r/ClarksonsFarm

Hi all! My friend won't stop talking about Clarkson's Farm and told me I absolutely have to watch it.

I usually just watch regular TV series/movies, so watching an old guy try to run a farm sounds... interesting, but I'm not sure if it's worth a binge-watch.

For someone going in completely blind, what should I expect? Is it actually as hilarious as people say? Give me your best pitch on why I should spend my weekend watching this! 

Ok it’s here 🤣🤣

Wondering why Amazon would decide not to release a trailer for CF S5? It's 2 weeks away, past seasons got a trailer weeks in advance.

hi there - friends want to visit clarksons farm in a couple of weeks. saw a post on here from 2 years ago that said the queues were really long and you have to arrive early etc. Is that still the case?

any tips etc much appreciated

Apparently he's the smallest piglet 'In The World'

I am recently returned to Australia from London, and while living in London, I couldn't believe the amount of HATE farmers got. People were just not willing to accept that farmers aren't all 'rich bastards who get others to do their work for them'.

They refused to try and understand the challenges of farming, and when I told them the leading cause of death among farmers was suicide, they snidely suggested maybe they should just get a different job.

So I'm curious: does anyone know someone who had their opinion of farmers and farming change because of watching this show? Or did you have your opinions changed?

I've always been on the farmers' side. I've known several farmers here in Australia, my sister's a farmer, we'd go on family holiday to a farm when I was at school, and farmers in Australia are generally more appreciated than in certain UK cities.

I've also met some UK farmers, stayed at a farm in Cornwall, and have some awareness of the challenges faced by UK farmers before I started watching the show.

Given how popular Hawkstone beer and related beverages have become, do you think there will come a time where the farm can no longer produce enough raw materials to meet demand? Just curious on how the logistics of this whole enterprise will work.

Personally I borrowed ‘Yeah, that’s bullshit’ from Kaleb.

ETA: Thank you to all the earlier commenters who have ensure I am fully aware of my idiocy and general stupidity for... watching a show as it's presented at season 4 instead of watching it from the beginning and reading/watching everything I can about it like some of the megafans who live here. So glad you've found something to fill the long hours of your day.

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While the show likes to present a lot of Jeremy's ideas as sudden and not thought through, I suspect that's simply due to editing and writing. It's not possible to get some of the things he does so quickly, so last minute.

But more than that, I think the point of so many 'crazy' ideas of what to farm is less about Jeremy being indecisive, impulsive or haphazard, but rather to show the different types of farming done in the UK.

Livestock farming: showing viewers what it's like to have cattle, sheep and pigs. To raise them as meat animals, shearing animals, and breeding animals. About the only thing he hasn't done is dairy cattle.

Grocery farming: the various grocery crops of wheat and rapeseed, but also the vegetables, the sunflowers, and other plant crops.

Homestead farming: bees, chickens, trout, goats, the chilies, mushrooms, beer, harvesting the berries. All the kind of things many people can do in their own backyards and smallholdings.

The shop, pub and restaurant are done to showcase places other than massive supermarkets where farmed goods may end up. The farm shop is a very common thing in the UK; I live in Greater London, there are some farms near where I am, and all of them have their own farm shops. Pubs and restaurants are also very common businesses for co-ops as seen in the show, lots of local country places will be provided with ingredients or beer that is grown/brewed locally, as well as other types of alcohol such as gin.

I feel like the point of the show is less 'here's a celebrity trying to run a farm!' and more to demonstrate farming in the UK, and as such, they want to showcase as many different types of farming that UK farmers engage in, and show the challenges each type of farmer faces; the problems unique to each type and style of farming.

This may be self-evident to everyone else, or it may have been blatantly stated in interviews or something. I don't really watch/read interviews, and I can be rather dense at times, lol, so if this has already been pointed out or discussed, my apologies!