Happy Mother’s Day
May 9th, 2014 · 1 Comment · farming
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Meet the New Crew
May 5th, 2014 · No Comments · farming
My wife drove the truck nearly five hours to the Finger Lakes area of the state to pick up our new herd of Dorper lambs–five ewes and a ram. Dorpers are “hair” sheep, meaning they shed their coats in the spring rather than being shorn. They are especially prized for their meat. We bought them […]
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Who Will Lead?
May 2nd, 2014 · No Comments · farming
Lambing has thrown our routine out of whack in more ways than one. I’m trying to move the recently shorn sheep out of the permanent paddock and onto spring pasture but they won’t follow the way they used to. We open the paddock gate and instead of being lead to the pasture enclosure behind a […]