Jeremy Clarkson is set to front a series about farming.
The 59-year-old television star is known for being a petrol head on shows including ‘Top Gear’ and ‘The Grand Tour’, but he’s now set to front a programme that explores his second love of farming, as he’s become increasingly worried about the future of our food supply.
Jeremy will present the series, called ‘I Bought the Farm’, which is set to start filming in September and will focus on his agricultural life in Oxfordshire.
He said: "Scientists calculate that we have just 90 years before we run out of food, because of soil depletion. That’s just 90 more harvests."
The series is set to show the dilemmas farmers face when it comes to environmental struggles and an overwhelming increase in demand.
Jeremy added: "When you till the soil or plough in weeds, it releases carbon into the atmosphere. So you think, ‘OK, I won’t plough, I’ll just spray the weeds.’ But that’s bad for the bees. Every decision you make as a farmer is bad for some reason or another."
And the TV star says other programmes such as ‘Countryfile’ tend to portray a romantic version of farming, something which he hopes to correct through his own show, which will showcase "actual farming".
He said: "This is not Kate Humble – much as I like Kate Humble – with 20 acres, bottle-feeding a lamb. Or a TV presenter who grows veg in his back garden. This is actual farming: life, death and form filling.
"We’re not making ‘Countryfile’. We’ll be showing it warts and all. For example, I have no view on badger culling in terms of whether it’s necessary, but if it’s happening we will not shy away from putting it in the programme."
‘I Bought the Farm’ will be shown on Amazon Prime Video next year, the same platform on which ‘The Grand Tour’ – which he fronts with James May and Richard Hammond – airs.
Jeremy Clarkson to front farming series
