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Sheep: The Once and Future Kings of Golf Course Design
Who knew? Sheep make golf a less frustrating game.
Lambie jammies: Blankets that keep sheep warm on the pasture and looking stylish before they hit the showing stage.
We talk with third-generation shepherd Butch Theos about his experience raising lamb, the challenges and joys of working as a shepherd and how the American Lamb Board has helped put a new face on lamb.
Few Americans have a taste for mutton. Some farmers and chefs are trying to change this, but it turns out mutton is more ubiquitous than you might think.
An Illustrated Account of the Pleasant Valley Sheep War
The Pleasant Valley Sheep War broke out in Arizona in the 1880s between two families, the sheep-herding Tewksburys and the cattle-herding Grahams. By the war’s end, nearly every family member of both clans was dead.
Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Wool But Were Afraid to Ask
How to buy wool like a pro, with the help of an actual wool expert.
In Victorian England, a Sheep Wasn’t Just a Sheep
How the sheep came to be one of the more exalted forms of livestock in Victorian England.
Talking Lamb, Farming, and Cooking with Al Roker
We talk to Al Roker about his love of lamb, why he’d never hack it as a line chef, and why it’s important to support the small-scale American farmer.
Are Dingoes Devouring Australia’s Sheep Industry?
Unique to Australia, this subspecies of the wolf is considered both a pest animal and a national icon, protected on conservation lands and killed in farm country.
