Catherine Friend
Catherine Friend

Keep Your Desk Job Here’s how pastures work. Rain falls. Grass grows. Sheep eat grass. Rain falls. Grass regrows. Sheep eat grass. Except this year, not enough rain, so the grass stopped growing. There is nothing left for them to eat. We have no choice but to feed hay to 100 sheep in the middle […]

The July Interview Ms. Friend, now that your new memoir has launched successfully, and you’ve survived yet another lambing season, how are you coping with the stress? —-See photo above. Ms. Friend, we’re sure it’s hot in Minnesota in July, and yet you must continue to do farmwork and write and edit, all without air […]