SHEPHERDESS PROFILES

HANNAH JACKSON

Age 28 • Lives and works on a family farm plus rented land at Croglin, Cumbria; 70 acres with 250 sheep, three dogs, goats and a pig, chickens, ducks and horses • Instagram @redshepherdess • Website redshepherdess.co.uk

ALISON O’NEILL

Age 56 • Lives and works on a tenant hill farm at Firbank, Sedbergh, Cumbria; 37 acres as well as open fell with 150 native-breed fell sheep, one horse, sheepdogs Shadow and Mac • Instagram @theoriginalshepherdess Website shepherdess.co.uk

AMANDA OWEN

Age 45 • Lives and works on a tenant hill farm in the Yorkshire Dales near Richmond; over 2,000 acres with over 1,000 sheep (850 breed ewes), 45 cows, horses, eight dogs • Instagram @yorkshireshepherdess • Website yorkshireshepherdess.com

ZOË COLVILLE

Age 30 • Lives and works on rented pastures in and around Maidstone, Wrotham and Southfleet in Kent; 500 sheep, 50 goats, 20 cows, a springer spaniel called Indie • Instagram @thechiefshepherdess • Website thelittlefarmfridge.co.uk