
Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall, celebrity chef, television personality, journalist, food writer, and campaigner on food and environmental issues, leaves London to pursue an ambition of self-sufficiency, growing his own vegetables and raising his own animals in Dorset.
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Air Date: 1999-03-18
Hugh arrives at River Cottage, a former Gamekeeper's cottage in west Dorset. He sets about removing the plants from t...
Air Date: 1999-03-25
Hugh's been at the cottage a month, his vegetables have been planted and they are growing nicely. Pike is on the menu...
Air Date: 1999-04-01
The vegetables are doing so well, Hugh decided to enter them at the Beaminster Show. He also enters the Home Craft se...
Air Date: 1999-04-08
Hugh has discovered that he is not alone at River Cottage, there are mice at the cottage and he wants rid of them - b...
Air Date: 1999-04-15
Hugh decides that the river that give the cottage its name should contribute to his larder. So he has an eel trap mad...
Air Date: 1999-04-22
The day has arrived for Hugh's pigs to go to slaughter. He intends to use "everything but the oink", so enlists the h...
Air Date: 1999-04-29
Christmas Special at River Cottage