Groove Armada's Andy Cato on juggling music, regenerative farming, and working with Jeremy Clarkson

Andy Cato is half of Groove Armada - one of the biggest ever UK dance acts and source of some of the biggest hits of the late 90s and early 2000s.

To a younger audience, however, he might be more familiar as the guy who does regenerative farming on 'Clarkson's Farm', the weirdly successful Amazon show by Top Gear alumnus and pantomime villain Jeremy Clarkson.

This is an interesting combination to say the least, and really we could've done with another couple of hours to explore the two things in full, and also the link between. But an hour is all we had on the day... because Andy had to go off to film with Clarkson.

We actually focus mostly on the second half of Andy's career during this conversation - I found the prep for this so interesting that I had a ton of questions on his journey to prominence in this area, as a farmer but also a co-founder of the Wildfarmed organisation, and also the area itself.

But we also get into the music too.

Episode 1 of Farming Not Diving it is...

00:00 Intro and how you can support the show
03:14 Getting into farming - France
09:40 European agriculture
15:00 Agriculture in the US
19:00 Regenerative farming
19:39 AD
34:51 AD
36:00 The food industry
44:00 Farming and climate change
49:40 AD
50:30 What is rewilding?
55:00 Music!
58:20 Working with Clarkson
01:01:20 Hit records

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