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Article: Icelandic sheep: an old breed with new possibilities.
- Article from:
- Countryside & Small Stock Journal
- Article date:
- September 1, 1996
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We were a year on the road after selling our Nevada farm, looking for a new farm. We traveled through most of the western states, avoiding high population areas, areas of high elevation and high priced land.
While we traveled, we talked about what we wanted in a farm, climate, community and what we wanted to do with the rest of our lives. We ruled out activities that would be too taxing physically, as had been our market gardening business, and ruled out large animals. Management intensive grazing fit our age level as it's a thinking person's farming. It utilizes lots of thought and planning, walking, little machinery, mostly light hand tools and easily managed light ...