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#014 Groove Armada - Andy Cato on juggling music, regenerative farming, and working with Jeremy Clarkson

Season 2, Ep. 14
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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 Top Gear alumnus and pantomime villain Jeremy Clarkson's weirdly successful Amazon show 'Clarkson's Farm'. 


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...


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You can also make a one-off donation to the podcast using a card, with Paypal, or your Ethereum wallet! Head over to scubaofficial.io/support.


Plus there's also a private area for Patreon supporters in the Hotflush Discord Server... but anyone can join the conversation in the public channels.


Listen to the music discussed on the show via the Music Not Diving Podcast Spotify playlist


Chapters:

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

36:00 The food industry

44:00 Farming and climate change

50:30 What is rewilding?

55:00 Music!

58:20 Working with Clarkson

01:01:20 Hit records


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