Matt Baker’s Travels In The Country: USA – Season Finale (Channel 4 Wednesday 17 May 2023)

Matt Baker’s Travels In The Country: USA – Season Finale airs Wednesday 17 May 2023 on Channel 4.

Matt’s final leg of his American adventure takes him down the coast of California. During the harvest, he learns what makes Castroville the “artichoke capital of the world” due to the town’s favourable growing conditions for the vegetable. At the dock, he operates the United States’ sole abalone farm in the open ocean.

Matt travels to the Salinas Valley up north, where he works alongside the father and two sons at the last remaining family dairy farm in the region, milking cows and making Monterey Jack cheese. During one of the longest migrations of any animal, Matt comes across a pod of grey whales.

Last but not least, he goes to see coastal redwood trees, the world’s tallest living things that can reach a height of 380 feet and a width of 29 feet. Matt observes the measures taken to safeguard these beautiful redwood forests from wildfires before donning his hard hat and crampons and climbing to the top of one.

Matt Baker, who has spent his entire life travelling the countryside of the United Kingdom, finally makes the trip across the Atlantic to the United States. Travelling from Florida to California, Matt immerses himself in rural culture, gets up close and personal with local wildlife, and meets the people who are responsible for maintaining the state’s world-renowned landscapes.

Season 1 Episode 6

Matt Baker’s Travels In The Country: USA – Season Finale airs Wednesday 17 May 2023 at 9.00pm on Channel 4

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