
Trees
The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. Charlotte Smith looks at the state of forests and woodland and meets some of the people making a living out of trees.
Charlotte Smith reports from a timber supplier and saw mill in Wiltshire as we talk about trees, our woodlands, and the forestry industry as a whole.
According to the Forestry Commission, the industry employs around 40,000 people, contributing more than 拢4 billion a year to the economy. Plus money generated from all the recreational visits to our woodlands. But we import around 95% of the wood we use to make furniture and build homes.
Charlotte meets Dougal Driver from the group Grown in Britain which is aiming to make the supply journey from 'tree to table' as open as the journey of our food from 'farm to fork', and encourage us all to source the wood we use from Britain.
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- Sat 1 Nov 2014 06:3091热爆 Radio 4
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