Ravenseat Farm’s revived cream tea service has become a small but visible marker of the Owen family’s next generation taking on responsibilities, with Edith Owen now running the operation from a pop-up serving hatch.

The development comes as Our Farm Next Door: Amanda, Clive and Kids returns for a fourth series, following the family’s work restoring a 200-year-old farmhouse in the Yorkshire Dales. Both accounts frame the reopened tea business less as a television storyline than as a return to the work Amanda Owen did before the family became widely known through Our Yorkshire Farm.

Speaking at an event in Northallerton, Amanda Owen described the venture in characteristically practical terms: “It’s an empire built on cups of tea really, where any good business starts.” She said the farm had previously served cream teas to people walking the Coast to Coast route, before the service stopped and was later brought back with Edith in charge.¹

A second account similarly emphasises the family’s view that the business gives Edith an opening to build something of her own. “We gave Edith the little pop-up serving hatch, and she’s made a business out of it,” Amanda Owen said, adding that it was “exciting to see the children getting opportunities.”²

The reports also recount a lighter family anecdote: Edith briefly “fired” her younger sister, Clemmy, after Clemmy sighed when a customer asked for a photograph. The episode is presented as part of the ordinary pressures of serving visitors rather than a serious dispute.

Supporters responding to Amanda Owen’s social-media post praised the service and Edith’s work. One visitor called the offerings the “Best scones I’ve ever tasted” and said they intended to return, while another wrote that Edith “should feel proud” of what she had achieved.¹

The two perspectives differ chiefly in presentation, not substance: each treats the tea room’s revival as a family-business success, tied to the farm’s history while giving Edith a more independent public role.