蜜芽传媒

In a quiet valley on the west side of the Yorkshire Dales, new forms of cultivation are taking root. Kingsdale Head sits up one of the great limestone valleys on the west side of the Dales. Surrounded by upland slopes and peatlands, this has traditionally an area of sheep farming. Five years ago, Tim Yetman and Catherine Bryan took the farm on with a long-term environmental vision. Along with their Conservation and Farm Manager Jamie McEwan, they are finding ways to encourage biodiversity and regenerate the land.

Rose Ferraby joins the team from Kingsdale Head along with Pete Leeson from the Woodland Trust, and Beth Thomas from the Yorkshire Peatland Partnership to find out more about the plants taking root in this landscape. Together they look at the tiny sphagnum mosses that are key to functioning peatlands, and the trees and shrubs that are building back diversity on these slopes.

Presented and produced by Rose Ferraby