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Praise forSheepish

Sheepish is as smart and funny as its title. Catherine Friend takes us along on her quest to master the other oldest profession. Warning: It may make you want to drop everything and go tend a flock.

Meg Daly Olmert, author of Made for Each Other:
The Biology of the Human-Animal Bond

Wry, witty, and honest, Sheepish describes a magical personal transformationfrom urban to rural. Catherine Friend finds meaning in the middle of life, love, and even knitting projects. Friend brings out the urge to farm in knitters, spinners, and fiber freaks everywhere, teaching us to find joy and contentment in the small, sheepy parts of our world.

Joanne Seiff, author of Fiber Gathering and Knit Green

Praise forHit by a Farm

A charming memoir ... [with] magical moments.

New York Times Book Review

A thoroughly engaging romp for all. This is a must-read for any city girl whos ever whiled away an hour or two dreaming about the bucolic existence of her rural sisters.

Bust

Heartening, sweet, earthy, funnya joy to read from start to finish.

Minneapolis Star-Tribune

A funny farming guide: a book about two women who decide to go back to the landand discover the realities of the lands hardships for nonrural residents. Whether its dealing with broken fences and boundaries, stubborn sheep, or sheep who are gazelles in sheeps clothing, Hit by a Farm is filled with fun moments, accounts of overwork and mishaps, and more.

Midwest Book Review

A multi-mood, clever and unpredictable tale of what makes farm life far from mundane and sheltered ... Hit by a Farm slyly educates as it entertains, heals as it humors us while wading through issues of confrontation, complications, and compromise ... a treasure.

Madison Capital Times

Praise forThe Compassionate Carnivore

Smart, personal, and funny, The Compassionate Carnivore will make you want to hug a cowand order a ribeye.

Womens Health

[Friends] words give hope to those of us who crave meat, but are sickened by some modern farming practices.

Curve

The Compassionate Carnivore is both an entertaining memoir and a chapter-by-chapter breakdown of how America raises its meat.... Yes, much of this is as grim as it is familiarbut Friend manages to make it lively and even funny without burying her essential moral seriousness.

Culinate

I loved Catherine Friends philosophy on how to be a compassionate carnivore, and I cried when I read the chapter Letter to My Lambs. It really is possible to deeply care about animals and eat meat.

Temple Grandin, author of Animals in Translation

Full of interesting facts...

Guardian

Friends direct, yet tactful approach will educate without making the reader feel judged for their decision to be a carnivore. Its an informative and at times funny approach to get people to think about what they eat and the process meat goes through before it gets to your freezer. Our choices have an effect not just on the animals, but on our health and environment. If you have been struggling with eating meat for health reasons or personal convictions, The Compassionate Carnivore will help you.

Blogcritics

Filled with insightful and often humorous anecdotes. When not horrifying me with various practices of making meat ready for market ... Friend had me roaring with laughter.... Backed by research, practical experience, and the desire to improve standards, Friend offers many sound suggestions. If more carnivores demand humanely raised meat, the supply will hopefully follow.

Story Circle Book Reviews

In this deeply personal account of her involvement in the humane raising of sheep, self-described shepherd, animal lover, and committed carnivore Catherine Friend leads us through the lives of meat animalsin our industrial food system, and on her farmwith metaphor, compassion, and wit. A rich and enjoyable read.

Joan Dye Gussow, author of This Organic Life

Also by Catherine Friend

Nonfiction

Hit by a Farm: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Barn

The Compassionate Carnivore, Or How to Keep Animals Happy, Save Old MacDonalds Farm, Reduce Your Hoofprint, and Still Eat Meat

Novels

The Spanish Pearl

The Crown of Valencia

A Pirates Heart

Childrens

The Perfect Nest

Eddie the Raccoon

Silly Ruby

Funny Ruby

The Sawfin Stickleback: A Very Fishy Story

My Head Is Full of Colors

For our pasture goddesses
Amelia Hansa, Mary Hoff, and Bonnie Mueller

We are all sheep mad in this part of the country, and I am really become very sheepish myself.

WILLIAM THORNTON,
IN A LETTER TO HIS FELLOW SHEPHERD
THOMAS JEFFERSON, MAY 10, 1810

PART ONE

The Muffins Go Farming

Shocking

Hang warning signs on the electric fence at critical areas where children or untrained adults will encounter the fence.

PREMIER ONE FENCE SUPPLIES

The man and woman are young, perhaps in their late twenties, and Im giving them a brief tour of our farm before we transact businesstheyre here to buy beef. As we stand near the fence watching the sheep, the man looks down at the smooth wire running from post to post.

Is this electric?

I nod. Theres a yellow sign hanging from the top wire about thirty feet away. The sign says, Warning: Electric Fence.

What happens if I touch it?

I look straight at him and tighten my jaw so I wont laugh. The nearest sheep chews her cud and eavesdrops. She is No. 66, the eldest of the flock, which means shes been around the pasture a few times. I know what shes thinking as she watches the man fixate on the fence: And people think were stupid?

I turn back to the young man. The fence charger pulses one second on, one second off, so you have a fifty-fifty chance of nothing happening. Or 5,000 volts could race up your arm, surge through your chest and down your legs into the ground.

He cant take his eyes off the fence. Would it hurt?

The guys wife rolls her eyes. Honey, dont touch the fence.

I explain that yes, it will hurt. It wont kill him, but he might cry out for his mommy for the first time in years. I try to move the couple back toward the driveway, but the man remains transfixed. I sigh.

After fifteen years on this farm, Ive been zapped repeatedly by this fence, sometimes in very private places. Every animal on this farm respects the fence. When lambs are young they cluster close to the fence, investigating. One will eventually touch a wire with its wool-free nose, shoot straight up in the air, bleat louder than its ever bleated before, then race for Mama. The rest of the lambs scatter in panic, and just like that, theyve been trained. That slender wire is now Scary Place, to be avoided at all costs.

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