Saturday was killing day for three of our sheep. These three were meat sheep that we didn’t particularly enjoy having around. They were unfriendly and a little rough on our pasture fences. We still have two remaining Romney ewes that we intend to keep and possibly breed again.
Mark Durkee is a local legend. He’s been featured in several books including a great book about a farm near here called “Harvest,” and John O’Brien (another local legend, you may have heard of his movie “A Man With a Plan” – if not – find it, it’s wonderful) has featured him in his latest movie (or at least that’s what Mark told me on Saturday).
Mark is a true Vermont character. His career has been killing, skinning and gutting all sorts of animals. He does it, not because he enjoys the killing, but he likes being his own boss, he knows how to do it well, it brings him some cash and he can spend his days doing other things – he also, I think, likes traveling around and spending the morning with the farmers.
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