Celebrity chef Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall was a city-dweller until he decided one day to simplify his life and move to a cottage in Dorset, England to begin a new life rooted in the principle of self-sufficiency.

A docu-drama following a city-dweller who tries to simplify his life by moving to a smallholding (like a acreage) in England. The series combines educational material of him building shelters, raising crops and animals, mending his belongings and such, with humorous interactions with his eccentric neighbors.—Corvus-9