Jeremy Clarkson's 'sleepless nights' over Diddly Squat money despite huge net worth
Jeremy admitted he often loses sleep as he tries to come up with new ways to keep the cash flowing on his farm - including making nettle soup
Jeremy Clarkson gives update on Diddly Squat Farm Shop
Jeremy Clarkson, who is thought to be worth an estimated £55 million, is having 'sleepless nights' over money issues.
The former Top Gear host admitted that his financial stress stems from his Diddly Squat farm, with sales plummeting and forcing him to grow mushrooms, blackberries and mustard this year to try and make as much money as possible.
Jeremy has even gone as far as harvesting nettles to make soup, hoping to make an extra "five pounds here and a bit of money there."
His latest series of Clarkson’s Farm on Amazon's Prime Video shows the 64-year-old finding innovative new ways of making money, after he was forced to close the Farm's restaurant last year by the local council.
He had been served an enforcement notice as residents claimed the establishment was causing heavy traffic.
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Clarkson’s Farm season three is streaming now on Prime Video. Fans can watch all three seasons free with an Amazon Prime free trial.
In the previous series, Jeremy explained what had happened, and admitted that he was forced to sell 13 cows to keep up with costs.
He said: "Everything that could go wrong, has gone wrong. On top of all of this there was the pretty little restaurant that we opened earlier in the summer to sell the food we’d grown and reared on the farm.
"But after just six weeks, the council served us with an enforcement notice telling us it had to close. With the restaurant shut down we could no longer afford to keep all of the cows."
It seems, despite all of Jeremy's efforts, there is one major thing standing in the way of him making more money and keeping him up at night - the typical British weather.
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Speaking about the heavy financial burden of farming, he said: "Last year before the harvest we had to lay out £108,000 on diesel, fertiliser sprays, and the seed itself.
"That’s fine if the weather is okay because you’re going to make that money back. But you have a hell of a lot of sleepless nights when you know that one rainstorm could wreck the lot.
"I’ve noticed that farmers are quite sanguine; they go, 'Well, you can't control the weather' and they sort of roll with it, but I’m too Yorkshire for that.
"I lie in bed after spending £100,000 hoping the weather’s good and, guess what? The weather was absolutely terrible, all year, every single month."
Clarkson's Farm season 3 will arrive on Amazon Prime Video on 3 May 2024.
