Signed copies of ‘The Yorkshire Shepherd’

Readers Competition

We have three signed books of Amanda Owens’ ‘The Yorkshire Shepherdess – Celebrating the seasons’ to be won!

Author of five Sunday Times Bestselling books and star of Channel 5’s highest rated factual series Our Yorkshire Farm, Amanda Owen is known to millions as The Yorkshire Shepherdess.

In Celebrating the Seasons, Amanda Owen shares funny and charming stories from across the farming year with her family and their many four-legged charges, from lambing in spring, to haymaking and shearing in summer and feeding the flock in midwinter. In this updated paperback edition, featuring additional material taking us up to February 2022, Amanda learns why pig-feeders are best left in situ, camps out overnight in a moorland sheep-fold and finds a new super-size friend for Tony the pony. Part recipe book and part memoir, the paperback of Celebrating the Seasons includes 36 stunning photographs taken by Amanda showcasing the bleak and beautiful landscape she calls home, opening up a window into a life lived on one of the country’s highest, wildest moors - land so inaccessible that in places it can only be reached on foot.

About Amanda Owen Amanda Owen grew up in Huddersfield, but was inspired by the James Herriot books to leave her town life behind and head to the countryside. After a period of milking cows and working as a contract shepherdess and alpaca shearer, she eventually settled down in Swaledale, North Yorkshire, living and working in one of the highest and most remote places in England, where she has been for over 25 years. Amanda now runs a two thousand acre hill farm in Swaledale in North Yorkshire, fifty miles from the nearest large town. She is a full time shepherdess tending a thousand sheep and nine children aged 5 to 21. Her life is dominated by the seasons, feeding, clipping, dipping, herding, rescuing and lambing her flock in one of the most remotely beautiful yet tough spots in the country.

Amanda is the mother of nine children, a passionate photographer and the author of the top ten bestsellers The Yorkshire Shepherdess, A Year in the Life of the Yorkshire Shepherdess, The Adventures of the Yorkshire Shepherdess, Tales from the Farm and Celebrating the Seasons, which was the biggest selling Hardback NonFiction title of 2022 and was shortlisted for Non-Fiction Lifestyle Book of the Year at the 2022 British Book Awards. She has also regularly appeared on TV in shows such as The Dales, Winter Walks, New Lives in the Wild, Springtime on the Farm and Our Yorkshire Farm.

How to enter:

Send an email to: mail@farmingscotlandmagazine.com telling us how many children Amanda has? Remember to supply your name and contact number too!

Closing date is Friday 9th December. Good luck!