Clarkson's Farm

Diddly Squat Farm

Cast

Main cast

• Jeremy Clarkson: a motoring journalist, television presenter, and author who became famous on Top Gear, its 2002 revival, and The Grand Tour. He is the owner of Diddly Squat Farm and also acts as the narrator of the series.
• Kaleb Cooper: a young farm worker born in Chipping Norton in 1998. Cooper farms on his own account in Heythrop, but was engaged by Clarkson to assist him and become the farm's manager. He has previous experience working on Clarkson's farm before Clarkson took over as the owner. He mainly advises Clarkson on the technical details of using farming equipment and helps with numerous general tasks. He has rarely left the village of Chadlington and its surrounding areas, with the furthest place he regularly travels to being Banbury. He has three children with his girlfriend Taya. During the fourth series, he takes a leave of absence from the farm to tour around the country and present his one-man show, The World According to Kaleb.
• Lisa Hogan: a former actress and Clarkson's girlfriend who assists with the farm and runs the farm shop.
• Charles “Charlie” Ireland: sarcastically referred to by Clarkson as "Cheerful Charlie", Ireland is a professional agronomist and land agent who advises Clarkson on farm management. He understands the agricultural aspects of the crops, the complex details of government regulation, and the financial consequences. Rachael Sigee, writing for the i newspaper, described him as "chronically sensible … a stickler for the rules who delivers increasingly bad news with the politely firm manners of a parish vicar."
• Gerald Cooper: the farm's "head of security" and a specialist in the construction and maintenance of dry stone walls, which form 14 miles of boundaries on the farm. His conversations with Clarkson are amiable but often incomprehensible due to his strong West Country accent. He helps Clarkson harvest the farm's grain, which he has been doing for over fifty years. He is not related to Kaleb Cooper. During the third series, he is diagnosed with prostate cancer and takes a leave of absence from working on the farm.
• Kevin Harrison : the chairman of the National Sheep Association and a veteran sheep farmer who advises Clarkson on purchasing and later tending to his flock of North Country Mule sheep.
• Ellen Helliwell : a shepherdess who Clarkson hires to tend his flock of sheep, which he acquired to graze his set-aside meadows. Her duties also include lambing and shearing.
• Alan Townsend : the head builder for various projects, including the farm shop, barns for the farm animals, the farm restaurant, and The Farmer's Dog pub.
• Dilwyn Evans : a veterinarian who helps care for the farm's flock of sheep and later its cows and pigs. He performs various tasks, including checking the animals for diseases and assisting with births.
• Andy Cato : one-half of the electronic music duo Groove Armada and an organic crop farmer who convinces Clarkson to convert one of his fields for regenerative farming.
• Annie Gray : the owner and head chef of a catering van that replaces the farm restaurant. She later relocates to outside Clarkson's pub.
• Harriet Cowan : a full-time nurse and farmer from Derbyshire who Clarkson temporarily hires to replace Kaleb while the latter is on tour.

  Supporting cast

• Georgia Craig : a policy advisor from the National Farmers' Union who advises Clarkson.
• Jenny Ryan : a veterinarian who inspects Clarkson's sheep for potential breeding and later helps care for his pregnant pigs.
• Thomas Haynes : an environmental compliance inspector who investigates the farm's woodland areas and advises Clarkson to prevent him from breaking environmental laws.
• Kieron Cooper : Kaleb's brother, who assists him on occasion.
• Viktor Zaichenko : a Ukrainian beekeeper who sells honey bees to Clarkson and helps manage the farm's apiary.
• Simon Strong: a neighbouring grain farmer who rents a combine harvester to Clarkson every year for harvesting grain.
• Tim and Katy Coles : cow breeders who sell heifers and beef cattle to Clarkson and later rent him a bull. They later join Clarkson's farming co-operative.
• Paddy and Steph Bourn : egg farmers who go by the nickname "Mr and Mrs Cacklebean", and sell chickens and chicken coops to Clarkson. They later join Clarkson's farming co-operative.
• Emma Ledbury : a dairy farmer who provides the farm shop with milk products and lost half her herd of dairy cattle to bovine tuberculosis. She later joins Clarkson's farming co-operative.
• Vanessa and Andy Hartley : pig farmers who initially provide the farm shop with pork products and later advise Clarkson on caring for his pigs. They later join Clarkson's farming co-operative.
• Imogen Stanley : a vegetable farmer who provides the farm shop with a range of produce. She later joins Clarkson's farming co-operative.
• Richard Keene : the owner of Hawkstone Brewery who creates Clarkson's Hawkstone Lager and Kaleb's Hawkstone Cider.
• Henry Lawrence : a butcher who runs an abattoir where Clarkson sends his cows and pigs.
• Pip Lacey : a professional chef who is hired to run the farm restaurant.
• George Lamb : a radio and television presenter and Andy Cato's business partner.
• Peter Colson and Josh Farrell : pig breeders who sell Clarkson Oxford Sandy and Black pigs and rent him a boar.
• Scott Watson : a chef who works with Annie in her catering van.
• Rupert Arneil : an arborist who helps Clarkson upright an old toppled tree.
• Lucca Allen : an Irish racing driver and cook who works at the farm shop and helps Clarkson with the production of nettle soup.
• Rafe Williams and Oscar Clutterbuck-Jones : mushroom farmers who sell Clarkson growbags to cultivate grey oyster, speckled chestnut and lion's mane mushrooms.
• Lizzie Dyer : a goat farmer who sells baby goats to Clarkson.
• Rishi Sunak : the 57th Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, who meets with Kaleb and Charlie at 10 Downing Street.
• Hugh van Cutsem : the chairman of the British Deer Society, who helps Clarkson cull the deer population on his farmland.
• Neil Warner : an architectural designer who advises Clarkson and Charlie about getting planning permissions to refurbish a pub.
• Josh Thornton : a representative of English Willow, who helps Clarkson plant willow trees that would eventually be turned into cricket bats once they mature.
• Oliver Reed : a bull farmer who sells Clarkson a young bull to breed with his cows.
• Piers Morgan, James Blunt, Guy Ritchie, and James May : Clarkson's celebrity friends who have previously purchased pubs and advise him about purchasing The Windmill.
• Sue and Rachel Hawkins : hospitality entrepreneurs who revamp pubs in the Cotswolds and help Clarkson with the opening of his pub.
• Mark Davies : a brewer at Hawkstone Brewery who helps Clarkson set up his pub's bar.
• Nick Rowberry : an experienced chef who helps Clarkson set up and manage his pub's kitchen.
• Richard Hammond : a former television presenter on Top Gear and The Grand Tour alongside Clarkson and May, who agrees to chrome a vintage tractor for display at Clarkson's pub.
• David Hawes : a butcher who provides meat for the butcher's shop, Hops & Chops, located outside Clarkson's pub.

  Episodes

Series 1 (2021)

Series 2 (2023)

Series 3 (2024)

Series 4 (2025)

Reception