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The Ancients

Introducing: On Jimmy's Farm

The Ancients

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4.74.5K Ratings

🗓️ 2 February 2022

⏱️ 3 minutes

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Summary

Join celebrity farmer, ecologist and conservationist, Jimmy Doherty, on his farm as he talks to eco-experts and well-known faces about trying to live a greener life.


From bug burgers and sustainable football clubs, to viagra honey and foraging fungi, Jimmy’s new weekly podcast will cover all things ecology.


Hear Jimmy chat to guests like his old friend Jamie Oliver, ecopreneur Eshita Kabra-Davies, the Eden Project's Sir Tim Smit, BOSH!, Dale Vince, Bez from the Happy Mondays... and many more.


A new episode will drop every Thursday.


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0:00.0

Have you had an existential crisis for taking it out recycling? Do you look at your shopping

0:11.5

or wonder if you should be growing it yourself? And why is everyone banging on about saving

0:17.3

the bees? If so then don't worry because you are not alone, I've been there too. I'm

0:22.9

Jimmy Doherty, TV presenter, farmer and conservationist. And on my new podcast on Jimmy's Farm,

0:29.0

I sit down with well-known faces and the smartest green minds around to learn how they try and

0:34.7

sometimes fail to be kinder to the planet and live closer to nature. People like Sir Tim

0:39.6

Smith, the founder of the Eden project. It is only people who don't know what they're doing

0:44.1

that can do marvelous things in some areas because received wisdom will sometimes you'll

0:50.5

talk yourself out of it if you've got lots of people who've done it before.

0:53.6

Ecopreneur, a sheet of Cabri Davis, and why renting our clothes might be the future.

0:58.1

You know you might feel great about yourself because you did a wardrobe clear out and you

1:02.0

donate it thanks to charity shops but 90% of those donations are completely worthless and

1:06.8

they're sent to landfills in Asian and African countries. Beards from the happy Mondays

1:11.3

on his Beehive Empire. I put up with his face to queen for putting quite a long time and

1:17.4

got some horrific stinging from it and it sat by the bees and now that would never happen

1:23.3

to me because I know what's the deal and I was the deal with it.

1:26.4

I'm a good pal, Jamie Oliver, on how to eat in season.

1:29.5

I remember you bringing your first book route. How many books have you done now?

1:33.3

25. How have you done 25 books? I don't know. I mean you have books like you have books.

1:39.1

I don't know. Expect rambling chats less than green confessions and potty training cows.

1:45.0

Yet I am not joking. Apparently it's helping with pollution. So grab yourself a coffee in

1:49.4

a reusable cup idly and join me on Jimmy's Farm. From History Hit, follow or subscribe

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