Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall's dream of escaping the city sprawl and all its stresses and downshifting into rural Dorset is finally realised when he arrives at River Cottage. His year-long experiment, living off the fat of the land, and the sweet of his brow, involves a steep learning curve and a lot of fun!.
In the fifth series of River Cottage, Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall moves on from his downshifting experiment and re-locates to a small farm in Dorset to develop a new culinary enterprise..
It is February and while Hugh has survived the winter there's precious little to eat at River Cottage. But thinking of the future he gets busy building chickenopolis..
It's been a year now since Hugh Fearlnley- Whittingstall, realising his dream of escaping the city sprawl arrived at River Cottage and started expanding his smallholding. .
Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall has moved on from his three year experiment as a small holder at River Cottage..
Hugh is preparing for his first Christmas at River Cottage. He's decorated the bay leaf tree with fairy lights, harvested the sprouts from the vegetable garden and his Gloucester Old Spot pig is now a festive ham. .