Sow’s Ear Farm
Hosts: Shawn & Beth Dougherty
Shawn and Beth Dougherty have been farming together since the 1980s, for the last twenty years in eastern Ohio, where they manage 27 acres designated by the state as ‘not suitable for agriculture’, as well as a monastery farm of 100 acres.
Using intensive grazing as the primary source of food energy, they raise dairy and beef cows, sheep, farm-fed hogs, and a variety of poultry, producing most of the food, and feed, on the farm.
They write and speak on farming, dairying, farm-raised animal foods, and off-grid captured water systems, and are the authors of The Independent Farmstead.
Shawn was recently elected to the Board of Commissioners for the Jefferson Soil and Water Conservation District.
Subjects Covered Include:
Beef and Dairy Cows
Katahdin Sheep
Chicken and Pigs
Grazing Techniques
Water Management
Bed & Breakfast
