The four-part series, sees the Morgan’s from Tenby, the Burton’s from Manchester and the McNulty family from Glasgow taken out of their comfort zones and pushed to their limits with early starts, late finishes and dirty jobs in all weather conditions on Gareth Wyn Jones’s family hill farm.
The families will have their regular daily farm chores and will live on site in a special tented village. At the same time they will be given a set of challenges, designed to show how our food gets from gate to plate. Each week their efforts will be judged by experts with Gareth and Kate choosing one exceptional individual to receive a shepherd’s crook for their good work.
Farmer Gareth Wyn Jones was keen for them to experience the hard work that goes into running a farm and realise what it takes to produce the food we eat.
Gareth says: “I don’t want it to be this perfect, pretty rural idyll. I want it to be warts and all - and to give them a real sense of what it takes to be a farmer and to produce food today. There is a cost to food production: not just financially, but emotionally, physically and mentally. This programme will give them the chance to be part of that.”