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00:02 - Hello and welcome to Kent on Climate live on KMTV.
00:18 I'm Abbey Hook and in this show we discuss
00:20 all things related to environmental issues in the county.
00:23 How is climate change impacting Kent?
00:25 What are communities in the county doing to tackle it?
00:27 And how can you help at home?
00:29 Each week we take a deep dive into a new
00:31 environmental issue in the county
00:33 and I'm joined by expert guests.
00:35 But first tonight, a toy bear workshop in Little Horn
00:39 is encouraging more local businesses
00:41 in the county to go green.
00:43 Canterbury Bears has been sustainably producing
00:45 handmade cuddly companions for more than 40 years.
00:49 But they say running a more eco-friendly production line
00:51 doesn't come without sacrifices.
00:54 Our reporter Oliver Leder de Sacks has more.
00:56 - You may have heard of the teddy bears picnic,
00:59 but what about the teddy bears workshop?
01:02 In a nondescript building on the outskirts of Little Horn,
01:04 Canterbury Bears has been making bespoke
01:07 and bizarre stuffed bears of all varieties since 1979.
01:12 And with Christmas and Black Friday on the horizon,
01:14 turkeys aren't the only thing that needs stuffing.
01:17 As you can see, it's a busy day here at the bear workshop.
01:20 People behind me are cutting cloaks and fabric
01:24 for the bears here.
01:26 One in fact for the King Charles bear,
01:28 a very popular bear here at the bear workshop.
01:32 What is clear is that they're making sure
01:35 the bears are made of the right stuff
01:37 to tackle climate change.
01:39 - Everything, you know, from sort of the fabric
01:44 that we buy, which is all natural,
01:46 to the filling that we use, which is recycled,
01:49 the joints that we use, which are recycled.
01:53 A lot of the bears that have glass eyes,
01:54 that's also recycled.
01:56 So in terms of the actual materials that go into the bear,
01:59 there's really not very much more we can do.
02:02 The packaging, we've gone as far as we can
02:04 because everything is recycled.
02:06 But I mean, really, I think, you know, seriously,
02:08 there's not an awful lot more we can do
02:10 other than continue to maintain
02:13 the high standards that we have.
02:15 - Kirsten's father set up the workshop
02:17 with the ethos of bears being for life.
02:20 True to that ethos, many of the decades old machines
02:22 and traditional handcrafted bear making techniques
02:25 have helped keep their workshops' environmental costs down
02:28 and profit margins high.
02:30 Kirsten now wants to see this sort of thinking
02:33 apply to other businesses across Kent.
02:35 - Well, I think that you have to really, really look
02:38 very, very closely at all of your processes.
02:41 And, you know, if you have to just take little steps
02:44 to start with, you know, it doesn't have to be,
02:48 you know, reinventing the wheel.
02:50 I think if everybody start, begins to take the small steps,
02:54 for example, like, you know, reusable packaging
02:57 and that type of thing.
02:58 - But these bears aren't just helping the environment,
03:01 they're bringing people together.
03:03 - Somebody might order one for a special birthday
03:06 and when it arrives, they're really pleased
03:09 with how he looks and stuff.
03:12 And they become sort of lifetime friends, really, the bears.
03:17 - It's all about family, really,
03:18 'cause we work together so well.
03:21 And we've all been here quite a while.
03:24 So yeah, it's lovely.
03:26 - Far from a fluff piece today,
03:28 Canterbury Bears demonstrates the unbelievable lengths
03:31 local businesses will go to put sustainability
03:34 at the heart of their business.
03:36 This has been Olive Leeds, The Sacks and Mr. Cuddles
03:39 reporting for KMTV.
03:41 - Well, Kirsten Blackburn, the owner and managing director
03:44 joins me in the studio now.
03:46 Thank you so much for joining.
03:47 - You're very welcome.
03:48 - It's a shame we don't have Mr. Cuddles,
03:49 who Olly was filming with there in the studio with us now.
03:53 He dared try it out himself.
03:56 Where did the process of bringing in
03:58 more sustainable materials start for you?
04:01 Because your business has been going for four decades now.
04:03 - I know, 40 years is a long time.
04:04 And back then, obviously,
04:06 climate change wasn't really a thing.
04:08 Although having said that, we have been,
04:12 we've tried to be quite sustainable
04:13 right from the very, very beginning.
04:16 But I think as the years have gone by,
04:17 people have been much, much more aware of the environment
04:20 and that type of thing.
04:22 So we have changed, I would say,
04:25 over the last 25 years, probably.
04:27 We try and buy all of our materials locally,
04:33 certainly in the UK.
04:36 So, and I think more recently,
04:39 we've tried very much to make sure
04:41 our packaging is all recyclable.
04:45 And it's just little things to begin with,
04:47 but I think that if everybody tries to make small changes,
04:51 it makes a big impact.
04:52 I think about 30 years ago, when we first started,
04:57 all of our bears moved,
04:58 so they've all got moving arms and legs.
05:01 People were only using plastic joints,
05:03 which were definitely not single-use plastic.
05:07 We started to go back to the traditional method,
05:10 which is wooden joints.
05:12 So we buy sustainable wood.
05:14 We have a very, very old Victorian press.
05:17 So we stamp out all of our joints.
05:19 And that has made a big, big difference.
05:23 We're making thousands of bears.
05:24 - It was amazing to see a manufacturing company,
05:27 but it wasn't a production line.
05:29 It was, you were hands-on.
05:30 Each bear is handmade, which I imagine takes a very long time.
05:33 How do the sort of wooden joints then,
05:34 do they last a lot longer than plastic ones as well?
05:37 - They do, they do.
05:38 All of our bears are made to last a lifetime.
05:40 I mean, quite literally, they're made to last a lifetime.
05:43 Hopefully, families will pass them on through generations.
05:46 And we get a lot of people
05:48 who have bought bears for their children,
05:51 who come back and buy bears for their grandchildren,
05:54 and so on and so forth.
05:55 So in terms of the wooden joints,
05:58 they will last decades, decades and decades.
06:02 - And with a business like this,
06:04 how much of a sort of eco-friendly perspective do you take?
06:08 How much of a priority, I suppose,
06:10 is it within your business?
06:12 - It's become more and more of a priority for us.
06:14 It's really, really important.
06:16 It's part of the fabric of the business.
06:18 It's part of who we are.
06:20 Yeah, it's really, really important.
06:23 And I think the fact that we're making
06:24 a very traditional handmade product,
06:29 for want of a better word,
06:31 it just lends itself so well to that.
06:35 So yeah, it's important to us, very important.
06:37 - And the business itself,
06:38 at this time of year in particular, how busy are you?
06:41 In the lead up to Christmas.
06:43 - We are super, super busy.
06:45 And we've just done Black Friday weekend
06:47 for the first time ever, and it was just mad.
06:50 - For the first time in 40 years, wow.
06:52 - First time in 40 years.
06:53 - As a business, wow.
06:54 - As a business, we did Black Friday,
06:56 and it was fantastic.
06:57 And it's really nice to be able to offer people a discount
06:59 because we are at the top end of what we make,
07:03 so they're not inexpensive.
07:05 But as I said, they're beautifully, beautifully made.
07:08 Everything's handmade.
07:09 So we're very, very busy,
07:10 but we have got a fantastic team of bear makers.
07:14 I think between us,
07:15 we've probably got about 400 years experience, collectively.
07:18 If you add it all up.
07:19 - Wow, what a number.
07:20 Just very quickly, I haven't got long left,
07:22 but if you had to guess,
07:23 how many bears do you reckon you sell over Christmas?
07:26 - Hundreds and hundreds and hundreds.
07:28 - Hundreds and hundreds and hundreds.
07:29 I knew it'd be a big number.
07:32 Amazing.
07:33 Well, Kirsten, it was lovely to talk to you.
07:34 Thank you so much for coming in.
07:35 - You're really welcome.
07:36 It's lovely to talk here.
07:37 - Really, really lovely to see 40 years of business.
07:39 Thank you so much. - Thank you so much.
07:40 - Thank you.
07:41 - Now, if you thought those teddy bears were cute,
07:44 take a look at this adorable footage
07:47 from a Kent wildlife park.
07:49 Damien Aspinall, who runs Howlett's Wild Animal Park,
07:53 posted this video online.
07:55 He says, "This is complete trust
07:56 "between humans and gorillas."
07:58 Going on to say, "It's too late to rewind,
08:01 "but together we can rewild."
08:03 The video has already received more than 6,000 likes
08:06 and more than 300 comments.
08:09 So lovely to see.
08:10 And now, restrictions remain in place in Canterbury
08:14 as four further cases of potentially deadly virus
08:17 have been found in cows.
08:19 Until this month, there had been no cases of blue tongue
08:21 in the UK since 2011.
08:23 A 10-kilometre control zone is in force,
08:26 but one of the county's only abattoirs is also in that zone.
08:31 But as Gabriel Morris reports,
08:32 the industry is remaining quietly confident
08:35 that this will soon blow over.
08:38 Farmers across Kent already say
08:40 it's a difficult time to remain in business,
08:44 and their cattle could now be under threat.
08:46 Five cows in Canterbury have contracted
08:49 a rare viral infection, and that is spreading.
08:54 Earlier this month, blue tongue was identified
08:57 for the first time in 12 years in the UK
09:00 at a Canterbury farm.
09:02 DEFRA has now confirmed an additional two farms
09:05 are impacted.
09:07 Here are some here.
09:09 These are the ones we brought in this week
09:10 to have a voluntary test for blue tongue,
09:13 which our vet came and did,
09:15 and he will get the results this week,
09:17 and we will know if we are in trouble or not.
09:19 Restrictions on the movement of animals
09:21 have been introduced in the affected zones.
09:24 This farm hopes it won't have to be expanded.
09:27 It would mean we'd have to get a special licence to move them.
09:30 So you can do that, but it's more paperwork,
09:33 which is always a pain because, you know,
09:35 that's why I became a farmer,
09:36 because I love the paperwork.
09:38 So it's, yeah, it is a pain from that point.
09:41 You are restricted in what you can do with them,
09:43 so when you're trying to move them around.
09:45 It might only be a 10-kilometre control zone,
09:49 but one of the county's only abattoirs is within that zone.
09:53 Our only problem is trying to get our lambs
09:56 to the abattoir, which is inside the zone,
10:00 and we need to get special dispensation
10:05 and a special movement licence
10:07 in order to bring them into the zone purely to get them killed.
10:11 The UK has been free of blue tongue since 2011.
10:16 The last major outbreak was in 2007.
10:19 The Netherlands has been hit worst by the latest variant.
10:23 The virus is spread by midges,
10:25 and high winds are what's thought to have blown them
10:28 to our county.
10:29 Steve's Cow's Inn and Gravesend are probably safe.
10:32 What we're seeing at the moment is them being classed
10:35 as an outbreak.
10:36 Experts say it will be, though, if it's found that midges
10:38 are spreading the virus around the county.
10:41 So there's some midge monitoring,
10:43 which is done by a separate independent company,
10:47 and we know that they don't like cold weather,
10:50 so we've had a couple of good frosts recently.
10:52 I know not everyone enjoys waking up
10:54 and having to de-ice their car,
10:55 but certainly in the case of blue tongue,
10:57 it's only a good thing, really,
10:58 that we're seeing this cold snap at this time at the moment.
11:01 The viral infection can also affect sheep, goats, and deer,
11:04 but we've already had a frost,
11:07 and temperatures are set to go below zero again this week,
11:11 and farmers, I don't know if you hope,
11:13 that that will kill the midges
11:15 before the disease can spread.
11:17 Gabriel Morris for KMTV in Meppam.
11:19 Now it's time for a short break,
11:24 but coming up, the microbrewery working with Southern Waters
11:27 to stop soil runoff into the River Medway
11:30 while still brewing beer and ale.
11:32 And how much time do you spend in nature?
11:34 New data reveals one million fewer people
11:37 are getting out in the open since the pandemic.
11:40 And the Kent company putting ecosystems into a jar.
11:44 We'll have all that and more environmental news
11:46 from across Kent right after this short break.
11:49 I'll see you in just a few minutes.
11:50 Don't go anywhere.
11:51 Bye-bye for now.
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15:10 - Hello and welcome back to Kent on Climate live on KMTV.
15:17 Now a brewery in Haling is using its production processes
15:20 to make the land around it more fertile.
15:23 Moot Brewery works with a regenerative farm
15:26 to keep the area healthy.
15:28 The farm usually uses multiple ways to help the environment
15:31 including working with Southern water to stop river pollution.
15:35 Well, Oliver Leder de Sacks has more.
15:37 - Tucked away in the rural edges of upper Haling,
15:41 Moot microbrewery are working to ensure a sustainable future
15:44 for the farm on which they are located.
15:47 Founded in 2021 on a sustainable ethos,
15:50 Moot was quite literally built with the environment in mind.
15:54 - Our plan from the very beginning of our business
15:56 to be as sustainable as possible.
15:58 So if anything has helped us to reduce our costs
16:01 in certain areas, for example,
16:02 when we built our brewery and tap room,
16:04 we used majority recycled materials.
16:07 We bought secondhand equipment
16:10 rather than buying brand new equipment,
16:12 which helped keep our costs down.
16:14 We use things like pallet wood broken down
16:17 to refurbish the tap room.
16:19 As you'll see, as you look around,
16:21 most of the wood in here is all made from pallets
16:25 recycled from somewhere.
16:27 So that's helped us reduce our costs.
16:30 - Court Farm, where they're based, is a regenerative farm.
16:33 Regenerative farming is an approach to farming
16:35 that focuses on soil health
16:37 and maintaining a balance with nature
16:39 so as not to drain away the fertility of the land.
16:42 They say their entire production process
16:44 is designed to feed into a regenerative farm
16:46 on which it is based.
16:48 - So when it comes to production in our brewery,
16:50 we do a number of things to mitigate
16:54 or at least reduce our carbon footprint locally.
16:57 So whether it's capturing our waste water
16:59 and using it on the regenerative farm that we're based on,
17:04 or capturing our, or using our waste grain or spent grains,
17:08 whether it's as livestock feed
17:10 or as compost to reuse on the farm.
17:13 Those things we do as a matter of principle
17:16 and as a systemic practice as we produce our beer.
17:21 - You may think this field here
17:22 is to help with moose production process,
17:24 but these aren't hops and barley.
17:26 This is paid for by Southern Water, these crops.
17:29 They stop nitrates and mud leaking into the river.
17:33 - What we've got here is a multi-species cover crop in here.
17:36 There are about seven or eight different varieties
17:41 from cereals right through to mustard.
17:44 There's linseed in here, there's vetch,
17:47 and there's various radishes,
17:49 and there is a bit of buckwheat somewhere.
17:51 So there's all sorts going on here.
17:54 And Southern Water are paying me
17:56 to grow this to protect the soil
18:00 and also to prevent nitrate runoff.
18:06 - Keeping nitrates in the soil and away from the Medway
18:09 is crucial to keeping the land fertile.
18:11 - Invariably, after a deluge,
18:13 you look at your local river or your local stream
18:15 and you see it's brown, that brown is topsoil.
18:18 We cannot afford to loot.
18:21 Topsoil is still being lost from farmland,
18:23 and that's across the world.
18:25 And that ultimately leads to desertification.
18:28 - It's clear that both Moot Brewery and Court Farm
18:31 are finding innovative ways to work together
18:34 and with nature to help make Kent a better, greener place.
18:37 And these pints go down even easier
18:39 knowing they're helping the planet.
18:42 Oliver Leeds of the Sacks reporting for KMTV.
18:44 - Now, despite some of that rain
18:48 and the freezing weather at the moment,
18:50 are residents of Kent making the most
18:52 of the Garden of England around them?
18:54 Well, this week, data showed that a million fewer people
18:57 are getting out in nature since the pandemic.
19:00 That's according to the Office for National Statistics.
19:02 We know that spending more time outdoors
19:04 can be good for positive mental health.
19:06 And the value of those lost health benefits
19:09 is estimated at around 390 million pounds,
19:13 more than 350 pounds per person on average.
19:17 Well, to find out more, we asked people in Gillingham
19:19 how much time they spend in nature.
19:23 - I do spend time, but it depends on the situation.
19:26 But sometimes when you are lonely and feel unsure,
19:29 say those things, you go out, sit down quietly
19:34 at a learning place, whereby there's a lot of trees.
19:38 You see birds, sometimes the schools moving around.
19:41 So if you look at the movement, like it entertains
19:45 and it gives some joy to you.
19:47 So at least it will release some pressure
19:49 and tensions from you.
19:51 - Okay, I live in Highham.
19:53 So that's rural.
19:54 So it's Charles Dickens country.
19:57 I live near a canal.
19:59 My house backs onto a canal.
20:02 So I do a lot of nature every day.
20:04 My house has got about two thirds of an acre of land
20:08 backs onto a canal.
20:09 So I do all of that.
20:10 - Obviously I hang around like in nature.
20:14 I mean, the rain is part of nature too.
20:15 Do you get what I mean?
20:16 I do hang around, but technically you guys know
20:19 Gillingham doesn't have a lot of nature.
20:21 Do you get what I mean?
20:22 - Bristol, when I lived in Bristol,
20:23 I hung out in a lot of nature.
20:25 Plus it's good for your health.
20:27 People should do stuff with nature.
20:31 - Next tonight, a Kent company is on a mission
20:34 to produce beautiful tropical ecosystems, but in a jar.
20:38 Well, these are called terrariums.
20:40 They've been around for some time
20:41 and fascinated indoor gardeners since the Victorian times.
20:45 But the company, Terrapy, says they're trying
20:47 to make their products with a minimal environmental impact.
20:51 I spoke to the founder, Seb Tribe,
20:53 on Made in Kent yesterday.
20:54 Seb, these look amazing.
20:57 - Thank you.
20:58 - Tell me, where did the idea come from?
21:00 Why terrariums?
21:01 - Oh my goodness.
21:02 Well, why terrariums is a very broad question,
21:04 but to try and keep it very brief for you,
21:06 we have a little bit of a problem in this country.
21:09 Not so many people have gardens as they used to.
21:13 And the choice is either we divvy out the outdoor space
21:18 and give everyone a plot, which would be great.
21:20 But I don't think that's gonna be made anytime soon.
21:22 So we have to find ways that people can garden indoors.
21:25 And that's the place I think terrariums have,
21:27 among other forms of indoor gardening.
21:30 - And what does it take to look after a terrarium?
21:33 - Surprisingly little, but not nothing.
21:35 It's a common misconception, actually,
21:39 that terrariums look after themselves completely.
21:42 There is an oft-cited example
21:44 owned by a chap called David Latimer,
21:46 which was last watered in 1972.
21:50 But it was built about 10 years prior to that
21:52 and had a lot of time to stabilize before it was sealed.
21:54 And it doesn't quite look as aesthetically pretty
21:57 as perhaps you might desire it to.
22:00 So I'd say to keep everything looking quite nice,
22:02 you'll need to water it probably every few months.
22:05 A bit of ventilation is great.
22:07 And then the odd trim keeps the plants
22:08 from competing too much.
22:10 - Amazing.
22:11 And you make these all by hand?
22:13 You make these all yourselves?
22:14 Take me through that process.
22:16 - Yes, well, they're all made by hand
22:18 with responsibly sourced materials.
22:20 As you said, we're trying to do it with a low impact
22:23 and we're trying to kind of accelerate
22:25 our race to zero in that effort.
22:29 The vessels we have here are all contemporary.
22:31 They're hand-blown recycled glass.
22:34 Obviously those come to us empty.
22:36 All of the gravels are responsibly sourced in the UK.
22:41 We have soil made from a variety
22:43 of industrial waste products.
22:45 All very good for plants, though, so don't worry.
22:47 And then we try to get plants grown
22:51 with as low impact as we can.
22:54 All of this is assembled by hand
22:56 in such a manner that it will sustain into the long term.
23:00 If well cared for, particularly well placed,
23:03 placement is probably the most important consideration
23:05 when looking after a terrarium.
23:07 - What sort of tools do you use to place the plants in here?
23:09 I imagine you have some sort of variation
23:11 of size of tweezer, maybe?
23:13 How do you place it so beautifully?
23:15 - Long tweezers are very helpful.
23:18 That said, I mean, so the main thing
23:22 that we do is provide workshops, experiences,
23:26 mainly with a view to getting people engaged
23:28 with horticulture if perhaps they don't normally
23:30 have a routine, and we do that
23:33 at a very accessible sort of price point.
23:37 All of the terrariums that we do on a widespread basis
23:40 are designed to have an aperture large enough
23:43 that you can get your hand in quite easily,
23:46 meaning that you can get your hands in
23:47 and plant with those.
23:48 But long tweezers are very handy indeed.
23:51 And if you're planting into a vessel
23:52 with a very narrow aperture like the carboys
23:55 that you might have seen historically,
23:57 then you want some very long tools indeed.
23:59 And I tend to have to fashion my own.
24:02 - And you mentioned accessibility there as well.
24:06 How much do these, what's the price range
24:08 for all the things you do, what we're seeing on the table,
24:11 but also those workshops you do too?
24:12 - Yeah, so I mean, at Finished Terrariums,
24:14 we're only just starting to really roll out
24:17 stocking in shops through the UK,
24:19 and we'll come to in a minute probably talking about
24:22 the way that we're producing those.
24:23 But the workshops, you can make these three,
24:28 you can make this one here for 35 pounds,
24:31 and that's two hours learning all about
24:34 how terrariums work, their fascinating history,
24:36 how they've affected everything from the price of tea
24:39 to the rights of Victorian women.
24:41 And then of course, you will make one of your own
24:44 under our guidance with everything provided.
24:46 So that's the small one.
24:48 There's also an opt-in discount for people
24:51 who are hard up or on universal credit,
24:53 full-time education, below band five on the NHS.
24:57 And that all applies to the small one.
24:58 You can make this medium one for 45,
25:00 and you can make this one for 65.
25:02 This one, we don't do in a class at the moment,
25:07 but we are doing something, I think in Ticehurst
25:10 in the summer of next year, so you can look out for that.
25:12 - It's pretty impressive.
25:14 Why is it so important?
25:16 We talked at the beginning, why terrariums,
25:18 and why is it important to get people making it themselves?
25:22 It's such a great idea to get people hands-on.
25:24 - That's a really good question.
25:26 And I think it goes to our assumptions
25:31 about what it takes to be well.
25:35 A lot of people look at a terrarium
25:38 and they ask, how does it work?
25:39 How can plants survive in this closed environment?
25:42 Their needs haven't changed.
25:44 They still need light, they still need water,
25:46 they still need nutrition,
25:47 they need everything that they had outside.
25:50 Just like those plants, when we moved
25:54 into our nice, comfortable, warm boxes,
25:56 our needs didn't change.
25:58 We evolved out there.
26:00 And it would be wrong of us, even arrogant perhaps,
26:03 to assume that we've changed and diverged
26:05 from our evolutionary needs.
26:07 We have an intimate connection with the natural world.
26:12 All you need to do is look at the abundance of studies,
26:14 some of which have already probably been formed here
26:17 at the University of Kent where we're filming,
26:19 but all over the country,
26:21 and particularly University of Exeter
26:22 did some wonderful studies on it.
26:23 But looking at the impact of nature on mental health,
26:28 you can take that line of studies,
26:32 you can look at the impact of horticulture,
26:34 of gardening on mental health,
26:36 and it starts to become quite clear why it's important.
26:38 Bring that indoors.
26:39 - Thank you so much for coming on the show.
26:41 Well, that's all we've got time for
26:44 on this week's episode of Kent on Climate.
26:46 We'll be back again next week with another episode.
26:49 See you then, bye-bye for now.
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