Our Farm Next Door star Amanda Owen: "People feel like they know us. We show the highs, lows, ups and downs"

Visiting Amanda Owen at her home in the Yorkshire Dales, Emily Ashworth finds that TV's favourite shepherdess is in a new era, but as always, she is staying true to herself

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Our Farm Next Door star Amanda Owen: "People feel like they know us. We show the highs, lows, ups and downs"

Most people in the UK will know of Amanda Owen, the shepherdess who lives in the hills of Yorkshire with nine children in tow, having watched them grow as a family over the years on the popular TV programme...

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