Making new friends

you never know where a new friend might come from

Lamb Camp Day 1: Campers arrive and so do their first lambs

Lamb Camp Day 1: Campers arrive and so do their first lambs

Our friend Ida had so much fun visiting us during lambing in 2013 that she applied to return this year. In my last post, I tried to set the stage for Lamb Camp 2015 by sharing the backstory of Ida’s first visit. By the time Ida and daughter Whitney and niece Audrey arrived on April […]

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Why breed heritage sheep? To share the joys of raising them

Why breed heritage sheep? To share the joys of raising them

No amount of elegant writing, clever sayings, or even high quality photographs can compare in “advertising” value to the spontaneous and heartfelt messages we sometimes get from new or repeat customers when they arrive to pick up their sheep or see their new sheep come off Ron Keener’s truck. There is no question that these […]

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Soay Sheep — International Ambassadors of Good Will

Soay Sheep — International Ambassadors of Good Will

I never can predict when owning Soay sheep will enrich my life in a new and different way. Last Wednesday an e-mail showed up out of the blue that read, in total: “Here is a photo of Yorkshire soay in the snow and being bottle fed.” That’s it, no signature, no mailing address, no explanation of why I was the beneficiary  of the photographs, […]

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