Celebrating the Seasons with the Yorkshire Shepherdess: Farming, Family and Delicious Recipes to Share

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The Sunday Times bestseller, now in paperback with new material covering another twelve months on the farm with the Yorkshire Shepherdess. In Celebrating the Seasons, Amanda Owen shares funny and charming stories about life with her family and their many four-legged charges and describes their activities at Ravenseat, from lambing and shearing in spring to haymaking in summer and feeding the flock in midwinter. She vividly evokes the famous Swaledale landscape, from the sweeping moors to rare wildflowers and elusive hares glimpsed in the field. Amanda lives in tune with nature, and her attitude to food is the same. She believes in using good, seasonal ingredients when it comes to feeding her family, and includes some of her favourite recipes here, from wild garlic lamb with hasselback potatoes to rhubarb and custard crumble cake and Yorkshire curd tart. The book also includes her Dalesman columns, published in book form for the first time and giving new insights into her life. As inspirational as Amanda herself, this book will delight everyone who has followed her adventures so far.

Amanda Owen is a shepherdess, mother to nine children, a passionate photographer and a Sunday Times bestselling author. Amanda and her husband Clive live a life that has almost gone in today's modern world, one ruled by the seasons and their animals. Home is Ravenseat, a 2,000-acre hill farm at the head of Swaledale in North Yorkshire, one of the highest, most remote places in England. Amanda has been seen by millions on C5's Our Yorkshire Farm, and is a roving reporter for Springtime on the Farm and This Week on the Farm as well as a regular guest on ITV's Countrywise. She is the author of the top ten bestsellers The Yorkshire Shepherdess, A Year in the Life of the Yorkshire Shepherdess, The Adventures of the Yorkshire Shepherdess and Celebrating the Seasons with the Yorkshire Shepherdess.

Our Yorkshire Farm, about the life of the Yorkshire shepherdess Amanda Owen and her family is Channel 5's highest rated factual programme, with nearly four million viewers. * Daily Mail * [It's] got the right measure of farming information, mixed with Amanda's delicious recipes and peppered with her signature Huddersfield humour * Northern Life Magazine * Includes ... recipes for wild mushroom soup, hedgerow nutty crumble - and happiness * Saga * [Full] of ... favourite family recipes * Yorkshire Post * Amanda's accounts of each month's challenges are both gripping and poetic . . . will appeal to anyone who loves Yorkshire or the thought of country life * Woman's Weekly *