UK: ‘Townie’ by birth, Amanda Owen became The Yorkshire Shepherdess
Bestselling author, passionate photographer, newspaper columnist, public speaker, social media personality, tea-maker and mother of nine
From her website:
After gaining experience (both good and bad) milking cows, driving tractors, clipping, lambing, drystone walling (and shovelling a lot of the proverbial) she settled down, working as a contract shepherdess aided by a couple of sheepdogs. It was a chance encounter that led Amanda to Ravenseat and Clive, her future husband, he too being a first generation farmer hailing from Doncaster.
That was 1996, who would have thought that Amanda would end up living in the very place that provided part of the backdrop for the television adaptation of James Herriots books, All Creatures Great and Small. There they’ve raised a family of 9 children, a flock of Swaledale sheep and an assorted range of horses, cattle, pigs and dogs in one of the most remote areas of the country – living the traditional farming life Amanda dreamed of as a child.