The Queens County Farm Museum held its signature spring celebration, the 15th annual Sheep Shearing Festival, on Saturday, ...
Jake, the sheep shearing crew boss, called me on Saturday evening, hoping to arrive at my barn on Monday morning. I already had a big day of commitments on Monday so we settled on Tuesday morning ...
Join us to learn more about the women farmers of Aroostook County as we celebrate their contributions to rural life.
Emily Chamelin was still a teenager when she took up sheep shearing. She’d convinced her parents to let her raise a few sheep on the family dairy farm in Maryland, but finding someone to shear them ...
JAMESTOWN, R.I. -- People looking to enjoy a spring day headed over the Jamestown-Verrazzano Bridge Saturday to Conanicut Island and one of its pastoral attractions to witness an annual farm ritual — ...
Mireille Kroeker and Chris Bevan live in the tiny, mostly empty village of Horod — approximately 120 kilometres north of Brandon near Riding Mountain National Park — where they have a small farm with ...
Spring shearing is now underway and woolgrowers are scrambling to secure shearers and shed staff as COVID-19 border closures and travel restrictions plague the industry. Riverina wool grower Grant ...