Marcus Wareing explores new possibilities for his smallholding in East Sussex. After doing some essential repairs, he gets the digger out as he’s keen to start cultivating an area of his land called the Bund. He wants to plant a hedgerow for the wildlife out of tree seedlings, so he drafts in gardening friends Rosanna and Signe to help. They advise him on the best way to plant up the small trees to ensure they grow healthily.\n\nAfter a short coffee break, Marcus heads over to Mersea Island in Essex to go crabbing with commercial fishermen Andrew and Jonny French. He’s used to cooking crabs in his kitchen, but this is the first time he’s seen them fished. After a good time at sea, the day’s topped off with a chance for Marcus to taste some of the freshly caught and cooked crab.\n\nBack at the farm, Marcus is concerned about his apple orchard. While it has produced a great deal of fruit, he is concerned some of the trees are dying, so he wants to learn how to preserve the remaining ones. He visits Britain’s National Fruit Collection at Brogdale Farm in Kent, where he meets Dave, an expert in grafting fruit trees. He discovers that one of the secrets to a successful graft is to have good root stock.\n\nA call from his tenant farmer Stuart takes Marcus back to the farm to help give the sheep a health check to see if they’re fit for mating. As a homage to his fishing trip earlier in the day, Marcus makes grilled crab and brown crab meat pate for himself and his wife Jane.
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Series 2: Episode 5
Marcus Wareing explores new possibilities on his Sussex smallholding. Having cooked with salt marsh lamb for years, Marcus decides to venture out to Romney Marsh to meet shepher ...
14-09-2024
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Series 2: Episode 4
Marcus rediscovers some wasabi plants in his kitchen garden and decides to find out more about them. Heading to the UK’s only wasabi farm, he learns all about how to grow ...
07-09-2024
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Series 2: Episode 3
Marcus’s dad was a potato farmer, so he’s always wanted to grow his own patch. He’s planted some, and now he wants some advice for how to harvest them. He meet ...
31-08-2024
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Series 2: Episode 2
After his bees mysteriously disappeared last year, Marcus and gardener Anatoliy decide they need some advice.\n\nMarcus travels to the Newt to meet Paula and learn more about be ...
24-08-2024
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Series 2: Episode 1
Marcus starts his day by setting off to the Knepp in Horsham to learn all about different varieties of tomato in their impressive market garden.\n\nAfter taste-testing a few and ...
17-08-2024
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Series 1: Episode 10
Marcus develops plans to add a regional Sussex staple, nut trees. Jumping over the border to Kent, he discovers the cobnut, a kind of cultivated hazelnut, and gets tips and tric ...
05-05-2024
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Series 1: Episode 9
Marcus plans to make the kitchen garden a year-round enterprise. A trip to Hampshire gives him an insight into the key of all good growing, compost, before he develops his own c ...
20-04-2024
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Series 1: Episode 8
Marcus decides to bring in some sheep in order to produce his favourite meat, lamb. A trip to his native Lancashire introduces him to the amazing Lonk sheep, who are famed for t ...
07-04-2024
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Series 1: Episode 7
Marcus develops plans to create a orchard and bring in the perfect eating apple for his favourite dessert, the classic tarte Tatin. A trip to Kent introduces him to the wide ran ...
07-04-2024
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Series 1: Episode 6
Marcus makes plans to expand the smallholding's herb patch. A trip to Gloucestershire to see the UK's largest herb collection shows that even someone as experienced as Marcus ca ...
31-03-2024
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Series 1: Episode 7
Marcus develops plans to create a orchard and bring in the perfect eating apple for his favourite dessert, the classic tarte Tatin. A trip to Kent introduces him to the wide ran ...
07-04-2024
BBC 2
Series 1: Episode 6
Marcus makes plans to expand the smallholding's herb patch. A trip to Gloucestershire to see the UK's largest herb collection shows that even someone as experienced as Marcus ca ...
31-03-2024
BBC 2
Series 1: Episode 1
Marcus Wareing embraces a slower pace of life down at his Sussex smallholding. Setting out to expand the range of produce and bring in new livestock, his first additions are som ...
10-03-2024
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Series 2: Episode 3
Marcus’s dad was a potato farmer, so he’s always wanted to grow his own patch. He’s planted some, and now he wants some advice for how to harvest them. He meet ...
31-08-2024
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Series 2: Episode 19
Marcus is thinking about adding some goats to the smallholding. There’s a small out-building that could make the perfect shelter for them, but as they’re notoriously ...
17-01-2024
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Series 2: Episode 9
Marcus Wareing explores new possibilities on his Sussex smallholding. One of his favourite things about the farm is having livestock grazing in the fields. Last year, Marcus obt ...
08-11-2023
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Series 2 Compilations: Episode 2
Marcus Wareing explores new possibilities on his Sussex smallholding. He learns how to grow potatoes, goes mackerel fishing, discovers wasabi and makes lavender gelato.
25-01-2024
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Series 2: Episode 20
Marcus Wareing explores new possibilities on his Sussex smallholding. As autumn draws in, it’s time to take stock of the kitchen garden and preserve any remaining summer c ...
24-01-2024
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Series 2: Episode 5
Marcus Wareing explores new possibilities on his Sussex smallholding. Having cooked with salt marsh lamb for years, Marcus decides to venture out to Romney Marsh to meet shepher ...
14-09-2024
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Series 1: Episode 4
Marcus steps things up with a hunt for the perfect cow. He heads to Shropshire in search of a rare breed that has been around in England for centuries, the English Longhorn. A c ...
24-03-2024
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