In New Boston, New Hampshire, Saunders Pasture and the Betsy Dodge conservation fields are getting a makeover. But it’s not a crew of landscapers managing this project — it’s a herd of fifty sheep ...
In today’s volatile economy, job stability can often be found in unexpected places — like returning to the traditional role of shepherding. Solar shepherds, who manage sheep grazing under solar panels ...
To keep solar farms from getting overrun with weeds, energy companies like Pivot Energy have been trading in traditional lawnmowers for an unconventional means: sheep. The field of agrivoltaics has ...
On a dry, windy day in June 1900, Arizona sheep owner Albert F. Potter stooped at a polluted water hole to drink and quietly watched his eastern guest, Gifford Pinchot, squeamishly do the same. Potter ...
Herding sheep is generally a responsibility reserved for farmers and sheepdogs. Occasionally, a piglet might fill in. But a ram? During an annual “sheep parade,” sheepherding duties were indeed ...