Sheepish Two Women, Fifty Sheep, and Enough Wool to Save the Planet

by Friend, Catherine

• ISBN13: 9780306818448
• ISBN10: 0306818442
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2011-04-26
• Publisher: Da Capo Lifelong Books

Summary

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 past ninety years. But just as Friend thinks it's time to hang up her shepherd's crook, she discovers that sheep--and the small farms on which they live--might be too valuable to give up.

Author Biography

Catherine Friend is the author of Hit by a Farm and The Compassionate Carnivore, as well as seven children's books and three novels. She farms in Minnesota with her partner of twenty-eight years.

Table of Contents

The Muffins Go Farming
Shocking	p. 3
Sheepishness	p. 7
No Snowballs on This Farm	p. 14
Getting Naked	p. 19
Freakishly Exotic People	p. 23
Spinning in Circles	p. 27
Sheep Sex and Other Natural Disasters	p. 32
The Failed Environmentalist	p. 38
Minnesota Cranky	p. 43
The King and I	p. 47
Brokeback Farm	p. 49
Searching for Memoirs by Moonlight	p. 55
Telling Farm Tales
To Sproing and Worfl	p. 63
The First Pasture Goddess	p. 67
My Nursery	p. 74
A Gaggle of Goddesses	p. 78
A Cure for Writer's Block	p. 84
Enough Happy Endings?	p. 89
Does This Bale Make Me Look Fat?	p. 94
Tending the Vineyard	p. 98
The Perfect Nest	p. 102
The Farmer's Wife	p. 106
Just Ducky	p. 110
The Incredible Shrinking Jeans	p. 115
This Is Your Brain on Oxytocin	p. 119
Spinning Yarns
Woolology 101	p. 127
Turquoise Treasure	p. 133
Super Sheep	p. 138
The Fuzzy Patriots	p. 143
The Queen of Do-It-Yourself	p. 148
Greener Than You Think	p. 152
And Photogenic, to Boot	p. 157
Of Warp and Woof	p. 163
Counting Bed Mites	p. 167
A Recipe for Carpal Tunnel	p. 171
The Stealthy Flock	p. 175
Re-cycle. Re-create. Re-enjoy.	p. 179
We Are the Champions (of Sheep)	p. 184
I'd Turn Back If I Were You	p. 189
Unravel
Something's Up	p. 195
Adventures of the Backup Farmer	p. 198
Holy Hanky Panky, Batman	p. 202
Dividing Up the Cake	p. 206
More Babies	p. 210
Not Exactly a Goddess	p. 214
Focus on Feet	p. 217
My Head Is Full of Colors	p. 221
An Intimate Secret	p. 224
The Love of You Sings
Real, Not Virtual	p. 231
Wave of the Future	p. 235
Listening to Sheep	p. 240
Rhubarb Sauce and Candy Corn	p. 244
Freaks 'R' Us	p. 247
Sheepish and Proud	p. 251
Acknowledgments	p. 257
Sheepish Mitten and Hat Patterns	p. 259
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