Amanda Owen
Amanda Owen (born September 1974[1]) is an English shepherd and writer.
Her first book The Yorkshire Shepherdess was published in 2015 (Sidgwick & Jackson, ISBN 978-0283071966) and she followed this in 2017 with A Year in the Life of the Yorkshire Shepherdess (Sidgwick & Jackson, ISBN 978-0283072413). Before the books she was known to many readers through her Twitter feed as "The Yorkshire Shepherdess".[2]
She lives and farms on a remote farm, Ravenseat, Swaledale in the Yorkshire Dales with her husband Clive Owen and their nine children.[3]
In August 2017 she appeared on BBC Radio 4's The Museum of Curiosity. Her hypothetical donation to this imaginary museum was a shepherd's whistle, used to communicate with her sheep dogs.[4] On 14 July 2019 she was the subject of BBC Radio 4's On Your Farm.[5] On 21 October 2019, she appeared on the podcast Trees A Crowd with David Oakes.[6]
Channel 5's Our Yorkshire Farm is an observational documentary series following life on the Owens' farm. [7]
Bibliography
- The Yorkshire Shepherdess (2015)
- A Year in the Life of the Yorkshire Shepherdess (2017)
- Adventures of the Yorkshire Shepherdess (2019)
References
- Owen, Amanda (2015). The Yorkshire Shepherdess. Pan Books. p. 5. ISBN 978-1-4472-5178-1.
- Parker, Olivia (19 April 2014). "Amanda Owen: Yorkshire's tweeting shepherdess". The Telegraph. Retrieved 27 August 2017.
- Moore, Anna (4 February 2017). "Amanda Owen, Yorkshire shepherdess: 'I like to give birth alone, like a ewe'". The Guardian. Retrieved 27 August 2017.
- "The Museum of Curiosity: Series 11, episode 4". BBC Radio 4. Retrieved 27 August 2017.
- On Your Farm
- Trees A Crowd
- https://www.radiotimes.com/tv-programme/hbfgtn/our-yorkshire-farm/
External links
- "Amanda Owen". BBC News. 25 January 2017. video interview