
Gourmet Farmer
Matthew Evans once trained as a chef before he crossed to the dark side of the industry and became a restaurant reviewer. After five years and 2,000 restaurant meals as the chief reviewer for the Sydney Morning Herald, he came to the slow realisation...
Gourmet Farmer
Matthew Evans once trained as a chef before he crossed to the dark side of the industry and became a restaurant reviewer. After five years and 2,000 restaurant meals as the chief reviewer for the Sydney Morning Herald, he came to the slow realisation that chefs don’t have the best produce in the land, normal people who live close to the land do. So he moved to Tasmania, to a small patch of earth, where he’s raising pigs and sheep, milking a cow and waiting for his chickens to start laying.
Gourmet Farmer
Matthew Evans once trained as a chef before he crossed to the dark side of the industry and became a restaurant reviewer. After five years and 2,000 restaurant meals as the chief reviewer for the Sydney Morning Herald, he came to the slow realisation...

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Episodes
Episode 1: Recipes
Episode 2: Making Pickled Cabbage
Episode 3: Making Salted Fish Roe - Pottage
Episode 4: Making Pickled Fish
Episode 5: Making Preserved Tuna
Episode 6: Making Capsicums Sott'olio
Episode 7: Making Preserved Mushrooms in Vinegar
Episode 8: Making Dry-Cured Hot-Smoked Bacon
Episode 9: Making Bresaola
Episode 10: Making Toulouse Sausages
Episode 11: Making Butter
Episode 12: Interview

Episode 1: Goats Milk Ice Cream
The transformation from big city living begins as Matthew, a novice yet determined farmer, settles i...

Episode 2: Pigs Prosciutto and Offal
Pork is on the menu as Matthew makes prosciutto and learns what to do with offal, and buys his own l...

Episode 3: Passata and Fishing
Swapping land for sea, Matthew and his mates embark on a fishing adventure and return in time to har...

Episode 4: Apples and Cider
Matthew sets up his partnership as an artisan producer at Salamanca Markets and learns some valuable...

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...

Episode 6: Cheese and Dairy
Matthew's farm is not yet a land of milk and honey, but in this episode he does his best for the mil...

Episode 7: Highland Deer
It’s winter and time to head off the farm for another culinary adventure, deep in the central highla...

Episode 8: Illegal Dinner
Hosting a Bastille Day lunch to showcase a range of delicacies to loyal stall patrons seems like a g...

Episode 9: Sourdough Bread and Cakes
Baking is always a good option in winter so Matthew focuses on bread, cakes and biscuits. Matthew no...

Episode 10: Paddock Final Lunch
Matthew is nearing the end of his first year on the farm and it’s time to reflect on lessons learned...
Episode 1: The Business Of Pig Farming
In Season 2 of Gourmet Farmer we're in for a surprise. Matthew now has his own family - partner Sadi...
Episode 2: North West Long Table Lunch
While on the North West coast of Tasmania, herding cattle across the ocean at low tide to Robbins Is...
Episode 3: Beer
Matthew starts to get hard core with his locavore philosophy when he decides to learn how to make hi...
Episode 4: Gone Kayaking
Matthew reckons he's earned a break from the farm and heads off on a kayaking adventure with Ross an...
Episode 5: Chinese New Year
Matthew and Ross receive a request from Serbian man John Jovanovic for suckling pig, while manning t...
Episode 6: A Burgeoning Empire
Matthew and Ross have a stall at a new farmers' market, where you can only sell what you grow or sou...
Episode 7: Flinder's Island
Matthew, Nick and Ross raise the stakes in their long table lunches business idea. This time they ta...
Episode 8: Wild Food
Matthew sets out on a challenge to see if he can create a meal from wild food that’s free for the ta...
Episode 9: Viva Italia
An invitation to Italy affords Matthew the opportunity to learn how to make salami the traditional w...
Episode 10: Vive La France
Matthew journeys from Italy to France to learn how the French preserve their meat products.
Episode 1: New Farm
Matthew’s Puggle Farm is under shade and too wet for most of the year, which has hindered his farmin...
Episode 2: Chickens, Vegies and Polytunnel
It’s a year of experimentation and Matthew has kept chooks for eggs, but now he’d like to get herita...
Episode 3: Festivale
Matthew has been planning to build a commercial kitchen but the cost is prohibitive. Ross tells him...
Episode 4: Smoker
Inspired by last year's trip to France, Matthew decides to add a couple of geese to his menagerie, a...
Episode 5: Shop Special – Cheese, Saffron, Sloe Gin
Matthew and Nick’s new shop venture, A Common Ground, provides many challenges: meeting demand with...
Episode 6: Breaking Down a Pig
Matthew is keen to use all parts of the pig to ensure he’s adding as much value as possible to his f...
Episode 7: Cellar Door and Wine Growing Road Trip
Nick has bought himself a wine fermenter and is hoping to enlist both Matthew and Ross to make a bar...
Episode 8: Beef
Fifty acres of pasture is a lot of grass to manage, and the local NRM (National Resource Management)...
Episode 9: Fish
Matthew, Nick and Ross go on a sailing adventure to Maria Island on Tasmania’s east coast. The boys...
Episode 10: Feast
It’s been a year since Matthew expanded his business and bought the new farm, and it’s been a steep...
Episode 1: Goodbye Puggle Farm
It’s been over 7 years since Matthew Evans left a busy, city career as a food critic, to become a fa...
Episode 2: Money Matters
As the building of his new house on Fat Pig Farm gets underway, Matthew sets about improving other a...
Episode 3: Happiness is Handmade
As their new house nears completion, Matthew and Sadie turn their minds to filling it with artisan,...
Episode 4: Nose to Tail
After slaughtering a cow on the farm, Matthew wants to honour this life by using as much of her carc...
Episode 5: Wallaby, Mushroom and Chips
With native wallabies grazing the same pasture as his livestock, Matthew needs to come up with a sol...
Episode 6: Fire in the Oven
After nearly burning down one of Australia’s oldest farms, Matthew is inspired to build an enormous,...
Episode 7: The Final Countdown
The big day is nearly here – the opening of Matthew’s farm-to-table restaurant, Fat Pig Kitchen. But...
Episode 8: Grand Opening
Outside it’s snowing, but inside it’s warm and welcoming for the 35 guests invited to the soft launc...
Episode 9: Sausage Party
With the first official Friday Feast, a new market stall and Ross’s sausage-making workshop, it’s a...
Episode 10: Reap What You Sow
Even though life has become very busy for Matthew, he still manages to find time for a night away wi...
Episode 1: Good food needs good soil
Matthew's Fat Pig Farm Kitchen has been feeding people for over a year now, but he knows that the qu...
Episode 2: Fermented Flavours
Autumn has come around on the farm and Matthew has been told goats are the natural solution to tackl...
Episode 3: The Elegance of Good Ideas
With Winter setting in Matthew welcomes a herd of goats to solve his blackberry infestation without...
Episode 4: Food for the Land
After having the health of his farm soil tested Matthew receives the results and needs to explore ne...
Episode 5: The Apple of my Eye
With Sadie and Hedley away, Matthew has got his work cut out for him managing the farm on his own an...
Episode 6: Living the Dream
If there is an art to outdoor cooking than why not have a barbecue that's a work of art. Matthew rea...
Episode 7: The Hungry Patch
Matthew creates an incredible pie with the few things that are available in the garden and learns th...
Episode 8: Little Wonders
With Spring in full swing and bugs in abundance, Matthew invites an insect scientist to survey the h...
Episode 9: Two for One
It's high summer and Matthew is focused on making the most of the garden's first flush of raspberrie...
Episode 10: A Year in the Life
It's been five seasons and lots of hard lessons since Matthew set out to transform his cherished sli...
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