Countryfile Summer Diaries S03E04 - Episode 4

Steve Brown is in Warwickshire investigating how the summer heatwave has crippled crops and affected what ends up on dinner plates. At Evesham market, Steve finds out if shoppers would be prepared to follow the example of the French and pay five times more for home-grown produce. Paul Martin is at Lacock Abbey in Wiltshire for the spooky summer sight of bats emerging from the rooftop gargoyles. These flying mammals are in trouble as numbers have toppled, so what do you do if they decide to take up residence in your lofts? Like countless other coastal villages around the UK, Croyde in north Devon is facing a property crisis as over half the village is made up of holiday homes. Margherita Taylor meets a young family who would love to live in the seaside resort but who are being priced out of the market by rocketing house prices. Keeley Donovan visits the eco-village of Hockerton outside Nottingham to search for a cure for stress.