An edition of BBC Radio 4's Open Country featuring Thanet Earth, the UK’s largest-ever glasshouse development, is due to be repeated on Thursday lunchtime.
Presenter Matt Baker was on site at Fresca Group’s salad-growing venture in Kent, and the edition was initally broadcast early on Saturday morning.
If you missed the show first time round, it will be repeated this Thursday from 1.30pm-2pm.
The show features information about the development itself, its effects on the landscape and the changing face of British farming, as well as incorporating information from the archaeologists on site.
Open Country follows a spate of appearances by the project on local television and radio news, and BBC Radio 4’s Farming Today.
Thanet Earth will use energy-efficient techniques to grow an additional 15 per cent of the UK’s tomatoes, cucumbers and peppers. Large plateaus are being levelled before the greenhouses are constructed, and Canterbury Archaeological Trust has been commissioned to record and excavate any evidence of historical site activity.
Construction of the first glasshouse is due to kick off in April.
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