Our Yorkshire Farm shepherdess reveals her kids have mullets, pets are getting lost and ‘domestic standards have slipped’ during lockdown- but insists you’re never going to have a ‘perfect house’ with NINE children Amanda Owen, 45, admits she’s struggling to keep on top of home in lockdown Confessed dog Chalky went missing in the washing … Read more
Yorkshire Shepherdess Amanda Owen has revealed she is teaching her nine children ‘responsibility and life skills’ by getting them to count sheep on her farm rather than formal lessons during lockdown. Amanda, 45, who runs a 2,000-acre tenant farm in Upper Swaledale with her husband Clive, 66, said when it comes to teaching her nine children at … Read more
From an artist’s studio to the ideal spot for stargazing, meet the women who say that a shepherdess hut is their perfect refuge from Covid cabin fever. When your boss is the future King, you might expect to have a palatial home. And shepherdess Charlotte Darwent, who looks after Prince Charles‘s Scottish flock, says her … Read more
She is the first woman to be put in charge of Prince Charles‘s 650-strong Scottish flock of sheep. So it is only right that Charlotte Darwent should be given a palace among shepherds’ huts. Revealed exclusively in the Daily Mail, the bespoke structure, which took 11 months to build, boasts stained-glass windows, sheep’s wool walls … Read more
Sometimes a lowly cattle shed is just too . . . lowly. Not to mention outdoorsy. Ciara the Cow — so called because she arrived during Storm Ciara in February — would rather spend the festive period indoors, with the family, thank you very much. ‘She was fed by hand as a calf because her … Read more
‘That’s as it should be!’ Our Yorkshire Farm shepherdess is praised after she revealed her nine children will receive only a few ‘low value’ gifts because it’s ‘not what Christmas is about’ Yorkshire Shepherdess Amanda Owen, 45, revealed how she’ll spend Christmas Nine children will only have ‘small low value gifts’ and will have to … Read more
A new BBC documentary has given a glimpse into the life of Britain’s youngest solo shepherdess Emma Gray, who last year became a mother for the first time. The farmer, 34, who once wrote a book about her life as Britain’s loneliest shepherdess, married fireman Ewan Irvine, 41, in 2018 after meeting him four-years ago, and … Read more
A shepherdess left ITV viewers baffled when her ‘house pony’ and one of her nine children crashed her live TV interview. After ditching her city life for the country, Amanda Owen, 45, from Huddersfield moved to a 2,000-acre hill farm in the Yorkshire Dales with her husband Clive, who at 66 is 21 years her … Read more