AN ADIRONDACK YARN
Feb 20, 2020
3 minutes
BY ZOHAR GITLIS
PHOTOGRAPHS BY LISA J. GODFREY
happens on a bitter-cold morning in late February. Smoke curls from Shannon and Tyler Eaton’s farmhouse wood stove. It feels counterintuitive to remove the fleece coats from Blue Pepper’s East Friesian milking flock during such frigid weather, but Shannon explains that shearing the bulky fleeces before lambs are born in March will help mothers and babies navigate feeding and sheltering, both of which are crucial to the lambs’ survival.
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