SHEEP
We raise and breed 100% grass-fed Dorper sheep. Dorper is a breed of sheep that has hair instead of wool. They shed their hair each spring and do not need to be shorn. As a breed of hair sheep, Dorpers do not have lanolin (the waxy substance you feel when petting a wool sheep) found in traditional wool sheep. This makes our lamb meat far less gamey than the lamb that most people have tried in the past. Our ewes (female sheep) have baby lambs each spring in late April, just as the pastures are starting to turn green. Our lambs are raised throughout the summer and fall on 30 acres of pasture.
Throughout the grazing season, we rotate our sheep across our farm using solar-powered electric fences. This management practice optimizes pasture growth and palatability while ensuring that our grasses constantly pull carbon from the atmosphere and sequester it in their roots. It also deposits manure directly where it can be immediately converted into soil food. Lastly, it allows us to rotate the sheep out of each area before parasite larvae have an opportunity to hatch and become a potential issue for our lambs and sheep. Sheep are especially susceptible to parasites, and the conventional lamb industry frequently deploys dewormer medications to combat this issue, leading to the development of more medication-resistant parasites and necessitating further drug use. With the regenerative management techniques we employ, we keep our sheep and pastures healthy without the need for these dewormers.
