Raven Owen is the eldest of Amanda Owen’s nine children, born in April 2001 at Ravenseat Farm in the Yorkshire Dales, and now aged 23–24 — a biomedical science graduate of York St John University who achieved First Class Honours in 2022, volunteered for the NHS, and now works as a scientist while returning to help her mother on the farm during lambing season. She and her eight siblings — Reuben, Miles, Edith, Violet, Sidney, Annas, Clementine, and Nancy — are the children of Amanda Owen, the Yorkshire Shepherdess, and her ex-husband Clive Owen, and have become some of the best-known rural family figures in Britain through the Channel 5 series Our Yorkshire Farm and its More4 successor Our Farm Next Door: Amanda, Clive and Kids. Series 3 of Our Farm Next Door began on 19 January 2026 on More4, with a fourth series already commissioned, and the show was filmed between May and December 2025. In this complete guide you will find everything about Raven Owen, all nine of Amanda Owen’s children, their lives in 2025–26, the family’s television journey, Ravenseat Farm, Anty John’s renovation, and the latest news from Britain’s most famous farming family.
Who Is Raven Owen?
The Eldest Owen Child
Raven Owen — full name Raven Livingstone Owen — is the eldest of Amanda and Clive Owen’s nine children, born in April 2001 at Ravenseat Farm in the upper reaches of Swaledale in the Yorkshire Dales. She appeared in the family’s television series from a young age, first visible in early documentary appearances before the major Channel 5 series Our Yorkshire Farm began in 2018, and has grown up in the public eye while consistently and deliberately maintaining a lower profile than some of her siblings. Amanda Owen has described Raven as “her mum’s double” — and photographs of the two together confirm the striking physical resemblance, particularly in the quality of their expressions and the shape of their features.
From an early age, Raven took on a significant quasi-maternal role among the Owen siblings — not through any formal arrangement but through the natural dynamics of a large family in which the eldest child inevitably absorbs some of the responsibilities of managing younger brothers and sisters. In one memorable Channel 5 episode, Raven was filmed holding baby Clementine so that Amanda could prepare food, while simultaneously describing the complexity of her position: “I watch them and make sure they’re doing well. But there are days when they rebel, when Reuben is telling them ‘don’t do it, don’t listen to what Raven says guys!'” This kind of candid observation — combining self-awareness with a natural warmth — was characteristic of the way Raven appeared in the Owen family’s television work: present but unshowy, responsible but with a clear-eyed sense of humour about her role.
Education: York St John University
Raven Owen attended York St John University in the historic city of York, where she studied biomedical science. York St John is a university with particular strengths in health-related sciences and in the specific academic disciplines — cell biology, microbiology, laboratory science — that underpin biomedical research. Her choice of subject reflected ambitions she had discussed publicly in an earlier interview, in which she described hopes of working on coronavirus vaccines as a long-term career goal — demonstrating both the scientific seriousness of her academic direction and the specific moment in which she was developing those ambitions (2020–21, at the height of the pandemic).
In 2022, she graduated with First Class Honours in biomedical science from York St John University, with a final mark of 72.67 — an outstanding result that Amanda Owen celebrated publicly on Instagram with characteristic warmth. Her post read: “Result!! A first! Her dedication & determination has paid off. Always in the library, a laboratory or a catering van. She works so hard. The sky’s the limit – Massively proud of Raven.” The formal graduation ceremony took place at York Minster — one of the most spectacular medieval buildings in the north of England — and both Amanda and Clive Owen attended together, despite their confirmed separation the previous month, in a demonstration of the co-parenting commitment they have maintained throughout the period since their split.
What Amanda Has Said About Raven
Amanda Owen’s public comments about Raven across multiple interviews and social media posts constitute one of the most consistently warm parental testimonials in British celebrity life. In a Hello! magazine interview, she said: “Raven’s very academic, she’s working as a scientist and still studying. I’m so proud of her.” When discussing Raven’s rural upbringing in the context of her academic achievement, she told ITV’s Lorraine: “As parents, I believe that her rural upbringing, the kind of childhood that we’ve been very privileged to be able to give to those children, has given them the independence, strength and resilience to be able to move forward and do whatever they want to do.”
The specific pairing of academic achievement and rural upbringing in Amanda’s comments about Raven is significant. In British culture, there is a persistent assumption that exceptional academic achievement — the kind that produces a First Class Honours degree in a rigorous scientific discipline — is more likely to emerge from privileged urban or suburban environments than from remote hill farms without reliable broadband, a significant nearest town, or the social infrastructure that supports competitive university admission. Amanda’s evident pride in proving that assumption wrong, and her explicit attribution of Raven’s resilience and independence to the Ravenseat childhood rather than despite it, is one of the recurring themes of her public identity as the Yorkshire Shepherdess.
Amanda Owen’s Extraordinary Birth Stories
Nine Children, Nine Stories
One of the most compelling and widely discussed dimensions of Amanda Owen’s public persona is her collection of birth stories — the nine individual accounts of how each of her children arrived in the world from the remote setting of Ravenseat Farm. The combination of extreme remoteness (the nearest hospital is a significant drive from the top of Swaledale), the unpredictability of when labour begins relative to when it can be safely managed in a hospital setting, and the practical realities of running a farm that cannot be left unattended has produced a series of birth experiences that are genuinely extraordinary by any standard.
The December 2025 viral story about Raven’s dramatic birth — the blue-lights emergency run to hospital after she became stuck — was the latest in a sequence of birth narratives that Amanda has shared across her books, television appearances, and social media over many years. These stories have resonated powerfully with audiences not merely as dramatic anecdotes but as illustrations of the specific nature of remote rural life: the isolation that makes ordinary medical crises into logistical emergencies, the resilience that is not a choice but a necessity, and the matter-of-fact approach to physical danger and physical birth that comes with a life in which nature’s rhythms are a daily reality rather than an occasional dramatic encounter.
The Lay-By Births
Among Amanda’s most famous birth stories are the four instances in which her children were born in lay-bys — the pull-in areas at the side of rural roads — during the journey to hospital when labour progressed more rapidly than the drive from Ravenseat allowed. The specific geography of upper Swaledale — remote, single-track roads, significant distances from the nearest town — means that the journey to hospital always involves a risk calculation that is absent for most expectant mothers in more accessible locations. For Amanda, on four separate occasions, that calculation went wrong, and the births happened wherever the car happened to be stopped.
These lay-by births have become part of the Owen family mythology and are among the most-shared and most-discussed of Amanda’s stories in the media. They have been covered in newspaper profiles, discussed in television interviews, and described in her books with the same practical directness that characterises everything Amanda writes about her experiences. They are not presented as tragic emergencies but as unexpected events that were managed with resourcefulness and that produced healthy, happy children — a framing that says something important about Amanda’s relationship with the physical realities of her life. Her matter-of-fact approach to experiences that would be considered terrifying by most urban readers is one of the most distinctive and authentically rural dimensions of her public persona.
The Freebirth of Clementine
Clementine Owen’s birth — the freebirth that took place at Ravenseat without medical assistance — is the most extreme example of the Owen family’s birth experiences and the one that most explicitly illustrates the combination of isolation, practicality, and physical confidence that characterises Amanda’s approach to her own maternity. Amanda has discussed Clemmy’s birth in interviews and public appearances, acknowledging that it was unplanned in the sense that the speed of the labour prevented any alternative from being arranged, while also conveying the fundamental sense that the experience was managed and that Clemmy arrived safely.
The freebirth narrative sits alongside the lay-by births and Raven’s dramatic hospital emergency as part of a collective picture of birth at Ravenseat that is genuinely different from the experience of most British mothers. Amanda’s willingness to discuss these experiences publicly — with honesty, detail, and the specific quality of equanimity that comes from having genuinely navigated them — has been an important part of establishing her credibility as an authentic voice about rural life rather than a romanticised media construct.
The Yorkshire Dales: Ravenseat’s Landscape
Swaledale: Amanda Owen’s Valley
Swaledale is one of the twelve major dales of the Yorkshire Dales National Park and is generally regarded by those who know the area as one of the most dramatically beautiful — less visited than Wharfedale or Wensleydale, more remote and less commercially developed, and characterised by a particular quality of austere grandeur that the upper reaches of the dale, where Ravenseat sits, exemplify most completely. The dale runs approximately 40 miles from its source near Ravenseat and Keld in the west to the market town of Richmond in the east, following the River Swale — one of the fastest-flowing rivers in England.
The upper dale around Ravenseat is characterised by the specific landscape elements that Amanda Owen has photographed and described across her books and social media for fifteen years: dry stone walls dividing moorland into rough pastures, stone farmhouses crouching low against the hillside to minimise wind exposure, the dark green and brown of moorland grasses and heather, the white dots of Swaledale sheep against green valley floors, and the extraordinary quality of light that northern England’s high moorland produces — brilliant in summer, stark and austere in winter, and frequently dramatic under the specific cloud formations that the Pennine weather systems generate.
The Yorkshire Dales National Park was established in 1954 and covers approximately 2,179 square kilometres of upland terrain in North Yorkshire and into Cumbria. Walking in the National Park is freely available across the network of public footpaths and bridleways, including the Coast-to-Coast route that passes Ravenseat Farm specifically. The National Park’s own website (yorkshiredales.org.uk) provides detailed walking route information, accommodation guidance, and visitor information for those wishing to explore the area around Ravenseat.
Farming Life at Ravenseat
The specific farming operation at Ravenseat is predominantly focused on Swaledale sheep — the hardy, hornéd, black-and-white-faced breed that is the iconic animal of the upper Yorkshire Dales and that is ideally suited to the challenging conditions of high-altitude moorland grazing. Swaledale sheep are one of the toughest of all British upland breeds, capable of surviving on the sparse vegetation of moorland and tolerating the severe winters that the upper dales experience. Their wool — traditionally used in the manufacture of carpets and rough textiles rather than finer clothing — and their meat production are the primary agricultural products of the Ravenseat operation.
The seasonal rhythms of the Ravenseat farming year — lambing in spring, tupping (the introduction of rams to the ewes for mating) in autumn, hay-making and silage in summer, and the constant cycle of animal welfare tasks throughout the year — are the practical backdrop against which the Owen family’s television life is set. The television series, whether Our Yorkshire Farm or Our Farm Next Door, never loses sight of this agricultural reality: the renovation of Anty John’s is always presented within the context of a working farm that continues to operate regardless of what the camera crew is there to film. The animals, the weather, and the land always have the final say.
Amanda Owen’s Legacy and Cultural Impact
The Yorkshire Shepherdess as an Icon
Amanda Owen has become, over the past fifteen years, one of the most recognisable and most culturally significant rural figures in Britain. Her specific contribution to the public conversation about farming, rural life, and the challenges and rewards of remote living is unusual in that it operates simultaneously at the level of popular entertainment (television and social media), commercial publishing (bestselling books), and genuine advocacy for the agricultural sector and the communities that rural life sustains. She is not merely a celebrity farmer but a genuine communicator about what farming means and why it matters — economically, culturally, and environmentally.
Her specific identity as a woman who chose farming rather than inheriting it — who came from an urban background in Huddersfield and built her farming life through passion and determination rather than family tradition — gives her advocacy a particular character. She is not speaking from within an inherited agricultural world but from the position of someone who fought to belong to it, and whose love of the land is demonstrably genuine rather than assumed. This origin story has been important in making her accessible to urban and suburban audiences who might find a hereditary farmer less relatable, while her authentic expertise makes her credible to farming communities who can quickly identify performance farming from the real thing.
The Owen Family’s Contribution to Rural Television
The Owen family’s television work — from Our Yorkshire Farm through to the current Our Farm Next Door — has contributed significantly to the small but genuinely important tradition of quality rural observational documentary in British television. At a time when the agricultural sector faces enormous challenges — from the post-Brexit farm subsidy transition to the climate pressures on upland farming, from the demographic crisis of an ageing farming population to the economic challenges of making upland farming financially viable — television programmes that bring rural life to mainstream audiences in an engaging and authentic way perform a genuine public service.
The Owen family’s programming has been consistently good at this. It has shown the physical demands and the practical intelligence that farming requires, the emotional depth of the relationships between farming families and their animals and land, and the specific character of remote rural community. It has also been good at showing the complexity of modern farming family life — the tensions of separation and co-parenting, the children choosing between following agricultural paths and pursuing education and urban careers, the renovation project that represents planning for a family future in a changing economic landscape. These themes resonate well beyond the farming community and explain why the programmes have attracted the broad mainstream audiences that have made them commercially successful.
The Owen Family in 2026: Summary
Where They All Are
As of early 2026, the Owen family’s eleven members occupy a range of positions that reflect both the diversity of the nine children’s ages and the specific moment in the family’s collective trajectory. Raven, at 23–24, is working as a scientist while maintaining her connection to Ravenseat. Reuben, at approximately 23, is operating his contracting business and maintaining his television profile. Miles, at approximately 22, is continuing his education and farm involvement. Edith, Violet, and Sidney (aged approximately 17–16–16) are primarily occupied with school. Annas (approximately 15), Clemmy (approximately 11), and Nancy (approximately 11) are the youngest, still fully embedded in the Ravenseat life.
Amanda Owen continues as the public face of the family and the Yorkshire Shepherdess identity, balancing the television work, the book writing, the social media engagement, and the farming operation with the practical management of a family that spans from a 24-year-old scientist to a 10-year-old child. Clive Owen continues to farm at Ravenseat and to participate in the television and renovation work. The Anty John’s project moves forward in its interior phase. The story, in other words, is ongoing — as all the best family stories are.
Career and Post-University Life
Following her graduation in 2022, Raven Owen pursued a combination of professional scientific work and voluntary NHS service, consistent with the health-sector ambitions she had described during her studies. Amanda Owen shared an update confirming that Raven had volunteered for the NHS in the period immediately following graduation — activity entirely consistent with the values of a biomedical science graduate who had trained during the pandemic and understood the NHS’s importance from both a scientific and personal perspective.
Amanda Owen has described Raven in recent interviews as “working as a scientist and still studying” — suggesting that post-graduation academic development (a master’s degree or similar qualification) may be part of her ongoing trajectory. In the new Our Farm Next Door series, Raven is described as appearing in episodes to visit her family and immediately being given farming tasks to complete — a dynamic that reflects the reality of Ravenseat’s perpetual demands on everyone who arrives there, regardless of their professional or academic credentials elsewhere. She maintained a relatively modest Instagram presence of approximately 30,500 followers at the time of her graduation, giving fans glimpses of her life away from the farm without the more intensive social media engagement of some celebrity-adjacent young people.
Raven’s Dramatic Birth Story
One of the most widely covered stories associated with “Raven Owen baby” searches is the dramatic account of Raven’s own birth in April 2001 — a story Amanda Owen shared publicly in December 2025 that generated significant media coverage. According to Amanda’s account, Raven became stuck during labour in a way that necessitated a blue-lights emergency dash to hospital from the remote Ravenseat Farm location. The remote setting of Ravenseat — at the top of Swaledale, described as one of the most isolated inhabited farms in England — makes any medical emergency a significant logistical challenge, and the story of Raven’s birth resonated with the public’s appreciation for the specific difficulties of rural life at the extremes of remoteness.
The dramatic Raven birth story sits alongside Amanda Owen’s equally striking accounts of her other children’s arrivals — including the famous lay-by births (four of her children were born in lay-bys during journeys to hospital when labour progressed too rapidly for them to reach a medical facility), and the freebirth of Clementine (born at home without medical assistance). These birth stories collectively represent one of the most vivid dimensions of Amanda Owen’s public persona as the Yorkshire Shepherdess — they speak to the practical reality of rural remoteness, the resilience of the woman at the centre of the family, and the physical drama that surrounds life at a farm like Ravenseat.
Amanda Owen: The Yorkshire Shepherdess
Who Is Amanda Owen?
Amanda Owen — née Amanda Louise Livingstone — was born on 10 January 1974 in Huddersfield, West Yorkshire. She did not grow up in a farming environment; her path to life as a hill farmer came through passion and determination rather than inheritance. As a teenager, she was inspired by the books of James Herriot (the pen name of veterinary surgeon James Alfred Wight), whose semi-autobiographical accounts of rural veterinary practice in the Yorkshire Dales in the 1940s and 1950s created a vivid picture of a way of life that captured the young Amanda’s imagination completely. She trained as a farm worker, took up shepherding, and eventually made her way to the Yorkshire Dales, where she worked for Clive Owen at Ravenseat Farm before the two began a relationship.
Amanda and Clive Owen married and began producing the large family that would become central to their public story. They had nine children across a period of approximately sixteen years — Raven in 2001 through to Nancy in approximately 2014 — managing the entirety of farm life, including approximately 900 sheep on 2,000 acres of remote hill land, alongside the demands of raising a large family in one of England’s most isolated locations. Amanda first gained wider public attention through her Twitter feed as “The Yorkshire Shepherdess,” which led to a book of the same title, published in 2012. A Fan of All Creatures Great and Small, the books inspired Amanda’s love of farm life — an origin story she has frequently recounted in interviews and public appearances.
Our Yorkshire Farm: The TV Years
The Owen family’s television career began before Our Yorkshire Farm, with appearances in the BBC series Wainwright Walks: Coast to Coast (2009) and Adrian Edmondson’s ITV documentary series The Dales (2011). But it was the Channel 5 observational documentary series Our Yorkshire Farm — first broadcast on 27 November 2018 — that made Amanda Owen and her family nationally known. The series followed the family’s life at Ravenseat Farm across five series, showing the seasonal rhythms of hill farming, the children’s upbringing in an unusually remote environment, and the practical and emotional realities of managing a 2,000-acre sheep farm with nine children.
Our Yorkshire Farm attracted over three million viewers per episode at its peak — extraordinary viewing figures for a Channel 5 documentary series and a reflection of the genuine emotional connection the audience had formed with the family. The show won multiple awards and was recognised as one of the most successful rural documentary series in British television history. It was cancelled by Channel 5 in June 2022 — a decision announced almost simultaneously with Amanda and Clive Owen’s confirmation of their separation, though Channel 5 stated the show was cancelled for editorial reasons rather than personal ones.
The Separation and Co-Parenting
Amanda and Clive Owen separated in June 2022 after 22 years together and nine children. The announcement was made jointly in a statement, with Amanda writing on behalf of both: “Clive and I are sad to confirm that we have made the difficult decision to separate.” The circumstances of the separation generated significant media attention, with subsequent reports connecting the end of the relationship to Amanda’s reported involvement with businessman Robert Davis — a connection that both Amanda and Clive addressed publicly, with each defending the other from particularly hostile media coverage.
The co-parenting arrangement they established after the separation has been one of the more positively received aspects of the post-split period. They appear together with their children in Our Farm Next Door, demonstrating the ability to work professionally and parent collectively while no longer being in a romantic relationship. Both continue to live in close proximity to Ravenseat — Amanda in a separate farmhouse on the land, Clive at the original farm — and their continued partnership in the renovation of Anty John’s (documented in the television series) represents a genuinely functional co-parenting and co-professional arrangement. The December 2025 episode in which youngest daughter Nancy inadvertently celebrated her birthday on the wrong day — confessing “I think I forgot to tell people my birthday’s tomorrow” — was widely shared as an example of the warm, honest, and sometimes chaotic family life that the television series has always captured so well.
Amanda Owen’s Books and Writing
Alongside her television career, Amanda Owen has maintained a sustained literary output that began with The Yorkshire Shepherdess (published 2012) and continued with A Year in the Life of the Yorkshire Shepherdess (2014), Adventures of the Yorkshire Shepherdess (2016), and The Farmer’s Wife (2019). Her books are practical, warm, and rooted in the specific details of hill farming life — seasonal routines, animal welfare, the landscapes of Swaledale, and the human experience of maintaining a way of life that modern England has largely left behind. They have sold hundreds of thousands of copies and introduce her to readers who may not watch television or follow her social media.
The writing work reflects a dimension of Amanda Owen’s professional identity that her television persona sometimes overshadows: she is a genuinely accomplished observer and describer of the rural life she inhabits, with a natural storytelling ability that was evident in her Twitter presence before any publisher or television producer had identified it. Her books are among the most successful in the rural and farming memoir genre and have been an important part of establishing Ravenseat Farm as a literary as well as a televisual presence.
Clive Owen: The Other Half of Ravenseat
Clive Owen at Ravenseat
Clive Owen was born in 1965 and has farmed at Ravenseat his entire working life, inheriting the tenancy of the remote hill farm in the upper reaches of Swaledale from his family. He is the practical backbone of the farming operation — his knowledge of the land, the sheep, and the specific demands of high-altitude Dales farming is the expertise that underpins Ravenseat’s continued operation. His relatively media-shy personality contrasted productively with Amanda’s more naturally expressive public presence during the Our Yorkshire Farm years, and his drier humour and occasional bafflement at the filming process were consistent sources of gentle comedy in the series.
Since the separation from Amanda, Clive has maintained his presence both at the farm and in the family’s television work. His partnership with Amanda on the Our Farm Next Door project — including the Anty John’s renovation — confirms that the professional and familial relationship has been maintained at a genuinely functional level despite the personal separation. His son Reuben’s spin-off series, and the partnership he maintained with Reuben on R.Owen Contracting (their joint digger and contracting business), reflect the specific nature of the Owen family’s dynamics: practical, business-focused, and grounded in the tangible work of the Yorkshire Dales rather than in the more abstract dimensions of celebrity or television fame.
All Nine Owen Children: Complete Guide
Raven Owen (Born April 2001)
Raven is the eldest of the nine children and, as described in detail above, a First Class Honours biomedical science graduate of York St John University who works as a scientist and returns to the farm for lambing season. She is described by Amanda as “very academic” and as the child about whom her mother is most explicitly proud in professional terms. She is approximately 23–24 as of early 2026. Her physical resemblance to Amanda is frequently noted by fans and the media. She maintains a modest social media presence and prioritises her scientific career over public life, though she appears in the Our Farm Next Door series when she visits the family.
Reuben Owen (Born 2002)
Reuben Owen is the second-eldest child and the most publicly prominent of the Owen children, having built a substantial television career in his own right. He starred in the spin-off series Beyond the Yorkshire Farm: Reuben and Clive (Channel 5, 2022) alongside his father, and subsequently launched his own solo series Reuben Owen: Life in the Dales on Channel 5, which documented his establishment of a digger and contracting business (R.Owen Contracting) alongside his daily life in the Yorkshire Dales. By 2025–26, Life in the Dales was potentially in its third series if renewed. Reuben left home at 16 to pursue an apprenticeship in mechanics and has built a genuinely independent professional life combining the farming world of his upbringing with the mechanical and business skills he developed through training.
He has been one of the more socially active Owen family members on Instagram and is a regular on Amanda’s social media. His relationship with then-girlfriend Sarah Dow — which included a road trip to France filmed for the television series — made him one of the more romantically covered of the Owen children in celebrity media. He is approximately 23 as of early 2026 and has been described as one of the most entrepreneurially minded of the family, combining his father’s practical farming aptitude with a business acumen and public media presence that is distinctly his own.
Miles Owen (Born 2003)
Miles Owen is the third-eldest of the nine children, born in 2003. He has featured regularly in the Our Yorkshire Farm series and continues to appear in Our Farm Next Door. Approximately 22 in 2025–26, he has maintained a lower public profile than either Raven or Reuben, consistent with the Owen family’s general pattern of the eldest and second-eldest children having the most developed individual public presences while the middle children are known primarily through the family programme. Miles appears to be continuing his education and involvement in the farm’s daily operations.
Edith Owen (Born 2007)
Edith Owen is Amanda and Clive’s fourth child, born in 2007 and approximately 17–18 as of 2025–26. She has attracted particular fan attention through her appearances in Our Farm Next Door, with viewers noting how significantly she has changed since the earlier Our Yorkshire Farm episodes. “Omg how grown up is Edith?!” a fan commented on a recent Instagram post. When Raven posted a picture on Instagram of Edith with herself and their mum, fans could not get over how much the teenager had grown and changed. Like the older children, she is described as busy with school during term time while helping with farm animals and chores when at Ravenseat.
Violet Owen (Born 2008)
Violet Owen is the fifth child, born in 2008 and approximately 16–17 as of 2025–26. She was a firm fan favourite during the Our Yorkshire Farm years for her particularly warm and empathetic relationship with the farm’s animals — she developed a notably close bond with a cow named Ciara, whose personality prompted the memorable observation: “I think she doesn’t even know she’s a cow, she thinks she’s a person like us, I don’t think she knows what a cow is.” This kind of spontaneous and charming commentary was representative of Violet’s natural television presence, and she continues to appear in Instagram content and the newer series. Like Edith, she is primarily occupied with school during term time.
Sidney Owen (Born 2009)
Sidney Owen is the sixth child and only boy born after Reuben and Miles among the Owen children — he is surrounded by sisters in the family birth order. Born in 2009, he is approximately 15–16 in 2025–26. He has appeared throughout the Owen family’s television work and continues to feature in Our Farm Next Door. His position in the family — older than the three youngest girls but younger than the first three boys — gives him a somewhat distinctive place in the sibling dynamics, and his development from the small child seen in early Our Yorkshire Farm episodes into a teenager has been one of the more visible growing-up narratives that long-term viewers have followed.
Annas Owen (Born 2010)
Annas Owen — the seventh child, born in 2010 and approximately 14–15 in 2025–26 — is among the three youngest children who remain primarily at home and in school during the current period of the family’s life. She is regularly featured in Amanda Owen’s Instagram posts and appears in Our Farm Next Door content, sharing in the family’s farm work and outdoor activities. Her name — Annas — is a variant spelling of the traditional name and reflects the Owen family’s tendency toward distinctive or traditional name choices for their children.
Clementine (Clemmy) Owen (Born approximately 2014)
Clementine Owen — known within the family and to fans as Clemmy — is the eighth child, born approximately in 2014 and approximately 10–11 in 2025–26. She is the subject of a particularly significant birth story: Clementine was a freebirth — born at home without medical assistance. This birth, which Amanda Owen has discussed publicly, is one of the most dramatic examples of the remote and self-sufficient conditions in which the Owen family manages the inevitable events of daily life. Clemmy was also famously held as a baby by her eldest sister Raven in the Channel 5 episode where Raven described her quasi-maternal role in the family. She appears regularly in social media content and in Our Farm Next Door.
Nancy Owen (Born approximately 2014)
Nancy Owen is the youngest of the nine children, born approximately in 2014 and approximately 9–11 in 2025–26. She first came to national attention when BBC presenter Ben Fogle returned to Ravenseat Farm for the Channel 5 programme Return to the Wild (2021), meeting Nancy for the first time — she had been born since his previous visit. Her personality has become well-known to viewers through Our Farm Next Door: in a widely shared episode, Nancy celebrated her birthday with presents and a cake before confessing: “I think I forgot to tell people my birthday’s tomorrow. Not today. Umm, yeah.” The moment encapsulated the warmth and occasional wonderful chaos of family life at Ravenseat that has made the Owen series so compelling to viewers.
Ravenseat Farm: The Home
Location and Geography
Ravenseat Farm is a working hill farm located in Whitsun Dale at the top of Swaledale — one of the remotest and most dramatically beautiful of the Yorkshire Dales valleys. The nearest village is Keld in North Yorkshire, and the nearest town is Kirkby Stephen in Cumbria. Ravenseat sits at the very head of Swaledale, in a landscape of open moorland, limestone pavements, stone walls, and the specific visual palette of high-altitude northern English farming that has made the Yorkshire Dales National Park one of the most visited areas of natural beauty in the country.
The farm encompasses approximately 2,000 acres of upland grazing, predominantly used for sheep farming — primarily the hardy Swaledale breed that is synonymous with the upper dales landscape and that Amanda Owen manages as the core of the farm’s agricultural operation. At the time of filming in earlier series, the farm ran approximately 900 sheep and 30 cattle. Ravenseat is a tenanted farm — meaning the Owen family do not own the land but hold it under a farm tenancy — which has important implications for their long-term planning and for the significance of the Anty John’s purchase, which represents their first owned property in the valley.
The farm lies on the Coast-to-Coast walking route — Alfred Wainwright’s iconic 190-mile walk from St Bees on the Irish Sea coast to Robin Hood’s Bay on the North Sea — which means that walkers passing through regularly encounter the farm and have the opportunity (in season) to stop for cream teas that Amanda offers as a small additional income stream and a point of human connection with the walkers who pass through. This combination of working farm, film location, literary connection, and walking route access makes Ravenseat an unusually multidimensional rural destination.
Anty John’s Renovation
The central project driving Our Farm Next Door: Amanda, Clive and Kids is the renovation of Anty John’s — a derelict farmhouse adjacent to Ravenseat that Amanda and Clive Owen purchased when it came to market, making it their first owned rather than tenanted property in the valley. The purchase — described by Clive as “a dream come true” — was motivated by the need to plan for the long-term future of a family of eleven: with nine rapidly growing children, the question of where they will all eventually live and how they will build their own lives in the valley is an urgent practical challenge that Anty John’s is intended to partially address.
The renovation has been documented across multiple series of Our Farm Next Door, with Seasons 1 and 2 (2024, 2025) covering the exterior restoration — described as Yorkshire’s answer to Grand Designs by multiple journalists — and Series 3 and 4 (2026) moving inside to tackle the interior renovation: room layouts, plumbing installation, and the provision of running water to a building that lacked them. The challenge of renovating a remote listed property in one of England’s most demanding climates — with the fickle Yorkshire weather and the logistical difficulties of getting materials and tradespeople to an isolated location — has been one of the show’s central practical dramas.
Amanda has also used the Anty John’s project as an opportunity to investigate the history of the building and its most famous former resident, Swaledale map maker Anthony Clarkson — a historical dimension that gives the series an additional layer beyond pure renovation drama and reflects Amanda’s genuine curiosity about the landscape and heritage of the valley she has inhabited for two decades.
Our Farm Next Door: The Television Series
Series History and Channel
Our Farm Next Door: Amanda, Clive and Kids is produced by Leeds-based production company Wise Owl Films and airs on More4 (Channel 4’s free-to-air digital channel). The series was first commissioned after the cancellation of Our Yorkshire Farm on Channel 5, giving both the Owen family and their production team a new television home on a different broadcaster. The transition from Channel 5 to More4 represents a slight shift in the intended audience — More4 tends to attract a somewhat older and more rural-interest demographic than Channel 5’s mainstream reach — but the show has performed strongly within its scheduling context and attracted the kind of loyal, engaged viewership that makes it commercially attractive to Channel 4.
Series 1 aired in 2024 (10 episodes across two five-part runs). Series 2 aired in April 2025. Series 3 began on 19 January 2026 at 9pm on More4, airing five new episodes on Monday nights. A fourth series was confirmed simultaneously with the announcement of Series 3, meaning the show has already been guaranteed at least one further run beyond the current broadcast. On 15 August 2025, Channel 4 formally announced both the third and fourth series commissioning, with Amanda Owen expressing delight that the project would continue. The third and fourth series were filmed between May and December 2025.
Series 3: What’s Happening in January 2026
Series 3 of Our Farm Next Door, which began on 19 January 2026, focuses on the interior of Anty John’s — the phase of the renovation in which the physical structure of the building is transformed into a habitable home. With the exterior finally finished (the achievement of the first two series), the family and their team of local tradespeople now turn to plumbing installation, running water provision, room layout planning, and the interior design decisions that will determine how the building is used. The series also continues the day-to-day farming life narrative at Ravenseat itself — showing the seasonal demands of hill sheep farming, the animals, and the family’s rhythms.
The historical investigation strand — Amanda’s research into Anthony Clarkson, the Swaledale map maker who was Anty John’s most famous resident — continues across the new series, adding a discovery narrative to the renovation drama. Channel 4 commissioning editor Jayne Stanger described the show as “such a joy” to follow and expressed excitement about the continuation of the renovation journey and “the magnificent Yorkshire scenery we’re treated to in every episode.” Wise Owl series producer James Knight described watching the family work together as “an incredible ride.”
Practical Guide: Visiting Ravenseat Area
Getting to Ravenseat and the Yorkshire Dales
Ravenseat Farm itself is not a public visitor destination — it is a working farm and private residence — but the surrounding area of upper Swaledale is accessible to walkers and visitors and is one of the most beautiful landscapes in England. The nearest town with accommodation and transport connections is Richmond in North Yorkshire (approximately 15 miles from Ravenseat), which is served by bus services from Darlington. Kirkby Stephen in Cumbria is the nearest market town to the west and is served by trains on the Settle-Carlisle line.
For those walking the Coast-to-Coast route, Ravenseat Farm sits directly on the path and is a well-known stopping point. During summer months, Amanda Owen has offered cream teas to walkers — a seasonal service that provides a genuine opportunity to visit the farm in context while respecting it as a working environment. Visitors interested in the Yorkshire Dales more broadly should note that the National Park’s Visitor Centre is at Grassington, with further information centres at Reeth and Hawes in the Swaledale and Wensleydale areas respectively.
How to Watch Our Farm Next Door
Our Farm Next Door: Amanda, Clive and Kids airs on More4, which is available on Freeview channel 14, Sky channel 148, Virgin channel 149, and via the Channel 4 streaming service on its website and app (channel4.com). The streaming service is free to UK viewers with registration and is accessible on smartphones, tablets, smart TVs, and gaming consoles. All previous episodes of Our Farm Next Door are available to stream on the Channel 4 streaming service, alongside older Our Yorkshire Farm episodes on Channel 5’s My5 streaming platform.
Amanda Owen’s books — including The Yorkshire Shepherdess, A Year in the Life, Adventures of the Yorkshire Shepherdess, and The Farmer’s Wife — are available from all major book retailers including Waterstones, Amazon, and WHSmith, in hardback, paperback, and ebook formats. Prices typically range from approximately £9.99 for paperback to £16.99 for new hardback editions.
Following Amanda Owen and the Family on Social Media
Amanda Owen is active on Instagram (@AmandaOwen8) where she has over 400,000 followers, and on Twitter/X where she first built her public profile as @AmandaOwen8 Yorkshire Shepherdess. Her Instagram is the primary source for family updates, farming photography, and news about the television series. Reuben Owen maintains his own Instagram presence and has a following commensurate with his own television profile. Raven Owen has a personal Instagram with approximately 30,000 followers as of her 2022 graduation, though she maintains a deliberately lower public profile than her mother or brother Reuben.
For the latest news about Our Farm Next Door and the Owen family, the More4 programme page and Channel 4’s press releases are the most authoritative sources, alongside Amanda Owen’s social media accounts. The Farmers Guardian, Yorkshire Post, and Hello! magazine are among the publications that most consistently and accurately cover Owen family news.
FAQs
Who is Raven Owen?
Raven Owen is the eldest of Amanda Owen’s nine children, born in April 2001 at Ravenseat Farm in Swaledale, Yorkshire. She studied biomedical science at York St John University in York and graduated in 2022 with First Class Honours, achieving a mark of 72.67. She works as a scientist and has volunteered for the NHS. She returns to Ravenseat to help with lambing season and appears in the family’s More4 television series Our Farm Next Door. She is described by her mother Amanda as “very academic” and is approximately 23–24 years old in 2025–26.
Does Raven Owen have a baby?
As of March 2026, there is no confirmed news of Raven Owen being pregnant or having a baby. She is a biomedical science graduate currently working as a scientist, who is known to return to Ravenseat Farm to help her family. The high search volume for “Raven Owen baby” appears to relate primarily to the widely shared December 2025 story about the dramatic circumstances of Raven’s own birth in 2001 — when she became stuck during labour, requiring a blue-lights hospital dash from the remote Ravenseat Farm location.
How many children does Amanda Owen have?
Amanda Owen has nine children with her ex-husband Clive Owen: Raven (born April 2001), Reuben (born 2002), Miles (born 2003), Edith (born 2007), Violet (born 2008), Sidney (born 2009), Annas (born 2010), Clementine (known as Clemmy, born approximately 2014), and Nancy (born approximately 2014). The family is commonly referred to as “the 11-strong Owen family” (Amanda, Clive, and nine children), though Amanda and Clive are now separated.
What is Our Farm Next Door?
Our Farm Next Door: Amanda, Clive and Kids is an observational documentary series on More4 (Channel 4) following Amanda Owen, Clive Owen, and their nine children as they renovate a derelict neighbouring farmhouse — known locally as Anty John’s — adjacent to Ravenseat Farm in Swaledale. Series 1 aired in 2024, Series 2 in April 2025, and Series 3 began on 19 January 2026. A fourth series has already been commissioned. The show is produced by Leeds-based Wise Owl Films.
Are Amanda and Clive Owen still together?
No. Amanda and Clive Owen separated in June 2022 after 22 years together. They remain closely connected as co-parents to their nine children and continue to work together on the Our Farm Next Door television series and the Anty John’s renovation project. Both live at or near Ravenseat Farm — Amanda in a separate farmhouse on the land, Clive at the original farm. Their co-parenting arrangement is widely regarded as one of the more functionally positive examples of separated parenting in the British public eye.
What did Raven Owen study at university?
Raven Owen studied biomedical science at York St John University in York. She graduated in 2022 with First Class Honours, achieving a mark of 72.67. During her studies she expressed aspirations to work on the development of coronavirus vaccines. Amanda Owen described Raven as “always in the library, a laboratory or a catering van” — capturing the combination of academic dedication and the part-time work that characterised her university years.
Where is Ravenseat Farm?
Ravenseat Farm is located in Whitsun Dale at the top of Swaledale in the Yorkshire Dales, North Yorkshire. The nearest village is Keld in North Yorkshire and the nearest town is Kirkby Stephen in Cumbria. It is a tenanted working hill farm of approximately 2,000 acres, running primarily Swaledale sheep. The farm sits on the Coast-to-Coast walking route, meaning walkers regularly pass through the area. The farm is approximately 15 miles from the market town of Richmond, North Yorkshire.
What happened to Our Yorkshire Farm?
Our Yorkshire Farm, the Channel 5 observational documentary series that first made the Owen family nationally famous, ran for five series from its premiere on 27 November 2018 until its cancellation by Channel 5 in June 2022. The cancellation was announced almost simultaneously with Amanda and Clive Owen’s confirmed separation, though Channel 5 stated the decision was editorial rather than personal. Our Farm Next Door: Amanda, Clive and Kids on More4 (Channel 4) is the successor series, bringing the family back to television in the context of the Anty John’s renovation project from 2024 onwards.
What is Anty John’s?
Anty John’s is the informal local name for a derelict farmhouse adjacent to Ravenseat Farm that Amanda and Clive Owen purchased when it came to market — the family’s first owned (rather than tenanted) property in the valley. The renovation of Anty John’s is the central project documented in Our Farm Next Door: Amanda, Clive and Kids. Series 1 and 2 covered the exterior restoration; Series 3 and 4 (2026) cover the interior renovation including installing plumbing, running water, and planning the room layout. Clive Owen described the Anty John’s purchase as “a dream come true” and as a property that will provide a base for the family’s future.
What is Reuben Owen doing now?
Reuben Owen, the second-eldest of the Owen children, has built a significant television career in his own right. He starred in Beyond the Yorkshire Farm: Reuben and Clive (Channel 5, 2022) with his father and subsequently launched his solo series Reuben Owen: Life in the Dales on Channel 5. He also operates his own digger and contracting business, R.Owen Contracting, which he established in partnership with his father Clive. He appears in Our Farm Next Door alongside the rest of the family. He is approximately 23 years old in 2025–26.
When does Our Farm Next Door Series 3 air?
Our Farm Next Door: Amanda, Clive and Kids Series 3 began airing on More4 on Monday 19 January 2026 at 9pm, with five new episodes airing weekly on Monday nights. The series — filmed between May and December 2025 — focuses on the interior renovation of Anty John’s. A fourth series has already been commissioned by Channel 4 and will air in 2026. Previous episodes are available on the Channel 4 streaming service (channel4.com).
How can I watch Our Farm Next Door?
Our Farm Next Door: Amanda, Clive and Kids airs on More4, available on Freeview channel 14, Sky 148, and Virgin 149. It is also available to stream free of charge via the Channel 4 streaming service at channel4.com and on the Channel 4 app for iOS, Android, and smart TVs. UK viewers can watch all episodes on demand following their broadcast, with registration required for the streaming service. More4 is part of Channel 4’s family of channels and does not require a separate subscription.
To Conclude
Raven Owen — the eldest daughter of Amanda Owen and Clive Owen, First Class Honours biomedical science graduate, scientist, and returning farm helper at Ravenseat during lambing season — is one of the more quietly admirable figures in the Owen family story. She grew up on one of England’s most remote farms, the eldest of nine children in a household that became one of British television’s most-watched family stories, and has consistently chosen to build her own path — academic, scientific, and deliberately lower-profile than the celebrity-adjacent world in which her family operates — rather than extending her television exposure.
The Owen family as a whole represents something genuinely unusual and genuinely valuable in British public life: a real family, living a real life in one of England’s most beautiful and most challenging landscapes, navigating separation, growing up, changing seasons, and ambitious renovations with an honesty and warmth that has connected them to millions of viewers across nearly a decade of television. From Our Yorkshire Farm’s premiere in 2018 to the January 2026 launch of Our Farm Next Door Series 3, the essential quality that has made them compelling has remained constant — the authentic texture of a life lived close to the land and to each other, in a place where the weather is unforgiving, the work is perpetual, and the rewards are real.
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