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.
Record details
ISBN:9780306818448
ISBN:0306818442
Physical Description:print xi, 263 p. : ill ; 21 cm.
Edition:1st Da Capo Press ed.
Publisher:Cambridge, MA : Da Capo Press, 2011.
Content descriptions
Formatted Contents Note:
pt. 1. The muffins go farming : Shocking ; Sheepishness ; No snowballs on this farm ; Getting naked ; Freakishly exotic people ; Spinning in circles ; Sheep sex and other natural disasters ; The failed environmentalist ; Minnesota cranky ; The king and I ; Brokeback farm ; Searching for memoirs by moonlight -- pt. 2. Telling farm tales : To sproing and worfl ; The first pasture goddess ; My nursery ; A gaggle of goddesses ; A cure for writer's block ; Enough happy endings? ; Does this bale make me look fat? ; Tending the vineyard ; The perfect nest ; The farmer's wife ; Just ducky ; The incredible shrinking jeans ; This is your brain on oxytocin -- pt. 3. Spinning yarns : Woolology 101 ; Turquoise treasure ; Super sheep ; The fuzzy patriots ; The queen of do-it-yourself ; Greener than you think ; And photogenic, to boot ; Of warp and woof ; Counting bed mites ; A recipe for carpal tunnel ; The stealthy flock ; Re-cycle. Re-create. Re-enjoy. ; We are the champions (of sheep) ; I'd turn back if I were you -- pt. 4. Unravel : Something's up ; Adventures of the backup farmer ; Holy hanky panky, batman ; Dividing up the cake ; More babies ; Not exactly a goddess ; Focus on feet ; My head is full of colors ; An intimate secret -- pt. 5. The love of you sings : Real, not virtual ; Wave of the future ; Listening to sheep ; Rhubarb sauce and candy corn ; Freaks 'R' us ; Sheepish and proud.
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