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Gourmet Farmer

Season 5
Farmer and chef Matthew Evans realised a long-held dream when he built his farm-to-table restaurant on his 70-acre Fat Pig Farm, but the quality of his food is only as good as his farm soil, so Matthew has taken up the challenge of improving the health of his farm's soil, naturally. Over the course of a year, we follow Matthew as he designs and refines a long-term regenerative agriculture plan.
201910 episodes16+
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Episodes

  1. S5 E1 - Good Food Needs Good Soil
    July 31, 2019
    25min
    16+
    Matthew's Fat Pig Farm Kitchen has been feeding people for over a year now, but he knows that the quality of his food is only as good as the soil it comes from, so he embarks on a 12-month mission to transform his food and the way he farms.
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  2. S5 E2 - Fermented Flowers
    August 7, 2019
    25min
    16+
    It's Autumn on Fat Pig Farm, and Matthew considers buying some goats to tackle the farm's blackberry problem. With the garden overflowing with veggies, Sadie trades some tomatoes for fermented miso paste, which Matthew experiments within the kitchen.
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  3. S5 E3 - THe Elegance of Good Ideas
    August 14, 2019
    25min
    16+
    With Winter setting in, Matthew welcomes a herd of goats to solve his Blackberry infestation without using a single pesticide. He then begins to tackle Fat Pig Farms' long-term soil health by planting an edible native garden while designing and building an age-old form of landscaping that will benefit his farm for hundreds of years.
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  4. S5 E4 - Food For The Land
    August 21, 2019
    25min
    16+
    After testing his farm soil's health, Matthew receives the results and needs to explore new ways to rest and rehabilitate the damaged earth in his pig paddocks. He experiments with an acorn pig feed and builds his own mobile chicken pen to fertilise the soil with their life-giving poo.
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  5. S5 E5 - The Apple of My Eye
    August 28, 2019
    25min
    16+
    With Sadie and Hedley away, Matthew has his work cut out for him, managing the farm on his own and repairing winter rot in the farm's apple orchards. But to surprise Sadie for her birthday, he badly wants to build her a new herb garden and plant a whole row of Camellias before she returns.
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  6. S5 E6 - Living The Dream
    September 4, 2019
    25min
    16+
    If there is an art to outdoor cooking, why not have a barbecue that's a work of art? Matthew realises a long-held daydream when he installs an incredible outdoor fire pit built by one of Tassie's most talented blacksmiths. With his farm work done, Matthew finally catches something from the ocean worth bragging about.
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  7. S5 E7 - The Hungry Patch
    September 11, 2019
    25min
    16+
    It's Spring on Fat Pig Farm, and everything is growing furiously, but there is almost nothing to harvest. Matthew creates an incredible pie with the few things that are available in the garden and learns the intricacies of how to forage for wild food in Tasmania.
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  8. S5 E8 - Little Wonders
    September 18, 2019
    25min
    16+
    With Spring in full swing and bugs in abundance, Matthew invites an insect scientist to survey the health and wealth of the farm's insect population. He learns just how important insects are to the ecosystem and health of his farm, how to cook and eat one of Australia's most common garden pests, and what a huge impact insects have on feeding the entire plane.
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  9. S5 E9 - Two For One
    September 25, 2019
    25min
    16+
    It's summer, and Matthew is focused on making the most of the garden's first flush of raspberries. But with the garden and soil now in such rude health, he's looking for ideas on how he can improve his approach to the animals he farms for the restaurant table by exploring the idea of using dual-purpose cattle breeds and a new breed of chicken.
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  10. S5 E10 - A Year In The Life
    October 4, 2019
    26min
    16+
    It's been 12 months, four seasons and lots of hard lessons since Matthew set out to transform his cherished slice of Tassie into a farm that grows healthy food while regenerating healthy soils, making it more productive and healthier for future generations. He's tried it all, so what ideas worked and what didn't?
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Audio languages
English
Subtitles
English [CC]
Directors
Tim ThatcherScott Sinclair
Producers
Scott SinclairTim Thatcher
Cast
Matthew Evans
Studio
EQ Media Production
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