This Week on the Farm - Season 1
Season 1
Episodes
Episode 1
Helen Skelton and Jules Hudson present a show in which farmers document their lives. The first episode comes from Cannon Hall Farm in South Yorkshire, and features a Highland cow getting ready for an online country show, the construction of a new home for a herd of sheep, and a vet treating a lamb with a broken leg. In Carlisle, a herd of cattle are let loose on the Cumbrian salt marshes, and in North Yorkshire, a financial advisor becomes a vegetable picker.
Episode 2
At Cannon Hall farm, Rob and Dave prepare their bull for mating and relive their childhood by camping out under the stars. A vet pays a visit to a rescue farm near Dewsbury to attend to a boar that keeps trying to escape, while the owners of the real Downton Abbey wait to see if they can expect a new generation of piglets. Plus, a look at how farming is changing under lockdown, including a vegetable supplier's innovative search for new customers.
Episode 3
A one tonne shire horse has an appointment with a blacksmith, an alpaca needs dental work, and a Shetland stallion faces the prospect of being put out to pasture. In Nottinghamshire, a shepherd spends the whole lambing season camping in the same field as her flock, while a new kind of cheese provides salvation for a Lancashire farmer struggling through lockdown.
Episode 4
Rob and Dave assist the police in dealing with a road accident on the M1 involving a deer that has been struck by a car. They return to the farm to bag up and store all the hay they will need to feed their animals in the winter months ahead. Plus, cameras catch up with Shetland stallion Jon Bob Pony to discover if his fading libido has returned.
Episode 5
A newborn alpaca is causing problems, and Rob and Dave have a go at making summer scones. Plus, Bear the Swiss Valais ram awaits a visit from the scanner man. In Kent, a farming family with nearly a century of fruit-picking experience between them share their tips, and Peter Wright tries his hand at beekeeping.
Episode 6
Rob and Dave go in search of a new Shetland stallion, help a newborn Highland calf that is struggling to feed, and give an Alpaca a summer haircut. Away from Cannon Hall farm, a harvest in underway in Lincolnshire of one of the nation's favourite vegetables - but it is a more complicated procedure than most people think.
Episode 7
An orphaned goat from North Yorkshire is in need of a new home, and Rob and Dave decide this would be a perfect companion for their own hand-reared goat kid Millie. Jules Hudson takes a trip to Kent to meet a farmer who specialises in growing unusual vegetables, while Julian Norton from The Yorkshire Vet joins the team to demonstrate the art of blade shearing.
Episode 8
Helen Skelton and Jules Hudson present the final episode in the show in which farmers document their day-to-day lives. A vet comes to Cannon Hall farm to determine if Jeremy the bull has impregnated any cows. Rob and Dave try their hands at making a traditional Yorkshire tipple and take a trip to Whitby to catch some fish. Plus, The Yorkshire Vet's Julian Norton demonstrates traditional sheep shearing methods and farmers in Kent race against time to harvest a crop of rapeseed before the weather changes.
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