This Farming Life (2016)

Season 3

Documentary series following the struggles and triumphs of five very different farming families in some of Scotland's most beautiful and remote landscapes.

Released March 7, 2016 Episode 58 min None+

Genres: Documentary, Reality

Watch Providers: BritBox, BritBox Amazon Channel, Britbox Apple TV Channel

Production Companies: BBC, BBC Studios Specialist Factual Productions

Network: BBC Scotland

Country: United Kingdom
Languages: English

IMDb

8.9

/116/

Trakt

/7/

TMDb

100

/1/

Tomatoes

S3E1 - Episode 1

As the new year begins, we meet three new farming families. Father-and-son team Raymond and Johnny Irvine, Shetland sisters Kirsty and Aimee Budge and the Rodgers family in Co Down, Northern Ireland and buffalo farmer Stevie Mitchell returns.

Feb. 13, 2019, midnight

S3E2 - Episode 2

New entrant crofting couple Lynn and Sandra send their first pigs to slaughter. Raymond’s best bull Major is injured in a brawl.

Feb. 20, 2019, midnight

S3E3 - Episode 3

Inspectors arrive to check Raymond and Johnny’s subsidy claim. Kirsty and Aimee gather the flock in from St Ninian’s Isle. Lynn and Sandra host their first workshop at the croft.

Feb. 27, 2019, midnight

S3E4 - Episode 4

A new family, dairy farmers the McLeans, are introduced. Raymond goes the extra mile to save his lambs. Stevie faces buffalo cow number 666, and Kirsty and Aimee take last year’s calves to market.

March 6, 2019, midnight

S3E5 - Episode 5

The Rodgers face a final TB test. Animals arrive at Lynn and Sandra’s croft. Raymond is kept guessing by his surrogate sheep and a calving boom starts at Kirsty and Aimee’s farm.

March 13, 2019, midnight

S3E6 - Episode 6

In Shetland, Kirsty tackles her first breach birth. Stevie’s favourite pygmy goat Ginger struggles to give birth to twins. Raymond’s cows run amok on their way to the fields and the Rodgers take young heifer Nadia to the Balmoral Show.

March 20, 2019, midnight

S3E7 - Episode 7

Raymond tests the market for his cross-bred valais blacknose sheep. Lynn and Sandra go to their first ever auction to buy sheep and hens for the croft.

July 25, 2019, midnight

S3E8 - Episode 8

Lynn and Sandra face the danger of a drought on the croft. Stevie’s buffalo herd go for a cooling dip in the loch. And at the Royal Highland Show, Raymond and Johnny aim high with their Charolais, while Aimee puts her pony skills to the test.

Aug. 1, 2019, midnight

S3E9 - Episode 9

Lynn and Sandra harvest their first honey. The Rodgers give bull Mario a send-off. Raymond’s flock is under threat from flystrike, and 50 of Stevie’s buffalo escape.

Aug. 8, 2019, midnight

S3E10 - Episode 10

Raymond and a team of volunteers give the valais blacknose sheep a bath. Kirsty and Tom rescue fallen sheep on the isle. Stevie attempts to milk his first buffalo.

Aug. 15, 2019, midnight

S3E11 - Episode 11

Raymond and fiancee Jen take a busman’s holiday to Switzerland to help their friends gather their valais blacknose sheep from the mountaintops but their holiday turns into an Alpine adventure.

Aug. 22, 2019, midnight

S3E12 - Episode 12

In the Highlands, new crofters Lynn and Sandra welcome more new sheep and take delivery of a batch of hens that they hope will lay the foundations of an egg empire.

Sept. 5, 2019, midnight

BBC Scotland

58 min/ep

1396 min

March 7, 2016

April 8, 2025, midnight

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