Juliana visits the Ulster Folk and Transport Museum and hears from former Curator of Agriculture Mervyn Watson about the Grow More Food campaign of the 1940s, and from the former Director of the Museum, Jonathan Bell, about the transformation in tractor technology. Catherine meets Percy Lovegrove, who has been growing his own food for the past 70 years, and Michael Kelly, founder of the more recent Grow It Yourself campaign. Domini Kemp cooks two recipes from Maura Laverty’s pamphlet Flour Economy, published when Ireland was suffering a wheat shortage in the 1940s, and one (oatmeal bread) turns out to be rather more appetising than the other (fried slices of leftover porridge).
Producer : Claire Cunningham (Rockfinch Productions)
RTÉ Radio 1, Saturday 8 November, 7.30pm