Description: 3 Sylvia's Farm : The Journal of an Improbable ShepherdHardcover – June 7, 2004 First Edition in like new clean conditionby Sylvia JorrinIn the tradition of James Herriot, Sylvia Jorrín tells her story of unexpectedly becoming a shepherd in the foothills of the Catskill Mountains.When Sylvia Jorrín first moved to upstate New York, she had no intention of becoming a farmer. Raised to fear animals of all shapes and sizes, she only wanted to create a life for herself and her friends and family in her twenty-five-room shingle-style house. After a neighboring dairy farmer suggested they use her eighty-five acres of hay fields and woodland to start a farm together, she contacted the South Central New York Resource and Development Center, and they applied for and received a grant of nine free sheep. They soon bought ten more.Then her partner quit.It was the coldest December on record in the Catskill Mountains. Faced with eighteen pregnant ewes and a ram determined to grind her into a stone wall, and equipped with neither practical nor theoretical knowledge of farming, Sylvia gradually learned to be a farmer, both taming the sheep and conquering the elements.Fifteen years later, this dairy farmer's granddaughter has a flock of 120 sheep, twenty-one goats, two Jersey cows, fifty Buff Orphington chickens, four Toulouse geese, one house cat and three barn cats, one dog, and a donkey, Guiseppe Patrick Nunzio MacGuire. Sylvia's Farm is the tale of a life on the farm, and all the hard and important lessons it teaches. Told in short vignettes that span a decade, it is a journal of growth, persistence, and the unexcpected joys that a new day can bring. * 1Shipping cost reflects USPS 2024 price increase
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Book Title: Sylvia's Farm : the Journal of an Improbable Shepherd
Number of Pages: 288 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Publication Year: 2004
Topic: General, Women's Studies, Disasters & Disaster Relief
Item Height: 1.1 in
Genre: Social Science, Biography & Autobiography
Item Weight: 20 oz
Author: Sylvia Jorrin, Sylvia Jorrfn
Item Length: 8.7 in
Item Width: 5.8 in
Format: Hardcover
