Siobhan hard at work on her pumpkin
Tiarnan prepares to attack his pumpkin (with a little help from Maeve and Meghan)
Serious business
ready for candles
Monthly Archives: October 2015
How do you keep them down in Paree, after they’ve seen the farm?
Pat and Sharon in a bicycle taxi near the Eiffel Tower
Faithful blog readers may have noticed a lack of posts for the past few weeks. We have a good excuse–right in the middle of gathering, sorting, shipping, etc., Pat and I told Meghan and Eamon “Good luck!” and left for Iceland and France.
We met several of our old (meaning long-time, of course) friends for a reunion. Luckily, several speak French and know a lot about Paris. We also visited Julia and Benoit, who spent a few days on the ranch last spring. They live in the farming area near Laval, and gave us tours of both farms and a nearby medieval castle, and an abbey, which happened to be the fantastical Mont Saint Michel.
Our friend Bob hanging out with the locals in Reykjavik.
This is a sheep truck at a processing plant in Selfoss.
sheep by lava field, near Grindivik, Iceland
Benoit and Julia’s sheep near Laval, France
Pat with Julia in front of their 400-year-old farmhouse
cows near Benoit and Julia’s farm
Sharon with the “taxi” at Mont St. Michel
working feet
Locks of love on a bridge over the Seine
University students see the world
We promised them fame!
We recently played host to graduate students from the University of Wyoming’s Haub School of Environment and Natural Resources. Dr. Indy Burke brought her students on a field trip to study grazing systems. We showed them how we graze both cattle and sheep in a landscape scale rotational system. Next winter, they will visit Tierra del Fuego and learn about livestock husbandry and grazing systems on the “Uttermost End of the Earth”.
Fall on Battle Pass
multi-colored Aspen
Columbus Mountain, Bears Ears, pine beetle killed trees
Ladder Ranch
