Jeremy Clarkson has opened the doors to his own farm shop, selling ‘guaranteed non-organic’ produce from his farm.
The former Top Gear host, 59, had his grand opening on Saturday, allowing the first lot of fans to try out the produce her has grown on Diddly Squat farm.
Jeremy’s new venture will be filmed for his upcoming Amazon Prime series, I Bought The Farm, which will follow him attempting to run his own 1,000-acre farm in Oxfordshire.
The Grand Tour host has been growing his own crops on Diddly Squat farm for a year, and his fans were all invited to stop by and pick up a bag of potatoes (cheaper than Aldi, apparently), or try some drinks which have ‘no s**t in [them]’.
Jeremy was at the grand opening of the ‘Squat Shop’ to greet fans, and even sign a few autographs for shoppers too.
Camera crews were also on hand to catch all the action for the show, and to see what the first buyers thought of the items Jeremy had been growing.
He had announced the grand opening on Twitter in Friday, telling fans: ‘My farm shop opens tomorrow afternoon. Twitter-friendly as it’s unheated and meat-free. Do drop in if you’re in the Chipping Norton area.’
Jeremy looked right at home on the farm, as he even posed on a Lamborghini tractor (who knew those existed?) – but he has been working on this project for a while, after all.
It was announced in November that planning permission had been granted for the shop to be built, before it finally opened its doors on Saturday.
Jeremy had previously confirmed his upcoming show in a video message to his followers, as he stood in a field and sarcastically told them: ‘Good news, I can finally confirm that I will be spending the next year in the rain making a show about farming for Amazon Prime.
‘That means people all over the world can watch me use 1000-acres of the Cotswolds to make thousands of tonnes of beer, and bread, and lamb chops, and jumpers.’
He continued: ‘Of course to be a farmer you have to be an agronomist, a businessman, a politician, an accountant, a vet, and a mechanic, and I am none of those things.
‘I don’t even know what agronomist means.’
The release date for I Bought The Farm on Amazon Prime is yet to be revealed.
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