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Three ten year olds, Sophie, Eve & Kyra, from Stratford upon Avon have an unusual hobby. They rehabilitate sick and injured hedgehogs. With a bit of help from local experts they’re re-releasing their patients in the gardens where 400 years ago Shakespeare courted his bride-to-be. Ellie finds the girls in their back garden to see how they run their hedgehog hospital and joins them for a release at Anne Hathaway’s cottage. For head gardener, Glyn Jones the hedgehogs might just be enough to keep the slug numbers down.

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Tom Heap’s in Scotland where a tiny creature is causing a big problem. Sea lice are the bane of salmon farmers and can be fatal for the fish. Environmentalists blame the farms and the lice for the fall in wild salmon and trout numbers. With the lice problem costing millions of pounds a year, the race is on to find the technology to beat them and it seems removing the fish from the water entirely might be the answer.

Between Birmingham and Tamworth lie a network of rivers, canals and waterways which provide a home to otters, herons and even the famous water vole. Despite being on the doorstep of over a million people the Tame Valley is a haven for Warwickshire’s wetland wildlife. Water voles were once a common sight along Britain’s rivers but their range shrunk dramatically as the countryside was industrialised and the invasive mink introduced. It’s now only commonly found in tributaries further up the river. Steve Brown is on the scene to find out where the voles are and what work is being done to allow them to expand back into the valley.

In a quiet, peaceful corner of Warwickshire there is a nature reserve with a difference. Sun Rising Natural Burial Ground is a cemetery where nature itself is the grounds keeper. John Craven finds out about the environmentally friendly ways to be buried and meets professional weaver Avril Smolders who can make all manner of items with her bendy willow branches. Avril’s speciality is coffins. They are completely biodegradable and take over 4 weeks to make. John tries his hand to see if he too has the ancient gift of willow weaving.

Adam is in Cumbria meeting family of dairy farmers who are bucking the trend and using traditional British Short Horns rather than the normal black and white dairy cows. JamesÌýRobinson's family have beenÌýfarmingÌýShort Horns in Kendal for more than 100 years andÌýdiary entries written by his grandfather during the war illustrate how interwoven the breed is with this family’s own history. Adam joins the Robinsons on the best day of the SpringÌýcalendar for theÌý‘lead out’ when Jame’s 250 strong herd taste fresh grass for the first time in nearly 5 months.Ìý

‘A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in’ Maverick billionaire and publisher Felix Dennis understood this Greek proverb and seems to have taken it quite literally. Appalled at how little forest cover there was in the UK he left the bulk of his estate to planting trees. Dennis passed away in 2014, but since the Heart of England Forest was founded it has created over 3,000 acres of new woodland. Ellie visits the forest to meet the people who share Felix’s vision and find out more about the project.

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Taking an old family business in a new direction is always a risk but for one farm in the heart of Warwickshire, success has come in pints! In response to the tightening dairy margins the Reynolds family converted their dairy tanks to beer brewing and have never looked back. John Craven meets the family to see how the make their locally famous brews.