Jeremy Clarkson has had sleepless nights about not making enough money from his farm after prices and spending were at an all-time high for him last year.
The motor sport presenter turned farmer said he has had to grow mushrooms, blackberries and mustard this year to try and make as much money as possible.
Television personality Jeremy, 64, was last year forced to close his restaurant on Diddly Squat Farm after being served an enforcement notice from the local council – with residents claiming the establishment was causing heavy traffic.
Estimated to have a net worth of £55 million, Jeremy’s new series of Clarkson’s Farm shows him investing in new ways to try and make money on his farm.
In the first episode of the latest season he is forced to sell 13 cows to make some money.
Jeremy Clarkson has had sleepless nights about not making enough money from his farm after prices and spending were at an all-time high for him last year (Jeremy, left, pictured with his farmer Kaleb Cooper, right)
The motor sport presenter turned farmer said he has had to grow mushrooms, blackberries and mustard this year to try and make as much money as possible
‘Everything that could go wrong, has gone wrong,’ he said.
‘On top of all of this there was the pretty little restaurant that we opened earlier in the summer to sell the food we’d grown and reared on the farm.
‘But after just six weeks, the council served us with an enforcement notice telling us it had to close.
‘With the restaurant shut down we could no longer afford to keep all of the cows.’
After the success of the first two, Clarkson’s Farm is back for its third series.
The new series sees Jeremy and his colleague Kaleb enter a competition to see who can make the most money out of unfarmed land.
‘It was a case of, can we make five pounds here and a bit of money there,’ Jeremy said.
‘I started harvesting blackberries, planting mustard, and using tiny little pockets of unfarmed land around the place.
Estimated to have a net worth of £55 million, Jeremy’s new series of Clarkson’s Farm shows him investing in new ways to try and make money on his farm
The new series sees Jeremy and his colleague Kaleb (left) enter a competition to see who can make the most money out of unfarmed land
‘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.’
Speaking on the heavy cost of farming, Jeremy said: ‘Last year before the harvest we had to lay out £108,000 on diesel, fertiliser sprays, and the seed itself.
‘That’s fine if the weather is okay because you’re going to make that money back. But you have a hell of a lot of sleepless nights when you know that one rainstorm could wreck the lot.
‘I’ve noticed that farmers are quite sanguine; they go, “Well, you can’t control the weather” and they sort of roll with it, but I’m too Yorkshire for that.
‘I lie in bed after spending £100,000 hoping the weather’s good and, guess what?
‘The weather was absolutely terrible, all year, every single month.’
Speaking on the new launch of the series Jeremy’s partner of seven years Lisa Hogan (left), who works in the farm shop, said there is no end in sight for the popular show
Speaking on the new launch of the series Jeremy’s partner of seven years Lisa Hogan, who works in the farm shop, said there is no end in sight for the popular show.
When asked how long they will continue making the programme, she said: ‘As long as it’s educating people, and showing people how difficult farming is, and it’s helping people appreciate food in a way that they may not have before.
‘Maybe people will pop their bread in the freezer instead of throwing it out when they see how much work goes into making a loaf of bread.’
Clarkson’s Farm season 3 will arrive on Amazon Prime Video on 3 May 2024.
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