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The start of his third year at River Cottage finds Hugh happily ensconced with pregnant sheep and fattened steers but as ever cash is in short supply.
His long-term plan is to produce the ultimate free-range roasting chicken, but once that is set in motion with the purchase of 3 varieties of hen and an obliging Indian Game cockerel, he displays his normal ingenuity by selling home-made sorbets to tourists sweltering in the summer traffic jams, turning wood-pigeons into kebabs at the local race-course and even training Delia the pig to hunt for expensive truffles.
The future of the whole smallholding is thrown into question when it transpires there is a fertility crisis amongst his livestock, but it turns out he’s just been treating them too well!
In addition to all his agricultural activities, Hugh finds time to make some felt from his sheeps’ wool, turn out for the local cricket team and even, with the help of a few dozen mackerel, become a living embodiment of Poseidon at the Eype Beach Sculpture competition.
After throwing a Hallowe’en party where the ancient Dorset tradition of Pumpkin Fettling is revived - Hugh seals another perfect year by getting himself some company, Dolly the dog.
It would appear River Cottage really will be Forever.
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Hugh is my favourite chef on tv.his recipes are easy to follow & only use local & organic foodstuffs.He is a master at using what is at hand.River Cottage is my favourite show.Keep up the brilliant work & recipes Hugh,you rock.
Learn how to grow & cook from this show because the way things are going bought food is going be more full of poisons & genetically modified because our leaders & governments don't gave a bugger about us & our health. Everyone should grow their own as even small back yards can grow a few things. We all have to get back to basics & this show is fantastic for teaching us to do just that.
The river cottage shows us a nice story about basics. The baseline of producing fruits and meat is the garden, the small farm. Its just a restarting, thinking about what we eat and what we do. Well, back in the garden its also a story about life an death. The river cottage is a lovely and intelligent story. Turning into an vegetarian may be an individuell solution but what did you eat up to now? Industrial food of industrial meat spending creatures. Well... humans have a tendency to idiotic lifestyle :-)
i'd just like to thank the idiot in this program for turning me into a vegetarian. i think anyone who can raise an animal and then watch as it's slaughtered is just beyond in-humane. i'm a big fan of cooking programs on the lifestyle channel but this guy is just a heartless jerk! - TP, Australia
I agree. The idea of watching the programme is to understand exactly where our food comes from, and not go through life expecting someone else to do the dirty work for you. The killing, and preparing of the animals is just so you can walk down the supermarket aisle and place packets of meat in your trolley. I think you should carry on watching this amazing programme, and grow a pair!!!
Maybe you should thank this guy for opening your eyes up as to where you food comes from. Perhaps you were the heartless jerk, eating packaged meat from your supermarket without even a clue as to what kind of treatment animals endures. I'm not a PITA member or a vegetarian, I just have a realistic attitude about what it is to be a carnivore. I'll make sure I eat a few extra potions of meat to pick up your slack.