KATIE HIND: How Bobby Brazier's dance for his 'superhero' mum Jade Goody moved judge Shirley Ballas to tears on Strictly I can’t say that there was ever a moment I thought: “Right, this is how we’re going to get Ravenseat to make money.” It began with making cups of tea. A simple, simple thing. What do people want who come to visit us? They’re coming on foot, they’re on the coast-to-coast footpath, there’s 16,000 of them walking through the farm every year. They want a cup of tea and a conversation. So from that conversation comes the opportunity, when one of them happens to be scouting for a TV programme. Read more inspiring tales of life as a shepherdess with A Year in the Life of the Yorkshire Shepherdess and Adventures Of The Yorkshire Shepherdess. The family appeared in an episode of New Lives In The Wild UK with Ben Fogle, a Channel 5 programme Clive is a very well liked and respected man in this part of the world, he's lived here all his life and Amanda has become part of Dales life as well.

Ravenseat is a tenant farm and may not stay in the family, so when Amanda discovers a nearby farmhouse up for sale, she knows it is her chance to create roots for her children. The old house needs a lot of renovation and money is tight, so Amanda sets about the work herself, with some help from a travelling monk, a visiting plumber and Clive. It's fair to say things do not go according to plan! By 2019, Amanda was releasing a third book Adventures of the Yorkshire Shepherdess and was the subject of Radio 4's On Your Farm.Just Stop Oil protestors spared from road obstruction charges - as police arrested them while the green man was showing Mr and Mrs Owen also rent out a shepherd's hut on their land, which is near the farmyard on their land. Many of her children help out on the farm when they are not at school - or travelling to and from as the journey takes one-and-a-half hours each way. Folk think well of them, most people up here have known Clive for years and years, he's a popular and well respected man in the farming community and he has a lot of good friends.

It also includes a microwave, fridge freezer and toaster, utility room with washer and tumble drier and a TV in the living room with sound bar. The couple, known as the 'Kardashians of the Countryside', were said to be 'battling to save their marriage' after more than 21 years.It was feared they had recently started living apart but their neighbours claim it was common knowledge for months. Your children all seem very unfazed by the cameras. It’s hardly the Yorkshire version of Keeping Up With the Kardashians , is it? Our Yorkshire Farm star Amanda Owen was 'caught up in the spotlight' as she rose to fame appearing on reality TV and publishing a number of bestselling books for years before she and her husband Clive split up. But all the things that you said – “famous” and all the rest of it, which makes me cringe – is farm diversification. The sheep make me a living, on a number of different levels. Mr Owen was understood to be 'desperate' to repair their relationship and 'fears' their marriage will end in divorce.

They have nine children, the youngest is only around four and five of them are under the age of 10, still at primary school. The shepherdess began making solo appearances on a variety of TV shows, becoming a regular guest on programmes like Lorraine and This Morning to offer comment on parenting and life on the farm. I’m really proud of that fact. When it comes to birth plans, there wasn’t a plan because you can’t make plans when you live where I do, as far away from the hospital. When it comes to breastfeeding, it wasn’t because I was being some kind of Earth mother, it was because I was lazy. Any thought of trying to sterilise anything just filled me with total horror. And if I was going to be out and about going around the fields, it made far more sense to have baby with me and a constant supply of warm milk that basically was under my jumper.Last year, 66-year-old Clive (L) was said to be 'desperate' to repair their relationship and 'fears' their marriage will result in divorce Speaking to the Yorkshire Post, Amanda said she doesn't regret taking part in the show, saying: 'We are just a normal family dealing with everything life throws at us and the programme is life as it's happening, whether there's someone filming it or not and that's what keeps everybody grounded.'

Of course it's invasive. People know where we live and they can arrive there — but that's the unique selling point, that the farm is real,' she said. Meanwhile Owen was featured as one of the four walkers travelling with the BBC's 360 degree camera, in series two of BBC Four's Winter Walks, with Owen's episode featuring a walk through Wensleydale and Raydale.In the years since she first graced the nation's screens, she has published five bestselling books, appeared on a host of podcasts and farming shows, and become a regular guest star on morning TV, where she discusses everything from life on the farm, to parenting and marriage. She also went on to defend her friend Jeremy Clarkson and continued: 'As @JeremyClarkson has highlighted until food production, countryside management is valued we do what pays the bills.' Mrs Owen, who wrote several books about life on the farm - the latest one, on seasonal living - said it is a 'vicious circle,' and she could not stop writing about it because the material is there. A stunning new book from Amanda Owen - shepherdess, wife, mother of nine children, bestselling author and star of C5's Our Yorkshire Farm - that brings her world to life in glorious colour.