
Our Yorkshire Farm (2018)
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Reuben Owen as Self - Oldest Son
Episodes 28
5 Years with the Owen family
After 5 years following the Owen family we return to Ravenseat Farm for a special episode looking back at how their unique way of parenting has shaped their nine children.
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Festive celebrations with Jane McDonald, and Amanda and Clive Owen and family from Our Yorkshire Farm. Plus, there are contributions from Julian Norton and Peter Wright from The Yorkshire Vet, and Friday on the Farm stars Rob and Dave Nicholson. As the people of Harrogate get their town ready for the Christmas festivities, cameras follow busy workers from the county doing their bit.
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There are new beginnings on the horizon for the Owen family as the children take on more responsibilities, and later they decide to purchase neighbouring derelict farmhouse that they are hoping to bring back to life. Elsewhere, eight-year-old Sidney is given a sheepdog puppy to train, and 16-year-old Reuben leaves school behind to start his dream job as a mechanic.
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Clive decides to introduce a sheepdog puppy to the flock for the first time, and Miles and Sidney take on more responsibilities on the farm while Reuben is busy working full time at his apprenticeship. Disappointed to miss the renowned annual Muker Fell race, Clive and Amanda decide to host their very own competition on home turf, across three miles of Ravenseat's toughest moorland.
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Autumn is a busy time for the Owens now they have bought an abandoned 30-acre farm with four barns and a derelict farmhouse, which requires renovation work by a specialist builder as it is a listed building set in a national park. Sidney continues training his sheepdog Nell, while Violet tends to nine-month-old calf Ciara, an animal she has hand-reared after its mother suffered an udder infection.
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The Owen family members try their hand at self-sufficiency with their very first dairy cow, and Reuben accompanies his mum and younger sisters to pick up Buttercup from a neighbouring farm. Back at the farm, the family take on the toughest job ahead of the imminent breeding season, rounding up the free-roaming ewes who have spread themselves across hundreds of acres of wild moorland.
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It is Christmas at Ravenseat Farm, and all nine children are home for the holidays, and this year, the family is busier than ever with a lot of calves to deliver. Fourteen-year-old Miles and his younger brother Sidney are asked to relocate their flock of hens, and work is piling up in the cowshed as Amanda's prize heifer Lily May is due to give birth to twin calves.
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The family tackle their second lockdown during one of the worst winters they have ever faced, and have to juggle work on the farm with the childrens' homeschooling. Later, when an arctic blizzard batters the farm, Amanda and Clive face a desperate search to find their lost sheep, and Clemmie and the rest of the children have to give newborn Misty and the rest of their calves constant care in the freezing cold.
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Amanda attempts to forge a new partnership with Clive's headstrong young sheepdog and tragedy befalls the farm when 40-year-old Shetland pony Little Joe passes away. When ash dieback strikes, the family is forced to call in local fellow farmer Morris to help fell a decades-old tree and stop it collapsing onto a traditional stone barn. Using wood from the ancient tree, the children craft a headstone for Little Joe and help dad Clive lay the last of the earth on the pony's grave.
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The children are off school for the Easter holidays, and the family prepare for their busiest time of the year as lambing season begins. The lambing hospital shed has already began to fill up, so while nine-year-old Sid takes it upon himself to bed up a private room for a mother and her newborns, five-year-old Clemmie and seven-year-old Annas help Amanda deliver a pair of twins who are stuck.
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Clive is concerned the freezing spring weather is set to worsen, with over 500 lambs still on the way, and the family must travel across hundreds of acres twice a day to top up the food of their free-roaming sheep. When a ewe struggles to feed both its lambs, Amanda teaches Nancy how to borrow milk from another mother and use the farmhouse's warming oven to resuscitate a weak newborn.
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June arrives and Reuben has an entrepreneurial plan to start a digging business and shows Sidney how to flip a used trials bike, while Clive has a surprise for 12-year-old Edith - she's to become the proud new owner of a sheepdog puppy. While her siblings are at school, Amanda and Clive are encouraging Nancy's writing skills, tasking her to record the spring lambs that they are vaccinating and, to further Nancy's pre-school lessons, 20-year-old Raven encourages her to paint a name sign for Tony the pony's stable.
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It's the summer holidays, and 17-year-old Reuben has taken some time off to help his parents with their biggest summer job - hay cutting. Meanwhile, Amanda and Clive enlist the help of Miles and Edith to shear their thousand-strong flock, and later Amanda takes the children for a well-earned swim in one of the family's favourite swimming holes, where she reflects on their successful summer.
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Our BIG Yorkshire Christmas
Enjoy the glorious Yorkshire landscape in all its wintry, carol-singing splendour.
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