Matthew Naylor is a farmer and flower grower from Moulton Marsh in Lincolnshire.  He has a reputation in the industry for growing flowers that are taller than he is and he claims that potatoes from the Lincolnshire silt land taste much more potatoey than those grown elsewhere. 

Matthew farms in partnership with his father, Nev, and the family business was started by his grandfather, Ken, 60 years ago.  Most of the farm was reclaimed from the sea by the Romans.  They are a LEAF marque farm and supply Waitrose and Marks and Spencer.  The Naylors have been farming in the same village for over 10 generations - how unambitious is that?

Matthew gets annoyed when people tell him that he sounds like Alan Titchmarsh (which actually he does a bit).  He writes a regular column for the Farmers Weekly.  He was the Young Farmer of the Year way back in the days when he was still young.

HE LOVES cooking, travelling, tank tops, Radio 4, gardening, skiing, Georgian architecture and the sound of his own voice. 

HE HATES Bluetooth earpieces, line dancing, leylandii and men with ponytails. 

HIS MOST ANNOYING CHARACTERISTICS ARE pomposity and talking too much. 

YOU WOULD NEVER GUESS TO LOOK AT HIM BUT...Matthew has a bed in the shape of a Land Rover in a spare room (and sleeps in it occassionally)