Back to the Land with Kate Humble
20172 seasons15 episodes
Series championing some of the UK's most inspirational rural entrepreneurs. Each edition visits an area of the country and highlights the grit and determination shown to make it through the business year.
Episodes
Kate is in Cornwall to meet seaweed entrepreneurs, duck farmers, flower growers taking the wedding market by storm and a foraging craft brewer as the series showcasing rural businesses returns.
Kate meets Mangalitza pig farmers Lisa and Tim, an ex-submariner who now catches lobsters, a sustainable game-keeper and a glass blowing business taking its inspiration from the countryside.
Kate meets a couple who have taken the bold decision to market goat meat. She also meets award-winning winemakers and a botanist making organic skincare products.
We return to Cornwall where a Gouda cheese recipe could save a dairy farm. Kate visits an alpaca farm with a difference, a gin producer and a unique seafood cafe in Port Isaac.
Kate returns to Yorkshire and visits the UK's first ethical caviar farm, a hemp farm, a rare-breed pig farm, an honest sausage company and a lady who crafts Whitby jet into jewellery.
Kate returns to Cornwall where she meets a cider maker, a couple who grow herbs and flowers to make essential oils for the perfume trade, visits an artisan charcuterie and meets a surfboard maker.
Kate travels to the Midlands to meet a couple who are producing salt in the famous spa town of Droitwich, visits a worm farm, a chilli farmer and a tanner whose handcrafted leather products are sold worldwide.
Kate is in south-east England where she meets a wasabi grower, a truffle farmer a husband-and-wife team who provide veg boxes all year round and a woman making goat's milk soap.
In Yorkshire, Kate meets Britain's only producer of skyr, visits the UK's first 100% gluten free bakery in Leeds, a producer of herb-fed poultry and a former accountant turned blacksmith.
In Hampshire, Kate meets two women who have teamed up to produce the best woollen yarn in the UK, an exotic mushroom grower, a former city trader now raising trout and carpenter in the New Forest.
In the heart of England Kate meets a couple making sustainable garden fencing and gates, joins a posh snack food entrepreneur, meet the inventor of the famed Stinking Bishop cheese and shepherdess turned designer.
The show catches up with some of those who featured in the first series. A seaweed entrepreneur and a Wagyu beef farmer in Wales, a bag producer in the Lake District and a cider producer in Devon.
