What can we expect from season 4 of Clarkson’s Farm?
23rd May 2025
Clarkson’s Farm stars have revealed what the audience should expect from the latest season that has launched today.
The first four episodes of the programme, which is set at Jeremy Clarkson’s Diddly Squat Farm in Chipping Norton, launched on Prime Video today, 23rd May.
An additional two episodes will air next week, on 30th May, followed by the final two on 6th June.
In season four, Jeremy Clarkson is taking on his most ambitious project yet, setting out to buy a pub that will reignite his farm-to-fork restaurant vision.
But the road to becoming a landlord is not exactly straightforward, and with new faces, new livestock and new machinery arriving at the farm, life at Diddly Squat is busier than ever.
Mr Clarkson said: “It’s very stressful running a pub. It’s more stressful than running a farm. You’re on your own on the farm, which is why there’s so much unhappiness in farming, because you’re dealing with it all on your own.
“The benefit is you don’t worry about other people, whereas with the pub, you’ve probably got 80 people working there. So it requires more attention running a pub.
“I called people who’ve got pubs, like myself, who don’t come from a pub background, and they all said, ‘Don’t do it. Don’t do it. It’s too stressful, and there’s absolutely no money in it. In fact, you lose money’. I ignored all of them, and they were absolutely right!”
Mr Clarkson added that his idea for a pub was to create a place where farmers could forget their troubles and socialise with their neighbours.
“I wanted somewhere where farmers could go. If it’s raining on a Tuesday afternoon and they can’t work on their farm, they could come and have a pint and meet other farmers,” Mr Clarkson concluded.
‘Life would be easier if Jeremy wasn’t there during harvest’
Mr Clarkson explained that Kaleb went on the tour with his show called ‘The World According to Kaleb’, but he is now back at the farm.
Kaleb said: “It’s never ideal to be away, but because of the weather, it was a perfect time to not be on the farm. But I just missed farming. It was quite weird, from doing my day job of being on a farm to then not being on the farm at all.
“Luckily, while I was touring around the country, I met loads of different farmers; they’d invite me to come and have a cup of tea on their farms. So I still managed to speak to a lot of farmers and see how different things are grown, and different tool types and all this stuff.
“It was like ‘Farmer Tinder’. They’d pick me up outside the theatre and then drop me back. My poor manager was like, ‘Who are you going with?’ And I’d say, ‘I don’t know. I’ve never been there before!’.”
Kaleb said that in January he went to a farm in Scotland, and he was very surprised that the grass there was still growing.
“It was weird to see the different climates all over the country. I’m based in Oxfordshire, so at that time of the year, there was no grass growing at all. But their grass looked amazing.”
Kaleb has also revealed that he and Jeremy argued “quite a bit” during harvest. He said: “It was pretty tough mentally. The problem with harvest was because I’m still young, I’m 26, I think a lot of people can doubt me sometimes.
“And I doubt myself sometimes because I think everyone does ask themselves if they’re doing things right. Jeremy really enjoys doing the harvest, but he’s a pain. Life would be easier if he wasn’t there during harvest, just because he’s a bit incompetent!”
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New additions to Diddly Squat family
Lisa Hogan said that viewers can expect to see new animals as the Diddly Squat farm has welcomed 29 goats to their family.
Lisa continued: “The goats are such a source of joy, and we got them as young kids. In fact, they were still on the bottle. They weren’t on solids.
“We spent a lot of time with them when they were tiny, so they’re like pets because they were in the barn for at least three months. So now you walk into the field, and they all run over. I love them. They’re great, and they’re very handy as well.”
Lisa also said that the Diddly Squat Farm Shop is doing very well. “All my customers are great. They all have interesting stories about how the show has affected them. There was a couple I met up in the pub a couple of weeks ago, and they’d flown in from America. They’d taken a car from Heathrow to come straight to the pub.
“The shop was closed because it was January, and they said: ‘We had to come here; you got us through Covid. You made us laugh. You’ve made us realise there was life out there when we were stuck inside, and we just wanted to come and kind of pay homage’.”
Lisa added that the Diddly Squat team has heard lots of stories from people about how the show has touched them. They very often pay a visit to the Cotswolds, as they want to take home a piece of the famous farm.
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Another challenging year at Diddly Squat Farm
Charlie Ireland, called by Jeremy ‘Cheerful Charlie’, said that season four of the show covers “another challenging year” at the Diddly Squat Farm.
“We thought we’d done well, got the barley in early again, but as viewers will see, the weather played a big part. Prices have been a challenge and because of the weather, crop quality was an issue.”
He has also spoken about the challenges of opening the pub. “It was a combination of a couple of things: that lack of experience and the short timescale. If you’re going to do a pub, you want to get it open for summer; if you miss the summer, then it’s a long winter.
“Jeremy tends to approach these things with the sort of sense that it’s all really straightforward and simple. You just do it, and then, in practice, it’s never quite like that.
“Quite often the first thing to do is stand back and work out where you should actually start the process, rather than necessarily starting it from where Jeremy starts. There might be some foundation blocks that need to go in place before you get to where he is.
“We were also very conscious of learning from the past and being aware that if it was going to be successful, then we had to get everybody on board with us right from the beginning.”
Charlie concluded: “Farming is a challenge, but you’re dealing with two main things you can’t control – the weather and prices. In hospitality you’re dealing with many more things such as health and safety regulations, food hygiene and preparation rules, cellar maintenance, suppliers, staff, customers, etc., so it’s even tougher.”
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