Raising Sheep, Regenerating the Land

Raising Sheep, Regenerating the Land

by Rebekah Rice
Saratoga Meeting

 

When my parents purchased our family farm in upstate New York, no one had actively farmed for many years. This land, with a history of having been purchased from Mohawks in 1673, had in the years since been clear cut, overgrazed, plowed, and eventually mostly allowed to grow back to forest. This was typical for land settled by colonizers in this area.