Amanda Owen: The Yorkshire Shepherdess warns of the hazard to avoid in the Yorkshire Dales this winter
Amanda Owen may have become a household name throughout the past decade - commonly known as The Yorkshire Shepherdess - but she remains a working farmer tending to her flock at Ravenseat.
Ravenseat is a remote farm in Swaledale at the centre of the coast to coast path. While it’s particularly beautiful at this time of year, Amanda warns of one of the hazards to avoid on the moor - bogs.
In a video she posted on instagram, Amanda said: “It was cold yesterday but it’s unbelievably cold today.”
She then shares a clip of a hazardous bog.
Amanda said: “I’m looking at a bog. This bog a few years ago was absolutely full of sheep.
“Such a weird thing, I couldn’t believe it. The smell was just disgusting.”
Amanda, who is most famous for her Channel 5 series Our Yorkshire Farm, said that despite other sheep having died here, she found lots of sheep still drinking from the water.
She said: “Weird thing was I couldn't understand what drew them to it?”
Despite the cold weather, Amanda shared with her followers on social media how she loves this time of year on Ravenseat for solitude.
She said: “This is a good time to work. It’s the bit of farming we enjoy doing, we are left alone.”
Amanda said she and the kids love tending to the flock.
She said she enjoys working at Christmas because life on the farm never stops.
She added: “Rather than feeling sorry for ourselves over Christmas we revel in it.”
Amanda advises her half a million followers and on instagram to take it slow.
She said: “Take a deep breath, take in the silence, solitude. Feel the icy wind on your face and the cold biting on your fingertips. Join us… nothing happens.”