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- Season 1 1988-07-24
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Season 38 Episode
- Season 38 Winter Wonders
- Season 38 The Waterways of the Shropshire Hills
- Season 38 Dartmoor
- Season 38 New Forest
- Season 38 Welney Wetland Centre
- Season 38 Mourne Mountains
- Season 38 Sound of Mull
- Season 38 Stirling Bull Sales
- Season 38 Humber Estuary
- Season 38 Kielder Forest
- Season 38 The Slate Landscape of North West Wales
- Season 38 River Otter Return
- Season 38 Watercress Line
- Season 38 Cairngorms Capercaillie
- Season 38 Stroudwater Canal
- Season 38 Wembury Coast
- Season 38 Forest of Bowland
- Season 38 Lambing Special
- Season 38 Dyfi River
- Season 38 Shropshire’s Nature Comeback
- Season 38 Storrington
- Season 38 Bradford: City of Culture
Countryfile - Season 38 Episode 13 Watercress Line
4.60 60 minutes Matt Baker and Margherita Taylor commemorate 200 years since the birth of the railways with a journey on the Watercress Line in Alresford, Hampshire. They explore how the advent of steam engines connected rural England to cities, providing farmers with the vital link needed to distribute their fresh produce across the UK.
Matt visits watercress growers gearing up for this year’s crop and helps prepare their gravel beds ready for seeding, and he learns about the role of river invertebrates in modern farming practices.
Margherita meets the people keeping the heritage line alive, helps volunteers clear a disused railway to create a new wildlife corridor, and she meets a local who has set up a community farm shop which sits in the middle of what put this area on the map – watercress beds!
Meanwhile, Tom Heap investigates the system designed to protect farmers selling to big supermarkets and asks how well it’s really working.
