Countryfile: Adam's Young Farmers: Yorkshire Dales
6:00 pm - 7:00 pm, Sunday, August 23 on BBC One London (1)
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Adam's Young Farmers: Yorkshire Dales
Season 2026, Episode 1
Adam Henson's search for young farmers across the UK leads him to the Yorkshire Dales, where he pays a visit to Malham beef and sheep farmer Frank Carr. He discusses how the unpredictable conditions have a significant impact on his flock during winter, and how plans to expand his herd have required him to take on a lot of debt. Plus, stories from the Countryfile archives
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Adam Henson
(Presenter)
Best Known For:
Countryfile.
Early-life:
Adam was born in 1966 on the farm where he now works, Bemborough Farm near Guiting Power, Gloucestershire. He spent some time on the Chatsworth Estate before attending Seale-Hayne Agricultural College in Newton Abbot. After graduating, he spent a year travelling through Australia with his friend and later business partner Duncan Andrews. They worked on sheep and arable stations and a kiwi plantation in New Zealand before returning to Australia to plant tea in Queensland.
Career:
Henson's father started the Cotswold Farm Park that he now runs with Andrews. It attracts more than 70,000 visitors a year. Henson made the move to TV in 2001 when he began presenting on Countryfile. Since then, he has worked on Countryfile Summer Diaries, Inside Out, Lambing Live and Radio 4's On Your Farm and Farming Today. In 2013, he worked with culinary writer Nigel Slater on Nigel and Adam's Farm Kitchen. Slater cooked fresh versions of supermarket favourites using produce grown by Henson.
Quote:
'There's not much chance of me becoming a media darling when I have to come back (to the farm) and muck out the pigs after filming!'
Trivia:
In his spare time, Henson enjoys shopping for clothes.
Mark Beech
(Series editor)
Becky Pratt
(Series producer)
