Gourmet Farmer

The Business Of Pig Farming

In Season 2 of Gourmet Farmer we're in for a surprise. Matthew now has his own family - partner Sadie and son Hedley, to

North West Long Table Lunch

While on the North West coast of Tasmania, herding cattle across the ocean at low tide to Robbins Island, Matthew has a

Beer

Matthew starts to get hard core with his locavore philosophy when he decides to learn how to make his own brew. Unfortun

Gone Kayaking

Matthew reckons he's earned a break from the farm and heads off on a kayaking adventure with Ross and kayaking expert, N

Chinese New Year

Matthew and Ross receive a request from Serbian man John Jovanovic for suckling pig, while manning their Salamanca stall

A Burgeoning Empire

Matthew and Ross have a stall at a new farmers' market, where you can only sell what you grow or source from providores

Flinder's Island

Matthew, Nick and Ross raise the stakes in their long table lunches business idea. This time they take nothing but salt,

Wild Food

Matthew sets out on a challenge to see if he can create a meal from wild food that’s free for the taking.

Viva Italia

An invitation to Italy affords Matthew the opportunity to learn how to make salami the traditional way.

Vive La France

Matthew journeys from Italy to France to learn how the French preserve their meat products.

New Farm

Matthew’s Puggle Farm is under shade and too wet for most of the year, which has hindered his farming aspirations. The

Chickens, Vegies and Polytunnel

It’s a year of experimentation and Matthew has kept chooks for eggs, but now he’d like to get heritage chickens at P

Festivale

Matthew has been planning to build a commercial kitchen but the cost is prohibitive. Ross tells him about a caravan fitt

Smoker

Inspired by last year's trip to France, Matthew decides to add a couple of geese to his menagerie, and while picking the

Shop Special – Cheese, Saffron, Sloe Gin

Matthew and Nick’s new shop venture, A Common Ground, provides many challenges: meeting demand with a varied supply of

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 future porkers. He

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 barrel of their own vin

Beef

Fifty acres of pasture is a lot of grass to manage, and the local NRM (National Resource Management) – the mob who con

Fish

Matthew, Nick and Ross go on a sailing adventure to Maria Island on Tasmania’s east coast. The boys learn how to sail,

Feast

It’s been a year since Matthew expanded his business and bought the new farm, and it’s been a steep learning curve f

Goodbye Puggle Farm

It’s been over 7 years since Matthew Evans left a busy, city career as a food critic, to become a farmer in Southern T

Money Matters

As the building of his new house on Fat Pig Farm gets underway, Matthew sets about improving other areas of the farm in

Happiness is Handmade

Nose to Tail

After slaughtering a cow on the farm, Matthew wants to honour this life by using as much of her carcass as possible. Aft

Wallaby, Mushroom and Chips

With native wallabies grazing the same pasture as his livestock, Matthew needs to come up with a solution that allows bo

Fire in the Oven

After nearly burning down one of Australia’s oldest farms, Matthew is inspired to build an enormous, outdoor, wood-fir

The Final Countdown

The big day is nearly here – the opening of Matthew’s farm-to-table restaurant, Fat Pig Kitchen. But with a forecast

Grand Opening

Outside it’s snowing, but inside it’s warm and welcoming for the 35 guests invited to the soft launch of Matthew’s

Sausage Party

With the first official Friday Feast, a new market stall and Ross’s sausage-making workshop, it’s a very busy week a

Reap What You Sow

Even though life has become very busy for Matthew, he still manages to find time for a night away with his friends, Nick

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 quality of his food is

Fermented Flavours

Autumn has come around on the farm and Matthew has been told goats are the natural solution to tackling the farm's black

The Elegance of Good Ideas

With Winter setting in Matthew welcomes a herd of goats to solve his blackberry infestation without using a single pesti

Food for the Land

After having the health of his farm soil tested Matthew receives the results and needs to explore new ways to rest and r

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 and repairing winter r

Living the Dream

If there is an art to outdoor cooking than why not have a barbecue that's a work of art. Matthew realises a long held da

The Hungry Patch

Matthew creates an incredible pie with the few things that are available in the garden and learns the intricacies of how

Little Wonders

With Spring in full swing and bugs in abundance, Matthew invites an insect scientist to survey the health and wealth of

Two for One

It's high summer and Matthew is focused on making the most of the garden's first flush of raspberries.

A Year in the Life

It's been five seasons and lots of hard lessons since Matthew set out to transform his cherished slice of Tassie into a