Anne Marie McAleese visits Garron Plateau in County Antrim, a blanket bog and special area of conservation, to find out why this vast landscape is so important. And Linda McKenna explains to her the dark past of Downpatrick's Gallows Hill, and why it is known locally as "The Three Sisters".

Photograph by Alasdair MacDonald on Geograph and licensed for reuse under Creative Commons Licence.

Anne Marie McAleese visits Garron Plateau in County Antrim, a blanket bog and special area of conservation, to find out why this vast landscape is so important. And Linda McKenna explains to her the dark past of Downpatrick's Gallows Hill, and why it is known locally as "The Three Sisters". Photograph by Alasdair MacDonald on Geograph and licensed for reuse under Creative Commons Licence.

Garron Plateau Blanket Bog and Downpatrick's Dark Past.

<p>Your Farm and Mine is the podcast that takes you out into the cattle sheds, the lambing pens, and the rolling fields, as Eve Blair meets the farmers and families who live the rhythms of the land every day across Northern Ireland. She’ll visit farms from Tyrone to Down capturing stories of ingenuity, community and pure determination, all told by the team behind Your Place and Mine on BBC Radio Ulster. Eve will also be joined in the podcast studio by well known personalities to discuss everything that matters in farming.  Warm, funny, grounded and bursting with stories from the fields, Your Farm and Mine celebrates the people who feed us, shape our landscape, and keep rural Northern Ireland moving.</p>

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Your Farm and Mine is the podcast that takes you out into the cattle sheds, the lambing pens, and the rolling fields, as Eve Blair meets the farmers and families who live the rhythms of the land every day across Northern Ireland. She’ll visit farms from Tyrone to Down capturing stories of ingenuity, community and pure determination, all told by the team behind Your Place and Mine on BBC Radio Ulster. Eve will also be joined in the podcast studio by well known personalities to discuss everything that matters in farming. Warm, funny, grounded and bursting with stories from the fields, Your Farm and Mine celebrates the people who feed us, shape our landscape, and keep rural Northern Ireland moving.

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