My Dream Farm

In the first episode of My Dream Farm Monty Don meets Dick and Pauline Beijen, who moved from Dick's native Holland to a 44 acre plot in Devon. Due to Dick's debilitating arthritis, the couple decide to start a new life on the farm. The hard-working couple struggle to make a living and hope to fund their future with high-end woollen duvets and honey and soap from their beehive.

Monty meets Karon and Simon, who have quit the rat race with grand plans to rear rare-breed pigs in Suffolk, as well as building a farm shop, cafe and art gallery.

Thirty-three-year-old Kierti Vaidya's alpaca farm in Warwickshire has run into difficulties. Monty prescribes radical measures. But will Kierti stick to his suggestions?

In south Wales Monty visits Nick and Talitha, who hope to make a new life for themselves from a smallholding of two acres of land. But Nick's enthusiasm and big ideas mask much larger.

City girl Jen and her country cousin Bek have started a flower farm in Kent. But Monty Don wonders if the cousins are treating the farm more as a hobby than as a business.