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“A joy to read. Compelling, wise, and deeply human.” — Helen Humphreys, author of Followed by the Lark

A restorative and resonant memoir of a year in the life of an aging shepherd

For 50 years, Barbara McLean has tended a flock of Border Leicester sheep on her small Ontario farm. Shepherd’s Sight shares the crises, pleasures, and challenges of farm life through the seasons. Now in her 70s, McLean faces a new problem: how much longer she can continue with the physically taxing work that is her central source of meaning and satisfaction.

Through her unsentimental gaze, we witness the highs and heartbreaks of delivering and rearing lambs, the shearing and spinning of wool, the wildlife in the woods (and occasionally in the house), and the garden produce moving from seed to harvest to table. Even after half a century on this land, McLean is still making fresh observations, and she shares them in evocative, elegant

Shepherds Sight

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“A joy to read. Compelling, wise, and deeply human.” — Helen Humphreys, author of Followed by the Lark A restorative... Read more

    Publisher: ECW Press,Canada
    Publication Date: 4/18/2024
    ISBN13: 9781770417656, 978-1770417656
    ISBN10: 1770417656

    Non Fiction , Technology, Engineering & Agriculture , Education

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    “A joy to read. Compelling, wise, and deeply human.” — Helen Humphreys, author of Followed by the Lark

    A restorative and resonant memoir of a year in the life of an aging shepherd

    For 50 years, Barbara McLean has tended a flock of Border Leicester sheep on her small Ontario farm. Shepherd’s Sight shares the crises, pleasures, and challenges of farm life through the seasons. Now in her 70s, McLean faces a new problem: how much longer she can continue with the physically taxing work that is her central source of meaning and satisfaction.

    Through her unsentimental gaze, we witness the highs and heartbreaks of delivering and rearing lambs, the shearing and spinning of wool, the wildlife in the woods (and occasionally in the house), and the garden produce moving from seed to harvest to table. Even after half a century on this land, McLean is still making fresh observations, and she shares them in evocative, elegant

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