River Cottage

Name: River Cottage
Released: 1999-03-18T00:00:00.000Z
Cast: Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall, Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall

TV Show · Reality

Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall explores an alternative lifestyle from his gamekeeper's cottage in West Dorset. Here he grows his own vegetables, fruit and herbs and even turns his hand to rearing stock and living off the land.

1999 · 25m

Starring Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall, Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall

Director Zam Baring

EPISODE 1

Ep 1

Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall moves into a primitive cottage in Dorset, buys a pig, forages for wild food and befriends the locals.

24m
EPISODE 2

Ep 2

Hugh's been at River Cottage for a month, and the Dorset downsizer's crop of vegetables is doing well, so it's on to pike fishing and fruit picking.

24m
EPISODE 3

Ep 3

Hugh enters his produce into the local Beaminster Summer Show and accepts a jam-making challenge by the Beaminster WI before tracking spider crabs.

24m
EPISODE 4

Ep 4

Hugh takes evasive action with the mice in his house; Hugh is reunited with a childhood hero to search for prawns aboard his fishing boat.

23m
EPISODE 5

Ep 5

Hugh commissions local basket-maker Malcolm Seal to make an old-fashioned wickerwork eel trap, which he baits with a roadkill rabbit carefully scraped from the tarmac.

24m
EPISODE 7

Episode 7

Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall celebrates the best food that spring and summer have to offer.

24m