Country Focus

The Wales Real Food and Farming Conference that gets underway this week at Llysfasi in Ruthin - sure to cause a buzz is a discussion on the Welsh Dark Honeybee and its role in sustainable food production. We hear how the historic ban on use of snares and glue traps which came into force this week will be policed in rural Wales. We meet the lichenologist transplanting rare lichen back into the countryside to save some of our most endangered species of the complex lifeform And the observatory in Powys that hopes to spot dangerous, new asteroids - if they fix the telescope!