Matt Baker's Travels in the Country: USA - Season 1

Matt travels across the Atlantic to experience rural USA. Starting in Florida, he visits a cattle farmer with a passion for keeping traditions alive by hand cutting sugar cane to boil into syrup, using vintage machinery and discovering the tradition of cowboy poetry. He then travels to the Florida Keys at the southern tip of the state and heads out to help with the largest coral reef restoration effort in the world before exploring the everglades.

Matt delves deeper into the rural side of Florida life and discovers it is the birthplace of the US cowboy. He visits a citrus farm in Polk County to discover how tangerines are grown and harvested before helping to sort and size them in the pack house. On his journey to Homestead, Matt meets a legendary fruit farmer who explains that Florida also produces a large variety of fruit including the rare guanabana. Matt then heads to Texas to visit the Caprock Canyons State Park.

In Texas, Matt experiences the world's oldest rodeo, witnesses a historic cattle drive and visits a firm who've been kitting out cowboys, presidents and rock stars with boots and hats for 100 years.

In the Mojave Desert, Matt lends a hand at the Joshua Tree National Park and helps rangers close an old gold mine, before exploring the Blythe Intaglios in the Colorado Desert.

Matt encounters elephant seals on California's Pacific coast and desert bighorn sheep in the Santa Rosa mountains, visits a real-life wild-west town, and meets a champion surfing dog.

On the Californian coast, Matt visits the USA's only ocean-based abalone farm and lends a hand on the last family dairy farm on this coast producing the area's famous Monterey Jack cheese.