'Blank canvas' JB Gill of JLS on 'humbling' experience of teaching kids about farming

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JB and his wife, Chloe, also have their own kids who are both under ten - daughter Chiara, who has just left nursery, and son Ace.The four are living their dream rural life in Kent, and they have their own pigs, chickens and lambs onsite.On occasion, JB has even mucked in with tasks such as mending fences to get involved with the rugged farming lifestyle that he once knew when he was a young child."I spent my first four or five years [of life] in the Caribbean and even now when I go back, the first thing I do is figure out what we're going to buy from the shop and the baker, and what fish we're going to get," he mused.He recalled large, joyous family occasions that were "always centred around food", and cited it as one of the reasons he has a passion for creating his own today."I've always had an appreciation for my food and things like growing your own, having fruit trees in the garden and getting sugar cane from the local plantation - all that stuff I've grown up with over the years," he reminisced."[Today] we've got apple trees, cherry trees, pear trees...

of course we've got our own livestock as well - our turkeys, our pigs, our chickens and so on."It's something that I'm incredibly passionate about and that I started at a very early age.He added: "For me I spent most of my school years living in South London, but farming is something that's always been quite close to home and that I always wanted to pass down to my children as well."However, he's clear on one thing about his experiences in the farming world, declaring: "For me the most rewarding thing is definitely working with the kids."That said, he's unsure on whether his own will follow in his footsteps as a farmer when they grow up, as, according to JB, they.