status to a field on the edge of the town. Eithinog has been left virtually untouched by modern farming methods. As a result, the land, which is a popular walking place for local people, has become one of the richest lowland sites for grassland fungi in north Wales. And if you want to find out more about Eithinog and help celebrate the fields' new status they're having a Fungus Foray Sunday 12th - Meet at 2pm in Ysgol Friars car park, and it's bring a basket! After the walk it's off to Treborth Botanic Garden to examine what's been found, and some refreshments. Happy Foraging!

Link: CCW website

The largest chilli crop grown in Wales has been developed on a Carmarthenshire farm in a pioneering joint project between Wales' largest horticultural produce grower, The Really Welsh Trading Company, and a charity that helps troubled youngsters. Hope Acres, a small farm in Ammanford, Carmarthenshire, is the unlikely setting for red hot chillies with names like Hungarian Wax, Thai Sun and Cherry Bomb.

Link - Welsh Chillies

Have you heard of the Flintshire Gooseberry? And do you know where it has gone? At a recent 'Seed and Plant Exchange' in Mold a possible sample of the plant was brought in for expert Simon Farr to identify. As part of the North East Wales Orchard Initiative Simon is used to identifying heritage varieties of local apples and plums ...But the 'Flintshire gooseberry' ? ?

Link - Story on BBC News Online