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How Beatrix Potter left a lasting legacy
Caz Graham explores the farming legacy of the author and artist Beatrix Potter, in the 150th year since her birth. Beatrix fell in love with the landscape and wildlife of the Lake District, and used her earnings to buy several tenanted farms. She left fourteen farms - 4,000 acres - to the National Trust when she died.
First broadcast on Farming Today, 2 May 2016.
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