This Wise Farmers series features farmers who possess and utilise the land using traditional agro-ecological / organic methods, sharing their knowledge and wisdom.
Wise Farmers
Episode 1: Richard Young (Kite’s Nest Farm)
Richard Young was an organic farmer and brilliant ecologist. Born into a farming family in the Cotswolds.… Read More
Episode 2: Amy Chapple (Redwoods Farm)
Amy, now in her early twenties, has been raising animals since she was 13, beginning with young calves and then keeping free range laying hens… Read More
Episode 3: Little Donkey Farm, China
In March, while UK farmers were protesting at Westminster, demanding that they receive a fair price for their food, I was travelling in China… Read More
Episode 4: David Wilson, Fir Farm
We filmed an interview with David when he was the manager of Fir Farm near Stow-on-the-Wold, where he was looking after a herd of rare-breed Red Poll dairy cows.… Read More
Episode 5: Benj Wilson
Benj grew up in rural Gloucestershire, where his father David was the manager of King Charles’ organic farm at Highgrove… Read More
Episode 6: Nicolette Niman
After graduating from Kalamazoo College in Michigan with a Bachelor’s Degree in Biology and French, Nicolette Hahn Niman attended the… Read More
Episode 7: Borneo Villagers Battle For Freedom – Sarawak
Join us on a journey to Nyegol village in Sarawak, Malaysia, where the Bidayuh community has rebuilt their homes high above a hydro-electric dam that flooded their old village… Read More
Episode 8: Ben Andrews
Ben Andrews and his father Colin run an organic farm at Broadward Hall in Herefordshire near the border with Wales… Read More
Episode 9: Gerard Miles
Gerald Miles is a seventh-generation farmer on the Pembrokeshire coast in West Wales, where he farms organically 120 acres of… Read More