Woody Babcock, left, and wife Cora Wahl with baby and sheep. One of the biggest challenges in running a sheep dairy is the industry is highly seasonal, with annual cycles of breeding, lambing and ...

The road to Whispering Pines farm and stables is just outside of downtown Mauldin. “The farm was here,” said Debbie Webster, “and the neighborhoods and businesses kinda grew around it.” Whispering ...

Maryland’s first sheep milking farm, in New Windsor, will hold a class for members of the community to show that there’s more to the sheep milking industry than they might think. Colleen and Michael ...

The chuga-chuga sound is one any dairyman would want to hear — daily. It's the sound of milking machines collecting the white liquid, which is turned into edible products that support their farm. For ...

Montana milk doesn’t always come from cows. At KJ’n Ranch, sheep are milked twice a day to produce the smooth and creamy lactose-free beverage. Jim and Kim Ashmore, owners of KJ’n Ranch, have been in ...

In Part 1 of this series, we discussed getting your housing and supplies together for keeping milk sheep. Once that is done, you are ready to bring home your flock. There are several different breeds ...

Sitting on 45 gently rolling acres in northwest Georgia, just west of LaFayette and near the Alabama state line, is Rosemary and Thyme Creamery. While the state Department of Agriculture estimates ...

Milk is a nutritious food that provides us with calcium, proteins, and vitamins. However, not all milk is created equal. Goat, sheep, and cow milk differ in composition, taste, and digestibility. In ...