BBC World Service - Science in Action

Ottawa’s Outdoor Lab: Ottawa is the only capital city in the world with a farm right in the middle of it. The Central Experimental Farm is a 4 kilometre square sized facility with fields full of crops like corn and wheat currently in bloom. This farm is in fact a big, living, outdoor laboratory. Its 75 scientists carry out research aimed at helping farmers increase their yields. But they are also keen to discover more about the impacts of climate change

This week BBC World Service's Science in Action took a look at the Central Experimental Farm, "a big living outdoor laboratory," featuring important research underway on Fields #1 and #6 as well as in entomology.

Sian Griffiths describes three "globally important research projects at Ottawa's outdoor lab. It has been incredible to see so much science going on in a farm in the middle of the city."