Meet the Farmers: Recent Episodes
Ben Eagle
Meet the Farmers highlights the realities of running a farm in the UK. The episodes each profile a different farm, looking at the enterprises and interviewing the people who work on them.It’s about highlighting the realities of farming life, the good times and the bad, as well as farmers’ hopes and fears for the future.
In the latest episode Ben meets food and nutrition consultant, and Nuffield scholar, Barbara Bray.
Ben speaks to Monmouthshire farmer and the CEO of the Food, Farming and Countryside Commission, Sue Pritchard.
In the latest podcast episode, alongside the week’s farming news, Ben speaks to forester, Luke Hemmings about why he thinks farmers should think more about trees.
In the latest Meet the Farmers podcast episode Ben meets West Sussex flower farmer, alstromemeria specialist and campaigner, Ben Cross.
Ben meets the farmer with the world record for the furthest distance traveled on monkey bars…intrigued… He also makes some great videos about his farm broadcast on social media.
Ben speaks to broadcaster, journalist and BBC Countryfile presenter Sean Fletcher. Sean was born in New York, raised in Essex and has lived in Wales and London. He is a prominent mental health campaigner, especially in the light of his son’s OCD.
Meet Fred Price from Somerset who farms arable crops and pigs. Fred changed his management system a few years back from a focus on yield to a regenerative approach.
In this episode Ben heads to the Welsh borders to meet sheep farmer and Chair of Herefordshire Young Farmers, Ernie Richards.
In this week’s featured interview Ben speaks to food and farming journalism Jez Fredenburgh about how she became an agricultural journalist and what led her to traveling in South America.
In this latest episode of the Meet the Farmers podcast (22/06/2020) Ben speaks to chartered surveyor and rural commentator Rob Yorke. Rob has interviewed multiple well known faces in the food, farming and environment worlds including Michael Gove and Minette Batters. He’s also written 122 letters to the Times and by day manages pipelaying schemes.Continue reading "Meet the Farmers Podcast – Episode 77. The Hunter-Naturalist"