After months of working together on the farm, the children prepare to go back to school. Meanwhile, Clive and Amanda drive the family's herd from the moors back to the farmyard before the weather turns, and make an essential trip to stock up on a bumper crop of straw. When the weekend rolls around, the whole family muck in to clear out the barns at their new derelict farm.

Autumn is a busy time for the Owens now they have bought an abandoned 30-acre farm with four barns and a derelict farmhouse, which requires renovation work by a specialist builder as it is a listed building set in a national park. Sidney continues training his sheepdog Nell, while Violet tends to nine-month-old calf Ciara, an animal she has hand-reared after its mother suffered an udder infection.