Sheepish
2011 • 280 pages

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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Fun book of essays you will enjoy if you like, as the author says, sheep in a platonic, health, non-gross sort of way - which I do.

Laugh out loud on occasion and purely farm nostalgia for me since I've been away from it for so long.

March 7, 2022

Loved this just as much as her previous two memoirs, even though her descriptions about aging make me think it might already be too late for me to start my own farm. :) Catherine's warmth and wit draw you into each short chapter–I laughed out loud frequently and already want more.

May 28, 2011