The World’s Only Hardcore Surfing-And-Gardening Show Returns For Season Two 

Thought you were having a rough day? Try building a house from scratch on a wind-blasted patch of dirt in remote South Australia, with your kids in tow and the nearest Bunnings 400km away.

That’s what Heath Joske did — former pro surfer turned suburban-exile and subsistence lifestylist. Alongside him is Addy Jones: bearded, barefoot, possibly omniscient. Together, they are Farm Boys, and thanks to Patagonia, they’re back for season two. 

Last season was an introduction to off-grid pragmatism, as Heath walked us through his DIY compound and dropped in on mates, like Dave Rastovich, attempting their own spin on food autonomy. This time, they’re in a van, tracing the east coast, visiting others who’ve also dropped out, resisting the algorithm in whatever soil they can find.

Episode one lands in Bermagui, South Coast NSW. Among the produce, permaculture, and surfing are many backyard koans. Here’s a few samples to prep your taste buds: 

“The more time you spend in the garden, the more you pour into it, the more you get back. There’s not many other things like that, these days. Relationships with people is one, and the relationship with the land in which we live, and the living things around us, is the other.”

 “There’s all sorts of pros to this lifestyle. It’s real tangible work. There’s hundreds of thousands of years of evolution behind our bodies, all designed to do this type of work. Not sit behind a computer.” 

“I’m gonna hold my poo in until I get home, so I can take a bit of your soil with me.”

If you’ve ever considered going feral, moving to a paddock, and whispering to pumpkins while the rest of the world screams into glass rectangles — this is your invitation.

Episode one is up. Episode two arrives today. Skip therapy, grow kale.