"His passion for back-to-basics farming is as infectious as Jamie Oliver's enthusiasm for cookery." - Heat

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Jimmy has always been passionate about nature and farming. By the time he was 16, he was the youngest ever Assistant Entomologist at the Mole Hall Wildlife Park in Walden. After gaining a degree in Zoology, Jimmy worked at the Entomology Department at London’s History Museum before moving on to Coventry University where he researched for a Doctorate in Entomology, set up an insect laboratory and taught Animal Ecology and Animal Philosophy to undergraduate students.

But by 2003, Jimmy decided it was time to make his dream of living the good life a reality. He left London and without any experience or knowledge of farming, took on a leasehold of a 100 acre farm near Ipswich in Suffolk. Jimmy’s roller coaster journey to change this derelict farm into a rare breed pig farm has been followed in a BBC2 series called ‘Jimmy’s Farm’.

Jimmy has just finished filming two new series, both for BBC2. The first is ‘Jimmy Doherty’s Farming Heroes’ a landmark 6 part documentary series following Jimmy on a journey around the UK’s regions, meeting the country’s farming future which was shown in July. The second is a series on Darwin which is scheduled to go out in 2009 as part of the celebration of the Darwin anniversary. Jimmy has also recently fronted ‘Jimmy and the Wild Honey Hunters’, a Natural World programme for BBC1 which was shown on 10 August 2008.

Jimmy has written two books. His second, ‘A Taste of the Country’, was published in March 2006 by Penguin and went straight into the top 10 of the hardback non-fiction chart.

His passion for the great outdoors has driven him to hike in the deserts of Israel, trek in the jungles of Malaysia and climb the French Alps. He is also a qualified scuba diver.
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