Harriet Cowan has celebrated a major milestone, one year after the Clarkson's Farm star launched a new career away from Jeremy Clarkson's hit Amazon Prime series.
Cowan was drafted in by Clarkson during the series four premiere to help out at his 1,000 acre Diddly Squat Farm in Oxfordshire while farm manager Kaleb Cooper was away.
She won over fans with her down-to-earth attitude and no-nonsense responses to Clarkson, even admitting she had never watched the Amazon Prime series before appearing in it.
Last August, Cowan announced she was embarking on a new venture with the launch of her YouTube channel, Harriet on the Farm.
A year on, the gamble appears to have paid off.
The channel has attracted more than 35,000 subscribers, racked up over one million views and continues to document life on the farm with regular uploads.
Her first video, published on August 31, featured a Q&A answering questions from Clarkson's Farm fans.
Confirming she had left nursing to pursue farming full-time, she said: “It's true. I am no longer nursing because it appears I got the bug.
“The farming bug. And I've always had it, but before I didn't really have any other incomes.”
In April, Cowan took a playful swipe at her former co-star, Clarkson, telling The Times: “If a bloke thinks he knows better than me and starts talking s***, I’ll tell him so.”
She added: “When I was on Clarkson's Farm telling Jeremy what I thought, that was the real me. It wasn't put on for the cameras.”
During her introductory scene on Clarkson’s Farm last year, Cowan admitted she’d never actually watched a full episode of the hugely popular farming series.
“Well, you know on YouTube you get those 'shorts' where it's like funny moments? I've seen them. I ain't got time to watch all that," she told a stunned Clarkson.
Clarkson then gave Cowan a tour of the farm and pointed out a Neolithic fort that was “4000 years old”, prompting Cowan to quip: “Nearly as old as you.” She later attempted to trim Clarkson’s bushy eyebrows.
Since appearing on the show, Cowan has been praised for challenging sexist and outdated stereotypes about women in farming.
Last summer, she shared an exchange she had with a “60-year-old bloke” about her career.
Cowan said that when she told the man she was a nurse and a farmer, he responded: “Wait, you're a woman farmer? You mean you’re a farmer's wife?”
She responded: “I am a farmer.”
Speaking to the BBC about the experience of farming as a woman, Cowan previously shared: “I think when you talk to somebody and ask what they stereotypically think of when someone says farmer they say '60-year-old man with a checked shirt and a beer belly', and a lot of the time that is it, but us women are out here and farmers too.
“Just because I'm a small blonde who likes to curl her hair and wear make-up, it doesn't mean I can't be a farmer. I'm trying to change the norm of the man being the farmer and the woman being the stay-at-home wife and cook.
“When the war was on, women did all the farming, so we have always farmed - it's just changing that stereotype.”
