Now it's Harriet's Farm! Breakout star of Clarkson's Farm buys her own 100 acres of prime livestock grazing for £1.7million

She's the glamorous newest cast addition to the wildly popular Clarkson's Farm show who instantly won over viewers' hearts and helped keep ratings off the scale.

But now, in a move that may surprise the show's army of fans, Harriet Cowen - at the tender age of 25 - has spent a cool £1.7m to buy her own farm, the Daily Mail can reveal.

Harriet recently completed the purchase of 100-acres of prime grazing pasture land complete with a stunning farmhouse in rural Derbyshire - some 115 miles north of the Cotswolds farm that brought her national attention.

She is now planning to set up home there with fellow farmer boyfriend James Booth this autumn.

Harriet, who is from a farming family, has told in interviews how it's been her dream since childhood to have her own land but few would have imagined she could have achieved this just seven years after leaving school.

But such has been her extraordinary media success that it's afforded her the means.

Hailed, described as a 'pocket-sized powerhouse' by Clarkson, was head hunted by the production team behind the Amazon Prime reality show as a stand-in for regular cast member Caleb while he took a break.

She was already widely admired as a young farmer influencer even before her involvement but now she has amassed almost 1.5 million across TikTok and Instagram, which has afforded new commercial opportunities.

Harriet boasted in a media interview to promote her new book Life on the Farm, that she had achieved her goal and 'just bought a farm'.

She told the Daily Telegraph this week: 'It's quite secretive at the minute. I've not told many people that yet. But yeah, 100 acres, in Darley Dale, about 20 minutes north of here [her family's farm where the interview took place].'

But we can reveal that that property is Flatts Farm in Darley Bridge, Derbyshire, which was on the market for £1,765,000.

Flatts is this dairy and livestock farm on the edge of the Peak District which had previously been in the same family for 80 years.

But farmer owner David Gadsby passed away last year which has led to the sale.

A member of the Gadsby family confirmed to the Daily Mail this week that Harriet is the buyer but declined to discuss the details of the deal, insisting: 'It's not a done deal yet.'

But a local property source confirmed it has been sold subject to contract - with exchange having already gone through and completion expected in late September.

Ms Cowan is hoping that, once it is officially a done deal, she will be able to move in this autumn.

IIt is less than a half an hour drive from her father and step mum Vicky's cattle farm in Belper, Derbyshire.

Now she is looking forward to the challenging task of running her own business - as her fellow farmer boyfriend James Booth does too - while not being under the eagle eye of her father Eddy, from whom she's learned the trade but admits: 'You feel like you're being watched by your dad a bit here!'

Her new home will be the spacious three-bedroom detached farmhouse 'nestled in an attractive garden' plus a two-bedroom stone barn conversion.

It is set in around 75 acres, and has another 32 acres which it is understood she has purchased under a separate negotiation.

The estate agent particulars state: 'Flatts Farm offers a well established livestock and dairy farm with flexible accommodation and excellent pasture land.

'It is situated in a lovely rural position on the outskirts of Darley Bridge, a village located between Matlock and Bakewell, in the heart of the Derbyshire dales only minutes from the Peak District.

The estate has been managed 'to the highest level' by the same family for more than 80 years with the current owner managing it successfully as a dairy unit for the past four decades until recently switching to suckler beef production

Ms Cowan, with her nursing degree and sporting long blonde-haired and brightly polished nails, is not a stereotypical farmer.

She enjoys fashion - proclaiming herself a 'girly girl' - as well as going out partying and getting her hair, nails and lashes done.

Since appearing on the fourth series of Clarkson's Farm in 2025 her profile has grown enormously and she jokes that she gets '500 marriage proposals a day.'

But she is at home on a tractor and is a hard grafter who impressed Clarkson, with the former Top Gear host remarking: 'All farmers work hard, but she set new standards. I don't think I ever saw her sit still!'

She chose to concentrate on farming after quitting community nursing, saying: 'I got to the point where I gave up nursing and wanted to farm full time.

'I needed a farm!'

She didn't want to wait for a time to take over her family farm and can't wait to be going it alone.

She said: 'You feel like you're being watched by your dad a bit here, and I know that James's farm will always be his.'

She has an older sister Izzy who works at a farm on the nearby Chatsworth Estate.

Ms Cowan met her partner James, 28, a third generation farmer at Belper Young Farmers Club when they were teenagers.

She plans to turn her farm - the same acreage as her father's which also has stunning views - into a cattle-fattening business much like his.

Where he supplies the local butcher, conveniently run by an uncle, she plans to put a butcher's shop on site.

She told the Telegraph: 'I don't know if that's where the money is. There isn't really money anywhere [in the farming sector]. But it's what I know. We'll have Belgian Blues like here. But here we've also got Aberdeen Angus, Holstein Friesians. We fatten, get them to 18 months, then off to market.'

Ms Cowan will continue her influencer output which aims to change the perception of the typical life and look of a farmer.

She said the intention to become a role model was partly why she accepted the Clarkson's Farm opportunity, after the programme makers reached out to her to temporarily replace Kaleb at the 1,000-acre Diddly Squat Farm in Oxfordshire.

She said: 'I thought, well, if a young girl sees it and thinks that's what she'd like to do, she might see me and go, 'If Harriet can do it, I can as well.'

She hopes to inspire a future generation of farmers and plans to host young people, particularly those from cities, at her new farm.

She wants to teach kids 'that milk comes from cows, cows make steaks and burgers, pigs make bacon and sausages, and that we shouldn't get too attached to things.'

She added: 'At the end of the day, that's how it's been for centuries. We eat the food we grow, and that makes us grow. That's what I want to show kids. That this is real life. This is farming.'

Although she was already fixated on farming, Ms Cowan's step mum Vicky, a nurse, insisted on a fallback option, so she took a degree in nursing from the University of Derby.

She trained throughout the latter years of Covid while doubling up with farm work, heeling her dad out early mornings late evenings and weekends between during shifts.

She previously said: 'I did enjoy nursing, but farming was always a passion. When I finished a day of nursing I'd be more excited to go and get on a tractor.'

Her family farm with 50 acres and another 50 rented was bought decades ago by her grandparents.

Her grandmother is now 93. Her grandfather has passed away.

After starring in Clarkson's Farm, which attracts more than four million viewers people per episode, her Instagram and TikTok admirers have soared.

She said: 'I must get about a thousand DMs (direct messages) a day and probably 50 per cent are just men being like, 'I wish I could marry you.' But it's all fun and games.

'The other 50 per cent are young girls seeing me farming and thinking, 'I'd like to do what she does.' And they're who I do it for.'

She views mental-health problems in farming, driven by the solitary nature of the work, as a major issue, and tries to raise awareness of it whenever she has the opportunity.

She even discussing the issue on camera with Clarkson, who is also an advocate of greater support for lonely farmers.

She said in her latest interview: 'Social media helps. You can meet people, see people, and discover that you're all going through the same thing. The same drought, the same weather, the same harvest. You're not alone.'

Ms Cowan, giving a rare glimpse into her life, previously told the Daily Mail: 'It's not all glitz and glam, it's very hard work and farming is still so male dominated.'

She vowed: 'I'm hoping to change that. Girls and women can do it too!'

Ms Cowan gave a talk and later did a meet and greet with fans at an Open Farm Sunday event in June last year at award-winning Croots Farm in Duffield, Derbyshire.

She admitted that Clarkson's Farm was 'tough work,' saying: 'There was a lot to do and you're being a teacher, a mentor and a farmer but it was all good fun and it was not just me getting up early to check on the pigs, sheep and cows, and cleaning them out, Jeremy was too.

She told the Mail: 'I treat Jeremy as a fellow farmer, he's just a normal guy and he's no star in my eyes but clearly is in others.

'What you see with him is what you get, but he is brilliant, and he has been great to me.'

She added: 'I try to keep grounded because wherever I go people recognise me and want to chat and have a selfie.

'It's crazy, it is overwhelming, but I'm loving it!'

Of farming she said: 'I am going to farm until the day I die.'

A local in the picturesque close knit village, which links to tourist spot Darley Dale across the River Derwent, said: 'People are happy that it will continue as a working farm but we don't want lots of hype surrounding the new owner. It's a very peaceful place.'