Snow problems, food strategies and marmalade making

How the recent heavy snow is affecting farmers. Reaction to the Westminster government's new 20-year food strategy. And some top tips on how to make marmalade.

Last updated: 08 January 2010

Country Focus - Sunday 10th January at 07.30am presented by Melanie Doel.

Much of Wales has spent the last week or so under a thick blanket of snow - great for school children and amateur photographers - but less so for the rest of us.

With councils struggling to keep roads open there have been calls for farmers to be brought in to help clear roads and to reach people in isolated rural communities. How might that work?

The Westminster government is calling on farmers to revolutionise the way they produce food while reducing their carbon footprint as part of a twenty-year strategy for British agriculture.

The Farmers Union of Wales and Friends of the Earth give their reaction.

The National Trust opens the doors to one of its newest Welsh properties, Southwood Farm in Pembrokeshire, where the charity is already working to reduce the estate's carbon footprint.

And next month sees the World's Original Marmalade Festival take place. With Seville Oranges hitting the greengrocers we go in search of tips for the perfect marmalade.