Sheepies
It’s been a while, so therefore we’ve got to quite a backblog here at Gliderboy. About three weeks ago we took off to the Valley Shepherd Creamery in Long Valley, NJ. Over 250 head of sheep at the farm, where cheese making is the focus (so no lamb burgers available). Great tour of all their facilities. Their automated milking machine (which handles 25 sheep at a time and can do the whole flock under 2 hrs) is an amazing feat of mechanical technology. Also their cheese creation and aging rooms were very interesting, looking at all the basic chemistry (temperature, humidity, active cultures and molds) that is centuries old which goes into the sheep making process. Leda liked petting and feeding the sheep the best. We’ll probably head back in April to witness the lambing season. This answers two important questions: 1) How do the sheep continue to produce milk year after year? and 2) What could possibly be cuter than Leda frolicking among 200 newborn lambs?
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