In a dusty Texas field, Chad Raines surveys his new crop — sheep. "Never in my wildest dreams did I ever imagine that I would be a shepherd," Raines said. The Raines family has farmed cotton for four ...
Some of us fantasize about abandoning the chains of 9-to-5 life and living off the land. Suzy Kaplan, 48, actually did it when she left her job as a Malden ELL teacher to open Fat Sheep Farm & Cabins ...
Not all that long ago, mixed farming was standard practice on broadacre properties across Australia. Most farmers ran sheep alongside their crops, as their families had done for more than a century.