Harriet Cowan, the farmer who became a breakout star of Clarkson’s Farm, has bought a 100-acre livestock holding in Derbyshire for about £1.7 million.
The 25-year-old is understood to have purchased Flatts Farm at Darley Bridge, near Matlock and Bakewell, after it was marketed for £1.765 million. She plans to move into the property with her boyfriend, fellow farmer James Booth, later this year.
The farm includes a three-bedroom detached farmhouse, a two-bedroom stone barn conversion and extensive pasture. The main holding is understood to cover about 75 acres, with a further 32 acres acquired through a separate arrangement.
Flatts Farm, on the edge of the Peak District, had been operated by the same family for more than 80 years. It was previously run as a dairy unit before being converted to suckler beef production.
Cowan is expected to develop the property as a cattle-fattening enterprise, following the model used by her father, Eddy, on the family farm near Belper. She has also discussed the possibility of opening a butcher’s shop on the site.
She told The Daily Telegraph that owning a farm had been her ambition since childhood, revealing during an interview that she had “just bought one”. At the time, she said the property was in the Darley Dale area, around 20 minutes from her family’s holding.
Cowan and Booth met as teenagers through the Belper Young Farmers Club. Booth runs his own 100-acre farm nearby, but Cowan has said she wanted land of her own rather than eventually taking over her father’s operation.
“You feel like you’re being watched by your dad a bit here,” she said of working on the family farm.
Her purchase follows a rapid rise to public attention. Cowan was approached by producers of Clarkson’s Farm after building an online following with videos filmed during her work on the farm. She joined the Amazon Prime Video series as a temporary replacement for Kaleb Cooper while he was away on tour.
The Derbyshire farmer quickly became a prominent figure in the fourth series, working alongside Jeremy Clarkson at Diddly Squat Farm in the Cotswolds. Clarkson later described her as a “pocket-sized powerhouse”, praising her work rate.
Before turning to farming and media work full-time, Cowan trained and worked as an NHS community nurse. She has since said she left regular nursing shifts to concentrate on agriculture, content creation and other opportunities arising from her television appearance.
Her combined TikTok and Instagram following is now understood to be approaching 1.5 million. She has also written a book, Life on the Farm: Resilience, Family and the Realities of a Farming Life, aimed at offering an account of modern agricultural work and encouraging more young people to consider a career in the sector.
Cowan has said that she hopes her public profile will help challenge conventional ideas about who can work in farming. She has also spoken about the pressures facing the industry, including financial uncertainty, the loss of agricultural land and mental-health difficulties among farmers.
The move to Flatts Farm will give her the opportunity to establish an independent farming business of her own, while remaining close to her family and the rural community where she began working with livestock and machinery.
