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In the county town of Carmarthen, a business woven into the community for decades is celebrating an important milestone. Pantri Blakeman has long been a place where locals gather, farmers drop in from market, and visitors get a taste of Carmarthenshire hospitality. Reporter Megan Williams sits down with those who know it best to hear how the café’s history has been shaped by the rural communities around it, and what it means for staff, customers and the town as it marks its notable birthday.

From there, the programme moves west to the stunning coastline of Pembrokeshire, where the emphasis is on wellbeing and connection with the natural world. Bethany Ellison, founder of the Wild Yoga Studio in the village of Solva, runs yoga sessions outdoors, often on the beach, where movement and breath combine with sea air and open skies. She explains how taking yoga into nature can enhance both physical and mental health, why the Pembrokeshire landscape lends itself so well to mindful practice, and how connecting to the environment around us can be as important as the stretches themselves.

Finally, the focus shifts north to the hills near the village of Llandrillo, where traditional farming life has found a global audience. Farmer Lel, one of the leading Welsh voices on TikTok, has built an audience of nearly 200,000 followers by sharing the daily realities of life on the land. From lambing season to long days of fieldwork, her short videos capture both the highs and the lows of farming in modern Wales. Reporter Rhodri Davies visits her farm to see what goes on behind the camera, how she balances work on the land with a fast-growing online presence, and why the trend known as FarmTok is helping to bridge the gap between town and country.