Gourmet Farmer

Australia's most feared food critic, has swapped city life for small farm living in Tasmania.

Matthew considers buying some goats to tackle the farm's blackberry problem; with the garden overflowing with veggies, Sadie trades some tomatoes for fermented miso paste.

With winter setting in, Matthew welcomes a herd of goats to solve his blackberry infestation without using a single pesticide; he begins to tackle Fat Pig Farms' long-term soil health by planting an edible native garden while designing and building an age-old form of landscaping that will benefit his farm for hundreds of years.

After checking the health of the farm's soil, Matthew tests out new ways to keep his pigs fed; he experiments with an acorn pig feed and builds his own mobile chicken pen to fertilize the soil with their life-giving poo.

With Sadie and Hedley away, Matthew has his work cut out for him, managing the farm on his own; to surprise Sadie for her birthday, he badly wants to build her a new herb garden and plant a whole row of Camellias before she returns.

Matthew installs an outdoor fire pit built by one of Tassie's most talented blacksmiths; with his farm work done, Matthew finally catches something from the ocean worth bragging about.