Episode 2.69 - Bluebell Batteries and Badger Bedding

Send us Fan Mail On a bright but brisk late-April morning at High Ash Farm, Chris Skinner welcomes Matthew Gudgin with a fresh sense of wonder after his recent heart surgery. Starting close to home, he shares honey with common ants in a plant pot and explains their vital place at the base of the food chain — fuelling the swarming “aerial plankton” that feeds swallows, starlings and green woodpeckers. Just yards from the back door, four well-grown robin chicks sit ready to fledge in a Vi...