Our Yorkshire Farm's Amanda Owen first look reveals big changes ahead of new series

A first look at Amanda Owen's new Our Farm Next Door series reveals changes for the family, Ravenseat and their new home Anty John's.

Our Yorkshire Farm's Amanda Owen first look reveals big changes ahead of new series

Our Yorkshire Farm star Amanda Owen and her family can be seen facing some big changes in a first look at their return to television.

Amanda, her former husband Clive and their children became familiar faces to millions through the Channel 5 programme, which documented their unconventional family life at remote Ravenseat Farm in Swaledale.

Several years on, the Owens are preparing to return for a fourth series of Our Farm Next Door: Amanda, Clive and Kids, and a new 40-second teaser offers a glimpse at just how much has changed.

The first-look footage moves rapidly between life at Ravenseat, the family's children, animals and the continuing transformation of Anty John's, the centuries-old farmhouse Amanda has spent years restoring.

Anty John's (Image: CHANNEL 4)

And while much of the new series will again revolve around the huge building project, some of the most noticeable changes involve the children viewers first got to know on Our Yorkshire Farm.

The new series was filmed across winter 2025 and spring 2026 and will take viewers from Christmas at Ravenseat through a harsh Swaledale winter and into spring.

Here's what the first look reveals ahead of the Owens' return.

Anty John's is finally starting to look like a home

Anty John's has been a building site for much of Our Farm Next Door, but the first-look footage shows how dramatically things are beginning to change inside.

The restoration is entering its third year and the focus is increasingly moving from major building work to creating rooms in which the family can actually live.

New footage offers glimpses inside the farmhouse as work continues on its floors, walls and distinctive interior.

Wise Owl Films, the production company behind Our Farm Next Door, said the property's plastered walls are "finally dry", meaning work inside can move forward.

The company said: "With the Swaledale farmhouse's plastered walls finally dry, work inside the centuries-old building can move on, as floorboards arrive, painting begins, and individual rooms start to take shape with furniture acquired by Amanda over the years."

Clive and the children will continue helping Amanda as the transformation progresses.

For viewers who remember the scale of the task when the Anty John's project began, the new footage provides one of the clearest indications yet that the farmhouse is moving beyond being a restoration project and towards becoming the Owens' new family home.

The children viewers remember from Our Yorkshire Farm are growing up

The changing farmhouse is only half the story.

The teaser also provides a snapshot of how different life now looks for Amanda and Clive's children.

Millions of viewers watched the nine siblings growing up at Ravenseat during Our Yorkshire Farm, when many of the younger children were still small.

Now they are increasingly developing their own interests and taking on responsibilities around the farm.

Amanda, Clive and family (Image: CHANNEL 4)

Wise Owl Films said the Owen children "continue to forge their own" and very different paths in the fourth series.

Youngest daughter Nancy provides perhaps the biggest contrast.

She still dreams of becoming both a farmer and a ballerina, with the new first-look footage offering a glimpse of the different worlds which are increasingly becoming part of her life.

Edith, meanwhile, is preparing for key exams while also getting ready to take charge of Ravenseat's cream tea van for walkers passing through the dale.

Sid faces a major farming milestone of his own.

He will take his tractor test, which could allow him to take on greater responsibility around Ravenseat.

Their changing lives mean the new series is not simply documenting what happens next with Anty John's.

It is also capturing another stage in the lives of children whom viewers have watched growing up on television.

New arrivals after the loss of Chalky

The first-look footage also puts the animals of Ravenseat firmly back in the picture.

The fourth series follows the family after the death of their much-loved dog Chalky.

But viewers have already been promised some new arrivals.

Wise Owl Films said: "Following the passing of their beloved dog Chalky, there's some new four-legged additions to the farm causing chaos and keeping all the family on their toes."

The teaser now offers viewers their first visual clues about those new additions.

They will join an already considerable collection of animals at Ravenseat.

The family continues to look after a huge flock of sheep as well as cows, goats, horses and ponies, peacocks and chickens.

And while much has changed since the Our Yorkshire Farm years, animals and the daily demands of looking after them remain at the heart of the Owens' lives.

Amanda and Clive back with the family at Christmas

The new footage also offers a glimpse of the family together around the festive period.

Series four was filmed from winter 2025 into spring 2026, with Christmas Day celebrations at Ravenseat among the events set to feature.

Amanda and Clive announced their separation in 2022 after 22 years of marriage but have continued to work together in areas of their family and farming lives.

Amanda Owen (Image: CHANNEL 4)

Both will again appear in Our Farm Next Door alongside their children.

Wise Owl Films said that despite the work taking place at Anty John's, "life at Ravenseat carries on as usual".

That includes Christmas before the family heads into the depths of a Swaledale winter.

The programme will eventually take viewers all the way through to the Easter lambing season.

A huge job across the Swaledale moors

Some of the outdoor footage also provides a reminder that Anty John's remains an exceptionally difficult place to renovate.

The family faces one of the project's biggest jobs yet in the new series – getting a piped water supply into the farmhouse for the first time.

That involves bringing the supply across the surrounding moorland.

Wise Owl Films described it as "one of the project's most significant milestones".

And the winter weather is not expected to make the task easy.

Amanda Owen (Image: CHANNEL 4)

The work is significant because Anty John's is increasingly reaching the point where the facilities needed for everyday family life have to be put in place.

Dry plaster, painted walls and furniture might make it look more like a home, but getting running water into the isolated property is another matter altogether.

Amanda discovers more about the family who lived at Anty John's

While the farmhouse is being transformed for a new generation, Amanda is also continuing to look backwards.

She will discover more about Anthony Clarkson, his wife Mally and their children, who are part of the history of Anty John's.

Wise Owl Films said Amanda will uncover more of the "fascinating and moving history" behind the farmhouse.

She will also reflect on parallels between the lives of the Clarkson family and the Owens.

It adds another dimension to the restoration, with Amanda trying to understand the people who once called Anty John's home while her own family prepares to do the same.

That interest in the past will also take Amanda and some of the children away from Swaledale.

Why the Owens visit Beamish Museum

Amanda and the children will be seen visiting Beamish Museum in County Durham, but it is not simply a family day out.

The trip is connected directly to Anty John's.

The younger girls want joiner Philip to build a cupboard bed inside their new home and the family will visit the open-air museum looking for inspiration.

Wise Owl Films said Amanda and the children "leave the farm for a day out at Beamish Museum to draw inspiration for a cupboard bed" for the property.

Amanda Owen and Miles Owen (Image: CHANNEL 4)

The unusual feature is another indication of how the focus at Anty John's is changing.

Instead of simply rebuilding walls and making the property secure, the Owens are increasingly making decisions about how their new home will actually look and feel.

From Our Yorkshire Farm to a new family home

The biggest reveal from the first-look footage may therefore not be one individual moment.

It is how much the Owens' world has changed.

The children viewers remember growing up at Ravenseat on Our Yorkshire Farm are taking exams, preparing to drive tractors, running the cream tea van and pursuing interests of their own.

At the same time, Anty John's is undergoing its own transformation.

Clemmie Owen (Image: CHANNEL 4)

The derelict farmhouse the family took on is gaining floors, painted walls, furniture and a water supply.

And by the end of the new series, those two stories will come together.

Wise Owl Films said: "The series ends in the height of Spring with a never-to-be-forgotten day as Amanda and the girls prepare for their first sleepover at Anty John's."

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It will be the clearest indication yet that the project is becoming more than a restoration.

After years of work, the Owens will finally be preparing to sleep in the house they have been bringing back to life.

And for viewers who have followed Amanda, Clive and their children since Our Yorkshire Farm, the new footage provides a snapshot of two transformations happening side by side – the old farmhouse becoming a home while the children who grew up at Ravenseat increasingly forge lives of their own.

Our Farm Next Door: Amanda, Clive and Kids returns to More4 at 9pm on Monday, October 5.