I felt all Christmassy after the second episode 
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I like watching the programme but I don't understand the love for Clarkson. He's made a massive business off the back of this and I don't know how much actually transfers to farmers other than spreading awareness farming is hard.
For example I live in a farming area, where there's tourists and it's in a different part of the country to Clarkson's farm.
I've heard people go in the local shop and ask if they sell Hawkstone. They don't, they sell loads and loads of different local products including beers and ciders made by small companies, arguably much less generic than Hawkstone too. But because they don't sell Hawkstone they don't buy anything. Shop keep says it happens more than you'd like to think.
Admittedly I've not started this series yet but it would be great if the message was go and see what your local farmer, food producer or shop is doing rather than one long Clarkson advert.
For example I live in a farming area, where there's tourists and it's in a different part of the country to Clarkson's farm.
I've heard people go in the local shop and ask if they sell Hawkstone. They don't, they sell loads and loads of different local products including beers and ciders made by small companies, arguably much less generic than Hawkstone too. But because they don't sell Hawkstone they don't buy anything. Shop keep says it happens more than you'd like to think.
Admittedly I've not started this series yet but it would be great if the message was go and see what your local farmer, food producer or shop is doing rather than one long Clarkson advert.
He's helping a hell of a lot of local farmers to him too, stocking their meat and milk etc. it can only be a good thing surely?
I think it does help. I've lost count of the number of people I've seen or spoken to who have said it's raised their awareness of what a state farming is in and wanting to buy more local food. There's a shop in my town which only sells local farm produce and he is always really busy.
Re. the Hawkstone thing, if I was running that shop, I'd put a sign up suggesting local alternatives to Hawkstone or when a customer asks about it, tell them they don't have that, but they do have xyz which is the same and from farmer John in the next village.
Jeremy has done a lot to raise awareness of issues in farming and educate people on where their food comes from. He can’t help that people then expect to see Hawkstone everywhere but as cowtastrophe said, they can put up signs or suggest customers try something similar.
She said they're only interested in the brand rather than the message behind it or trying anything new. And it's well signed and advertised what's being sold there. It's just another fad, must see or have things.
I stand by that fact there should be a message in the programme about checking out your local farmer is up to rather than driving across the country to Clarkson's business venture and make him richer.
But the extra tourism he's brought can only be a good thing. Granted it's the Cotswolds and wealthy anyway but ya know
Why 'should' there be a message on the show telling viewers what to do? It's not public service broadcasting fgs
I come from a very rural area that is not the well-heeled south where Jeremy is and farmers in my neck of the woods have nothing but praise for him, for raising awareness of their way of life and the problems they face now.
I work in central London with lots of people who have never even been on a farm, and they talk about farming issues having never previously known of them.
I come from a very rural area that is not the well-heeled south where Jeremy is and farmers in my neck of the woods have nothing but praise for him, for raising awareness of their way of life and the problems they face now.
I work in central London with lots of people who have never even been on a farm, and they talk about farming issues having never previously known of them.
I didn't enjoy the 3rd episode so much. Too gadgety 
I had tears running down my face watching episode 2 when Kaleb bumped his head in the grotto and then they both got shocks on the fence
Did they say why he’d done it? Had he been sacked or something? I remember them saying he worked at the pub.
Well…. The issue in Whitney was the traffic and the issues the pub and shop were generating! The local news has been covered with it all the dam time. The Oxford Mail loved reporting on it! And the other issue they had was, that people didn’t want to go into Whitney so it wasn’t boosting the local businesses alongside jezza!But the extra tourism he's brought can only be a good thing. Granted it's the Cotswolds and wealthy anyway but ya know
my only issue with this series is, Clarkson did originally buy the farm as a tax loop hole so when he’s getting pissed off about it… pot kettle black. And they fail to acknowledge a lot of this is because of Brexit (I know they have covered that a bit in the other series!)
I think there’s entertainment value in what they do but when they go so deep about some of it, it makes Jeremy inauthentic! But I guess he’s been like this for awhile
Does anyone else love how Jeremy says "baby Jeeezus"
Keir Starmer dummy getting stabbed in the testicles by Jeremy's log?
If only
. I enjoyed that part.
I think the love for Clarkson is because he’s been clear from the start he bought the farm for tax reasons and only started farming himself for a bit of craic/to make a TV show. Which is why it’s great to see his perspectives evolving over the seasons of Clarksons Farm, to see him become someone who genuinely really cares about farming and agriculture. He, Charlie and Kaleb have been actively lobbying for policy change to help farmers and the shift in his views on the environment are incredible.
I don’t think it’s really his responsibility to promote every business going or to restrict sale of his own products to benefit other producers. That would cross the line from supporting co operative farming into nannying farmers and that’s just not his thing at all.
No, they said he was a parking attendant I think and alluded to the fact it was his last day so I guessed he’d either been binned or left.
Did people hear what a customer said to the woman behind the butcher counter? So rude.
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Did people hear what a customer said to the woman behind the butcher counter? So rude.
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No, what did they say?
Did people hear what a customer said to the woman behind the butcher counter? So rude.
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No, what did they say?
No, what did they say?
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She said a customer said she looked like Kaleb post transition.