KRO-NCRV's 'New Farmers' not only allows the viewer to experience the tension of survival on the farm, but also shows how we as modern people have become increasingly distant from where our food comes from. For a month, twelve candidates survive on a farm where time has stood still. Completely self-sufficient, without electricity, without wifi and without running water, but with lots of animals and land that needs to be cared for and maintained daily. Nothing is self-evident here for anyone. Everything takes time and effort, especially if you have no farming experience and are therefore dependent on your common sense. Who can best work together to keep the farm running? Who is the most valuable to the group and who knows how to stay in the game the longest? Because in addition to working together, the twelve participants also have to compete against each other and each episode with a duel determines who has to leave the farm.
The kickoff
Jan 1, 2021
or a month, twelve candidates survive on a farm where time has stood still. Completely self-sufficient, without electricity, without wifi and without running water, but with lots of animals and land that has to be cared for and maintained daily. Nothing is self-evident here for anyone. Everything takes time and effort, especially if you have no farming experience and are therefore dependent on your common sense. Who can best work together to keep the farm running? Who is most valuable to the group and who knows how to stay in the game the longest?
Episode 2
Jan 7, 2021
Day two at the farm. How did the Nieuwe Boeren sleep and who is in charge in the kitchen? Rianne and Arnold are in the yard to check the tasks that have been handed out. Will the first Herenboer manage to fill the greenhouse? And who has to leave the farm after just four days?
Episode 3
Jan 9, 2021
The first dropout must designate the new Herenboer. Who does he / she choose? Farmer Rianne and her husband Arnold hand out new tasks and take a surprise with them.
Episode 4
Jan 14, 2021
The game on the farm is played high, especially by city boy Akaash for whom farm life comes second. Two camps arise, young against old. In the meantime, the work is piling up and even a sheep has to be sheared. Manual.
Episode 5
Jan 21, 2021
Romy is appointed as herenboer on one condition: that she selects a woman as the first duelist. She plans to keep that promise, but is that smart? And have all tasks been carried out properly, such as the cheese and shearing of the sheep? Real farmers Arnold and Rianne are friendly but also strict.
Episode 6
Jan 28, 2021
Working on the farm hard? Everything the new farmers had to do so far pales in comparison to the amount of work they are faced with this time.
Episode 7
Feb 4, 2021
The loser has promised gentlemen farmers to just about all men. Who does he choose? Farmer Arnold comes to pick up pig Rita and not for a pleasure trip. For Jethro that means saying goodbye to one of his best buddies.
Episode 8
Feb 11, 2021
Two female candidates compete against each other in an unforgettable duel. Thijs muster all his courage to tell Jos that he can no longer stand him, but just when he is that far, something intervenes, causing the flame to hit the pan.
Episode 9
Feb 18, 2021
Jethro is still not very popular with his fellow candidates and they are increasingly expressing that. The livestock is expanded with an animal that greatly impresses farmers.
Episode 10
Feb 25, 2021
Françoise makes no mistake about who is now in charge of the farm: she. Even though the goat doesn't care about that. Thijs is afraid that he has to leave and decides to go his own way, to the annoyance of the others.
Episode 11
Mar 4, 2021
For a month, twelve candidates survive on a farm where time has stood still. Completely self-sufficient, without electricity, without Wi-Fi and without running water, but with lots of animals and land that has to be cared for and maintained daily.
