Ben speaks to LEAF's Open Farm Sunday Manager Annabel Shackleton and arable farmer Lucy Nott who did Open Farm Sunday for the first time last year.

Ben meets Leicestershire dairy farmer Ruth Grice who also works part time for Nottinghamshire Wildlife Trust. Ruth farms in partnership with her parents and milks around 180 pedigree Holsteins, selling milk to Long Clawson Dairy just 5 miles away from the farm to make world famous Stilton cheese.

Ben meets Abedeenshire based new entrant farmer and grazier Nikki Yoxall. With a background in further education Nikki, alongside her husband James, now uses holistic management and agroecological techniques to develop the business on their own land and with neighbours.

Charlie Beaty is a young farmer with bags of drive. She has worked in Australia and traveled Down Under working on farms before coming home to the family farm in the Midlands. Now farming alongside her dad and uncle in Warwickshire, Charlie is also a Farmers Weekly columnist and involved in FarmerTime. She’s also county Chair of Warwickshire Young Farmers.

Ben speaks to cookbook author Jenny Jefferies about her book 'For the Love of the Land' which profiles 40 different farmers from across the UK and their favourite recipes.

Ben is joined by Senior Consultant at Kite Consulting, Becki Leach to talk about her life and varied career as well as running and a few tips for the reading list if you're interested in leadership and people.

This week guest host Will Evans (!!) and Ben speak to 'everybody's favourite dairy market analyst' Chris Walkland who can be found every Friday over on the Kite Podcast. As well as hearing about Chris's career there is some straight talking about the industry and politics.