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Caz Graham visits the farmers working around the clock to ensure the festive vegetables arrive in time for Christmas dinner. She braves the sleet and snow at a parsnip farm in Staffordshire, where pickers and packers work through the night to get the stock to the supermarkets.

The UK is eating much less of many traditional winter vegetables. In 1985 UK farmers grew 135 thousand tonnes of sprouts - by 2010 that had reduced to just 43 thousand tonnes. And while in 1985 232 thousand tonnes of winter cabbage were grown, that shrank to 162 thousand tonnes by 2010. Charlotte Smith visits Brixton market with Christopher Stocks, author of Forgotten Fruit, to discover the origins of our winter veg, and analyse changing tastes.

And in Suffolk, Anna Hill takes to the fields to harvest sprouts and cauliflower for the Christmas dinner table.

Presenter: Caz Graham Producer: Melvin Rickarby.