BBC Harvest Series 1 1of3 The East 2015
Tips, Tricks
In this episode, the team reports from the east of the UK, where pioneering sweetcorn farmer Peter Barfoot has spent decades turning exotic veg into regular British fridge fillers, growing vegetables that many thought couldn't be grown here in Britain. This region's sunny climate and fertile soils has earned it a reputation as the bread-basket of Britain. Also in this episode, Gregg helps out with the winter sugar beet harvest and reveals just how much sugar is produced from our home soil. Philippa finds chillies so hot they need a health warning and visits the Tiptree strawberry fields to try a sweet treat - the Little Scarlet strawberry, used for making a very special jam, a favourite with James Bond. And newcomer to the harvest family, dairy and fruit farmer James Manning, visits a futuristic lettuce farm controlled by robots to see a cutting edge drilling machine that plants seedlings faster than the eye can see.
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DO STRAWBREES TASTE AS GOOD AS STRAWBERRIES ?
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Among my most favorite shows out of the U.K.
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you have got peaches in the UK?
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I just thinking,how many tons of chemical they put in every kind of veg to look perfect?
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did you know that corn is the oldest genetically modified plant? 8:22...she just forgot to mention that it was GMO
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I am living and working hear. I am happy to consume Great British produce vegetable than veg from other countries. Very less chemical use
hear than rest of the world. We eat very healthy food grow just near to Cambridgeshire England. -
Off course everything 100% with gmo seeds,yummy
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really its a great job for mankind !!!!!!
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I used to work in the same lettuce farm in Cambridgeshire for one summer in my younger years-I could not imagine the amount of fertilizers they used in production in their "organic" salads!
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sir peter i really love farming please teach me how to start farming like that in the island of philippines...
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😍😍😍😍😍😍
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I love to b work with you I love farming if u remember me from this group send email to me and I am waiting for your email
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Sugar beet greens are used in the US as a feed for cattle, why not in the UK?
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Sweet ??? cauliflower?
Were can i find this?
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nice iam enjoy butyful
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That beats the Asian growers... But all these veggies/crops are made to be modified to have sameness in each of them to be perfect.
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Be my lady October 17 2016
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I enjoyed wathching😊😊tnx bbc from philippines!🇵🇭🇬🇧
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we can eat the bean
leaves also...what a waste -
Usually all farms in the UK have expensive equipment and farms in the US don't
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