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What do you do when you love your farm . . . but it doesn't love you? After fifteen years of farming, Catherine Friend is tired. After all, while shepherding is one of the oldest professions, it's not getting any easier. The number of sheep in America has fallen by 90 percent in the last ninety years. But just as Catherine thinks it's time to hang up her shepherd's crook, she discovers that sheep might be too valuable to give up. What ensues is a funny, thoughtful romp through the history of our woolly friends, why small farms are important, and how each one of us--and the planet--would benefit from being very sheepish, indeed.… (plus d'informations)
I was struggling through a terribly depressing book chosen by my book club (AHEM, Book Club!) and just wasn't feeling it. So when Sheepish showed up on my book truck at work, instead of shelving it, I brought it home. Yay! Funny, smart, made me want to start a sheep ranch--or at least be one of the people who pay $200 for the "Farm Experience." I should've gone right back to the depressing book club book, but I grabbed another title by Friend instead. Sorry, Book Club. ( )
Catherine and her wife Melissa have a farm near Zumbrota, MN. It's ostensibly a sheep farm, but quite a few additional animals have taken up residence. Catherine's writing style is warm and funny. It really makes you wish you were friends with her! ( )
While there were some cute stories about sheep and farming, overall this seemed choppy. The author writes that this is a book about the "middle" rather than the beginning of a farm and it's hard to make a middle interesting. I felt like she was struggling to make this more than a series of humorous or touching stories but I don't think she succeeded well. ( )
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For our pasture goddesses Amelia Hansa, Mary Hoff, and Bonnie Mueller
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We are all a little weird and life's a little weird, and when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall in mutual weirdness and call it love. - Author Unknown
Jumping for joy is good exercise. -Author Unknown
We experience moments absolutely free from worry. These brief respites are called panic. -Cullen Hightower.
Writing is 90 percent procrastiantion: reading magazines, eating cereal out of the box, watching infomercials. It's a matter of doing everything you can to avoid writing. -Paul Rudnick
Stress spelled backwards is desserts. Coincidence? I think not! - Author Unknown
When one tugs at a single think in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world. -John Muir
Like sheep that get lost nibbling away at the grass because they never look up, we often focus so much on ourselves and our problems that we get lost. -Allen Klein
Yes, there is Nirvana; it is in leading your sheep to a green pasture, and in putting your child to sleep, and in writing the last line of your poem. -Kahlil Gibran
What a wonderful life I've had! I only wish I'd realized it sooner. - Colette
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What do you do when you love your farm . . . but it doesn't love you? After fifteen years of farming, Catherine Friend is tired. After all, while shepherding is one of the oldest professions, it's not getting any easier. The number of sheep in America has fallen by 90 percent in the last ninety years. But just as Catherine thinks it's time to hang up her shepherd's crook, she discovers that sheep might be too valuable to give up. What ensues is a funny, thoughtful romp through the history of our woolly friends, why small farms are important, and how each one of us--and the planet--would benefit from being very sheepish, indeed.
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