Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall: River Cottage - Autumn [DVD]

I am so glad that Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall (Hugh F-W) has done it again. This Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter series is fantastic and does not reprise his first Escape, Return and Forever River Cottage series, or his Pig-in-a-Day, Fish-in-a-Day series. The Landshare idea is one that should be shared the world over. And one that supermarket chains need to look at. All over people are reacting to the "perfect-but-tasteless-tomato", the bananas that look fantastic, but are blackened two days after purchase, the chicken meat that you have to slather in BBQ sauce or soy sauce or something for it to have any flavour. The waste of discarding the "slightly imperfect" is criminal, unbelievably inefficient across the food chain and also weakens the strength of diversity that our survival on this planet depends upon. Hugh just manages to strike the necessary balance in this series between showing us great gardening, live-stock raising and wonderful cooking techniques and his quest to change damning and self-destructive attitudes and behaviours in the food production and sales industry.

I bought this dvd as i love to grow my own veg and it gives me tips and recipes on what to grow and how to cook it and hugh is so easy to watch just simple and back to basics

Great dvd, it was a gift for my husband but the whole family enjoyed it.all the dvds are well worth watching

Again, this is still great viewing and as relevant as it was when first aired on TV

very good dvd arrived promptly

In keeping with the previous Spring series this latest River Cottage offering is less about Hugh's attempts to maintain a small-holding and run a business than about what others can do with their own plot of land. He matches up people with land but with no enthusiasm to grow their own food with people with the enthusiasm but no land. This Landshare concept is a simple and worthy idea that creates an interesting structure to a program that could otherwise feel as if it's going over old ground.The novices' gradual successes and problems are fun to watch and these are interspersed with the usual challenges such as making a banquet only out of things that have been foraged. Exactly how useful this all is as a guide to being self-sufficient I don't know, but it's certainly entertaining and provides one of the few chances you'll ever have to see squirrel ragout.

Hugh's DVD is so good ,you feel like you are there with him , lets hope that there will be many more!!!and with your Excellent service won't take long to get delivered,Thank you so much,xx.

extremely happy with the service. The item arrived very quickly. I foolishly placed the order twice, but had absolutely no problem returning one and obtained a refund very quickly.