Clarkson’s Farm star Harriet Cowan has revealed she has quit her nursing job now that her new career has taken off.
The glam farmhand, 24, stole the show in series four as she arrived on screens to assist at Diddly Squat Farm while Jeremy Clarkson’s usual helper, Kaleb Cooper, was away.
And now, Harriet has revealed she’s got the ‘bug’ for agriculture, making it her sole career.
In new Instagram snaps Harriet looked glamorous in a yellow minidress before heading back to work on the farm and getting her hands dirty.
For the past few years Harriet has been balancing two jobs, and revealed she was working long hours as a nurse before switching into her farm gear to tend to the land and animals at her family’s spot.
Now the farmhand who temporarily took Caleb Kooper’s space at Diddly Squat Farm is focusing her time on agriculture.
Clarkson’s Farm star Harriet Cowan has revealed she has quit her nursing job now that her new career has taken off
The glam farmhand, 24, stole the show in series four as she arrived on screens to assist at Diddly Squat Farm while Jeremy Clarkson’s usual helper, Kaleb Cooper, was away
Harriet, from Belper, Derbyshire, also confirmed that she will be using her time to start a career on YouTube with her channel ‘Harriet On The Farm’.
Harriet explained: ‘The cat’s somewhat out of the bag. It’s true, I am no longer nursing because it appears I got the bug.
‘You definitely know what the bug is right, yeah I got the farming bug. And I’ve always had it but before, you know, I didn’t really have any other income.
‘The waits over, Harriet on the farm is coming your way on the 31st of August. I’m going to do bank shifts and I’m still going to be working in the NHS, but yeah just not daily.’
Since leaving the show, Harriet has returned to her family farm and shared a powerful message to the public and the government this week about the ‘dying industry’, asking them to ‘put British farming on the map’.
Harriet has been leading a campaign called Farm24, which sees farmers across the country showcase the best of British farming by sharing content on social media for 24 hours from 5am to 5am.
In a video filmed on her family farm, Harriet said: ‘Going forward I hope that the next generation of farms would be recognised more by the public and the government especially to put British farming on the map.
‘People should be aware that we are here and the government should invest more time and money into farming because we need it.
And now, Harriet has revealed she’s got the ‘bug’ for agriculture, making it her sole career as she gives up nursing full time
Harriet, from Belper, Derbyshire, also confirmed that she will be using her time to start a career on YouTube with her channel ‘Harriet On The Farm’
In new Instagram snaps Harriet looked glamorous in a yellow minidress before heading back to work on the farm and getting her hands dirty
‘I think it’s a bit of a dying industry otherwise.’
In another clip, she said: ‘Being out on my family farm, it’s so special to me because this is what my grandad bought it for. He wanted me and my sister and generations to come to own and farm this land.
‘Now that there’s so many farms being turned into housing and different things like factories and agricultural land isn’t being used for agricultural purposes anymore, I think it’s so important to just farm what my grandad bought.’
She added: ‘This is my happy place, being out in the fields and tractoring and contracting out to me and my sister.
‘We never want to lose this farm and it’s important to us that generations to come will farm this land.’
Harriet is heavily involved with her rural community which her grandparents joined in the 1950s when they bought the land which her father still farms.
When she’s not trying to keep Jeremy in line Harriet works at a cattle farm with her boyfriend, James, just a short distance from the family farm.
Prior to becoming Jeremy’s side-kick, Harriet had already been building her profile as a farmer on TikTok and had around 40,000 followers before joining the Diddly Squat team.
She told The Times recently that she now gets approached all the time, saying : ‘Mums have reached out to say my daughter’s wanting to go into farming.
‘Or I hear about four-year-old girls who want a toy tractor for Christmas, so that’s really nice.’
It was through her TikTok that Harriet was approached by the show, she said: ‘Charlie [Ireland, Clarkson’s land agent] let me know they were looking for someone to come and help.
‘I think they were keen for it to be a woman who could do that role and show they could do it well.’
The farmhand stepped in to assist Jeremy Clarkson for the fourth season of the series after Kaleb Cooper took some time off for his tour
Fans fell in love with Harriet’s glam style which did not hold her back from being an expert farmer
In a now famous scene from the recent series Harriet attempts to bring some glamour to Jeremy’s life by trying to pluck his eyebrows
Despite saying he’s not a natural born farmer, Harriet has praised Jeremy for his work at Diddly Squat saying he is, ‘very much like every other farmer I’ve ever met’ and ‘very much willing to learn. He wanted to do well by the farm.’
Poking fun, Harriet added that ‘he’s got the physique of a farmer’ too.
The glam farmhand added that other young farmers in her area couldn’t believe that she would be on Clarkson’s Farm.
She said: ‘They thought, “Ah, you’ll be in the back of the pub and they’ll have filmed the pub and the back of your head will be in it.” So when it came out they were, like, “Oh sh**, she is actually in it a bit more than I thought she was!”‘
Harriet’s fans have raved about her not letting go of her girlie style and look despite being a farmer but in conversation with The Times she opened up about the ‘challenges’ of being a young woman in the industry.
She said that her father told her and her sister that without a male heir, they would be stepping up to help.
Harriet added that she has loved showcasing that women can farm too and now has plans to start documenting life on her family farm on YouTube.
The fourth season of Clarkson’s Farm in which Harriet was introduced to viewers released to Prime Video in May.
