0:00:02 > 0:00:04Look, look, look, look. Just down there, look. There's the mother.
0:00:04 > 0:00:07She's looking up to see who's here.
0:00:07 > 0:00:11This progamme contains some strong language
0:00:11 > 0:00:13She's probably a wild pheasant.
0:00:13 > 0:00:16We don't have herds of rare wild animals
0:00:16 > 0:00:21like in East Africa here, but in our own way,
0:00:21 > 0:00:28to see wild birds hatching is just always a great excitement.
0:00:32 > 0:00:35Tucked away on the coast of North Norfolk
0:00:35 > 0:00:37lies Wiveton Hall Farm,
0:00:37 > 0:00:42a 17th-century manor house surrounded by fields of fruit,
0:00:42 > 0:00:45vegetables and barley.
0:00:45 > 0:00:46HE WHISTLES
0:00:46 > 0:00:48Come on, here.
0:00:48 > 0:00:51It's home to gentleman farmer, Desmond MacCarthy...
0:00:51 > 0:00:53Teddy, come on.
0:00:53 > 0:00:56..who lives here with his 99-year-old mother, Chloe...
0:00:56 > 0:00:59You've got a birthday coming up.
0:00:59 > 0:01:03- Queen Victoria was practically on the throne.- Not quite.
0:01:03 > 0:01:06..and children Isabel and Edmund.
0:01:06 > 0:01:10This is my home-made cannon that fires all sorts of fruit.
0:01:10 > 0:01:13- CANNON POPS, SHE LAUGHS - Yay.
0:01:13 > 0:01:16'When you look at the house from here, what do you think?'
0:01:16 > 0:01:19Well, I always think how beautiful it is.
0:01:19 > 0:01:22With the marshes behind, leading to the sea,
0:01:22 > 0:01:24it's a really special spot.
0:01:27 > 0:01:31Throughout the spring and summer, Desmond relies on his cafe,
0:01:31 > 0:01:34cottages and crops to generate enough income to
0:01:34 > 0:01:36keep the farm afloat.
0:01:36 > 0:01:38So the stall is where it's down a lot.
0:01:38 > 0:01:41But after a disappointing start to the season,
0:01:41 > 0:01:45Desmond is banking on his fruit farm to make amends...
0:01:45 > 0:01:47Look, they're so ripe, they're falling off.
0:01:47 > 0:01:50- Where are they all? - They're over there.
0:01:50 > 0:01:52..while preparing for the shooting season ahead.
0:01:52 > 0:01:55They've got to be fed now, and make them grow
0:01:55 > 0:01:59and be happy and strong fliers.
0:01:59 > 0:02:01I've lived here all my life.
0:02:01 > 0:02:04I've probably got arrested development
0:02:04 > 0:02:06because I've never grown up properly
0:02:06 > 0:02:08because I've never moved away.
0:02:26 > 0:02:30As spring turns to summer at Wiveton Hall,
0:02:30 > 0:02:34Desmond is hard at work in the kitchen garden.
0:02:37 > 0:02:40It's beautiful, yes. It's always been here.
0:02:41 > 0:02:44It was used as a compound for prisoners of war
0:02:44 > 0:02:46in the Napoleonic Wars.
0:02:48 > 0:02:51An awful lot of people built bungalows in their kitchen garden
0:02:51 > 0:02:55or filled them with Christmas trees.
0:02:56 > 0:02:58But anyway, we've managed to keep ours going.
0:02:58 > 0:03:01My mother was always very keen on gardening.
0:03:02 > 0:03:05Nice shirt you've got on today, where did you get that from?
0:03:05 > 0:03:09- I don't, I think in London. - London.- I think so.
0:03:09 > 0:03:13Now, oh, would you like a scything masterclass?
0:03:13 > 0:03:17Responsibility for looking after the kitchen garden now belongs to
0:03:17 > 0:03:21mother and daughter team, Amanda and Poppy.
0:03:21 > 0:03:22Sharp enough to shave a mouse.
0:03:26 > 0:03:32One of the good things today to come out of France is scythes.
0:03:32 > 0:03:33And wine, obviously.
0:03:35 > 0:03:37And garlic sausage. What else?
0:03:37 > 0:03:39What else is good from France?
0:03:39 > 0:03:43- Onions.- Onions, berets. - There's many things.
0:03:43 > 0:03:46Not many, now. Not many now.
0:03:46 > 0:03:50The dreadful socialist state has ruined itself.
0:03:51 > 0:03:54My mother used to love France, didn't you?
0:03:54 > 0:03:58- And we had lovely picnics, didn't we?- Yes, lovely picnics.
0:03:58 > 0:04:03- And Daddy always used to bring a scythe back.- Did he?- Yes.
0:04:09 > 0:04:14It's rather like carving serrano ham. It's all in the hips.
0:04:14 > 0:04:18- You twist your body like this, that's it.- Like that?
0:04:18 > 0:04:20You're not using your hips.
0:04:20 > 0:04:24Twist, swivel, swivel
0:04:24 > 0:04:26and I'll keep well out of the way.
0:04:26 > 0:04:29Ah, lovely artichokes, we must eat artichokes tonight.
0:04:31 > 0:04:36Summer at Wiveton Hall means one thing - selling fruit.
0:04:36 > 0:04:40Over the next couple of months, several tonnes of strawberries
0:04:40 > 0:04:43and raspberries will need to be shifted.
0:04:43 > 0:04:45Such a peculiar business, having to grow all this
0:04:45 > 0:04:46and then convert it to money.
0:04:48 > 0:04:53It's a very fragile product, that you have a very short window
0:04:53 > 0:04:56in which to get it to the shops or get it bought
0:04:56 > 0:04:59by someone and then you have hot days like this and...
0:05:01 > 0:05:04..it can all turn to jam quite quickly.
0:05:04 > 0:05:07The strawberries are a popular dessert in the cafe,
0:05:07 > 0:05:11with the rest sold on the roadside stall by Jilly,
0:05:11 > 0:05:14one of Desmond's longest serving employees.
0:05:15 > 0:05:18- INTERVIEWER:- 'So how long have you been working here, Jilly?'
0:05:18 > 0:05:20About 28, 30 years.
0:05:23 > 0:05:25Ever since he started it.
0:05:26 > 0:05:29When I first came, I came to pick strawberries
0:05:29 > 0:05:33and he found out I could add up. And he put me here.
0:05:34 > 0:05:40I've got strawberries, asparagus, spinach, soup asparagus,
0:05:40 > 0:05:43artichokes, jam and honey.
0:05:46 > 0:05:49That's my kind of fruit on the farm.
0:05:49 > 0:05:52'Do you ever take some home for yourself?'
0:05:52 > 0:05:54Well, I don't eat jam because I'm diabetic.
0:05:57 > 0:05:58'How about the strawberries?'
0:05:58 > 0:06:01I don't touch them. Raspberries, I do.
0:06:03 > 0:06:04Mmm.
0:06:05 > 0:06:06Mmm.
0:06:06 > 0:06:10Delicious. They really are good
0:06:10 > 0:06:13and a nice size. Here, look at him.
0:06:15 > 0:06:16There's a ripe one.
0:06:16 > 0:06:19The raspberries are almost ready to go on sale.
0:06:19 > 0:06:24Desmond and his farm hand Jez have come to check on their progress.
0:06:24 > 0:06:27These were planted... Mm.
0:06:27 > 0:06:29..about five years ago.
0:06:29 > 0:06:31They've probably had about four or five seasons.
0:06:31 > 0:06:34But the hardest thing is getting them all sold.
0:06:35 > 0:06:37These want spraying, Jez.
0:06:37 > 0:06:40- Look.- Yeah.- First pink fruit.
0:06:40 > 0:06:44Fruit is available in the supermarkets 12 months a year.
0:06:44 > 0:06:47It may have come from miles away
0:06:47 > 0:06:51but it's still cheap enough for people to buy.
0:06:51 > 0:06:56Around here most people do know that it's worth waiting for the season.
0:06:56 > 0:07:00- Do you mind whether things are in season or not?- Yeah.
0:07:01 > 0:07:04I refuse to buy any strawberries from supermarkets...
0:07:04 > 0:07:07Well done. Yes.
0:07:07 > 0:07:09..when I can just take them from here.
0:07:09 > 0:07:12- LAUGHS:- OK. Yes.
0:07:17 > 0:07:20As evening falls, Edmund and the
0:07:20 > 0:07:23family gun dog Teddy have been sent
0:07:23 > 0:07:27to the strawberry fields to protect the fruit from unwanted visitors.
0:07:31 > 0:07:35We are trying to shoot some pigeons to...
0:07:38 > 0:07:41..make sure they don't eat the strawberries.
0:07:41 > 0:07:43Otherwise they get all peck marks on them.
0:07:43 > 0:07:45People don't particularly like eating
0:07:45 > 0:07:48strawberries full of holes.
0:07:48 > 0:07:50Here's one coming in.
0:07:50 > 0:07:52GUN FIRES
0:07:54 > 0:07:55No luck.
0:07:56 > 0:08:0119-year-old Edmund is hoping to go to university later this year.
0:08:01 > 0:08:06But he'll need a good result in his A-level retakes first.
0:08:06 > 0:08:08'Shouldn't you be revising, Edmund?'
0:08:08 > 0:08:12Well, I probably should be revising. I've got my exam tomorrow.
0:08:12 > 0:08:15But you can't revise all the time.
0:08:16 > 0:08:20I'm retaking my maths A-level so hopefully, get me to an A.
0:08:21 > 0:08:24And then, straight into university.
0:08:24 > 0:08:25Stay still.
0:08:28 > 0:08:30GUN FIRES
0:08:32 > 0:08:33Bugger.
0:08:34 > 0:08:37'What is your future as you see it at the moment?'
0:08:37 > 0:08:39Hopefully, go to university and...
0:08:42 > 0:08:46..find a job somewhere. But not here at the moment.
0:08:46 > 0:08:49- 'You don't want to take over the farm?'- Not, not at the moment.
0:08:49 > 0:08:52I don't want to live here all my life.
0:08:56 > 0:08:59'Is there not another way to get rid of pigeons?'
0:09:00 > 0:09:01I don't think so.
0:09:06 > 0:09:08Good boy, Ted.
0:09:10 > 0:09:11GUN FIRES
0:09:11 > 0:09:13Oh, my God.
0:09:13 > 0:09:14GUN FIRES
0:09:15 > 0:09:18Pigeons around me everywhere.
0:09:18 > 0:09:20- Could you come on? - HE WHISTLES
0:09:20 > 0:09:22Here we go. Proper gun dog, Teddy is.
0:09:22 > 0:09:24Retrieved it perfectly.
0:09:31 > 0:09:33Proud and pleased, I got nine.
0:09:40 > 0:09:44- 'Will you take your gun to university?'- Oh, I think so.
0:09:44 > 0:09:46Good grouse shooting up north.
0:09:53 > 0:09:55OWL HOOTS
0:09:58 > 0:10:03The next morning, and the day of Edmund's exam.
0:10:04 > 0:10:06- 'Nervous?'- Yeah.
0:10:06 > 0:10:08I just don't want to mess it up again.
0:10:10 > 0:10:12Home-made granola.
0:10:13 > 0:10:15Guaranteed brain food.
0:10:15 > 0:10:17I hope so.
0:10:18 > 0:10:21If he wants to do the course at university he wants to do,
0:10:21 > 0:10:23he's got to get an A.
0:10:23 > 0:10:29He can't do any more now other than not lose his head during the exam.
0:10:29 > 0:10:33- Good luck. I'm sure it'll be all right.- I hope so.
0:10:35 > 0:10:37All right, bye.
0:10:37 > 0:10:39'He's quite keen to go to university.
0:10:39 > 0:10:42- 'Are you keen for him to go to university?'- Well, I think yes,
0:10:42 > 0:10:46it would be interesting. Meet lots of new people.
0:10:46 > 0:10:51And possibly pathway to a great career
0:10:51 > 0:10:55which would be, you know, he might as well have an interesting life
0:10:55 > 0:10:58rather than a life of regrets for not going.
0:11:02 > 0:11:06Desmond grew up at Wiveton Hall, inheriting the house and farm
0:11:06 > 0:11:08when he was still in his teens.
0:11:11 > 0:11:12My grandparents and my father all died
0:11:12 > 0:11:14within three years of each other.
0:11:14 > 0:11:17I was 15 or 16, I was never good at doing the sums
0:11:17 > 0:11:21but I was at boarding school so it was all pretty strange.
0:11:21 > 0:11:25I suppose in my grandfather's will, it was left to me.
0:11:25 > 0:11:28Um, and I suppose that dawned on me slowly.
0:11:28 > 0:11:31My mother kept the farm going.
0:11:31 > 0:11:35There was no pressure to take it on.
0:11:35 > 0:11:37There was also no pressure to go off and...
0:11:38 > 0:11:41..become a solicitor or
0:11:41 > 0:11:45become a businessman or do some job.
0:11:45 > 0:11:46There was plenty to do here.
0:11:48 > 0:11:50But it was a mistake in some respects.
0:11:52 > 0:11:55Perhaps it was probably an easy way out.
0:12:01 > 0:12:04Table 42. Four soup, two brown, two white.
0:12:04 > 0:12:05Service, please.
0:12:05 > 0:12:09The school holidays have begun and a spell of warm weather
0:12:09 > 0:12:12has produced a glut of raspberries in the "pick your own" field.
0:12:12 > 0:12:15Look at this, weighed down with fruit.
0:12:18 > 0:12:21So ripe, look, so ripe they're falling off.
0:12:21 > 0:12:24Hefty good, we've grown too many.
0:12:26 > 0:12:32Mmm. Look, there are masses and masses of raspberries up there.
0:12:32 > 0:12:36- Yes, I know.- Absolutely masses. So we've got to tell people.
0:12:36 > 0:12:39The "pick your own" business is the responsibility of
0:12:39 > 0:12:41Desmond's shop manager, Verity.
0:12:41 > 0:12:44- Plan it first before you write.- OK.
0:12:44 > 0:12:46Because otherwise you get it wrong.
0:12:46 > 0:12:49Delicious rasps.
0:12:49 > 0:12:52Very easy picking.
0:12:52 > 0:12:56We're all the same. What are we? Lazy.
0:12:56 > 0:12:59And it's getting so ripe and there's lots of it
0:12:59 > 0:13:02- and I want all these people to pick. - And experience it.
0:13:02 > 0:13:04And experience it and turn it into money.
0:13:04 > 0:13:08It's a weird experience but that's what the objective is.
0:13:08 > 0:13:12- Now, would you like to pick some?- We would, please.- Oh, good.
0:13:12 > 0:13:16Now, the idea of this is so you pick with both hands.
0:13:16 > 0:13:21Now, you tie this on around your... I'll do it round this lady's middle.
0:13:21 > 0:13:23- Ah, one moment.- There.
0:13:23 > 0:13:27Now you've got both hands, it's rather like typing.
0:13:27 > 0:13:28We'll be back soon.
0:13:28 > 0:13:33- Yes, good. Did you see that? - What's that?- The basket.
0:13:33 > 0:13:37- How did you manage to do that?- Yes. Oh, write rasps, I said.
0:13:37 > 0:13:40We just want the message across. That's all we wanted to do.
0:13:40 > 0:13:42And I added to your frustration.
0:13:42 > 0:13:45- Well, a tiny bit but I did say rasps.- I know you did.
0:13:45 > 0:13:49- Yes, well, OK.- I'll copy it word for word.- No, delicious rasps.
0:13:49 > 0:13:53- Delicious rasps.- Very easy picking.
0:13:53 > 0:13:55That's all, that's all you need to say at the moment.
0:13:55 > 0:13:58- You'd recommend it... - And then they come to me.
0:13:58 > 0:14:00Then they come to you and you direct them to the right place, please.
0:14:00 > 0:14:03- Yes.- OK, you start writing.- OK.
0:14:04 > 0:14:08- Desmond's frustrated today. - 'Is he?'- Yeah.
0:14:08 > 0:14:11- 'Can you tell?'- Yeah. - SHE LAUGHS
0:14:13 > 0:14:16'Why do you need to write very easy picking?'
0:14:16 > 0:14:19I don't know, have you got any other suggestions?
0:14:20 > 0:14:26If you put an advert up saying - "Delicious rasps, hell to pick,"
0:14:26 > 0:14:29only weirdos are going to pick.
0:14:29 > 0:14:32Of which there are plenty, so you might as well try that.
0:14:42 > 0:14:45One of Wiveton Hall's enduring traditions is the
0:14:45 > 0:14:49Annual Pheasant Shoot when Desmond rents out his farm
0:14:49 > 0:14:52to country sports enthusiasts.
0:14:52 > 0:14:53I like the shooting.
0:14:53 > 0:14:56I used to go with my grandfather and some terriers and stuff.
0:14:56 > 0:14:59We hunted about. We had great fun.
0:14:59 > 0:15:02It's just part of the thing we've always done here.
0:15:02 > 0:15:04And I like keeping that going.
0:15:04 > 0:15:06Throughout spring and summer,
0:15:06 > 0:15:08gamekeeper Mark is employed to protect
0:15:08 > 0:15:14the wild pheasants from predators, like foxes, crows and magpies.
0:15:18 > 0:15:22- 'I guess we're not shooting those.' - No. Definitely not.
0:15:22 > 0:15:24You've got to do your vermin control,
0:15:24 > 0:15:26trap and snare and things like that.
0:15:26 > 0:15:30Keep on top of it. Helps your population. Yeah.
0:15:30 > 0:15:32These are carrion crows.
0:15:32 > 0:15:36A couple of jackdaws, carrion crows and a weasel.
0:15:36 > 0:15:38'And why do you hang them up?'
0:15:39 > 0:15:42Just to show what you've got. People like to see them hung up.
0:15:42 > 0:15:45Desmond likes to see them hung up.
0:15:45 > 0:15:48But, you know...
0:15:48 > 0:15:50'Does he pay you by the bird?'
0:15:50 > 0:15:51Unfortunately, no.
0:15:51 > 0:15:54HE LAUGHS
0:16:01 > 0:16:05- You've caught one magpie here. - I have.- They're about.
0:16:05 > 0:16:07There's another one about here, sure of it.
0:16:07 > 0:16:11- Would you give him another egg? - I will do, yes.
0:16:11 > 0:16:13Today, Desmond and Mark are setting
0:16:13 > 0:16:17a magpie trap using a live bird as a decoy.
0:16:17 > 0:16:20This live one calls other magpies...
0:16:22 > 0:16:24..into these small cages.
0:16:24 > 0:16:28Sit on the perch like that and the doors
0:16:28 > 0:16:30automatically close
0:16:30 > 0:16:31and you got it.
0:16:34 > 0:16:37No-one wants to create suffering for any animal
0:16:37 > 0:16:43but you do need to use a field craft to manage the predators.
0:16:43 > 0:16:44We don't want to kill every fox,
0:16:44 > 0:16:46we don't want to kill every carrion crow,
0:16:46 > 0:16:50we don't want to kill every magpie, we never will,
0:16:50 > 0:16:55but done during the nesting period to benefit the pheasants,
0:16:55 > 0:16:59that can make a huge difference. They will do better.
0:16:59 > 0:17:01Or have more young.
0:17:02 > 0:17:03Roly, here.
0:17:08 > 0:17:12'Ostensibly, you're protecting pheasants' young
0:17:12 > 0:17:14'so eventually you can shoot them.'
0:17:14 > 0:17:18- Yes.- Yeah. That's why we do the trapping.- Yes.
0:17:18 > 0:17:21Building up for next year's population.
0:17:21 > 0:17:24I suppose for people who don't understand anything about it,
0:17:24 > 0:17:27they probably find it horrifying to enjoy going out
0:17:27 > 0:17:31with your gun, shooting a bird that's flying over.
0:17:31 > 0:17:34And the harder it is, the more pleased you are.
0:17:35 > 0:17:39- And we... Oh, look a barn owl.- So Desmond says.- (There's a barn owl.)
0:17:49 > 0:17:52Roly, come here. Come on. Come on.
0:17:56 > 0:17:58So, that's country life.
0:17:58 > 0:18:04- Anyway, it's all very bucolic now, isn't that the word?- Bucolic.
0:18:04 > 0:18:09- It's not alcoholic.- No, not alcoholic.- It's bucolic.
0:18:20 > 0:18:24The "pick your own raspberries" are proving to be a popular day out.
0:18:24 > 0:18:28But overnight at the roadside stall, there's been an incident.
0:18:28 > 0:18:32Oh, dear. Oh, Teddy. Come on, Teddy.
0:18:36 > 0:18:38There's been a little break-in.
0:18:40 > 0:18:42In the strawberry hut.
0:18:44 > 0:18:47And they've stolen jam and stuff.
0:18:48 > 0:18:50They broke in round here.
0:18:52 > 0:18:57It's not the most hi-tech of security, but there we are.
0:18:58 > 0:19:00What got taken?
0:19:02 > 0:19:06- All that amount?- Yes.
0:19:06 > 0:19:10Gooseberries, honey, £22 worth of honey...
0:19:12 > 0:19:14..£80 of jam...
0:19:15 > 0:19:18..flowers, beans, it's just a nightmare.
0:19:18 > 0:19:21- TELEPHONE:- 'You are connected to Norfolk Police.
0:19:21 > 0:19:23'All our operators are currently busy.'
0:19:23 > 0:19:26That's a bit tragic, isn't it?
0:19:26 > 0:19:29- 'What's that?' - Being told to hold,
0:19:29 > 0:19:31your call will be held in a queue.
0:19:34 > 0:19:36I'm bleeding a bit, I'm just bleeding a bit.
0:19:37 > 0:19:39- TELEPHONE:- 'Please continue to hold
0:19:39 > 0:19:42'and we will answer your call as soon as an operator is free.'
0:19:42 > 0:19:43It makes you hardly bother.
0:19:45 > 0:19:49On the other side of the farm, another crisis.
0:19:49 > 0:19:53Landscape gardener, Peter, has found a horde of honeybees which
0:19:53 > 0:19:57have swarmed from one of Desmond's hives.
0:19:57 > 0:20:01They came in across the field and they stopped right just there.
0:20:01 > 0:20:04'So when you saw those bees, you were like, "Got to tell Desmond."'
0:20:04 > 0:20:05Straight away.
0:20:06 > 0:20:09- Is it still there?- Yes.
0:20:09 > 0:20:13Well spotted, Peter. It's so good.
0:20:13 > 0:20:15There are few countrymen left.
0:20:15 > 0:20:17You and I, Peter.
0:20:19 > 0:20:20How amazing.
0:20:21 > 0:20:26Bees have swarmed, meaning there are two queens in the hive.
0:20:26 > 0:20:30So one, probably the old queen, has gone off,
0:20:30 > 0:20:33bringing with her bees from the hive,
0:20:33 > 0:20:36like taking an army and so splitting the hive.
0:20:36 > 0:20:39But if you want to make honey at this time of year
0:20:39 > 0:20:42when all the blossom's out, you want as many bees as possible.
0:20:42 > 0:20:45- 'You seem quite excited, Desmond.' - Well, I am excited, yes.
0:20:45 > 0:20:47I haven't taken a swarm.
0:20:47 > 0:20:50Very often you get there and they've flown off.
0:20:50 > 0:20:54Come and look. It's quite safe. I promise you.
0:20:55 > 0:20:58I'll pay you a pound a sting.
0:20:58 > 0:21:00Come closer, do you see them?
0:21:02 > 0:21:03What do you think?
0:21:03 > 0:21:05Scoop them into this?
0:21:05 > 0:21:07You can try.
0:21:07 > 0:21:09They're very angry now.
0:21:09 > 0:21:12- 'Does he know what he's doing, Peter?'- Roughly.
0:21:14 > 0:21:17- OK?- Well, Peter, that was exciting.
0:21:19 > 0:21:21I think we've got quite a few of them.
0:21:23 > 0:21:26Desmond must now transfer the swarm
0:21:26 > 0:21:29from the boxes into a new hive.
0:21:30 > 0:21:33I've never known so many bees.
0:21:35 > 0:21:37I mean, absolutely unbelievable.
0:21:43 > 0:21:45They really are going crazy over here.
0:21:48 > 0:21:49Oh.
0:21:51 > 0:21:54- 'You OK, Desmond?'- Hm.
0:21:54 > 0:21:57- LISPS:- Yeah, I have been stung on the chin and it's
0:21:57 > 0:21:59rather blowing up, but still...
0:22:03 > 0:22:05I'm told it stops you having rheumatism.
0:22:07 > 0:22:09It's slightly pulsating.
0:22:09 > 0:22:12And the tip of my nose, I think I got a little bit of a sting there,
0:22:12 > 0:22:15through the netting. Here they go!
0:22:17 > 0:22:21No brave beekeeper bothers with cream but I'm not a professional.
0:22:23 > 0:22:25'Why do you keep bees, Desmond?'
0:22:25 > 0:22:32Oh, because we've always had some bees here since I was a child
0:22:32 > 0:22:35and we have a fruit farm here and so it helps the pollination
0:22:35 > 0:22:37and they are fascinating.
0:22:37 > 0:22:39'Is it a hobby, Desmond, the beekeeping?
0:22:39 > 0:22:43Like most things, yes, it's a hobby. It feels like a hobby.
0:22:43 > 0:22:45The whole thing seems to be a hobby.
0:22:51 > 0:22:54- Is there not a ticket, Jack? - A what?- What's on the new ticket?
0:22:54 > 0:22:57After a summer making pizza in the cafe,
0:22:57 > 0:23:00Edmund is about to find out if he's got the grades he needs
0:23:00 > 0:23:02to study maths at university.
0:23:08 > 0:23:10'How are you feeling?'
0:23:10 > 0:23:14A little bit excited. And hopeful.
0:23:17 > 0:23:20Anything less than an A in maths and Edmund must
0:23:20 > 0:23:24settle for his second choice - a degree in sociology.
0:23:26 > 0:23:27Hello.
0:23:29 > 0:23:32- 'Do you know what you've got yet?' - No, I haven't looked.
0:23:32 > 0:23:33I've managed to refrain.
0:23:33 > 0:23:35- Shall we have a look? - 'Let's have a look.'
0:23:40 > 0:23:41Right.
0:23:46 > 0:23:47Fuck it.
0:23:47 > 0:23:51- Never mind.- 'What did you get?' - B again in maths.
0:23:53 > 0:23:54(Bugger.)
0:23:56 > 0:23:59What a bugger. Oh, well.
0:23:59 > 0:24:02- 'But you've got into university?' - Yes, but to do sociology.
0:24:06 > 0:24:10- I got into Newcastle. - You've got into Newcastle?- Yeah.
0:24:10 > 0:24:12- Are you sure that you got that right?- Yes.
0:24:12 > 0:24:15- And what subject are you going to do?- Sociology.
0:24:15 > 0:24:19Oh, it's a lovely subject. Sociology?
0:24:21 > 0:24:23You're going to be a sociologist.
0:24:24 > 0:24:28Well done, Edmund. Oh, that is good, isn't it?
0:24:28 > 0:24:29Yeah.
0:24:30 > 0:24:31Well done.
0:24:34 > 0:24:39First member of the family for generations to go to university.
0:24:39 > 0:24:42- Edmund, that's good. - Anyway, that's over.
0:24:44 > 0:24:45Again.
0:24:53 > 0:24:56With the shooting season fast approaching, a secure pen
0:24:56 > 0:25:02has been built to house 250 reared baby pheasants, known as poults.
0:25:05 > 0:25:08These are seven and a half weeks old
0:25:08 > 0:25:09and we just take a few
0:25:09 > 0:25:11feathers off the wing so that they
0:25:11 > 0:25:13don't fly out of the pen too soon.
0:25:13 > 0:25:17The wings we clip, the feathers are clipped off,
0:25:17 > 0:25:20they'll regrow in the next two or three weeks and then they can fly.
0:25:22 > 0:25:26- (Where are they all?)- They're over there. I'll walk round the corner...
0:25:26 > 0:25:30Oh, look, they're having a lovely time, look at them, pecking about.
0:25:32 > 0:25:35- It's not a bad spot, is it? - No, that'll be all right, yeah.
0:25:35 > 0:25:37They're all trying to get out already.
0:25:37 > 0:25:39We don't want them getting out.
0:25:39 > 0:25:42'These ones aren't here to be shot, they are here to
0:25:42 > 0:25:43'replace the ones that were shot last year.'
0:25:43 > 0:25:48- Oh, no, they will, they'll grow up and a few will get shot.- Yes.
0:25:48 > 0:25:51No, but they'll be ready when they are about 22 weeks old.
0:25:51 > 0:25:55So you've got another 14 weeks to go before they'll get chased about.
0:25:56 > 0:25:58The poults will be kept in the pen
0:25:58 > 0:26:03until they're big enough to join the wild pheasant population.
0:26:03 > 0:26:08It's nice to have a few peasants to shoot other than shoot
0:26:08 > 0:26:13the wild ones so that you don't deplete the stocks completely.
0:26:15 > 0:26:19They've got to be fed now and we'll look after them.
0:26:19 > 0:26:23And make them grow and be happy and strong
0:26:23 > 0:26:25and then strong fliers.
0:26:33 > 0:26:36As the fruit season draws to a close for another year,
0:26:36 > 0:26:41business manager Kim has started crunching the numbers.
0:26:41 > 0:26:46Actually, the "pick your own" and the shop is up £500.
0:26:46 > 0:26:49- Unbelievable.- That's good, isn't it?
0:26:49 > 0:26:52But £2,000 down on the picked
0:26:52 > 0:26:56and the stall is down £4,000.
0:26:56 > 0:27:01- So, overall...- It won't be down... - ..it's probably £15,000 down.
0:27:03 > 0:27:04Right.
0:27:08 > 0:27:10'Why are the takings down so much?'
0:27:10 > 0:27:12- Erm...- Price, possibly?
0:27:13 > 0:27:17We, you know, we can't compete with supermarket prices.
0:27:17 > 0:27:19Do you think, Desmond?
0:27:19 > 0:27:21Our prices aren't the cheapest, but...
0:27:21 > 0:27:24a few years ago we used to do a lot better.
0:27:29 > 0:27:32It is a very small farm and we've grown fruit here
0:27:32 > 0:27:35for 30 years which is labour-intensive, pruning,
0:27:35 > 0:27:37picking and all that sort of thing
0:27:37 > 0:27:38but it's not highly profitable
0:27:38 > 0:27:41and it's seasonal, affected by the weather.
0:27:43 > 0:27:45'So why do you keep it going?'
0:27:45 > 0:27:48Well, it's terribly important to maintain small farms.
0:27:48 > 0:27:52We don't want it all becoming agribusiness which would make
0:27:52 > 0:27:56things very dull if we're all living in a sort of factory situation.
0:27:57 > 0:28:00And I suppose when you've lived somewhere all your life,
0:28:00 > 0:28:04you're very used to it. It's a lovely place to live.
0:28:04 > 0:28:10It's lovely to have the space and the incredible luxury of privacy.
0:28:19 > 0:28:22Thank you all for coming to celebrate
0:28:22 > 0:28:25Chloe's very special birthday.
0:28:25 > 0:28:28There has been communications from the palace.
0:28:28 > 0:28:31So, it really is genuine the hundredth birthday.
0:28:31 > 0:28:33- (Keep down, keep down.) - GUN FIRES
0:28:33 > 0:28:37Oh, my God! Oh, look at that shot of his.
0:28:37 > 0:28:41- I'm getting into the rock promotion mood.- OK.
0:28:41 > 0:28:44I mean, it's just like how Glastonbury started.