Gourmet Farmer

Name: Gourmet Farmer
Released: 2010-01-07T00:00:00.000Z
Cast: Matthew Evans

TV Show · Documentary

Australia's most feared food critic, Matthew Evans, has chucked in his city life for small farm living in Tasmania where he'll have to learn from scratch how to grow and rear his own food.

2010 · 26m

Starring Matthew Evans

EPISODE 1

Goats Milk Ice Cream

The transformation from big city living begins as Matthew, a novice yet determined farmer, settles into his rural haven.
EPISODE 2

Pigs Prosciutto and Offal

Pork is on the menu as Matthew makes prosciutto, learns what to do with offal, and buys his own little piglets.
EPISODE 3

Passata and Fishing

Late-ripening tomatoes make for a seasonal sauce before Matthew and his mates swap land for sea and embark on a fishing adventure.
EPISODE 4

Apples and Cider

Matthew sets up shop as an artisan producer at Salamanca Markets and learns some valuable lessons: long hours, hard physical work and low profit margins.
EPISODE 5

Chicken Dispatching and Abalone Diving

Matthew's crash course in agrarian ways finds him settling into the routine of life on the farm, but that also brings new and confronting challenges.
EPISODE 6

Cheese and Dairy

Matthew's farm is not yet a land of milk and honey, but the new jersey cow, Maggie, has half the solution.