About Diddly Squat Farm Chilli Jam
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The story of Diddly Squat Farm Chilli Jam
Named after nothing, famous anyway
If you have watched Clarkson's Farm, you already know the joke. The name means nothing. Literally. Put a jar of Diddly Squat Farm Chilli Jam on the table and somebody will do the voice before the lid is off. Somebody else will start on the potatoes. You will nod along, spoon in hand, because you have seen every episode at least twice and you are not about to admit it. The jar just sits there, far calmer than anything that ever happened on that farm.
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A thousand acres of not much
Jeremy Clarkson bought about a thousand acres near Chipping Norton in 2008, land that was formerly part of the Sarsden estate. A local villager contract-farmed it until he retired in 2019, and then Clarkson began farming it himself. He renamed it Diddly Squat, slang for the least amount, or nothing at all, to indicate its lack of productivity. Honest branding, at least. The Amazon Prime Video series Clarkson's Farm then made it internationally known, which is a lot of attention for a farm named after nothing.
Forty tonnes of potatoes later
The shop was Clarkson's idea after he accidentally produced 40 tonnes of potatoes. Nobody plans that. He and Lisa Hogan opened the Diddly Squat Farm Shop in 2020, and it is known for drawing very long visitor queues. It has not had a quiet life either: there was a two-month closure after a council dispute over the roofing material on the building. The official shop site states that its jams, chutneys and condiments are homemade using produce from Diddly Squat Farm, with products made on the farm itself or by neighbouring businesses in the Cotswolds.
Further than the farm gate
In 2024 Diddly Squat Farm Shop products became available nationwide via Amazon Fresh. The farm kept branching out too: Hawkstone Lager was created from barley grown there after a cut in government farm subsidies in 2021. Not bad for a place that promised diddly squat. Meanwhile the British habit holds firm. A jar of chilli jam, a wedge of cheese, a few crackers, and suddenly it is a proper evening.