Rare Breed: Story, Cast and Series Facts

Story and premise

Rare Breed provides an in-depth look into the successes and struggles of farming life in Ireland, throughout the calendar year.

The is back with new farms, new families and new stories from right across Ireland's four provinces.

A total of 16 farming families from across the country take part in the series, giving a unique insight into the people behind this massively important industry and showing what it takes to bring food from the field to supermarket shelves and finally to our kitchen tables.

This 12 part series charts the agricultural year through 16 farms – Arable, Blackcurrant, Cattle, Dairy, Flower, Goat, Horse, Pig, Sheep and Vegetable.

Each episode captures the highs and lows of each calendar month of the year and features a variety of full and part-time farmers from all across Ireland.

Series details

• Title: Rare Breed
• Format: Reality
• Language: English
• Premiere date: 2015-01-05
• Final broadcast date listed: 2017-06-06
• Status in TVmaze: Ended
• Network listed by TVmaze: Virgin Media One
• Network country: Ireland
• Typical episode runtime: 30 minutes
• TVMaze ID: 27998
• TVDB ID: 308723

Seasons in the TVmaze catalogue

• Season 3: premiered 2015-01-05; final listed air date 2015-03-23; episode order: 12.
• Season 4: premiered 2016-01-11; final listed air date 2016-03-28; episode order: 12.
• Season 5: premiered 2017-01-10; final listed air date 2017-06-06; episode order: 11.

Source and licence

Adapted from Rare Breed on TVmaze. The synopsis is reproduced as plain text; catalogue facts, cast and season records are selected and reformatted. This adapted text is available under CC BY-SA 4.0, following the TVmaze API licence. Network and web-channel credits identify the service listed in this source; they do not establish current streaming availability.