Sheep Shearing & Sustainable Farming Practices – March, 2010

"On a wintry February 22, eight Philadelphia high school students with three chaperones traveled to Dame Linda Geren’s High View Farm in North Hanover, NJ, to learn about sheep shearing from Kevin Ford. Ford is America’s foremost hand sheep shearer. Ford wrote the finest book on blade shearing available today: Shearing Day: Sheep Handling, Wool Science, And Shearing with Blades.

Linda’s sheep are bred for meat and wool and are a combination of Finn, Suffolk and Cormo. To shear all 40 sheep took more than seven hours. Hand shearing assures that the wool will have longer strands. Each fleece is skirted by hand to remove debris and yields about 15 pounds of wool..."

Read more about this event as reported in the March 2010 edition of Green Table News published by Les Dames d'Escoffier Philadelphia Chapter:

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