Article: SHEEP FARM; ON THE ROAD TO RECOVERY; After fire, trying not to miss a bleat; Lambing season brings new hope to the Shepherd's Way farm, devastated by fire a year ago. Some groups are still trying to help the family farm make a comeback as it continues to produce milk and gourmet cheese.(NEWS)

Byline: Donna Halvorsen; Staff Writer

In the gray gloom of a February day, it looked like a rock on the hard, cold ground. Then the rock seemed to move. It sprouted two legs, then two more, and the rock became a newborn lamb, struggling to stay on its feet and looking for its mother.

Soon Steve Read picked up the lamb and another newborn and guided the ewe into the nursery, a makeshift plastic structure where other lambs were eating and playing, their moms bleating warnings not to stray too far.

It's lambing season at Steve and Jodi Ohlsen Read's Shepherd's Way farm near the small Rice County town of Nerstrand, Minn., and each birth gives hope ...

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