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Farming Today: 06/07/20 - Rural housing for key workers, Sustainable fruit farm, Green recovery

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06/07/20 - Rural housing for key workers, Sustainable fruit farm, Green recovery

BBC Radio 4 - Farming Today, 06/07/20 - Rural housing for key workers, Sustainable fruit farm, Green recovery

There is a call for more affordable housing for key workers in rural areas.

There is a call for more affordable housing for key workers in rural areas. Charlotte Smith hears from a support worker, and asks the CPRE what needs to change.

A survey reveals that key workers - from care workers to farm workers - can’t afford most privately rented accommodation in the countryside.  Charlotte Smith hears from a mental health support worker who faced living in a damp and expensive property, and Crispin Truman from the organisation which carried out the survey, the CPRE, explains what needs to change.

A Kent fruit grower is trialling new techniques to adopt what he calls a third way of farming: one that moves away from using synthetic chemicals, and produces crops that are higher in quality and nutrients than organic food.

All this week Farming Today is focusing on a ‘green recovery’ - the BBC's Energy and Environment Analyst Roger Harrabin explains what one is, and what it might mean. 

Producer: Toby Field

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