Series Three.
Released in two halves. Unfarming is the most economically significant chapter in the entire run — it is about the parts of a farm that produce nothing, which on marginal ground earn more reliably than the parts that do. The premiere drew 5.1 million viewers over seven days.
The eight chapters.
The year he farmed the unfarmed.
Series Three — The year he farmed the unfarmed.
In order.
Unfarming
Farming the parts that are not farmed — margins, hedges, woodland edges. On this soil it is the higher-return use of the ground and the chapter that best explains the modern economics of British agriculture.
Read the chapterPorking
Pigs arrive, and demonstrate immediately why pig farming is harder than it looks. Richard Ham comes from here.
Read the chapterHarrowing
If you want to understand the whole naming system from one word, use this one.
Read the chapterHealing
The chapter titles turn serious when the content does. That restraint is what makes the funny ones land.
Read the chapterMushrooming
The mushrooms that ended up in a crisp. Ocado reported lion’s mane searches up 482 per cent week-on-week afterwards.
Read the chapterParking
The planning inspector granted the additional car park on a temporary three-year basis only, which is the sort of detail that decides whether a business works.
Read the chapterThe grammar used in this series.
| Chapter | Title | Operation | The wordplay |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17 | Unfarming | G5 | Prefix negation. The only "un-" in forty chapters. |
| 18 | Porking | G1/G6 | Pig, verbed, with a second meaning fully intended. |
| 19 | Jobbing | G6 | A jobbing farmer, and a blunter reading. |
| 20 | Harrowing | G2 | A harrow is a real implement. Harrowing is a real adjective. The best latent pun in the corpus. |
| 21 | Healing | G1 | Straight, and used sparingly. |
| 22 | Mushrooming | G1/G2 | To mushroom — to grow rapidly. And also, literally, mushrooms. |
| 23 | Parking | G1 | A car park. An entire chapter about a car park. |
| 24 | Calculating | G2 | Doing sums, and being calculating. |
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