Career
Henson"s grandfather Leslie Henson, was a music hall and musical comedy comedian and actor. Henson is married to Charlotte and has two children. After graduation, the pair travelled for over a year through Australia working on sheep and arable stations, then a kiwi plantation in New Zealand, before returning to plant tea in the Atherton Tablelands in Queensland.
After diving on the Great Barrier Reef, they returned via California and Canada.
Adam Henson now runs the Cotswold Farm Park which his father started, which attracts over 70,000 visitors per annum. Adam and Duncan Andrews took on the lease of Bemborough Farm from his father, and the pair now jointly run the 650 hectare estate, growing wheat, spring barley and oilseed rape, alongside a flock of 350 commercial ewes.
Henson broke into television work in 2001 when he was successful in gaining a presenting position on the British Broadcasting Corporation"s Countryfile programme, after it ran a presenter search. Since this time he has worked on programmes such as Countryfile Summer Diaries and Inside Out.
Due to his extensive farming knowledge, he has also worked on British Broadcasting Corporation Radio 4’s On Your Farm and Farming Today, and the joint presenter with Kate Humble of Lambing Live.
He now has a wider presenting portfolio, which includes British Broadcasting Corporation"s Gardener"s World Live in June 2010, and interviewed for the web-series Carpool. In November 2013 he starred alongside Nigel Slater on British Broadcasting Corporation"s "Nigel and Adam"s Farm Kitchen" Adam the farmer and Nigel Slater (the chef) join forces to sow, grow rear and cook Britain"s favourite foods, from a working farm in the Cotswolds, as they try to get people back in touch with where our food comes from.
