Despite self-describing as ‘the least crafty person in the world’, TV presenter Kate Humble is a bit of a “fan girl” for anyone with the skills to craft things by hand.

“With the rise of AI and the whole workplace changing so quickly – if you’re a writer or photographer or in TV, AI can do all this s*** for us,” said the 55-year-old.

“So there’s actually been a resurgence in people wanting to learn how to make things, build a drywall or do blacksmithery, because people are fearing that AI will take away white collar jobs.”

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Even in the age of careers made entirely on the internet, “There might be a real artisan uprising”, she says, “which would be amazing”.

Humble, who grew up in Berkshire has presented BBC’s Back To The Land, Springwatch and Animal Park, says she doesn’t have ‘the creative gene’ but “I’m really good at manual labour, and my kind of creative side actually is with cooking”.

The author of several books, her latest, cookbook Home Made, celebrates the beauty of artisan, handmade products – all of which are used in food and cooking in some way.

Stories of individual artisan makers of aprons, knives, firepits, and pans are weaved in around simple, countryside recipes inspired by those people and their products.

“We live in a society which is extremely wasteful,” says Humble, who lives in rural Monmouthshire, Wales.

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“Because mass production makes things much more affordable. Of course I’ve bought mass-produced stuff, partly because I hadn’t always known there was another option.”

Humble learned how to cook from her mum. “I grew up in a household and in an era where people did cook.

“We didn’t have takeaways or deliveries – certainly not in the Seventies and not in the countryside. All the food that we cooked, my mum cooked from scratch and we grew a certain amount of vegetables.”

She describes herself as ‘not a proper cook, just a home cook’ and she hopes her recipes reflect that.

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Humble grew up in rural Berkshire and, back in 2007, moved from London to Wales to live on a smallholding with husband Ludo, and went on to set up a working farm in the Wye Valley – where Channel 5’s Escape To The Farm is filmed.

“I’m just not cut out for city living. It actually came into sharp focus when I was working on Springwatch, but still living in London.

"I loved doing Springwatch so much because I loved that reconnection with the process of spring. I loved the response of nature to the lengthening days and the temperature getting warmer – and I love being witness to that.”