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Amanda Owen is a woman who can do anything; from running a 2,000 acre farm to battling the harsh Yorkshire moors and then there’s the small matter of looking after nine children with husband Clive Owen. So how does the Our Yorkshire Farm’s shepherdess stay in such good shape?
Farmer and writer Amanda, lives at Ravenseat Farm in Swaledale, Yorkshire with 175 sheep, 50 hens, a few cockerels, around 20 cows and a bull, five sheepdogs and two horses Tony the pony and a new Clydesdale, Hazel.
With a lot of rearing and feeding to do – bot human and animal, it is no surprise Amanda is physically fit and healthy.
Having started out as a model, Amanda, 45, gave all that up for farm life.
After meeting Clive when she was just 21, Amanda has gone onto give brith to nine children; Raven, 20, Reuben, 17, Miles, 15, Edith, 12, Violet, 10, Sidney, nine, Anna, seven, Clemmy, five, Nancy, four.
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So how does she maintain her shape and is there a diet she follows?
During a previous interview with Amanda put her good looks down to “fakery” and “wearing big underwear”.
“Every day is a workout here, I’m always chasing after sheep or children,” she told the presenters.
So what is a typical day for the mother of nine? Well, there isn’t one.
“It’s always very much about the weather, from sheep shearing to making hay to clipping hogs (young sheep), at the moment I’ve got another 800 to do, which will keep me out of mischief for a bit,” she said back in July 2020.
“It’s like a keep-fit regime and it can actually be quite back-breaking.
“There’s always something happening on a farm and if you’re not working, then you’re ignoring something.
“There are gaps in the walls to rebuild, cattle need moving, it’s a constant ongoing thing. There’s never a quiet time and the washing machine is always going,” This Is Y magazine published.
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As for what Amanda eats she explained she doesn’t choose anything “too adventurous or fancy” and the family “eat all meals together” and “everyone get the same”.
“Just things that I can put in the Range oven whilst we are outside and ignore until it’s teatime,” she revealed.
“Properly done jacket potatoes with the lovely crispy skins for lunch, soups, stews… Sounds dull but it needn’t be.
“I like seasonal vegetables and buy big sacks of carrots and potatoes as they kept well in our stone larder.
“We will eat some of our meat too, we have pigs, lambs and bullocks, so you need some foolproof recipes and need to be able to supersize everything,” Amanda explained.
This Morning: Amanda Owen details fruit crumble ingredients
“Nothing is ever wasted, there is a hierarchy of people and animals that polish off any leftovers or they are incorporated into the next day’s meal.
“I buy 25 kilo sacks of flour and rice, oats and other staples, as over the wintertime we can be snowed in, so it’s important that I keep the larder well stocked,” she told My Baba back in 2014.
More recently, Amanda has appeared on This Morning with some of her children to show viewers how they can recreate some of the Owen family favourites.
Last month, she appeared took those watching at home through the steps to make a fruit crumble.
She even shared her recipe for Toad In the Hole but with a twist.
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