I told you The Wurzels were an institution.

Sausage makers, Westaway, have even come up with their very own take on an iconic Wurzels song.

And if you want to find out more about The Wurzels, here's what happened when FW's Caroline met them.

We featured rooftop goats in Northumberland a while back.

Well they've got nothing on these two in Montana.

A racing driver and a model are sporting 'milk moustaches' as part of the Make Mine Milk campaign.

Want to know how this tractor end up like this? Find out here.

Every Christmas the Queen gets five minutes of primetime TV to address the nation in her Queen's speech. 

Maybe Prince Charles got a bit jealous of his old Mum, because his Home Farm at Highgrove is set to appear in a series of TV ads for his Duchy brand.

It gets its first airing on TV tonight - almost exactly a year after Waitrose secured the exclusive rights to distribute the range.

Full story on The Telegraph. 

Remember the Aberdeenshire farmer I mentioned who was planning the incredible motorbike ride across the Americas?

Well 27-year-old Chris Reid and his biking pal, 25-year-old George Ward, have started their adventure this week.

You can follow their, as they put it, "progress and inevitable mishaps" on their blog.

Radio presenter Chris Evans has broadcast his show from a farm.

Artist Jacob Sutton has got a solo show opening at a Gloucestershire gallery soon.

This body of work - featuring about 40 paintings - will feature a series of farm scenes, with prices starting at about £500.

It opens at the Dollar Street Gallery in Cirencester on September 7.

A dairy farm in China has an unusual cow which has three horns - two one either side of its head and one in the middle like a rhino.

Farmer Jia Kebing, from northern China's Hebei Province, said the two year old cow was born with a small bump on its forehead. "With time the bump grew bigger and longer and become a sharp horn," said Jia. The middle horn now measures 20cm long.

Jia added: "My farm has fame in this region for this cow, and people came in just paying to visit this cow."

Apparently, a sport called mutton bustin' is growing in popularity among country kids in America. Think rodeo, with sheep.

Here's what the Daily Mail has to say about it and a video of some youngsters in action.

Smallholder-turned-artist Malcolm Lindsay is paying homage to rural England at a solo art exhibition in London on 10 September.

Entitled Disagreeable Cornish Art: Paintings from the contractor's tea-hut, the three-week exhibition touches on the changing role of the farmer as well as politics, religion and man's relationship with nature.

Building a tiny bridge across a busy bypass in Wales: £190,0000
Preserving a endangered species for generations to come: Priceless.

A special 'mouse bridge' has been built in Pontyprid, South Wales, to allow a protected species of dormouse to cross a new bypass without coming to harm.

All together now, ahhhhhh.

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A few weeks ago Tim reworked Wordsworth's poem Tintern Abbey and recited it on BBC Radio 4 (he's very modest so you might not have heard about it. Oh no wait, he blogged about it...)

With a view to nurturing his burgeoning poetic career, the first thing I'm going to do when he gets back from holiday next week is suggest he books another one to the Lake District.

According to the Telegraph website this week, stretches of water in the region have just been voted the 'best views in Britain'. It's probably no coincidence that some of the very same stretches influenced the writings of romantic poets like Coleridge, and Wordsworth himself, so where better to go for inspiration?

As well as Buttermere and Derwentwater in the Lakes, Wastwater, Seven Sisters and Stonehenge also scored highly in the survey, which was (somewhat oddly) carried out by car company Chevrolet.

No, this isn't the opening gambit in an obscure farming joke.

Staffordshire baker Sarah Gayton (pictured left with a batch of her famous Oaty biscuits) is so passionate about using the Olympics as a platform for British food, she's set up a Facebook group called Farmers on Film - Feeding the Olympic Dream.

Farmers and food producers are being invited to post videos and pictures, in the hope that it'll convince the Olympic Committee to put home grown produce at the heart of the Olympic menu.

Sarah, who is also a member of Staffordshire Women's Food & Farming Union said, "Small businesses like mine should be able to provide food for the Olympics and encourage all the athletes and visitors to visit rural Britain, boost our tourism in rural areas and see where our food really comes from."

Hear hear.

Supermarket shelves are awash with alternatives to cow's milk. Off the top of my head I can think of goat's milk, sheep's milk, soya milk and rice milk. An old housemate of mine even used to force down oat milk, which had a horrible tendency to separate into water and a grainy goo, no matter how much you shook the bottle.

But I wonder how long it'll take for this to be accepted by the milk-buying British public.

Camel milk is being produced at a farm in Dubai using specially designed milking equipment, and sold under the (frankly genius) brand name 'Camelicious'. It's already widely available in Dubai supermarkets, but if the company's expansion plans are anything to go by it could be available in Europe in a matter of months.

A quick glance at the Camelicious website reveals that the milk is lower in fat, higher in vitamin C and less inclined to curdle than cows milk. Which is sure to give Brit milk producers the hump (sorry, couldn't resist)