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Anita Rani travels to Surrey to explore the revival of interest in growing hops there. Adam Henson is hoping for the right conditions to get the last of his wheat harvest in.
Anita Rani travels to Surrey to explore the revival of interest in growing hops there. She meets the brewers bringing back the county's fabled white bine hop, helps to get the hop harvest in and gets to sample an unusual brew made with fresh undried hops. She also joins Surrey Wildlife Trust, who are carrying out a survey of small mammals to see how effective wildlife corridors are.
Adam Henson is hoping for the right conditions to get the last of his wheat harvest in, and John announces which photograph the public voted winner in the Countryfile Photographic Competition.
Tom Heap is on the trail of one of the UK's most loved animals, the red squirrel, and finds out what can be done to halt its decline.
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Surrey Hops History
Anita Rani is in Surrey looking at the revival of the county’s hop industry.Ìý She meets Bill Biddell who manages Puttenham Hop Garden, the last commercial grower in Surrey.Ìý Bill shows her round the hop garden and gets her to breathe in the fragrance of the hops they grow.Ìý Anita then gets stuck in with the harvest helping pick the bines and sees the drying and bagging processes.
Red squirrel revival?
Tom Heap is on the hunt for one of Britain’s best loved mammals, the red squirrel. After finding out how the invasive American grey muscled the red out of much of the UK, Tom comes face to face with another rare mammal that is seen by some to be the red’s saviour, the pine marten. It’s thought that pine martens have a bit of an appetite for greys, but can’t catch the reds! So are we on the verge of a red resurgence?ÌýÌý
The Countryfile Photographic Competition winner!
Yes, it’s finally time for your winner of this year’s Countryfile Photographic competition to be revealed. John’s here to announce which one of these 12 fantastic pictures you voted for to grace the cover of the Countryfile calendar for 2017.
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White Bine revival
Anita travels to a small independent brewer who’s looking to bring back Surrey’s fabled white bine hop.Ìý Rupert Thompson of the Hogs Back Brewery, has planted the first white bines seen in Surrey for years. Throughout the 18th and 19th centuries Surrey was one of the most important hop growing regions of the country thanks to the white bine, but by the 1920s it was gone, wiped out by disease. But what does the beer it produces taste like?
The Countryfile Ramble
It’s just one week until the Countryfile Ramble and we’d like to see all of you out and about in the countryside rambling for Â鶹¹ÙÍøÊ×Ò³Èë¿Ú Children in Need. Matt Baker meets Levana who lost both of her legs after contracting meningitis as a baby. Next weekend Levana will join Matt on his ramble in the Lake District, but first she needs to test out her new prosthetic legs with Matt on a slightly more gentle walk in Gloucestershire.
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Harvest Mice
Down on the River Wye Anita is helping Jim Jones of the Surrey Wildlife Trust look for a very special creature, the humble harvest mouse.Ìý Jim and his team of volunteers are looking at the genetic similarities between different populations. ÌýThis work is vital if they are to show how effective the county’s wildlife corridors are. ÌýBut the weather is against them and it seems they might be out of luck.
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Adam's Farm
Harvest is the busiest time of the year on Adam’s farm. When the weather conditions finally improve, Adam and his team get the chance to bring in his crop of spring barley. Most of his animals are raised out in the field and a new litter of Gloucestershire old spot piglets are finally ready to be turned out, it's their first taste of the great outdoors. Adam’s also preparing for next years lambs.Ìý
T.E.A club tasting
Anita joins a crowd of locals celebrating the first new brew of the season.Ìý They call it a T.E.A party – that stands for Traditional English Ale, and involves drinking a brew made with green hops that hasn't been dried. But Anita’s actually very keen to try something else, a beer made with the legendary whiteÌýbine hop.Ìý But what’s her verdict? Ìý
Credits
Role | Contributor |
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Presenter | John Craven |
Presenter | Anita Rani |
Presenter | Adam Henson |
Presenter | Tom Heap |
Executive Producer | William Lyons |
Series Producer | Joanna Brame |
Broadcasts
- Sun 2 Oct 2016 18:15
- Sun 9 Oct 2016 09:00
- Mon 10 Oct 2016 01:25Â鶹¹ÙÍøÊ×Ò³Èë¿Ú Two except Wales