Zoë Colville - The Chief Shepherdess
Changes with Annie Macmanus
Annie Macmanus
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🗓️ 3 July 2023
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Zoë Colville has gone from high end hairdresser in London to shepherdess on a farm in Kent. She’s also changed from a vegetarian to a farmer learning about death and going to abattoirs, an experience which surprised her. Far from being your typical farmer, with her trademark long curly red hair and gold hoop earrings as well as her humour and honesty, she has challenged people’s views of farmers and their relationship with the animals. In turn, despite many personal hurdles, she has found her purpose. Using her Instagram account, The Chief Shepherdess, Zoë shares stories from the farm and wants to educate people on how animals are reared and how farming is changing.
Here, she talks about all of this, why she made her drastic life change, her relationship with her fiancé Kriss and the unexpected events in her life that have transformed her.
You can buy a copy of Zoë’s book “The Chief Shepherdess, Lessons in Life, Love and Farming” here: https://www.waterstones.com/book/the-chief-shepherdess/zoe-colville/9781787635746
Content warning: includes a detailed explanation of how animals are slaughtered.
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| 1:15.7 | Hello I'm Annie Matt Manus welcome to changes. As you can hear I still have a little bit of |
| 1:20.8 | glass to be left in my voice it is still there it is Wednesday I got back in the middle of the night |
| 1:26.5 | on Sunday so technically I should be recovered but I'm not and that is a measure of how much fun I |
| 1:32.8 | had in those fields. Talking of fields this week's guest is someone who spends I would say 85% |
| 1:40.5 | of her day in fields but it wasn't always like that for her. Her name is Zoe Colville otherwise |
| 1:48.0 | known as the Chief Shepherd S on Instagram. Zoe started out her career as a hairstylist in a salon |
| 1:55.8 | in Soho in London. Cocktails go into bars after every shift living the London life completely. |
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