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Who does what

Twelve people.

Of whom exactly one was famous before any of this started, and he is not the one who knows what he is doing.

The cast

Everybody.

Jeremy Clarkson
The farmer, more or less

Jeremy Clarkson

Bought roughly a thousand acres of the former Sarsden estate in 2008 and had it contract-farmed until 2019, when the con…

Lisa Bentinck
Runs the shop, and built a platform

Lisa Bentinck

Runs the Diddly Squat Farm Shop, develops its product lines, and in 2026 co-founded Only Farmers — a marketplace that ha…

Kaleb Cooper
Farm manager, and the one who does the work

Kaleb Cooper

The farm manager, and the person who actually knows what he is doing. Toured a one-man show, wrote two Sunday Times best…

Charlie Ireland
Agronomist and land agent

Charlie Ireland

Cheerful Charlie. The agronomist and land agent, and the person who has to explain planning law, scheme rules and why an…

Gerald Cooper
Dry-stone waller

Gerald Cooper

Head of security, and the dry-stone waller. Diagnosed with prostate cancer during Series Three and declared cancer-free …

Harriet Cowan
Relief cover, and a nurse

Harriet Cowan

A Derbyshire nurse and farmer who covered for Kaleb during his tour in Series Four. Her TikTok following went from about…

Alan Townsend
The builder

Alan Townsend

Alan the builder, who built most of what has been built here, always slightly over budget and always slightly late, whic…

Wolfe Bentinck
Technical founder, Only Farmers

Wolfe Bentinck

Co-founder and technical lead of Only Farmers, appointed a director in May 2026. Hires for judgment rather than technica…

Owen Jenkins
Managing director, Hawkstone

Owen Jenkins

Managing director of the drinks business that turned over £21.3 million in the year to March 2025 and took twenty-third …

Rick Keene
Master brewer

Rick Keene

Founded The Cotswold Brewing Company with Emma Keene in 2005, long before any of this. Now master brewer for the whole H…

Johnny Hornby
Co-owner, Hawkstone

Johnny Hornby

Advertising entrepreneur and co-owner of the drinks business. The commercial half of a partnership whose other half is o…

Annie Gray
The kitchen

Annie Gray

Ran the catering van and then the pub kitchen. Everything served is British, which is a considerably harder brief than i…

Being honest about it

A note on key-person risk.

The distribution advantage that makes all of this work is, essentially, one man’s social accounts — roughly 7.4 million followers on X and around ten million on Instagram, plus three million on Kaleb Cooper’s account.

That is an extraordinary asset and an obvious concentration risk, made sharper by the health disclosures in Series Five. Every sensible thing this estate has done in the last two years has been about building brand equity in other people — Kaleb’s books and tour, Lisa’s platform and ITV series, Harriet’s following going from thirty-eight thousand to over eight hundred thousand.

That is not a marketing strategy. It is the only responsible way to run a business this concentrated.

Owned accounts

The combined reach.

~10M Instagram, Jeremy Clarkson
~7.4M X, Jeremy Clarkson
3M Instagram, Kaleb Cooper
3M Instagram, the farm shop

The businesses they run.

Six of them, and what each one actually earns.

Wondering

What people actually ask.

The two questions this page gets most, answered without a support ticket.

Public filings, published rankings and press reporting, each labelled on the page as a verified record, a founder claim or a third-party estimate.

The words are ours. The brands are not, and nothing here is licensed.

Across the estate

Elsewhere on the estate.

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