Our Yorkshire Farm

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.

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.

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.

The Owens help Swaledale Mountain Rescue to stage a training exercise on their land. Clive and Amanda have volunteered their children to take part, by turning the drill into a gigantic game of hide and seek.

The family tackles life in lockdown, just as lambing season gets into full swing. The film crew aren't allowed on the farm so Amanda uses her phone to film a video diary - ably assisted by the children.

This week the family battle through two brutal winter storms. While they fight the elements to feed the flock, mum Amanda is powerless to stop the only livestock trailer being washed away down the swollen river.

Inspired by the discovery that the farm is over 700 years old, Edith and Violet search an old barn for signs of life left behind by previous shepherding families. Clemmy helps Amanda treat an ewe with a nasty ailment.

It is Christmas time on Ravenseat Farm, and all nine children are home for the holidays. Four-year-old Clemmy has her hands full nursing a premature calf. Clive has rigged up an ancient contraption to cook the festive roast.

Late summer means it is haymaking time on the farm, but a storm halts the harvest and causes flooding. The family are left in doubt if they will manage to fill their barns with the feed they need for their livestock over winter.

With Summer here, the family must gather all 1,000 sheep and shear them of their woolly winter coats. Disaster strikes when Amanda and Clive wake up to find their all-important quad-bikes have been stolen.

The Owens send their spring lambs up onto the moors. Reuben fixes up a dirt bike for little brother Sid. Amanda returns from Appleby Horse Fair with a surprise.

It is the Easter holidays and while the children are out of school their lessons on the farm are just beginning. The family learn the highs and lows of lambing, build a dog kennel and save a lamb with a broken leg.

The family prepare the sheep for the auction ring. The children are busy baking entries for the village farm show. Clive waits to see if his best sheep will be crowned champion.

Clive and Amanda face the challenge of make the farm's hay crop in the searing heat of the Summer heatwave, while also entertaining their children during the summer school holidays.

Spring brings some welcome new arrivals to the farm. 14-year-old Reuben leads his siblings on a rescue mission to find a missing lamb and when Clive skins a dead lamb 3-year-old Clemmy learns about an age-old adoption technique.

As a blizzard blasts the farm, the Owen family must protect their 1,000-strong flock of sheep, and mend the farm machinery to keep the animals fed.

Enjoy the glorious Yorkshire landscape in all its wintry, carol-singing splendour.

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.

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.