Sheep in the Vineyard!

At the beginning of December we came up with the idea of having sheep in the apple orchard and vineyard. Well how do you cut the grass in the apple orchard and vineyard in the winter? That was the winter problem here at Four Acres, especially when you have a spring in the middle of the apple orchard and you simply get bogged down. The answer was simple, 20 sheep enclosed with Goan fishing nets which I brought to the UK five years ago. It was sustainable, free from chemicals in the apple orchard and self manuring. Unfortunately we were only able to keep the sheep for three weeks. My Goan fishing nets could not hold them in the vineyard, so they had to go back to the farm.