Amanda Owen is a shepherdess, mother to nine children, a passionate photographer and a Sunday Times bestselling author. Seen by millions on Channel 5’s Our Yorkshire Farm and ITV’s The Dales, Amanda and her husband Clive live a life that has almost gone in today’s modern world, one ruled by the seasons and their animals.

Amanda’s first book The Yorkshire Shepherdess offered an honest, inspiring account of her transformation from Huddersfield townie to rural sheep farmer. The paperback of her second book A Year in The Life Of The Yorkshire Shepherdess, headed straight to no.2 in the Sunday Times charts, spending 5 weeks in the top 10. Amanda’s third book, Adventures of the Yorkshire Shepherdess, reached the no.4 spot in the Sunday Times Bestsellers chart. Amanda’s fourth book, Tales from The Farm, is a collection of Amanda’s regular monthly columns as featured in the Dalesman.

Amanda and her family regularly appear on Channel 5 in their very own documentary series, Our Yorkshire Farm, which returned for a third series in July 2020, with over 3.7 million viewers tuning in for the final episode, making it Channel 5’s highest rating show of the past five years. Twenty more episodes of Our Yorkshire Farm were announced in March 2021, with a new series set to air in the spring.

Other appearances include co-presenting ITV’s Summer On The Farm with Alan Titchmarsh and Angellica Bell, The Yorkshire Shepherdess Family Feast strand on This Morning, New Lives In The Wild on Channel 5, as a roving reporter on Springtime on the Farm and This Week On The Farm, as well as a regular guest on ITV’s Countrywise. Amanda has also taken part in BBC’s Masterchef as a guest judge and as a panellist on Radio 4’s Museum of Curiosity.