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Tuesday 8 May 2018

Back to the Land with Kate Humble @ BBC Two > championing rural entrepreneurs

Kate Humble has looked at rural enterprise:
BBC Two - Back to the Land with Kate Humble

- and in her first series she took us to Devon:
BBC Two - Back to the Land with Kate Humble, Series 1, South Devon 

South Devon

Back to the Land with Kate Humble,
Series 1 Episode 2 of 3

In the foodie county of Devon, Back to the Land shows just how much graft, love, tenacity and skill lies behind every rural business as we follow six of them through the seasons.

Kate Humble is with a cider and drink makers who are trying to reverse the trend of Devon's apple orchard decline as they plough a six-figure sum into a new orchard on their land. 
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She also follows a farming family who have hooked on to the trend for the UK's answer to olive oil, producing their own cold-pressed rapeseed oil. Kate discovers a young lad with no farming background who is running a modern business with traditional Devon sheep breeds and a couple who have invented a way to make wool rock solid and are creating modern innovative furniture products from it.

Award-winning entrepreneur and south Devon resident Geetie Singh-Watson finds how online shopping is bringing our markets closer together and enabling an edible-flower grower to thrive. And two best mates have left their jobs for a life in the country to turn their passion for European cold meats and build their own charcuterie business in Devon's rich food heritage.


BBC Two - Back to the Land with Kate Humble, Series 1, South Devon

And in tonight's first episode of a new series, she returns to the West Country: 

Cornwall

Back to the Land with Kate Humble,
Series 2 Episode 1 of 3

For the first episode, Kate is in Cornwall meeting seaweed entrepreneurs Tim and Caro, who run the only company in the UK who free dive to pick their seaweed. After a tough first few years living in caravans, Kate meets them at their most crucial point of expansion - they are about to move to a new premises, are embarking on cultivating their own seaweed for the first time and Caro is pregnant with her second child.

Kate also gets stuck in on a duck farm where one couple traded in a haulage company to start rearing a unique breed of ducks for the restaurant trade. We also meet best friends whose home grown British flowers are taking the high-end wedding market by storm. Plus, we get inspired by one man's mission to turn his passion for foraging and home brewing into a thriving craft beer business


BBC iPlayer - Back to the Land with Kate Humble - Series 2: Episode 1
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