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A new breed of passenger is taking a plane to the Isles of Scilly.Ìý Matt Baker joins some newly hatched ducklings on their flight from Cornwall to Salakee farm on the island of St Mary’s. Once the ducklings have landed, Matt hands them over to part-time baggage handler, part-time farmer Dave Mumford whose farm is a short walk from the airport runway. Matt meets Dave’s partner Kylie who explains how the couple hatched a plan to rear ducks on the Isles of Scilly.

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The Isles of Scilly are home to an internationally important population of burrowing seabirds and a project to protect them, by eradicating rats from the islands, has begun on St Agnes and Gugh. Ellie Harrison discovers one of the world’s largest island community projects and joins schoolchildren on a boat trip to learn more about this precious seabird population. On the island of St Agnes Ellie finds out how the community has successfully made the island rat free. But later, on Sampson Island, she sees for herself just how difficult it is to keep the rodents at bay.

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Miles from the mainland and isolated on the edge of the Atlantic, fresh milk can be difficult to come by on the Isles of Scilly - that is unless there is a dairy.Ìý On the island of St Agnes Matt finds out how farmers Sam and Tim Hicks make their milk go a long way. Troytown is the only dairy farm on the Isles of Scilly. With a small herd of Ayrshire and Jersey cattle the Hicks supply most of the island’s 73 inhabitants on their daily milk round. But there’s a little leftover for Matt to make one last delivery to Bryher Island.

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Goats are one of our oldest domesticated breeds of livestock and almost three-quarters of the world’s population eat their meat.Ìý However, it’s not commonly consumed in the UK which means male kids are often slaughtered soon after their birth.Ìý Adam Henson visits a Somerset farmer who is raising 2,500 goats for milk and meat.Ìý Adam gets to sample the milk and cheese before heading to a Bristol restaurant to meet a chef who loves having goat on the menu.

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Farming is one of the most dangerous industries in the UK today. Thousands of agricultural workers are seriously injured every year – and around thirty are killed. Tom Heap finds out how these incidents can change the lives of the people involved and asks why accident rates have fallen in other dangerous industries, but not in agriculture.

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There are five inhabited islands that make up the Isles of Scilly. Tresco is perhaps best known for its spectacular Abbey Gardens, but some new inhabitants have arrived which are rarely seen on the mainland. Ellie visits Tresco Abbey Gardens and finds out more about the recently introduced red squirrels before taking a gift to add to the St Agnes schoolchildren’s Easter garden.

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