Conscious Consumption

Counting sheep doesn’t hurt, but it doesn’t really help, either.

Robust and kindly, and sporting a bearish, wooly coat not unlike the flocks they devotedly guarded, the Old English Sheepdog once upon a time ruled the rolling hills and pastures of Great Britain.

Deep inside West Virginia, a monster waits.

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.

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.

How to buy wool like a pro, with the help of an actual wool expert.