I’d love to hear more about his technique for putting up fence by himself

also curious about how many acres you run the sheep on zan

What kind of dogs do you have Cody?

maybe to go out of slavery is to go back to our ancestral occupation, homesteading and grading farming!

grazing

YES Yitzchak!

Yes Shani = )

wondering about people’s insights about the metaphor for our relationship with God is sheep-shepherd rather than cow-cowherd? I have some ideas about this I’ve written about but very interested in how you see it from experience! (Here’s my take: "Why is the primary human- animal metaphor not herder and cattle but shepherd and sheep? It may be because one can fulfill essential needs for food and clothing from sheep by harvesting milk and wool without killing the animal. Also, even though cows like sheep were herded and sacrificed, they were also used for agricultural labor, which was sometimes seen as a kind of enslavement (e.g., Ezekiel 34:27), whereas sheep were not. There may be an allegorical dimension to sheep and shepherd: a shepherd will generally lead his or her sheep by walking in front of them or alongside them, whereas cows are driven from behind. This suggests a more mutualistic relationship.”

zan, I'd love to hear a few of your sheep knowledge tidbits--ways that you've had different perspectives on bible stories from your time raising sheep

beautiful Zan, thank you for that insight

Yes Shosh!

Cody - would love to know of any resources for small hay growing. I personally have been wanting to work on improving the nutrition of my fields.

Cody, have you (or any of the other speakers) utilized Greg Judy’s grazing techniques? If yes, how did they work out for you?

here’s a link to a textual take on these issues that may complement what we are learning here about relationships between species (source of paragraph I put in chat above): https://www.academia.edu/40181476/Veganism_and_Covenantalism_Contrasting_and_Overlapping_Moralities

it’s just so wonderful to hear people discussing the land and what lives on it in the same way I feel it. thank you!!

Here is the link to the breakout session text study! https://docs.google.com/document/d/1A6nFP4eTPShcolglf0SCW9rVoI1f75tPAOz94Qp7qpQ/edit

Folks can also unmute yourself and ask questions

curious to hear folks speak to their greatest CHALLENGES in raising animals <3

I was laughing because I have guinea hens for the first time and I love them and was wondering what that says about my soul hahahha

I love our guinea hens too!!

Thanks all! Wondering if any of you could speak about kosher slaughter/kosher meat processing - either in your businesses or your thoughts!

how much sheep I can put on 1 acre

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we'd love to hear one or two wisdom nuggets from zan about how her knowledge of sheep informs how she reads the torah <3

What do you need to do to the soil to go from commercial corn to hay?

I’m curious to hear more about grazing techniques. I pay a lot of attention to Greg Judy’s work, and wonder if any of the panelists have experience using his techniques?

Having raised sheep for kosher slaughter, I can say that the logistics is a huge pain in the ass

❤️

please ignore this question if it has already been asked, but wondering if there is already resources available for better understanding animal care during shmita years

can you get a shechita coming to your farm isn’t; easier to run small private operaiton

You can do it on your farm for your own consumption but you can’ sell it unless its done in a approved facility

Can’t sell it***

THIS IS WHAT WE CAME FOR

<3 <3 <3 Thank you so much Zan!

So many great questions (and answers)!! <3 In case you're looking for the breakout session link… here it is again! https://docs.google.com/document/d/1A6nFP4eTPShcolglf0SCW9rVoI1f75tPAOz94Qp7qpQ/edit

love that

OHHH NOOO

beautiful!

Lambing on pasture

humbly inspired

Laura shared that the Rooster crow is it's davening <3

Connections!

I can t wait to be a Sheferd!

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Laughter

glorious goats and sheep and cows hooray!!

Thank you so much Aaron, Shani, and SJ!

Hence why I said laughter as my word :)

thank you all

Thank youuuu!

Thank you SO MUCH

thank you!

thnk you!!!!!