A revolutionary dairy in Stroud is featuring on an episode of Countryfile tonight.

Stroud Micro Dairy is on the show's special on Gloucestershire at 6pm on BBC One.

Also featuring in the episode is the Slimbridge wetland reserve.

One of the show's presenters, Helen Skelton, and a film crew were drawn to the dairy by practices like keeping calves with their mothers.

"For us it just sits more comfortably. It made sense from an ethical point of view," explained Alice Planel from the dairy, which is one of only a few in the UK that does this.

"The calves are very healthy as a result. But it's also challenging, we need a lot of infrastructure because calves have an amazing disregard for fencing.

"We often find them in the cabbage patch. Sometimes the mum's take them to a little spot to hide them and forget where they left them!"

The other draw for Countryfile was the dairy's community membership model.

Alice continued: "It means there is a direct link between the community and farmers. Families buy shares in us and we provide the milk.

"It's really important to us for the community to be empowered and feel part of the story of where their food comes from."

Find out more about the dairy by reading our feature just as it first began selling milk in 2017: bit.ly/2By8vMa