# Clarkson's Farm

8 Hacker News commenters recommended Clarkson's Farm and 1 criticized it, November 2025 to November 2026. It was recommended in 4 of 13 months.

**Verdict:** Recommended as an eye-opening, fairly accurate look at running a modern English farm. One critic calls it more content than real farming.

## Why people recommend it

- Eye-opening look at modern agriculture (2 comments): "its extremely good and literally eye-opening to millions about woes and challenges of modern agriculture" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49501926)) "for some of the messy reality of running an actual modern farm in England" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46737445))
- Accurate depiction of farm life (2 comments): "for some of the messy reality of running an actual modern farm in England" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46737445)) "Clarkson's Farm is surprisingly accurate." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47529045))
- Good, enjoyable television (2 comments): "The first two seasons of Clarkson's Farm were good TV." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49503219)) "I thoroughly enjoyed the Amazon series Clarkson's Farm" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47525297))
- Useful farming information despite entertainment (2 comments): "To his credit Clarkson has done more form farming with his show than countryfile or the archers has done in decades." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47654475)) "there's a still a lot of info in those shows to not be written off" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47869150))

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## Cite as

Hacker Approved, "Clarkson's Farm", https://hackerapproved.com/p/clarkson-s-farm/ (counts from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026).