Ear to the Ground - Episode Guide

Episode: 1x01 | Airdate: Jan 31, 1993

Episode: 21x01 | Airdate: Nov 7, 2013

Episode: 21x02 | Airdate: Nov 14, 2013

Episode: 21x03 | Airdate: Nov 21, 2013

Episode: 21x04 | Airdate: Nov 28, 2013

Episode: 21x05 | Airdate: Dec 5, 2013

Episode: 21x06 | Airdate: Dec 12, 2013

Episode: 21x07 | Airdate: Dec 19, 2013

Episode: 21x08 | Airdate: Jan 2, 2014

Episode: 21x09 | Airdate: Jan 9, 2014

Episode: 21x10 | Airdate: Jan 16, 2014

Episode: 21x11 | Airdate: Jan 23, 2014

Episode: 21x12 | Airdate: Jan 30, 2014

Episode: 21x13 | Airdate: Feb 6, 2014

Episode: 21x14 | Airdate: Feb 13, 2014

Episode: 21x15 | Airdate: Feb 20, 2014

Episode: 21x16 | Airdate: Feb 27, 2014

Episode: 22x01 | Airdate: Nov 6, 2014

Episode: 22x02 | Airdate: Nov 13, 2014

Episode: 22x03 | Airdate: Nov 20, 2014

Episode: 22x04 | Airdate: Nov 27, 2014

Episode: 22x05 | Airdate: Dec 4, 2014

Episode: 22x06 | Airdate: Dec 11, 2014

Episode: 22x07 | Airdate: Dec 18, 2014

Episode: 22x08 | Airdate: Jan 8, 2015

Episode: 22x09 | Airdate: Jan 13, 2015

Episode: 22x10 | Airdate: Jan 20, 2015

Episode: 22x11 | Airdate: Jan 27, 2015

Episode: 22x12 | Airdate: Feb 3, 2015

Episode: 22x13 | Airdate: Feb 10, 2015

Episode: 22x14 | Airdate: Feb 17, 2015

Episode: 22x15 | Airdate: Feb 24, 2015

Episode: 22x16 | Airdate: Mar 3, 2015

Episode: 22x17 | Airdate: Mar 10, 2015

Episode: 23x01 | Airdate: Nov 3, 2015

Episode: 23x02 | Airdate: Nov 10, 2015

Episode: 23x03 | Airdate: Nov 17, 2015

Episode: 23x04 | Airdate: Nov 24, 2015

Episode: 23x05 | Airdate: Dec 1, 2015

Episode: 23x06 | Airdate: Dec 8, 2015

Episode: 23x07 | Airdate: Dec 15, 2015

Episode: 23x08 | Airdate: Dec 22, 2015

Episode: 23x09 | Airdate: Jan 5, 2016

Episode: 23x10 | Airdate: Jan 12, 2016

Episode: 23x11 | Airdate: Jan 19, 2016

Episode: 23x12 | Airdate: Jan 26, 2016

Episode: 23x13 | Airdate: Feb 2, 2016

Episode: 23x14 | Airdate: Sep 2, 2016

Episode: 23x15 | Airdate: Feb 16, 2016

Episode: 23x16 | Airdate: Feb 23, 2016

Episode: 24x01 | Airdate: Oct 27, 2016

Episode: 24x02 | Airdate: Nov 3, 2016

Episode: 24x03 | Airdate: Nov 10, 2016

Episode: 24x04 | Airdate: Nov 17, 2016

Episode: 24x05 | Airdate: Nov 24, 2016

Episode: 24x06 | Airdate: Dec 1, 2016

Episode: 24x07 | Airdate: Dec 8, 2016

Episode: 24x08 | Airdate: Dec 15, 2016

Episode: 24x09 | Airdate: Jan 3, 2017

Episode: 24x10 | Airdate: Jan 10, 2017

Episode: 24x11 | Airdate: Jan 17, 2017

Episode: 24x12 | Airdate: Jan 24, 2017

Episode: 24x13 | Airdate: Jan 31, 2017

Episode: 24x14 | Airdate: Feb 7, 2017

Episode: 24x15 | Airdate: Feb 14, 2017

Episode: 24x16 | Airdate: Feb 21, 2017

Episode: 24x17 | Airdate: Feb 28, 2017

Episode: 25x01 | Airdate: Nov 2, 2017

Episode: 25x02 | Airdate: Nov 9, 2017

Episode: 25x03 | Airdate: Nov 23, 2017

Episode: 25x04 | Airdate: Nov 30, 2017

Episode: 25x05 | Airdate: Dec 7, 2017

Episode: 25x06 | Airdate: Dec 14, 2017

Episode: 25x07 | Airdate: Dec 21, 2017

Episode: 25x08 | Airdate: Jan 4, 2018

Episode: 25x09 | Airdate: Jan 11, 2018

Episode: 25x10 | Airdate: Jan 18, 2018

Episode: 25x11 | Airdate: Jan 25, 2018

Episode: 25x12 | Airdate: Feb 1, 2018

Episode: 25x13 | Airdate: Feb 8, 2018

Episode: 25x14 | Airdate: Feb 15, 2018

Episode: 25x15 | Airdate: Feb 22, 2018

Episode: 26x01 | Airdate: Oct 25, 2018

Episode: 29x01 | Airdate: Oct 28, 2021

Episode: 29x02 | Airdate: Nov 4, 2021

Episode: 29x03 | Airdate: Nov 18, 2021

Episode: 29x04 | Airdate: Nov 25, 2021

Episode: 29x05 | Airdate: Dec 2, 2021

Episode: 29x06 | Airdate: Dec 9, 2021

Episode: 29x07 | Airdate: Dec 16, 2021

Episode: 29x08 | Airdate: Dec 30, 2021

Episode: 29x09 | Airdate: Jan 6, 2022

Episode: 29x10 | Airdate: Jan 13, 2022

Episode: 29x11 | Airdate: Jan 20, 2022

Episode: 29x12 | Airdate: Jan 27, 2022

Episode: 29x13 | Airdate: Feb 3, 2022

Episode: 29x14 | Airdate: Feb 10, 2022

Episode: 29x15 | Airdate: Feb 17, 2022

Episode: 31x01 | Airdate: Nov 2, 2023

Maeve visits a farming TikToker, Darragh meets a dairy farmer whose herd has tested positive for TB and Ella meets a competitor at the All Ireland Hedge Laying Championships.

Episode: 31x02 | Airdate: Nov 9, 2023

This week Maeve observes a Dispersal Sale, Darragh visits Freeway Poultry and Ella is in Galway.

Episode: 31x03 | Airdate: Nov 16, 2023

Episode: 31x04 | Airdate: Nov 23, 2023

Episode: 31x05 | Airdate: Nov 30, 2023

Episode: 31x06 | Airdate: Dec 7, 2023

Episode: 31x07 | Airdate: Dec 14, 2023

Episode: 31x08 | Airdate: Dec 21, 2023

Episode: 31x09 | Airdate: Jan 4, 2024

Episode: 31x10 | Airdate: Jan 11, 2024

Episode: 31x11 | Airdate: Jan 18, 2024

Episode: 31x12 | Airdate: Jan 25, 2024

Episode: 31x13 | Airdate: Feb 1, 2024

Episode: 31x14 | Airdate: Feb 8, 2024

Episode: 31x15 | Airdate: Feb 15, 2024

Episode: 31x16 | Airdate: Feb 22, 2024

Episode: 32x01 | Airdate: Oct 31, 2024

In Ep 1 Stephen Robb spends the day with a truck driver delivering animal feed to farms in Tipperary; Darragh McCullough sees some classic early combine harvesters; and Ella McSweeney visits farmers in Sligo to see how they are recording and preserving unconsecrated graves on their lands. 

Episode: 32x02 | Airdate: Nov 7, 2024

From Syria to Inishowen, a beekeeper story. A day in the life of a chicken at the Noone Family Farm. Saving the Irish Grey Partridge.

Episode: 32x03 | Airdate: Nov 21, 2024

This week, a dispersal sale of pedigree Limousin beef in Sligo; a Dublin Farmer who calls ADHD his "superpower"; and a farm in Tipperary combating every potato growers nightmare.

Episode: 32x04 | Airdate: Nov 28, 2024

This week Stephen is spends a day with a Mobile Sheep Dipper. Darragh visits the Hazel House Cafe and Ella learns about the SlowWaters Project.

Episode: 32x05 | Airdate: Dec 5, 2024

Darragh visits The Winter Fair in Carrick-on-Shannon. Ella spends the day at Merlin Rock Blanket Bog to see how it is being restored. Stephen goes to Gubbeen Farm in Cork.

Episode: 32x06 | Airdate: Dec 12, 2024

Ella visits Ciara Flavin, a butcher and farmer from Limerick. In Kerry, Darragh meets with a dedicated group of dairy farmers. Stephen checks in on the white-tailed sea eagles

Episode: 32x07 | Airdate: Dec 19, 2024

This week on Ear to The Ground, the importance of community in rural Ireland; in search of a murmuration of starlings in Westmeath; and a Louth family who are milking their cows over the winter.

Episode: 32x08 | Airdate: Jan 9, 2025

Episode: 32x09 | Airdate: Jan 16, 2025

Ella is in Roscommon with a farmer who has made the heartbreaking decision to sell his prized sheep flock.

Darragh is in Meath where one farmer is giving away over 100,000 trees.

Stephen gets a lesson in hammer throwing from a Cork Olympian.

Episode: 32x10 | Airdate: Jan 23, 2025

Darragh is in Cork finding out about the efforts to reduce methane in the national dairy herd. Ella helps to get hundreds of oysters from Kerry to their new home in Dublin Bay. Stephen is in Fermanagh to meet one of nature's most extraordinary looking pig breeds.

Episode: 32x11 | Airdate: Jan 30, 2025

Episode: 32x12 | Airdate: Feb 6, 2025

Stephen is in County Down exploring a new way of managing the environmental impact of slurry. Ella meets a farmer from Limerick who has a passion for rare breeds. Darragh is also in Limerick, meeting some very special horses that are doing some very special work/

Episode: 32x13 | Airdate: Feb 13, 2025

Ella is in clover in Co Cork, Stephen looks at the new scheme for small scale renewable electricity users, and Darragh finds out about the cost of the recent storms.

Episode: 32x14 | Airdate: Feb 20, 2025

This week, how farmers are dealing with new slurry-spreading regulations; a visit to a young farmer in Kilkenny during one of the busiest periods of the year; and helping release young trout into Lough Corrib.

 

Episode: 32x15 | Airdate: Feb 27, 2025

Episode: 32x16 | Airdate: Mar 6, 2025

Episode: 33x01 | Airdate: Oct 30, 2025

On episode 1, a visit to Millstreet Dairy Show with 13-year-old Gearoid Long; problems with Blackgrass, a highly aggressive weed; and a visit to a North County Dublin pumpkin farm.

Episode: 33x02 | Airdate: Nov 6, 2025

Episode: 33x03 | Airdate: Nov 20, 2025

Episode: 33x04 | Airdate: Nov 27, 2025

Episode: 33x05 | Airdate: Dec 4, 2025

Ella on an ambitious new project to try and eradicate the American Mink from Ireland; Darragh joins some alpacas on a visit to a Wicklow nursing home; and Stephen joins the Hobson family as they brought in the first of their season's crops -  their Winter Barley.

Episode: 33x06 | Airdate: Dec 11, 2025

Episode: 33x07 | Airdate: Dec 18, 2025