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Shepherds
Z was a teenaged 4H shepherd who went on to a career in Academia; Kiki a suburban kid who fell in love with sheep and farming in elementary school and had to wait until her 40’s to have backyard chickens and her 50’s to fully make the dream a reality.
We had bought this house in Brattleboro. We'd bought the truck. We bought the sheep. We bought dogs. We did all of this long before COVID hit, but then we were like, okay, this is our pandemic project.—Kimberly Kimberly and Zan Walker-Gonҫalves were both kids exposed to animals but not raised on farms. As parents, they circled back to growing food and raising the maximum number of livestock their town in Massachusetts would legally allow. Five years ago, they packed up everything and moved...