We raise sheep for meat, fiber and milk. We keep a flock of around 30 breeding ewes, predominantly East Friesian, with a little Awassi, Forest Clun, Laucaune, Border Leicester, and Icelandic crosses thrown into the mix.
Rather than using chemical dewormers at the drop of a hat, we practice medicinal grazing— grazing our sheep in areas with high tannin forage several times a season. These medicinal hedgerows are full of young maple, polar, willow, and ash trees; fireweed, wild gooseberries, chokecherries, tansy, young burdock, raspberry, comfrey, and blackberry and the sheep love grazing through them, getting minerals, medicine, and tannins not available in their pastures.