Countryfile
Season 38 Episode 13 - Watercress Line
Matt Baker and Margherita Taylor commemorate 200 years since the birth of the railways with a journey on the Watercress Line in Alresford, Hampshire. They explore how the advent of steam engines connected rural England to cities, providing farmers with the vital link needed to distribute their fresh produce across the UK. Matt visits watercress growers gearing up for this year’s crop and helps prepare their gravel beds ready for seeding, and he learns about the role of river invertebrates in modern farming practices. Margherita meets the people keeping the heritage line alive, helps volunteers clear a disused railway to create a new wildlife corridor, and she meets a local who has set up a community farm shop which sits in the middle of what put this area on the map – watercress beds! Meanwhile, Tom Heap investigates the system designed to protect farmers selling to big supermarkets and asks how well it’s really working.
Episodes in Season 38
Winter Wonders
54 min
The Waterways of the Shropshire Hills
55 min
Dartmoor
55 min
New Forest
55 min
Welney Wetland Centre
55 min
Mourne Mountains
57 min
Sound of Mull
57 min
Stirling Bull Sales
55 min
Humber Estuary
57 min
Kielder Forest
55 min
The Slate Landscape of North West Wales
55 min
River Otter Return
55 min
Watercress Line
55 min
Cairngorms Capercaillie
54 min
Stroudwater Canal
54 min
Wembury Coast
54 min
Forest of Bowland
57 min
Lambing Special
54 min
Dyfi River
54 min
Shropshire’s Nature Comeback
54 min
Storrington
54 min
Bradford: City of Culture
54 min
