It's Farmhouse breakfast week and to celebrate we're sizzling up a feast this week inlcuding walking sticks; control of deer and crabs with gloves on!
Last updated: 22 January 2012
Country Focus - Sunday 22nd January at 0700; presented by Rachael Garside and repeated Monday 23rd January at 0530
We swap the confines of our BBC studios for a farmhouse near Bridgend to present the programme from the kitchen table
To cull or not to cull - no, not badgers but deer. As part of a 5 year action plan the Welsh Government is considering their options to control the growing numbers of deer roaming across the country.
For generations, rams' horns have been used to fashion the handles of walking sticks and the heads of traditional shepherds' crooks. It's a highly skilled craft and one which has taken Tony Espley, from the village of Trefnant in Denbighshire, twenty years to master. But now, after being made redundant from his job as an executive chef, Tony has turned his hobby into a business
Now do you have a favourite regional delicacy? Carmarthen Ham or Welsh Lamb or some other delicacy? The new competition to find the nation's favourite regional produce - To enter, email your nomination to welshlamb@golleyslater. co.uk or upload your suggestion on www.facebook.com/WelshLamb or @WelshLamb_PGI on Twitter.
Rachael Garside takes a walk with the Warden at Dinefwr Park and Gardens to see what he gets up to this time of year.
Chinese mitten crabs - have we got them and would we want them? In parts of Britain these crabs are becoming quite common but they're causing damage to riverbanks and out-competing native species. Our community reporter Huw Jenkins joins volunteers on a search on the banks of the Afon Mawddach in the hope of finding nothing! If you see anything that resembles a Chinese mitten crab please report it through their website - they're the only crab you will find in freshwater and also the only one wearing gloves!
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