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It's apples galore for Helen this harvest and is there anything to match the seasonal tang of their freshly squeezed juice?

Helen knows just what to do with the apples she's picked at the Chiltern Open Air Museum, where the orchards are bursting with fruit.

She visits Evert and Franker Donker to see how an enterprise that started as a way of raising money for a nearby school has now become a successful cottage – or garage - industry that squeezes apples to order.

Matt's visiting Jersey as its annual potato harvest is in full swing. 

He discovers the history of the island’s ties with the potato while digging up the earliest crop of Jersey Royals with farmers Christine and Didier Hellio. 

They’re one of nature’s sweetest treasures and the hedgerows in early summer are heaving with them.

Ellie joins the Rollett family as they handpick the harvest of elderflowers from the slopes of Bredon Hill. 

They’ve set up a cottage industry producing natural cordials and presses, using the elderflowers on their doorstep. And Worcestershire’s got some whoppers!  

Just down the road lives horticultural wizard Edmund Brown. Ed holds the National Collection of Elderflowers and he explains to Ellie the science behind his crossbred varieties that can grow flowers as big as dustbin lids!

Adam's in Essex to see the latest innovations in strawberry growing.

But it's a lesser known fruit that really gets his interest, the mulberry. 

This delicate fruit has to be picked by hand and it's a messy job, but the juice they make from the mulberry more than makes up for it!

Anita heads to Somerset for a rare autumnal sight – cultivated walnut orchards ripe for harvesting. 

We meet farmer Roger Saul and the team as they attempt for the first time to harvest one of Somerset's newest crops, borrowing technology from one of the county's oldest.

Steve is near Bodmin in Cornwall where he lends a hand in harvesting a berry which is notoriously hard to pick, 'sea berries' from the Sea Buckthorn tree.

Steve meets Sea Buckthorn enthusiast and grower Seth Pascoe, whose love of this fruit has earned him a Nuffield Scholarship.

It's a passion that has also taken him all over the world in a quest to learn more about this little-known superfood!

Now back in Cornwall, Seth is growing his own berries in a bid to spread the word about this amazing fruit and its health benefits.

Gleaning is a practice that dates back to a time when farmers would let the poor gather scraps of leftover crops from their land.