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A huge cannabis farm could be built in the middle of the Irish Sea. The £100 million pound production plant - growing medicinal cannabis - is being planned for land on the outskirts of Douglas on the Isle of Man. The Tynwald - the Isle of Man Parliament - changed the law last year to allow the production of medical grade cannabis for export to places like Europe and North America.

We hear from the ex-deputy president of the National Farmers’ Union, Stuart Roberts, who hung up his badge of office last week and this week has been busy putting up new QR code signs all over his farm. He wants to harness new technology to share what he does on the land with the thousands of walkers who stroll the footpaths on his 300 acre mixed farm.

And the number of Community Supported Agriculture projects in the UK has more than tripled since 2019. These partnerships work in many different ways - sometimes it’s a straightforward financial investment, or it can be customers getting food in exchange for labour in the fields - but the key point is a firm link between the farm and the people who eat the food. We visit a CSA in Devon.

Presented by Sybil Ruscoe
Produced for ´óÏó´«Ã½ Audio in Bristol by Heather Simons