Ben visits a couple who opened a hotel in the Highlands.
Ben meets a woman who gave up her career as a lawyer to open a restaurant in the Lake District after falling in love with both the landscape and a local Italian chef. Ben follows Kat as she learns to make pizza using a traditional wood-burning oven, and wrestles with the challenge of running a business with her partner in the face of overspending and delays.
Ben travels to Britain's northernmost point to meet a former nanny who left London to pursue her dream of running her own farm. Her property is home to goats, sheep, rabbits, chickens and donkeys and features a vegetable delivery service, but the harsh weather of the remote region has taken its toll on the business through some challenging winters. Ben helps her to stock up the farm shop and meets some of the more unusual animals in her menagerie, including chickens that change sex and ponies that change colour.
Ben meets a couple in the Malvern Hills who have given up successful careers in London to run their own brewery, operating out of a refurbished chicken shed. Despite having no experience of the beer industry, they have sunk all their life savings into the project. Ben helps them with the day-to-day routine of cleaning barrels and making hops, as well as joining their research into developing a new recipe.
Ben Fogle spends a year following Paul, Toni and daughter Harriet as they risk everything to buy a rundown pub in a remote village in the beautiful wilds of Scotland, with no experience of working in a pub, in a place they have only ever visited on holiday, and as the hospitality industry faces the greatest challenge in its history with Covid lockdown. Desperate to spend more time together as a family, Paul and Toni quit their jobs in busy Rochester, Kent, sell their family home, and leave friends and family behind in Kent to restore and run a 200-year-old pub in the tiny Scottish village of Kilmichael Glassary in the heart of the remote and beautiful countryside of west Scotland. Paul was a car salesman for 25 years, selling premium cars and working long hours and weekends, while Toni was a part-time respite carer looking after people with disabilities. Neither of them has ever worked in hospitality. Paul has never pulled a pint, and he will be barman. Toni has only cooked family meal
Ben Fogle spends a year following newlyweds Emma and Dave as they risk everything, swapping minimalist living on a canal boat in London for a spacious wooden chalet with 14 acres of grassland in the heart of rural Lincolnshire. They're trying to create a bespoke camping and glamping site in a rural paradise. But with no experience of doing anything like this before, can they overcome unexpected problems from pandemic lockdowns to planning permission and make their dream come true? Dave and Emma are no strangers to adventure. They got engaged during a 1,000- mile ride on a tandem along the river Danube. Ben meets the newlyweds as they embark on their grand design to build a glamping and camping retreat business, with guest accommodation on converted buses, in glamping pods in their woodland, and in tents on their meadow. They want chickens and a herd of alpacas, and plan to offer outdoor experiences drawing in their dream rural paradise. It's a huge undertaking for a couple who have nev
Ben Fogle spends a year following young couple Laura and Aran as they mortgage their futures and sink every penny they have into starting up their own bakery.
Ben Fogle spends a year following Joh, Heather and their grown-up children as they make a brand new life as cheese producers on a 240-acre farm in
63-year-old Rizia swaps city living in Edinburgh to living in the Scottish countryside.
Ben Fogle spends a year following Alan and Yvonne as they risk everything to start a holiday lodge business in a remote part of Scotland, with no experience of running a business.