What I would like to see, is this show hosted by Joel Salatin, I can't see him praising the "originality" of the couple who want to grow sheep and root vegetables and sell "shepards pie meal packs", when they don't seem to have a clue about either sheep or gardening! Joel's advice in his book "You can farm" is, among other things, do something you know how to do, start with something small that can make you money, make sure you have a market first, don't overstock your land, and diversify when you have the first enterprise established. None of this came through on the program so far, it seems to be just come up with a random idea and buy some animals and seeds! No analysis of the land, the business plan or the farmers' abilities. Anyway, I will keep watching, to see who wins the 25 acres for a year (?) do develop their own farm, but I really hope nobody is watching it and thinking that its a sensible way to start a farm!
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I hope you will watch it and dish the dirt so to speak.
Well, sounds interesting I will try and watch this coming Tuesday.
Sounds a bit like the gourmet farmer, sometimes this left DH and I shaking our heads. But there were some interesting things amongst it that had us tuning in :)
oh yes! I love Joel Salatin's theories - I would definitely be tuning in to one of those shows, if if ever happened.
I may have to give that a watch!
I'm glad I'm not the only one that thought gourmet farmer was a bit off the mark sometimes! What is it with farming becoming so fashionable lately? and now we have celebrity farmers even? but they are celebrities that have becomes farmers instead of farmers that have become celebrities. I'll continue to watch and report.....
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