:00:30. > :00:34.Hello and a very warm welcome to a brand-new series of Landward,
:00:34. > :00:38.taking us through the autumn Montserrat up to Christmas, just 13
:00:39. > :00:42.weeks away! In a moment, I will look back at a harvest of 2012 and
:00:42. > :00:51.ask what it means that the price of food on our table. First, here is
:00:51. > :00:55.what else is coming up: mic is our man with a pan.
:00:55. > :01:00.Voila, my skinny crepes with seasonal berries and honey cream.
:01:00. > :01:04.The menace of Himalayan balsam. When you touch it, it springs and
:01:04. > :01:08.coils around itself, and that catapults the seeds. And we find
:01:08. > :01:15.out how the Women's Land Army will be remembered with a permanent
:01:15. > :01:19.memorial. I see that very much as the generation that kind of asked
:01:19. > :01:27.for very little and gave an awful lot. I am conscious that this is a
:01:27. > :01:31.real privilege to do something. After yet another disappointing
:01:31. > :01:35.summer, some of Scotland's farmers are still trying to bring in the
:01:35. > :01:39.harvest. This year, different types of crops were badly affected by
:01:39. > :01:43.high rainfall and lack of sunshine. Just as the harvest was beginning,
:01:43. > :01:52.I went to see the damage for myself and find out what the wider
:01:52. > :01:58.implications of a bad year are for all of us.
:01:58. > :02:01.The Scottish summer of 2012 was dominated by low pressure, which
:02:01. > :02:06.brought cool and cloudy conditions and lots and lots of rain. Records
:02:06. > :02:10.were broken, giving June and July the dubious titles of being the
:02:10. > :02:15.wettest, dullest and coldest, with the exception of the west coast,
:02:16. > :02:20.where it was a lovely summer. And all that rain is bad news for
:02:20. > :02:27.farmers trying to grow crops and bring in the harvest. It is the end
:02:27. > :02:34.of August. For some, it is a frustrating and worrying time.
:02:34. > :02:38.has been an awful summer. All the crops have suffered. The barley was
:02:38. > :02:48.poor. The bushel weights were poor, which is the weight of the seed.
:02:48. > :02:54.Very poor indeed. The disease levels in the wake, up to 30% of
:02:54. > :03:02.the rape will be poor. Today I would visualise something like a
:03:02. > :03:07.similar figure. Those brown bits are fungus. It is purely because it
:03:07. > :03:11.is so wet and never really getting sunshine. The seed inside is
:03:11. > :03:18.obviously far too wet. It has several weeks of drying out to do
:03:18. > :03:22.before that becomes a viable wheat seed. There are disease levels we
:03:22. > :03:26.can do nothing about. We are coming towards the end of August. How far
:03:26. > :03:31.would you normally be on with your harvest? We would normally be a
:03:31. > :03:34.fortnight further on. We would have the right plum, and we would be
:03:34. > :03:42.looking at wheat within the next week to ten days. This is maybe
:03:42. > :03:47.four weeks away. Depends on what whether we get. It is not just the
:03:47. > :03:51.grain crops that have suffered. The soft fruit, potatoes and silage
:03:51. > :03:56.have all been affected, with crops not ripening and disease taking
:03:56. > :04:03.hold. The fire from Alan Berry, the high rainfall has had a major
:04:03. > :04:12.effect on his potato crops. Potatoes like some light, and there
:04:12. > :04:19.has been a lack of that. This crop, we should be a struggling to walk
:04:19. > :04:29.through. The foliage should be up to my knees, and it is not. There
:04:29. > :04:30.
:04:30. > :04:37.are less tubers because of the wet weather. It is not good. And is
:04:37. > :04:42.that simply because of the wet conditions? Yes. If we go deeper,
:04:42. > :04:47.that is not good. I would expect to see more potatoes. I would expect
:04:47. > :04:52.to see more consistency in the size. And I would expect them to be at
:04:52. > :04:57.least 50% bigger. But that is typical of what I am seeing.
:04:57. > :05:02.are looking at a month before you take these out of the ground? Could
:05:02. > :05:06.be better. But as Scottish crops and stood in
:05:06. > :05:11.rain this summer, in other areas around the world, crops were
:05:11. > :05:16.devastated by drought, leading to shortages and elevated grain prices.
:05:16. > :05:21.Go and kick, which is over �200 a tonne and can only go up because of
:05:21. > :05:26.the shortage. So that has to be reflected in the cost of production.
:05:26. > :05:34.It costs more to feed the animals. So you will see the effect in pigs
:05:34. > :05:38.and poultry. Assuming the public want Scottish and UK milk and
:05:38. > :05:43.chicken, it may be that consumption cuts back. I hope the consumer will
:05:43. > :05:47.stay with us, because it has been a difficult season. A month ago, I
:05:47. > :05:53.stood on this spot almost up to my knees in mud. Thankfully, things
:05:53. > :06:02.have dried up a little. Let's see how Andrew got on with his harvest.
:06:03. > :06:07.Harvest has finished. Everything is back to 20% yield. It is the
:06:07. > :06:11.quality that is a worry. Before weights are poor, and our customer
:06:11. > :06:17.wants it better than we have got. So some conversations will have to
:06:17. > :06:21.take place, possibly painful conversations, because we will have
:06:21. > :06:24.to take less money if the quality is not quite there. Did and the
:06:24. > :06:30.difficult summer you have had, I imagine that will impact on
:06:30. > :06:34.consumers' pockets? It has to happen, because the yields are not
:06:34. > :06:38.only down in Scotland, but in the UK and the whole world. Supply and
:06:38. > :06:45.demand being what they are, we have to pay more if there is a low
:06:45. > :06:51.supply. All farmers have been pushing on and getting things done
:06:51. > :06:54.when they can, because this weather could change again today.
:06:54. > :06:58.Over the next three weeks, Nick Nairn will be getting out of the
:06:58. > :07:04.kitchen to cook in a variety of locations. This week, he is
:07:04. > :07:07.concocting a dish to mark the end of the harvest.
:07:07. > :07:11.As we had, it will be a relief to most farmers to finally get their
:07:11. > :07:15.harvesting complete. It has been a difficult year, and in some parts
:07:15. > :07:20.of the country, yields will be down significantly. But to celebrate the
:07:20. > :07:26.end of the harvest, I am going to make a simple pudding using the
:07:26. > :07:30.finest Scottish FA and the last of the seasonal berries. I am making
:07:30. > :07:36.skinny pancakes with the last of the seasonal berries, and all on a
:07:36. > :07:41.single burner camping stove. Here is how we do it. One measuring cup,
:07:41. > :07:47.and I will take a cup full of fine Scottish flour and add that into a
:07:47. > :07:52.mixing bowl. And I am going to add the eggs into the flour. Equal
:07:52. > :07:58.volumes of flour and eggs. Be quite vigorous in the whisking, because
:07:58. > :08:03.this works out all the lumps. You don't want lumps in your pancakes.
:08:03. > :08:11.Whisk the eggs and the flour until they are stringy. Then we had an
:08:11. > :08:15.equal volume of milk. Whisk the milk him until you have got the
:08:15. > :08:19.consistent -- consistency of single cream. There is no sugar in this
:08:19. > :08:24.pancake batter, because I will add honey to the cream to sweeten it.
:08:24. > :08:28.To make the pancake, a little splash of vegetable oil into the
:08:28. > :08:36.pan. Swirl it around to coat the bottom of the pan, then pour out
:08:36. > :08:41.the excess oil. In goes a little splash of the pancake mix. Then
:08:41. > :08:45.give that a good swirl round to coat the bottom of the pan. As it
:08:45. > :08:49.starts to set, you can return the pan to the heat and wait for some
:08:49. > :08:54.bobbles to start forming. Once you see the edges of the pan kick-start
:08:54. > :09:01.to set, you should just come away with the pan. He's the pancake away
:09:01. > :09:05.and quickly, using your fingers, flip over. Then we cook it a second
:09:05. > :09:10.time for about 90 seconds. Once you see some bubbles forming, it is
:09:10. > :09:15.time to flip the pancake batter check that it has cooked. I am just
:09:15. > :09:20.going to flip this back over to make sure it is fully cooked. You
:09:20. > :09:25.can see a nice bit of colour in there. Then slide it onto a plate.
:09:25. > :09:31.Little splash of money into some double cream. Whisk back together
:09:31. > :09:34.until it just starts to thicken. A tablespoon of the honey cream on a
:09:34. > :09:38.corner of the pancake, a handful of seasonal berries, and we are still
:09:38. > :09:44.getting raspberries and blueberries, another dollop of cream on top and
:09:44. > :09:51.then just fold the pancake together, and the final flourish - a drizzle
:09:51. > :09:56.of honey. And for life - my skinny crepes with seasonal berries and
:09:56. > :10:04.honey cream. Next week, I am going back to school and into the
:10:04. > :10:09.classroom to tempt pupils with some Scottish Asian seafood.
:10:09. > :10:16.Still to come: we visit the first permanent memorial to the Women's
:10:16. > :10:20.Land Army. The prime quality I want to get across is this youthful
:10:20. > :10:24.exuberance, this lust for life, this joyousness, really.
:10:24. > :10:33.And we are on the gallops with top Scottish racehorse trainer Jim
:10:34. > :10:41.Goldie. In this one but his name because he finds a lot of things to
:10:41. > :10:45.do wrong. Around 900 non-native species have
:10:45. > :10:49.been recorded as having escaped or been released into the Scottish
:10:49. > :10:53.environment. The majority of these caused little or no problems, but a
:10:53. > :10:57.small number have the potential to do serious damage to species or
:10:57. > :11:05.habitats. Sarah has been following the relentless spread of one of
:11:05. > :11:10.those problem plants, Himalayan balsam.
:11:10. > :11:14.In Victorian times, gardening became extremely popular, with
:11:14. > :11:20.gardeners keen to create drama in the flowerbeds by using non-native
:11:20. > :11:27.and exotic plants from all corners of the empire. One of these was
:11:27. > :11:31.Indian, or Himalayan balsam. But if you have it in your garden, you
:11:31. > :11:36.probably don't want it. Himalayan balsam was introduced at the same
:11:36. > :11:45.time as Japanese knotweed and giant hogweed, and like them, it has
:11:45. > :11:51.become a rampant alien invader. plant was first found in the wild
:11:51. > :11:55.in Britain in the mid- 19th century. In the intervening 150 years, it
:11:55. > :12:00.has colonised everywhere from the Isles of Scilly up to the Isles of
:12:00. > :12:06.Shetland. You will find it along riverbanks and a long shady roads.
:12:06. > :12:10.Where people move around, it follows. It is a very showy plant.
:12:10. > :12:15.You can see why there was an ornamental variety. The seed cap
:12:15. > :12:20.tries out, and it gets a lot of tension in it. If you brush against
:12:20. > :12:25.it or touch it, it springs or coils around itself, and that catapults
:12:25. > :12:30.the seeds. Why is it a nuisance? is very rich in nectar. The
:12:30. > :12:33.downside of that is that the pollinating insects then neglect to
:12:33. > :12:37.pollinate the native wild flowers around. It is like when a large
:12:37. > :12:41.superstore comes to your town and the high street tends to wither. It
:12:41. > :12:44.is the same with the native wild flowers. The insects get sated on
:12:44. > :12:51.the Himalayan balsam and don't quite do the job for the rest of
:12:51. > :13:01.the plants. This amazing coloniser has marched across Scotland and
:13:01. > :13:02.
:13:02. > :13:07.found its way here. But the Rangers are fighting back. Because we have
:13:07. > :13:11.got a large body of water here, once the scenes exploded, they go
:13:11. > :13:20.into the water and can get spread right across the park. So we are
:13:20. > :13:27.constantly on the lookout for new colonies of the Balsam. This is our
:13:27. > :13:31.biggest area of Bolton. That is a big area. We use machinery. Rangers
:13:31. > :13:35.go out with streamers, and we have large parties of volunteers. If we
:13:35. > :13:40.are lucky, they come out and handballed them. So you need armies
:13:40. > :13:44.of volunteers to get rid of the ball some? If there is an army of
:13:44. > :13:49.volunteers, we will gladly have them to deal with the ball some.
:13:49. > :13:54.But we are coming to the end of the season now where the ball some
:13:54. > :14:00.stars to set seed, and we would not be tackling it. We have got one
:14:00. > :14:05.close by, one to have a look? So this is the successful area that
:14:05. > :14:10.has been cleaned. We used to cut this with machines and handling and
:14:10. > :14:17.also using streamers around the edge. At the front, you can see a
:14:17. > :14:21.large, nice colony of meadowsweet. And we have smaller wild flowers on
:14:21. > :14:25.the ground player. How realistic is it that you can completely
:14:25. > :14:29.eradicate Himalayan balsam from the park? It is not realistic, to be
:14:29. > :14:35.honest. I would say it is here to stay, just because we cannot access
:14:35. > :14:45.all areas. And where we can't access it, it will spread its seed.
:14:45. > :14:45.
:14:45. > :14:50.New legislation was introduced in July when the Scottish Government
:14:50. > :14:54.introduced a code of practice on the non-native species. It is to
:14:55. > :14:59.help people understand their responsibilities.
:15:00. > :15:05.It means that people who plant or cause non-native species to grow in
:15:05. > :15:14.the wild are guilty of an offence. If you let it grow, technically you
:15:14. > :15:18.are breaking the law. So it has to be managed. I would show you what
:15:18. > :15:24.it looks like when it springs, but I don't want to show your camera
:15:24. > :15:34.what it looks like by would be breaking the law!
:15:34. > :15:39.It may be pretty which is why it is known as the poor man's orchid. But
:15:39. > :15:48.if you do find it, be very careful with it, and remove it before its
:15:48. > :15:56.If you have a comment about anything you see on the programme
:15:56. > :16:00.or have a wonderful story to share, please e-mail was. Now, the weather
:16:00. > :16:10.here is lovely and warm. But what about the prospects for the weekend
:16:10. > :16:15.
:16:15. > :16:21.Over the next few days they is a common theme of sunshine and
:16:21. > :16:31.showers. No different tomorrow. Thus the area of low pressure is
:16:31. > :16:34.
:16:34. > :16:39.centred over Shetland. Some of the show was will be heavy. -- showers.
:16:39. > :16:49.But they should tend to fade and the winds will ease. By mid-
:16:49. > :16:53.
:16:53. > :16:58.afternoon, generally dry and bright. Temperatures, 14 Celsius or so. But
:16:58. > :17:04.the cloud will turn particularly easy, the proper East you are, you
:17:04. > :17:09.hold on to the sunshine. Across the Highlands, head the show was on
:17:09. > :17:18.Saturday morning. But notice the north-westerly winds which at times
:17:18. > :17:28.will be Severe Gale Force. East, generally dry, but a chance of some
:17:28. > :17:29.
:17:29. > :17:39.isolated Sharon's still. -- showers. Generally good visibility, drying
:17:39. > :17:43.
:17:43. > :17:51.up by the afternoon. Around the east, the force five, force six.
:17:51. > :17:56.Orkney, Shetland, force six, forced seven. The rest of the afternoon
:17:56. > :18:01.sees the rain arrived from the West. It will be heavy at times and
:18:01. > :18:08.crossed the country quite rapidly. Temperatures for many will reach
:18:08. > :18:15.double digits. This weather front will cross the country quite
:18:15. > :18:20.quickly. But in behind it, some showers will still be with us. They
:18:20. > :18:24.will start to work their way into the West, dry and bright in the
:18:24. > :18:31.east. The first few days of next week, sunshine and showers
:18:31. > :18:41.continued. Here his wife. Eat area of low pressure stays. -- here is
:18:41. > :18:42.
:18:42. > :18:52.why. The winds are gusty at times in the east and will make showers
:18:52. > :18:53.
:18:53. > :19:03.blustery. Tuesday, low-pressure centre to the north. A day of
:19:03. > :19:06.
:19:06. > :19:10.sunshine and showers, temperatures, 14 Celsius at best. The show was a
:19:10. > :19:19.slow moving on Wednesday but in between this should be sunshine. --
:19:19. > :19:24.Jim Goldie is one of the most successful racehorse trainers in
:19:24. > :19:30.Scotland. He recorded one of his biggest wins earlier this summer
:19:30. > :19:34.with victory at Goodwood. Over the next few weeks we will spend time
:19:34. > :19:44.in his East Renfrewshire and Jaap as he prepares for the Gold Cup
:19:44. > :19:45.
:19:46. > :19:52.festival. Just south of Glasgow as the racing yard. Jan has been
:19:52. > :19:55.training horses since he was in his teens. Earlier this year he won the
:19:56. > :20:01.Stewards Cup, the first time it had been won on a Scottish trained
:20:01. > :20:10.horse. I was born and brought up to do
:20:10. > :20:16.this. My father had horses, stallions, we bred m and hunted.
:20:16. > :20:21.Unfortunately, he was hurt in a riding accident when I was 16. My
:20:21. > :20:29.brother and I took over the training. I started from a young
:20:29. > :20:33.age, developing opinions on how horses should be trained.
:20:33. > :20:43.He has 60 horses in training but each has its own temperament and
:20:43. > :20:50.
:20:50. > :20:54.character. This is Gonnae No Dae That. He got the name because when
:20:54. > :21:01.he was a to-year-old he would duck in between the paddles and fight
:21:01. > :21:09.with his pals. He saw everything as an opportunity to be mischievous.
:21:10. > :21:16.He is one of life's characters. I The business employs many people
:21:16. > :21:26.but at its heart it is a family affair. Jan's wife, both his sons,
:21:26. > :21:31.and his daughter-in-law's, work in the art. When you are racing you
:21:31. > :21:39.are away for a lot of time. It is vital that the work is done
:21:39. > :21:45.properly back at home. Having my family working here is ideal.
:21:45. > :21:54.What is it like working for your father in law?
:21:54. > :22:00.Positives and negatives. I live at my work, basically! But it is a
:22:00. > :22:07.privilege to write these beautiful horses every day. We have a great
:22:07. > :22:13.team. Everybody gets on with it and it makes the job enjoyable.
:22:13. > :22:19.Jim tries to work with the natural instincts of a horse. That is the
:22:19. > :22:23.theory behind the layout of the stables.
:22:23. > :22:29.Their idea is to make it open plan, the horses can see and touch each
:22:29. > :22:37.other. Basically it mimics the held in the wild. Horses like to have
:22:37. > :22:47.panoramic vision and beware of the thing is. -- know where everything
:22:47. > :22:50.
:22:50. > :23:00.Next week we will meet a top prospect for the Gold Cup, Hawkeye
:23:00. > :23:02.
:23:02. > :23:07.Eccrine estate in Moray has debated land to the Land Army memorial
:23:07. > :23:17.Scotland. A charity set up to fund it attributes. The new structure
:23:17. > :23:17.
:23:17. > :23:21.will be a permanent memorial to the The war has taken most of the
:23:21. > :23:28.younger men away from Scottish farms, leaving farmers without
:23:28. > :23:30.enough help to produce fatal food supplies...
:23:30. > :23:37.This Ministry of Information recruitment film called for more
:23:37. > :23:44.land girls in Scotland. It picked - - depicts the tasks they carried
:23:44. > :23:47.out which are vital in terms of keeping the nation fed. But despite
:23:47. > :23:52.the upbeat tone of the recruitment campaigns the reality of the work
:23:52. > :24:00.for these women was often hard physical labour and terrible living
:24:00. > :24:05.conditions. They did everything from that
:24:05. > :24:09.catching to sewing, harvesting, hen maids, clipping sheep, they also
:24:09. > :24:15.had to have some knowledge of working with machinery. Some of
:24:15. > :24:25.them were on farms, just a single goal, others were run purpose-built
:24:25. > :24:26.
:24:26. > :24:33.accommodation. They were basically a prisoner of war type pubs.
:24:33. > :24:36.Buna Stuart left's Glasgow for a very different life on the farm.
:24:36. > :24:44.I saw a photo of a Lady laughing her head off with the heart this
:24:44. > :24:54.crop below her. So I joined to do my bit. I was posted to just
:24:54. > :24:59.
:24:59. > :25:06.outside of Arbroath, a farm called and I am hell. -- Iron Hill. Game
:25:06. > :25:13.do it was hard, physical work. The natives thought I was posh because
:25:13. > :25:22.I was well-educated it, I spoke different from them!
:25:22. > :25:30.It was a shock? It certainly was!
:25:30. > :25:35.At its peak there were 8,500 Land girls in Scotland. But despite all
:25:35. > :25:41.their efforts they became known as the forgotten Army and had very
:25:41. > :25:47.little in way of recognition. It may have been a long time coming
:25:47. > :25:52.but in a few weeks a permanent memorial will be unveiled at this
:25:52. > :25:55.site. Peter Naylor was the artist commissioned to design and produce
:25:55. > :26:02.what is to become the first national memorial to the Women's
:26:02. > :26:06.Land Army in Britain. Because his is a world war two
:26:06. > :26:12.memorial there is a feeling that you doing it for your parent's
:26:12. > :26:19.generation. I see that as the generation that asked for little
:26:19. > :26:25.and gave a lot. So I'm conscious that this is a real privilege. As
:26:25. > :26:32.well as being artistically interesting there is a grabber Tass.
:26:32. > :26:39.-- gravitas. What about the actual sculpture?
:26:39. > :26:43.Shrouded in secrecy but a striking piece of work.
:26:43. > :26:48.It was a huge adventure for many Andy look back on it with nostalgia
:26:48. > :26:56.and happiness. If the quality I want to get back on it is this
:26:56. > :27:06.youthful exuberance, lust for life, joyousness. In that sense it is
:27:06. > :27:08.
:27:08. > :27:15.unique as a war memorial. The Land girls are doing their bit,
:27:15. > :27:22.and a bit more... What impact did it have on your
:27:22. > :27:29.future wife? And great deal. I met my husband
:27:29. > :27:36.and married him. He was one of the young men.
:27:36. > :27:46.So it changed your life? Its debt. It turned me head over
:27:46. > :27:51.
:27:51. > :27:58.heels. I would love to be there for That fitting tribute to the Women's
:27:58. > :28:03.Land Army will be unveiled on Tuesday 9th October at 1pm. Now, a
:28:04. > :28:09.preview of what we will be featuring on next week's programme.
:28:09. > :28:16.The unique qualities of Shetland will.
:28:16. > :28:22.That is one of the key points. That springiness.
:28:22. > :28:29.And we try to tempt schoolchildren to eat Scottish seafood.