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Amanda Owen The yorkshire Shepherdess Tells us about her life in the Dales Known to millions as The Yorkshire Shepherdess, Amanda Owen is the author of five best-selling books about her life on Ravensea, one of the most remote farms in the country, where she lives with her husband Clive and nine children. She currently stars in Channel 5’s popular TV show Our Yorkshire Farm and her latest book is Celebrating the Seasons includes stories, recipes and photos from the farm and is out now. I understand that you had had no previous links to farming, may I ask how you became so involved in this line of work? I grew up in Huddersfield and no one in my family is from a farming background. I loved the James Herriot books when I was a child, and watched the TV series. Because of James Herriot I loved the idea of being a vet, probably like most other children of that era, but was told at school that I was not academic enough to make the grades. One day in the school library I picked up a book called Hill Shepherd. It was a photographic documentary of hill farming in Yorkshire and Cumbria. Reading that book was an epiphany for me, the pictures of the hill shepherds on the moors with the sheep made me realise it was where I wanted to be. It ticked the box of wanting to work with animals in the countryside and importantly it also ticked the rebellion box as it was so the opposite of my townie life up until then. Years later after I had married my husband Clive, we realised that there was actually a photograph of him in Hill Shepherd! So it’s a very important book to me. 12 | www.minervamagazines.co.uk How did you learn your crafts? One of the many things I learnt from your book was how important it is to get the grass in - in good time. I started out as a farm hand, and then moved on to being a contract shepherd, working on different farms all over the country. But really, I learnt everything as I went along. Most of my crafts came through natural progression, learning to ride a horse by riding it, learning to clip a sheep by clipping my first one, learning to work a dog, by taking the dog out with me for the first time. You can only learn what to do by doing it, you have to get practical on the ground experience. Nothing comes close to learning how to be a shepherd, other than actually doing the work of a shepherd and it’s not just about learning about sheep, it’s about learning about the land. With the grass it starts with the sheep. You’ve got to have your sheep in good order - we grow hardy stock through the winter, so it’s absolutely vital that you grow your crop well, so they have food to eat throughout the winter. What would you like to tell our readers about your life? I want people to know that Celebrating the Seasons is a book about going your own way. It’s not a blueprint for how you should live your life, it simply says this is what we do as a family this is how we do it, feel free to follow the recipes, or do them your own way. I want people to not let themselves to be stereotyped, to know that all things are achievable if you really want to do it. So many people said you won’t have time to write a book, you won’t achieve that. But I believe you can do anything you just have to start doing it. If you want to write a book, start writing. I got an E in GCSE English, and this is my fifth book. Anything is possible. Celebrating the Seasons with The Yorkshire Shepherdess by Amanda Owen is available from Pan Macmillan, £20.
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