Clarkson’s Farm
Discussion
Leon R said:
Crazy how busy that shop is since the show aired.
I went twice before it did and the first time there were about 5 cars in the car park, the second time it was just us.
Almost everyone going would never have dreamed of going to a farm shop. They're just going in the hope of Clarkson being there and, maybe, even saying something like "Hello" to them.I went twice before it did and the first time there were about 5 cars in the car park, the second time it was just us.
Doofus said:
Almost everyone going would never have dreamed of going to a farm shop. They're just going in the hope of Clarkson being there and, maybe, even saying something like "Hello" to them.
I'm sure you're right. They probably buy a token jar of bee juice, compare its price to Aldi cr*p (other supermarkets are available) and never set foot in a farm shop again.
Lily the Pink said:
Doofus said:
Almost everyone going would never have dreamed of going to a farm shop. They're just going in the hope of Clarkson being there and, maybe, even saying something like "Hello" to them.
I'm sure you're right. They probably buy a token jar of bee juice, compare its price to Aldi cr*p (other supermarkets are available) and never set foot in a farm shop again.On the show when he first opened the shop, all he had for sale was potatoes. Cars queued for miles, and he sold every last spud. Those people didn't drive hundreds of miles to buy potatoes; they drove hundreds of miles in the desperate hope that He might lay His hand on them and they could then dine out on their story of the day He posed for a photo with little Johnny, and then they nearly thought about buying a Range Rover.
Doofus said:
Lily the Pink said:
Doofus said:
Almost everyone going would never have dreamed of going to a farm shop. They're just going in the hope of Clarkson being there and, maybe, even saying something like "Hello" to them.
I'm sure you're right. They probably buy a token jar of bee juice, compare its price to Aldi cr*p (other supermarkets are available) and never set foot in a farm shop again.On the show when he first opened the shop, all he had for sale was potatoes. Cars queued for miles, and he sold every last spud. Those people didn't drive hundreds of miles to buy potatoes; they drove hundreds of miles in the desperate hope that He might lay His hand on them and they could then dine out on their story of the day He posed for a photo with little Johnny, and then they nearly thought about buying a Range Rover.
Doofus said:
Lily the Pink said:
Doofus said:
Almost everyone going would never have dreamed of going to a farm shop. They're just going in the hope of Clarkson being there and, maybe, even saying something like "Hello" to them.
I'm sure you're right. They probably buy a token jar of bee juice, compare its price to Aldi cr*p (other supermarkets are available) and never set foot in a farm shop again.On the show when he first opened the shop, all he had for sale was potatoes. Cars queued for miles, and he sold every last spud. Those people didn't drive hundreds of miles to buy potatoes; they drove hundreds of miles in the desperate hope that He might lay His hand on them and they could then dine out on their story of the day He posed for a photo with little Johnny, and then they nearly thought about buying a Range Rover.
Clarkson has announced that a second series of the program has now been agreed by Amazon.
Precisely.
On the show when he first opened the shop, all he had for sale was potatoes. Cars queued for miles, and he sold every last spud. Those people didn't drive hundreds of miles to buy potatoes; they drove hundreds of miles in the desperate hope that He might lay His hand on them and they could then dine out on their story of the day He posed for a photo with little Johnny, and then they nearly thought about buying a Range Rover.Honestly, I don’t think most of them are even expecting to see/meet Clarkson (although I’m sure some are). I suspect most just want to buy something with a stupid name on it from the shop to stick on a shelf and tell everyone how they have been there. Like a gift shop souvenir, but even more pointless.I drove past a couple of weeks ago as I happened to be going that way, and the car park must have had well over 100 cars in it already by 9:20am on a Saturday morning, and the queue was massive. They have installed a row of Portaloos down the side of the shop because people seemingly queue for hours.
A guy I know went 2 weeks ago and spent £75 on 2 jars or honey, a T Shirt, and canvas carrier bag, and an empty milk bottle. He queued for 2.5 hours to get in. The staff told him the queue is usually 4 hours on busier days.
Mental. Can you imagine queuing for 4 hours to get in what is essentially a tiny little souvenir shop?
Electro1980 said:
Doofus said:
Lily the Pink said:
Doofus said:
Almost everyone going would never have dreamed of going to a farm shop. They're just going in the hope of Clarkson being there and, maybe, even saying something like "Hello" to them.
I'm sure you're right. They probably buy a token jar of bee juice, compare its price to Aldi cr*p (other supermarkets are available) and never set foot in a farm shop again.On the show when he first opened the shop, all he had for sale was potatoes. Cars queued for miles, and he sold every last spud. Those people didn't drive hundreds of miles to buy potatoes; they drove hundreds of miles in the desperate hope that He might lay His hand on them and they could then dine out on their story of the day He posed for a photo with little Johnny, and then they nearly thought about buying a Range Rover.
A guy I know went 2 weeks ago and spent £75 on 2 jars or honey, a T Shirt, and canvas carrier bag, and an empty milk bottle. He queued for 2.5 hours to get in. The staff told him the queue is usually 4 hours on busier days.
Mental. Can you imagine queuing for 4 hours to get in what is essentially a tiny little souvenir shop?
Happened to be staying fairly nearby and found ourselves virtually driving past on a day it was closed. Gates were open however and there were about 10 cars parked up, with a steady stream of them coming and going. Most people had a nosey round, took a photo with the sign and left. Just as we left the man himself drove past in his Range Rover.
Seems we were lucky it was shut
Seems we were lucky it was shut
Lord Marylebone said:
Clarkson has announced that a second series of the program has now been agreed by Amazon.
Precisely.
On the show when he first opened the shop, all he had for sale was potatoes. Cars queued for miles, and he sold every last spud. Those people didn't drive hundreds of miles to buy potatoes; they drove hundreds of miles in the desperate hope that He might lay His hand on them and they could then dine out on their story of the day He posed for a photo with little Johnny, and then they nearly thought about buying a Range Rover.Honestly, I don’t think most of them are even expecting to see/meet Clarkson (although I’m sure some are). I suspect most just want to buy something with a stupid name on it from the shop to stick on a shelf and tell everyone how they have been there. Like a gift shop souvenir, but even more pointless.I drove past a couple of weeks ago as I happened to be going that way, and the car park must have had well over 100 cars in it already by 9:20am on a Saturday morning, and the queue was massive. They have installed a row of Portaloos down the side of the shop because people seemingly queue for hours.
A guy I know went 2 weeks ago and spent £75 on 2 jars or honey, a T Shirt, and canvas carrier bag, and an empty milk bottle. He queued for 2.5 hours to get in. The staff told him the queue is usually 4 hours on busier days.
Mental. Can you imagine queuing for 4 hours to get in what is essentially a tiny little souvenir shop?
It does seem bizarre, but I suppose it's a film set for a popular TV show, and it's in a tourist area.Electro1980 said:
Doofus said:
Lily the Pink said:
Doofus said:
Almost everyone going would never have dreamed of going to a farm shop. They're just going in the hope of Clarkson being there and, maybe, even saying something like "Hello" to them.
I'm sure you're right. They probably buy a token jar of bee juice, compare its price to Aldi cr*p (other supermarkets are available) and never set foot in a farm shop again.On the show when he first opened the shop, all he had for sale was potatoes. Cars queued for miles, and he sold every last spud. Those people didn't drive hundreds of miles to buy potatoes; they drove hundreds of miles in the desperate hope that He might lay His hand on them and they could then dine out on their story of the day He posed for a photo with little Johnny, and then they nearly thought about buying a Range Rover.
A guy I know went 2 weeks ago and spent £75 on 2 jars or honey, a T Shirt, and canvas carrier bag, and an empty milk bottle. He queued for 2.5 hours to get in. The staff told him the queue is usually 4 hours on busier days.
Mental. Can you imagine queuing for 4 hours to get in what is essentially a tiny little souvenir shop?
I would visit if I was passing, but not if I had to queue.
98elise said:
It does seem bizarre, but I suppose it's a film set for a popular TV show, and it's in a tourist area.
I would visit if I was passing, but not if I had to queue.
That was my thinking. I was passing the area and thought I would take a 2 mile detour to actually drive past it. I would visit if I was passing, but not if I had to queue.
I would have gone in and bought my wife some honey or something like that for a laugh, but I had no interest in standing in a queue to do so, so I didn't even attempt to drive in the car park.
I just saw this from the car and kept driving...
Brilliant series.
Well done JC and the team for once again bringing us many laughs, and proper entertainment.
I would really like Amazon to agree to another series.
JC just goes from strength to strength.
How to ask Amazon to realise they are onto a gold mine, and would be foolish to drop this after one series ?
Well done JC and the team for once again bringing us many laughs, and proper entertainment.
I would really like Amazon to agree to another series.
JC just goes from strength to strength.
How to ask Amazon to realise they are onto a gold mine, and would be foolish to drop this after one series ?
Register1 said:
Brilliant series.
Well done JC and the team for once again bringing us many laughs, and proper entertainment.
I would really like Amazon to agree to another series.
JC just goes from strength to strength.
How to ask Amazon to realise they are onto a gold mine, and would be foolish to drop this after one series ?
Clarkson has confirmed that series 2 has now been agreed with Amazon.Well done JC and the team for once again bringing us many laughs, and proper entertainment.
I would really like Amazon to agree to another series.
JC just goes from strength to strength.
How to ask Amazon to realise they are onto a gold mine, and would be foolish to drop this after one series ?
Lord Marylebone said:
Register1 said:
Brilliant series.
Well done JC and the team for once again bringing us many laughs, and proper entertainment.
I would really like Amazon to agree to another series.
JC just goes from strength to strength.
How to ask Amazon to realise they are onto a gold mine, and would be foolish to drop this after one series ?
Clarkson has confirmed that series 2 has now been agreed with Amazon.Well done JC and the team for once again bringing us many laughs, and proper entertainment.
I would really like Amazon to agree to another series.
JC just goes from strength to strength.
How to ask Amazon to realise they are onto a gold mine, and would be foolish to drop this after one series ?
JC just turns acting into multi-million pound generating TV.
Well done JC
Getting to this one a bit late but have plowed (sorry) through the first 5 episodes and I like it fine. Yes, there is some staged cocking-up no doubt, but nothing at all like what we saw on TG or TGT. Unlike the unrepentant silliness those (especially latter episodes of TGT) descended into, most of what is seen here comes across as fairly genuine. Certainly the various tractors et al getting stuck at the bottom of a muddy hill in the episode where he builds a pond seemed a bit cringey but such things seem unavoidable in this genre.
I found the discovery and recommissioning of the Victorian water network quite interesting and I wished they had gone into that in more detail. That in turn made me wonder (not knowing much at all about farming on this scale) if they ever considered using that as a basis for establishing some sort of irrigation of the drought-parched fields. It certainly seemed to make more sense than either the tanker option or the solar-powered garden sprinkler.
His success at growing potatoes made me wonder how they just seemed to magically appear. Perhaps the camera crews were not around when they were planted. I remember from a short time one summer visiting a small farm that planting potatoes is (or at least used to be) fairly tedious as you needed cut-up pieces of seed potatoes to be sown somehow, which I got to do and found fairly backbreaking. Getting a crop of several tons of the things certainly involved some hard work.
That is the biggest takeaway for me from this, in that it shows how hard making a living farming can be. I have some work experience dealing with grape growers at wineries, and the amount of labor involved in getting those vines to produce just the right grapes was something I always found mind-blowing. I always wondered why those grape growers did it. But clearly, it is a lifestyle choice and provides a great deal of satisfaction when they get it right.
The one thing that I did not particularly enjoy was anything to do with the sheep after their introduction. It ate up a lot of time and they just seemed like a very bad idea that should have been abandoned fairly quickly. I found myself fast-forwarding through much of those segments.
In summary though, a good series all-around and I look forward to S2.
I found the discovery and recommissioning of the Victorian water network quite interesting and I wished they had gone into that in more detail. That in turn made me wonder (not knowing much at all about farming on this scale) if they ever considered using that as a basis for establishing some sort of irrigation of the drought-parched fields. It certainly seemed to make more sense than either the tanker option or the solar-powered garden sprinkler.
His success at growing potatoes made me wonder how they just seemed to magically appear. Perhaps the camera crews were not around when they were planted. I remember from a short time one summer visiting a small farm that planting potatoes is (or at least used to be) fairly tedious as you needed cut-up pieces of seed potatoes to be sown somehow, which I got to do and found fairly backbreaking. Getting a crop of several tons of the things certainly involved some hard work.
That is the biggest takeaway for me from this, in that it shows how hard making a living farming can be. I have some work experience dealing with grape growers at wineries, and the amount of labor involved in getting those vines to produce just the right grapes was something I always found mind-blowing. I always wondered why those grape growers did it. But clearly, it is a lifestyle choice and provides a great deal of satisfaction when they get it right.
The one thing that I did not particularly enjoy was anything to do with the sheep after their introduction. It ate up a lot of time and they just seemed like a very bad idea that should have been abandoned fairly quickly. I found myself fast-forwarding through much of those segments.
In summary though, a good series all-around and I look forward to S2.
Lord Marylebone said:
98elise said:
It does seem bizarre, but I suppose it's a film set for a popular TV show, and it's in a tourist area.
I would visit if I was passing, but not if I had to queue.
That was my thinking. I was passing the area and thought I would take a 2 mile detour to actually drive past it. I would visit if I was passing, but not if I had to queue.
I would have gone in and bought my wife some honey or something like that for a laugh, but I had no interest in standing in a queue to do so, so I didn't even attempt to drive in the car park.
I just saw this from the car and kept driving...
It'll be interesting to see how they manage the 'it's financially bloody hard to run a farm' angle in series 2 when it's obvious they are comfortably making thousands every single day from the farm shop. Worrying about only making £7k from some sheep will seem a little pointless when the shop probably has that kinda turnover on a daily basis.
Maybe they will double down on the 'farming is bloody hard' angle that came across really well in S1, but again we all know the farm itself can now sustain more employees without any intervention from JC's bank balance.
Maybe they will double down on the 'farming is bloody hard' angle that came across really well in S1, but again we all know the farm itself can now sustain more employees without any intervention from JC's bank balance.
ch37 said:
It'll be interesting to see how they manage the 'it's financially bloody hard to run a farm' angle in series 2 when it's obvious they are comfortably making thousands every single day from the farm shop. Worrying about only making £7k from some sheep will seem a little pointless when the shop probably has that kinda turnover on a daily basis.
Maybe they will double down on the 'farming is bloody hard' angle that came across really well in S1, but again we all know the farm itself can now sustain more employees without any intervention from JC's bank balance.
He's never tried to suggest that he's relying on the farm to make money. Indeed, he's very open that he's not a normal farmer - he can 'go do another series of Millionaire' if he ever needs a cash topup.Maybe they will double down on the 'farming is bloody hard' angle that came across really well in S1, but again we all know the farm itself can now sustain more employees without any intervention from JC's bank balance.
So the fact the farm shop is doing so well off the back of his celebrity isn't to my mind reducing the authenticity of the rest of the economics of farming.
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