Jake, the sheep shearing crew boss, called me on Saturday evening, hoping to arrive at my barn on Monday morning. I already had a big day of commitments on Monday so we settled on Tuesday morning ...

Join us to learn more about the women farmers of Aroostook County as we celebrate their contributions to rural life.

Emily Chamelin was still a teenager when she took up sheep shearing. She’d convinced her parents to let her raise a few sheep on the family dairy farm in Maryland, but finding someone to shear them ...

JAMESTOWN, R.I. -- People looking to enjoy a spring day headed over the Jamestown-Verrazzano Bridge Saturday to Conanicut Island and one of its pastoral attractions to witness an annual farm ritual — ...

Mireille Kroeker and Chris Bevan live in the tiny, mostly empty village of Horod — approximately 120 kilometres north of Brandon near Riding Mountain National Park — where they have a small farm with ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... On a sunny spring day in early March, thousands of Western Slope sheep line up in a corral unknowingly waiting for their annual haircut. Herders gently prod ...

Spring shearing is now underway and woolgrowers are scrambling to secure shearers and shed staff as COVID-19 border closures and travel restrictions plague the industry. Riverina wool grower Grant ...

ELVERSON – Hopewell Furnace invites area residents to attend its annual sheep shearing and spring charcoal burn on Saturday, May 13. Visitors will have the opportunity to observe both 21st- and ...