If there’s one thing that Clarkson’s Farm has taught us, it’s that rarely do things go to plan in farming. The Prime Video series is an honest and brutal portrayal of life for British farmers, from the limits of regulatory red tape to the catastrophes that bad weather can cause.
But amidst the calamity are moments of joy: beautiful, sprawling Cotswolds countryside, plenty of laughs with Jeremy Clarkson and his farm manager Kaleb, and the fun and games that come with owning livestock. Ahead of series three of Clarkson’s Farm coming to Prime Video, let’s hear from Top Gear’s Clarkson, 64, and Kaleb Cooper, 25, about what is going on at Diddly Squat Farm.
We have a 1,000-acre farm, but since I bought it in 2008, we’ve only ever farmed 500 acres of it. The other 500 acres is wildflower meadows, streams, woods, and rough ground. There are no crops growing, no animals, just countryside, because the state of farming is so parlous at the moment. I bet Kaleb that I could earn more money from doing little projects on unfarmed land than he could from farming 500 acres.
We harvested the nettles which normally are just a nuisance and tried to make them into soup. I got pigs into the woods: woods are normally empty of cash, no money comes from them, so I just did little bits and bobs like that to see if I could make more than he did … We grew mushrooms at the top of the farm where there used to be an American bomber base; the underground air raid shelter is still there so I thought: “We can grow mushrooms in there.
started at age 12 and I’m 25 now. I was really young and I picked up on what the farmers were saying, and it was difficult, but they were making money and business was thriving. Certainly, I’ve noticed changes since in my own contracting business, that we have to be extremely careful and efficient and creative. These days the government don’t seem to know what they want. There are no schemes anymore: schemes and grants and funding from the government keep food cheap for the public.
We have a good friendship and a good bond, I firmly believe. We treat each other to dinners, we’ll go out and say, “Who’s paying for this one?” and take it in turns. When it’s my turn we go to the cheaper restaurants. Clarkson’s Farm series 3 launches on Prime Video on Friday May 3.
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