{"id":798175,"date":"2026-10-10T14:44:16","date_gmt":"2026-10-10T14:44:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/798175\/"},"modified":"2026-10-10T14:44:16","modified_gmt":"2026-10-10T14:44:16","slug":"reuben-owen-rescued-amanda-owen-and-our-farm-next-door-crews","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/798175\/","title":{"rendered":"Reuben Owen rescued Amanda Owen and Our Farm Next Door crews"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thenorthernecho.co.uk\/news\/26556167.amanda-owens-sons-miles-reuben-now---one-day-run-ravenseat\/?ref=ed_direct\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">The former Our Yorkshire Farm star has become known for his skills with machinery and his own heavy plant business<\/a> since viewers first watched him growing up at Ravenseat with parents Amanda and Clive and his eight siblings.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  But it has now emerged that those skills have proved particularly useful behind the scenes of the family&#8217;s television programmes.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thenorthernecho.co.uk\/news\/26570926.inside-yorkshire-farm-reuben-owens-life-farmer-girlfriend-jessica-ellwood\/?ref=ed_direct\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Reuben has rescued members of the production team on at least two occasions after they became stranded in difficult conditions<\/a>, as well as once coming to his mum&#8217;s aid during a snowstorm.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  <img   width=\"100%\" alt=\"Reuben Owen\"\/>Reuben Owen (Image: CHANNEL 4)\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The stories emerged during Our Farm Next Door: A Behind-the-Scenes Celebration at Everyman Northallerton on Wednesday, September 30.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  James Knight, creative director at Wise Owl Films, which produces Our Farm Next Door: Amanda, Clive and Kids, revealed how useful Reuben has proved when things have gone wrong during filming.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  He said: &#8220;He pulled us out of some scrapes at times.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  &#8220;He was our knight in shining armour at times.&#8221;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Amanda then joked about her son&#8217;s habit of being ready for action.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  She said: &#8220;He&#8217;s always in his hi-vis, bless him, and always on hand to help anyone.&#8221;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  One of the incidents involved a member of the camera team becoming stuck in floodwater while travelling in an electric van.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Reuben was called upon to help get them out.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thenorthernecho.co.uk\/news\/26537407.yorkshire-farms-reuben-owen-takes-new-tv-show-airing-soon\/?ref=ed_direct\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">On another occasion, severe snow in the Yorkshire Dales left members of the production team stranded, with Reuben again helping by towing the crew out.<\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The stories illustrate some of the difficulties faced by Wise Owl Films while documenting the Owen family&#8217;s lives in remote Upper Swaledale.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Knight also revealed during the Northallerton event that production drones have been attacked by nesting birds of prey, while winter weather and access can create major problems for camera crews.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  But Reuben&#8217;s rescues have not been confined to the television team.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  ## Reuben came to Amanda Owen&#8217;s rescue in snowstorm\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Amanda recalled how her son also rescued her after she became stranded in a snowstorm while returning from Kendal in Cumbria.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The incident meant the person coming to her aid was someone who had grown up learning how to handle the difficult conditions surrounding the family&#8217;s remote home.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Reuben became a familiar face through Our Yorkshire Farm, with viewers watching his enthusiasm for machinery develop from a young age.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  He has since gone on to establish his own business and front his own television programmes, including Life in the Dales.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The former Our Yorkshire Farm star has become known for his skills with machinery and his own heavy&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":798176,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[96,391,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-798175","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-entertainment","tag-tv","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/798175","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=798175"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/798175\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/798176"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=798175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=798175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=798175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}