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Badgers, bluebells and food in the city

Last updated: 23 May 2010

Country Focus - Sunday 23rd May at 07.30am presented by Rachael James and repeated at 0530 Monday 24th May at 05.30am.

All eyes are on Pembrokeshire as the preparations for the 's planned badger cull are underway - we look at the campaign to eradicate bovine TB in cattle.

are brilliant at the moment, but they are protected by law. We meet Vera Thoss, a lecturer in Chemistry at Bangor University who holds the only license in Wales to cultivate them.

- when Len Davies bought a livestock farm in a region of Wales celebrated for home-brew, he embraced the local tradition of beer making. 11 years on and he's turned his hobby into a commercial enterprise.

- food production is considered to be a rural activity but does this ignore the contribution urban agriculture can make?

And the humble - can we prevents it from disappearing from our countryside ?


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