Landward episode 15 2022: This week Dougie’s in Strathspey, investigating the housing crisis, balancing the need for affordable housing versus holiday lets for visitors. He speaks to local people struggling to find homes in the area and hears how businesses are being compromised. Rosie joins the Highland Raptor Study Group as they ring a nest of goshawk chicks. Arlene’s in Angus finding out why more Scottish farmers should be growing hemp.       Weather presenter Christopher Blanchett visits the wettest farm in Scotland to demonstrate our microclimates, and Anne drops in to see the findings of an excavation of

Landward episode 14 2022: Dougie visits a new entrant couple running a deer farm near Port of Menteith, Stirlingshire, while Rosie takes part in a moth-trapping project in the Cairngorms that aims to find out how they indicate changes in the habitat.       Anne helps bring in the last of the harvest the old fashioned way in Caithness, using a binder, building stooks and a haystack, and Cammy heads for the hills of Ayrshire to take part in his first upland sheep gather. And Arlene is at Loch Leven to find out more about the increase of toxic

Landward episode 13 2022: In the last episode of the spring series, Dougie and the team are at Ingliston for the Royal Highland Show. As the show celebrates its 200th anniversary this year, Dougie catches up with the livestock showing and judging. Meanwhile, Cammy follows the Young Farmers’ sheep shearing competitions. He watches with his expert eye as the younger generation of shearers show off their speed, accuracy and skill.       Elsewhere, Anne visits a farm in the Carse of Stirling where they grow the traditional Scots’ Timothy hay, a crop favoured by show-winning horses. As the Highland,