Heathen Herder
Carly WrightWords from the heather, woven from the rain.
| Platform |  | Pricing | Freemium | Publishes | Weekly |
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| Issues | 115 | Founded | 4 years ago | Last Issue | 11 days ago |
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Sixty-One Sheep
Scenes from shearing day on our neighbour’s farm.
“Do you starve the ewes before shearing?” I’m genuinely curious.
“Starve them?” His face creases with incomprehension. “What would I want to do that for?”
“It’s to do with stopping the bu...
Where the Land Will Not Yield
on the lie of improvement and letting the land shape us
There was a field nearby that lay feral for decades. Too wet to graze cattle on, too soft to take a tractor, too peaty and sodden to plough. Deep, black soil that held the memory of r...
Heathen Herder
My arms and my senses are full with sheep, hot and thick with wool grown from heather and rain, greasy with lanolin and heavy with the scents of the land it’s grown from, of mud and sweet myrtle and moor grass. My sweat runs tracks through...
Capacity
When I started this little blog that first winter in our “shepherd’s hut” on the Hill, I didn’t have the space to do much besides write. Between the two of us and our three big dogs and all our clothes and belongings piled around us, there...
Soil and Toil
Apologies to my regular readers for my irregular posting of late. Spring has finally sprung in this little pocket of Ireland and my caprine queens, my scrumptious little woollen rug growers and this burgeoning farm need my presence n...
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herdswoman, milkmaid, weaver of wool and stories about life on the land, living in service to my caprine queens and beneficent sheep in a wild little pocket of Ireland. I am here for the real, no AI.
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