She’s already proved to be a big hit on the small screen.
And now Huddersfield-born shepherd Amanda Owen is to star again on TV, this time in an hour-long documentary.
Amanda, known as The Yorkshire Shepherdess, is appearing on Series 5 of Ben Fogle’s New Lives in the Wild.
The 60-minute episode, dedicated entirely to the lives of Amanda, her husband Clive and their eight children, will be broadcast on Channel 5 on November 26.
In the series, Fogle meets the people who have said goodbye to the daily grind and started a new life in some of the most rural, remote and challenging parts of the country.
Former Newsome High School student Amanda, now 41, left her comfortable town life in Huddersfield to pursue her lifelong dream to become a hill shepherdess. She had been working as a part-time job on a local farm.
Amanda now runs the 2,000-acre, 900-sheep Ravenseat Farm, near Kirkby Stephen, with husband Clive.
Amanda, who was brought up in Newsome, is loving her life as a farmer’s wife and mother in the Yorkshire Dales atone of the most isolated farms in England.
They balance running their sheep farm in Ravenseat, Swaledale, three miles from Britain’s highest pub at Tan Hill, while bringing up children.
She has diversified - offering cream teas to visitors, as their farm sits on the Coast to Coast footpath.
“I moved out of Huddersfield when I was 19. I wanted to be a shepherdess and Newsome isn’t exactly the best place for that.
“I had worked on a farm in Flockton and then moved to the Lakes and to North Yorkshire, to where the sheep farms are”.
She first hit the headlines in 2012 in the TV series The Dales, presented by Ade Edmondson.
Since then she has featured on the programme several times and has also brought out a book about her life. It has made her a best-selling author, spending five weeks in the Sunday Times Top 10 with her debut memoir, The Yorkshire Shepherdess.
Amanda is also the star of a calendar which is now on sale.
Peter Gill, of Graffeg, who have produced the calendar, said: “We are delighted that Amanda and her family have been given the opportunity to share their beautiful, remote farm and for the public to see how they live out their tough, but rewarding, life in the wild.”
More Amanda Owen pictures below.
