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Bees, Butterflies and Blooms: Episode 1: Villages, Farms and Countryside

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Episode 1: Villages, Farms and Countryside

Villages, Farms and Countryside

BBC Two - Bees, Butterflies and Blooms, Villages, Farms and Countryside

Sarah Raven is on a mission to halt the rapid decline in the UK's insect pollinators.

Broadcaster and gardener Sarah Raven is on a mission to halt the rapid decline in the UK's essential bees, butterflies and pollinating insects.

Writer, broadcaster and gardener Sarah Raven is on a mission to halt the rapid decline in Britain's essential bees, butterflies and pollinating insects by bringing flower power to towns, cities and the countryside.

The world's bees and other pollinating insects are in crisis. It is a complex problem that scientists the world over are trying to fathom, but the prognosis is grim - without healthy populations of insect pollinators across the world, our future food security is under threat.

Sarah Raven takes her mission out into the Great British countryside to encourage farmers and village communities to help recreate a network of crucial habitats for struggling bees, butterflies and pollinating insects.

With the loss of Britain's wildflower meadows and grasslands estimated at around 98 per cent, Sarah finds out whether we have simply lost our connection with the wildflowers and habitats that were once so common and supported our pollinators.

Sarah starts by attempting to change the attitude of just one small Northamptonshire village. Today tidiness rules and the village green is a close mown carpet of green. Will the village take to her plans and embrace wildflowers, or will tidiness prevail?

Sarah also meets the Farringtons - a Northamptonshire farming family spanning three generations. Duncan, who now runs the farm, investigates sowing perennial wildflower borders around his crops to increase habitats for insect pollinators and possibly to increase crop yields.

And at home, Sarah visits wildflower meadows and harvests wildflower seed in order to develop her own wildflower meadow, something everyone can do in their own community or at home.

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Sarah Raven fights the decline of insect pollinators with nectar rich plants

Sarah Raven is on a mission to halt the decline in honey bees and insect pollinators with insect friendly flower power in this three part series

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