{"id":526685,"date":"2026-04-12T10:31:11","date_gmt":"2026-04-12T10:31:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/526685\/"},"modified":"2026-04-12T10:31:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-12T10:31:11","slug":"kelvin-fletcher-celebrates-end-of-chapter-as-he-says-its-just-the-beginning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/526685\/","title":{"rendered":"Kelvin Fletcher celebrates &#8216;end of chapter&#8217; as he says &#8216;It&#8217;s just the beginning&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The former Emmerdale star shares his hopes for the future as he marked the end of one chapter.<\/p>\n<p>Abbie Bray Deputy Editor for Screen Time<\/p>\n<p>08:30, 12 Apr 2026<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Kelvin shared his hopes of having Fletcher's porridge oats one day\" loading=\"eager\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/0_kPNG.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p aria-label=\"Kelvin shared his hopes of having Fletcher's porridge oats one day\" class=\"ImageCaption_caption-title__ccyQU\" data-testid=\"caption-title\">Kelvin shared his hopes of having Fletcher&#8217;s porridge oats one day(Image: ITV)<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">Kelvin Fletcher cast his eyes towards the future following the conclusion of &#8220;one chapter&#8221;. During the latest and final episode of Fletcher&#8217;s Family Farm, which airs on Sunday, Kelvin Fletcher outlined his plans for the future and his ambition to one day produce Fletcher&#8217;s oats.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">The former soap star, who recently <a aria-label=\"\" class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk\/news\/tv\/kelvin-fletcher-has-no-regrets-33371592\" rel=\"follow nofollow noopener\" tabindex=\"0\" target=\"_self\">revealed he had &#8220;no regrets&#8221; after failing to produce edible oats for sale,<\/a> gave viewers an update on his progress.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">&#8220;Across the fields and forests of our farm, and with a new season on the horizon, we&#8217;re getting ready for our first event of the year, a farmers&#8217; market,&#8221; Kelvin enthusiastically revealed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">&#8220;We&#8217;ve invited some local producers to come and sell their wares alongside us in the barn, and for once, we&#8217;re ready to go, which gives me time to crack on with other jobs around the farm before we open our gates tomorrow,&#8221; reports <a aria-label=\"the MirrorLink opens in a new tab.\" class=\"TextLink_text-link__dBSS0 TextLink_enabled__dJF3l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mirror.co.uk\/tv\/tv-news\/kelvin-fletcher-looks-forward-new-36994321\" rel=\"follow nofollow noopener\" tabindex=\"0\" target=\"_blank\">the Mirror<\/a>. &#8220;Today, I&#8217;m taking delivery of some special homegrown feed that will give our livestock a protein boost.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Kelvin Fletcher said it was just the beginning for oats\" loading=\"lazy\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/0_kelvinPNG.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p aria-label=\"Kelvin Fletcher said it was just the beginning for oats\" class=\"ImageCaption_caption-title__ccyQU\" data-testid=\"caption-title\">Kelvin Fletcher said it was just the beginning for oats(Image: ITV)<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">Kelvin clarified that their spring oats fell short of the standard required for porridge but were suitable for animal feed. Clutching a bag of oats, he continued, &#8220;Somewhere in there are oats from our farm, and farms locally and maybe around the country. But we&#8217;ve all played a part in producing this, so there&#8217;ll be other farms with this feed that have got a bit of our oats in.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">&#8220;So yeah, still a success,&#8221; he beamed before adding, &#8220;We were hoping for porridge, but a lack of rain this summer meant our first crop didn&#8217;t plump up enough before harvest. So animal feed, it is.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">&#8220;It feels quite a proud moment that our little farm has somewhat kind of gone into the supply chain to produce something for many other farms,&#8221; the former soap star added.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Kelvin Fletcher didn't quite get the results he wanted\" loading=\"lazy\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/0_kelvin1PNG.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p aria-label=\"Kelvin Fletcher didn't quite get the results he wanted\" class=\"ImageCaption_caption-title__ccyQU\" data-testid=\"caption-title\">Kelvin Fletcher didn&#8217;t quite get the results he wanted(Image: ITV)<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">&#8220;It&#8217;s these little moments that you can&#8217;t even imagine or picture when you first start out. I&#8217;d never have thought that we&#8217;d be going into the food chain, the supply chain. I didn&#8217;t know what to expect.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">Kelvin looked delighted as his cows got stuck into the feed, remarking, &#8220;Five-star review from Ray and Crowther.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">Casting his mind to the future and what lies ahead, the father of four declared. &#8220;That&#8217;s not the end of oats. It&#8217;s just the beginning. It might be the end of that particular chapter. But oats are still yet to be conquered, and they&#8217;re there for the taking. This is oats part one, mark my words, we&#8217;ll be having Fletcher porridge oats, I don&#8217;t doubt that for a second.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_paragraph-text__PVKlh \" data-tmdatatrack=\"content-unit\" data-tmdatatrack-type=\"paragraph\">Fletcher&#8217;s Family Farm is available to watch on ITVX.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The former Emmerdale star shares his hopes for the future as he marked the end of one chapter.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":526686,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[1608,96,391,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-526685","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-emmerdale","tag-entertainment","tag-tv","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/526685","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=526685"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/526685\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/526686"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=526685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=526685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=526685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}