Down on the Farm Podcast with Henry Carpenter
Sep 25, 2026 · 19 min · 8 segments
The greatest example of the future of young farmers we have come across! Nat Watkins grew up in a semi rural area having a great interest in farming and agriculture but no experience. Unlike most who…
Nat WatkinsGuest
Henry CarpenterHost
So just talk us a bit through how you got involved with Young Farmers and how now you are trying to showcase to youngsters who are maybe even watching this, that how farming is an accessible industry and you can actually have a real go at having a sort of education in it.
idea about it about you know oh yeah discos it's drinking or whatever but but young farmers sort of especially joining young farmers clubs for me was as much as just a social life as anything um you know working by yourself lots of the time and you want to go see people so just being able to go to the pub once a week or go to meetings once a week sort of how i first got involved maybe three years ago or so.
But then through meeting people, through young farmers and sort of different schemes, which I might have been on, that I found for that
the got the role which is really cool and yeah it's sort of now like you're saying it's showcasing to people what being young in agriculture is about and uh you know how how amazing it is and alongside as i'm sure we're going to mention lots of the risks that are associated but yeah
but what's um what's the will your role take in is that is that more like going and speaking to young people or is it talking on social media is that was it savastra i suppose Yeah, no, it's all of that.
sort of it's all these different types of communications with us, like visual or I suppose even audio.
But then there is the opportunity to go and speak to people in schools and and say, yeah, you know, the farmer's pretty cool.
So just talk us a bit through how you got involved with Young Farmers and how now you are trying to showcase to youngsters who are maybe even watching this, that how farming is an accessible industry and you can actually have a real go at having a sort of education in it.
idea about it about you know oh yeah discos it's drinking or whatever but but young farmers sort of especially joining young farmers clubs for me was as much as just a social life as anything um you know working by yourself lots of the time and you want to go see people so just being able to go to the pub once a week or go to meetings once a week sort of how i first got involved maybe three years ago or so.
But then through meeting people, through young farmers and sort of different schemes, which I might have been on, that I found for that
the got the role which is really cool and yeah it's sort of now like you're saying it's showcasing to people what being young in agriculture is about and uh you know how how amazing it is and alongside as i'm sure we're going to mention lots of the risks that are associated but yeah
but what's um what's the will your role take in is that is that more like going and speaking to young people or is it talking on social media is that was it savastra i suppose Yeah, no, it's all of that.
sort of it's all these different types of communications with us, like visual or I suppose even audio.
But then there is the opportunity to go and speak to people in schools and and say, yeah, you know, the farmer's pretty cool.
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