This year’s tour started at a solar farm.
The sheep graze under the panels and save on mowing expense.
The solar farm is part of the hospital. This was the write up in the hospital annual report.
Sadie, Allie, Mike and Virginia joined us at the first stop.
Sadie stared picking grass and using her hat to collect it. She wanted to feed it to the sheep.
The owner of the sheep poured out some sweet feed to get them to come. This was the perfect spot for Sadie to put her grass pickings.
After hearing about the solar farm, another club member talked about the solar panels she had installed. They are also used as shelters for her sheep.
Mike and Virginia took the girls on home and skipped the second stop. This was at a goat dairy where they sell shares. It is basically a work around to be able to sell raw milk.
Then we ended up actually getting to eat some lamb at a catered meal.
I am pretty sure we were the only large producers other than the solar sheep guy at the meeting. Most people seem to have the sheep and goats as pets or very small homestead type farms. It was interesting seeing a couple of different small ruminate operations.
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How interesting. What a great opportunity to see what others are doing.
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