Farming Today This Week
Love them or loathe them, glasshouses and polytunnels have become a feature of the countryside. Charlotte Smith explores the practice of growing undercover in the Vale of Evesham.
Love them or loathe them, glasshouses and polytunnels cover an area roughly equivalent to 1,800 football pitches in the UK. Charlotte Smith travels to a 600 acre vegetable farm near Evesham in Worcestershire and takes a close-up look at some undercover crops, including tomatoes and - more unusually - pak choi. She asks grower Vito Pilade how he responds to claims that glass and polythene structures are a blot on the landscape.
Presented by Charlotte Smith. Produced by Anna Jones.
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- Sat 20 Apr 201306:30BBC Radio 4
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