Farming is the future.

I had a neighbor who lived on the next road over, about 1/2 mile or so. One morning late July 1996 I had 10 sheep with huge curled horns, white face with grey wool in the field with my mares and foals and 2 standing in my neighbors driveway. Had no idea who they belonged to or where they came from. Made some calls to neighbors, feed store in my tiny town and finally found out who owned them. Called, no answer left messages so had 12 wild as march hair sheep for a while. They were no fun to move through a gate to the next field over that had 5’ non climb fence with electric inside to keep them contained so they couldn’t escape again. Found a short water tank they could reach into and gave them hay. The owner called me back the next morning, he was a firefighter and worked 24 hr shifts. The sheep broke out and he didn’t know, came home to a empty field. His sheep were a breed of mountain sheep from the UK, looked just like these, big, long, wide heavy dense animals, long tails and thick, beautiful grey wool - ewes and the ram alike. Wonder if they were from one of the flocks in the same area as this farm is in.

Beautiful sheep! Best wishes to Mr. Rebanks and his daughters' farming endeavors.

LOVE this Europe tour of farms and farmers, Greg!!!!

I agree that this breed of sheep should be considered a national treasure.

The speed of the dogs and girls is on point 👌

I love the story of this flock and breed of sheep. Thank you for a great interview.

I read James' book, Pastoral Song, because of your interview, Greg. I also acquired his earlier book, The Shepherd's Life, and am reading it now. Great reads!

Well done, very interesting breed and story.

Great video encouragement for the future

That was a great video Greg I enjoyed every minute of it. God bless

Awesome brown 🤎 with white head British breed rams # Greg American accent is clearly different from rams owner British accent #❤️❤️👍

Beautiful!

Fabulous Video! Thank you

Thanks for sharing, Mr. Judy, sir.

Thank you so much for this video, it's so nice to see historic breeds and young people wanting to keep it going.

They all looked like keepers to me! What a great natural selection mechanism, if there were sheep that survived that foot and mouth disease... they should be used to help build resistance into that historic breed. It's really cool to see breeds of livestock unfamiliar to us here in the US. Thank you for getting all the footage you did from your trip and sharing.

so glad you showed that. Thanks Greg

James will be in touch when looking for a tup later this year

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Thank you Greg. I just want to say if it weren't for you sharing this video I would not know what it was like raising sheep in Europe. I missed the exact country where this farm is. Thank you for sharing this experience.

I think you would enjoy having a Border Collie working for you. I know I love having help from my two!

Awesome and amazing!!!

We have them here in Exmoor and they regularly come into the village/back gardens. The ram is very friendly and loves to come and say hello to me. He loves bananas and tomatoes. His ewes are a bit more cautious.

I think I need to move to Northern England

You'd not be wearing a Jacket down South, that's for sure. There is an invisible climate line that runs from the Wash (Hull) down to the Severn estuary, It is going to be in the low thirties all next week down here. On another subject, I could swear I saw you in Missouri just the other day. So you can add Time Travelling to your list, you'll have the tin foil hat brigade pawing all over your vids and discussing the Esoteric language of Greg and Judy, I'll gee them along just for a bit of fun. Lovely vid, brings back beautiful memories.

Thanks for the video! It is another great interview. I just got home from vacation. We went out to see my wife’s brothers in NY. We also stop in PA in the Amish community. It is the second largest Amish community in the world. The Amish is really intermingle with everyone there. We took a tour of a Amish organic dairy farm. It is very touristy out there compared to where you live. You gotta love sheep on how rugged they are.

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Greg, have you driven through Wiltshire? There lies Horton House Farm, run by Johnny Rider and his family. He was featured in Stockmen Grass Farmer 8 years ago. He raises over 100 head of dairy cows, lambs, hens, and hogs in a regenerative grazing system. He ships his milk to a premium market, and he sells his other animals directly to consumers. Like you, he uses polywire to move his animals across roads because his farms are not continuous.

there’s no ear tags, am I correct? How does he differ all his sheep? Great interview. Beautiful sheep!!

Herdwick sheep . Folks if you are nearby call in at the farm restaurants at Ings on the Kendal - Windermere road . Sunday lunch Roast Herdwick lamb or Charolais beef , both raised on the farm . Can not get better than that

That’s crazy about the meat burger and meat free burger how the college only gave them credit for saying the meat free burger was healthier. That’s some World Economic Forum propaganda. Pretty soon they will be saying insects are the only healthy version of animal protein.

Meat from Herdwick sheep is very good , buy it if you see it for sale

I prefer the progressive angle of regenerative farming and ranching that is above and beyond the formerly-progressive organic farmers. The conservative corporatist farmers pushing factory farms with chemicals everywhere and losing money to produce feedlot animals or the one to two cash crop of corn or soy are just a horrible way to farm or live. Its polar opposite of the corporatist liberal farms doing monocropping and sending their stuff to make plant-based-faux-meat in labs is just disgusting. All pioneers through history have all been progressive and on the cutting edge. It may not be the most fun place to be, but science is proving it under the microscope and with observation on the land. Its good to innovate with old and new techniques. A lot of time the old techniques had some good, but weren't exactly right. The sheep guy you interviewed before realized that the grazing on the mountains was a good thing, but they didn't allow enough rest time in between grazing. Until he watched your videos, he didn't realize what rest would do. I grew up gardening and now I realize not turning the garden soil (even to mix in compost) and mulching on the surface took my garden to a whole new level.

Good video did you get a video of the Shorthorn cattle in the back ground.

The omega 6 to omega 3 ratio is so so horrible on most fake meat processed with different oils “greases” like sunflower oil plant base but they take a lot of the good stuff that your body needs

How to answer that question . I have been taught that fake plant based meat is better than meat from animals . I wonder if that would be an acceptable answer. I had a guard dog who protected me when I was a infant back in the day when mothers put their babies outside in a pram to get some fresh air . My aunts dog should arrive and keep me company Mum had to call her SIL and ask her to come up the road and take the dog in hand as he would not let Mum near me. He certainly took the self appointed job seriously. Has anyone read the list of chemicals and unhealthy crap that goes into processed foods that are cheaply sourced and adulterated with ……oh well the rant is long enough . The author certainly wrote and illustrated a lot of books I named my pet rabbit Peter because of my copy of one of her books. It is always a disappointment when you find out one of your favourite authors died before you were born. Josephine Tey was the mystery writer that I enjoyed reading and it was a bummer to learn that there wouldn’t be any new books to read. 🤷🏼‍♀️🍀💝🍀👍👍👍🍀💝🍀🖖🖖🖖🍀💝🍀🙋🏼‍♀️

If you make your own whole food plant base burgers using whole grains different beans lentils etc which you use a blender or food processor that is a different story you maintain the nutrients of the plant your not trying to pass it off as meat it’s just another way to consume plants

Must be up Penrith way? such a typical north Cumbrian accent.