As he leaves the ‘punishing schedule’ of studio-based car shows behind him, Jeremy Clarkson has revealed how he’ll be spending his spare time between filming road-trip specials - with farming and conservation.

And The Grand Tour host, 58, has explained how planting and maintaining crops at his aptly named Diddly Squat farm, made up of nearly 1,000 acres in Chipping Norton, Oxfordshire, means he can claim to be 'carbon neutral'.

The petrolhead presenter insisted he didn't buy his land to offset his carbon footprint but that it is 'a happy coincidence that, should I ever get into a debate with a climate-change enthusiast, I can say I'm carbon-neutral'.

Jeremy Clarkson (pictured with his 47-year-old partner Lisa Hogan) has revealed how he’ll be spending his spare time between filming road-trip specials - with farming and conservation

This is as a result of Clarkson's land - where he lives with his 47-year-old partner Lisa Hogan - consuming more carbon dioxide through photosynthesis than he has ever generated with gas-guzzling cars.

Having moved into the farm cottage in 2009, Clarkson explained to The Sunday Times that as he nears his 60th birthday, he's found 'nothing fills him with more pleasure', than stomping around his muddy fields.

Clarkson, along with his presenting partners James May and Richard Hammond, have shifted away from studio car-shows after a 17-year 'punishing schedule', as series four of The Grand Tour concentrates on big-budget specials.

Clarkson is set to start construction of a new six-bedroom house (pictured are the plans) this year

It will replace the five-bedroom cottage (pictured) he blew up on his Amazon Prime series

The Grand Tour host, 58, has explained how planting and maintaining crops at his aptly named Diddly Squat farm (pictured), made up of nearly 1,000 acres in Chipping Norton, Oxfordshire, means he can claim to be 'carbon neutral'

The move means more time at home for all three hosts and the South-Yorkshire native, who grew up in the countryside, couldn't be happier with the downshift.

'I've had it up to here with Heathrow. I can literally go through that airport now with my eyes closed. I know where all the gates are. I know the security people. I've been going through twice or three times a week for 20 years, and I've just had enough,' Clarkson said.

He added: 'So the idea of somebody saying, "You don't have to go through Heathrow any more; you don't have to get in a car; you don't even have to put on a pair of trousers in the morning," is a blessing. It does fill me with joy, the notion of spending large chunks of the year up here farming.'

Clarkson is set to start construction of a new six-bedroom house this year to replace the five-bedroom cottage he blew up on his Amazon Prime series.

The petrolhead presenter insisted he didn't buy his land to offset his carbon footprint

Clarkson, along with his presenting partners James May and Richard Hammond, have shifted away from studio car-shows after a 17-year 'punishing schedule', as series four of The Grand Tour (pictured) concentrates on big-budget specials

The home will be just down the road from his long-time friend David Cameron who has a house in the village of Dean.

But it seems Clarkson is not content to just farm his own land, as he revealed his secret ambition to present his own Countryfile - a more realistic version, he argued, 'where there was death and blood and opinion'.

However, the veteran presenter admitted he won't be giving up his London social life, or his penthouse, any time soon.

He told the publication that he would miss the hustle and bustle, and even the noise, if he were ever to leave.

While in the city, Clarkson employs another farmer in his village to tend to the fields, although he confessed that he would always ideally love to do it himself.