Beyond River Cottage is the fourth series of the Channel 4 programme that follows Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall as he pursues the ideal of rural self-sufficiency as a farm-owner in Dorset.
This series begins five years after Fearnley-Whittingstall first left the city and moved to River Cottage.
With a growing family, Fearnley-Whittingstall, his wife, and their two young sons, move to a 44-acre (180,000 m2) farm, which is ten times larger than the original River Cottage property.
Fearnley-Whittingstall also buys an old dairy farm and—over the course of the series—renovates its buildings into "River Cottage H.Q.
", a small of kitchen, café restaurant and centre teaching people how to cook.