Review for Jimmy's Farm Series One

Imagine if someone just decided to leave his promising career and education and become a farmer, knowing absolutely nothing about farming or what it would involve. What's that? It sounds like the plot to The Good Life? Yes, it does, doesn't it?  But this is no fiction, this is for real.

Jimmy  Doherty gives up his PhD in Entomology, borrows £55,000 to take over a dilapidated farm with the idea of breeding pigs. The big idea is to breed a very rare pig 'Essex Pig' and to have the pigs 'Free Range' and thus unique for the sausage trade. Though it does seem odd that the pig breed is so rare and so his idea is to breed them for slaughtering to make sausages? Almost, like some twisted charity scheme.

The show follows Jimmy as he attempts to transform the farm from essentially a wasteland, into a profitable farm. At times you wonder why he bothered at all as he continues to confirm just how little he knows about what he is doing and you follow the series wondering at what point he will utterly fail or before his money runs out.

I enjoyed Jimmy's Farm. It was a nice show, that wasn't your typical everyone shouting at each other and so much doom and gloom that some can have. If you ever wanted to start up a business, this show could be a nice template for how much hard work it is and also how much that hard work can pay off.