13 Vintage Pictures of Sheep Shearing

If you are curious about where to start with raising animals on your small farm, hobby farm or homestead, here are a few suggestions, complete with information to help you decide which animals are the right fit for you. Note: Selling meat and dairy products usually require that a farm is licensed and meet the requirements of its locale. If you are planning to farm for income, find out the requirements before buying the animals. Chickens Chickens are a terrific way t

“Everyone can recognize animals throughout the world,” he’s quoted as saying in his New York Times obituary. “You don’t have to explain what they are or mean.” Before his death in 2008, Lalanne merged usable objects with forms from the animal kingdom. In 1964, he sculpted a rhinoceros whose side opened into a writing desk. Over the following decades, he built a zoo of surreal animal objects: a cow with its side cut out to frame a park

It’s Sheep Week here at Modern Farmer and we’d like to introduce you to our newest obsession. Meet the rowdy sheep of Juniper Moon Farms in Palmyra, Virginia. It’s a full-on posse: 12 lambs and 23 adult sheep (plus four Italian sheep dogs, five goats and a llama, thrown in for comic relief). Half the sheep are Cormos (white) and half are Border Leicesters (multicolored). They’re bred for wool, not meat, and they love their owners with

This 8-minute video is the 2014 winner of the American Lamb Boards’ “A Day in the Life  of a Lamb Producer” award.  It describes the work being done by Kaos Sheep Outfit to manage grass weeds and vines in vineyards.  Even if you’re not a sheep producer, it will give you some great ideas about how to put together your kids’ college funds while teaching them the benefits of running livestock, and how thinking outside the box can provide new opportunities for your gra