I finished grazing the Miles pasture yesterday and walked the sheep to the property next door (owned by a family in Shanghai, a story for another day), essentially an overgrown logging road rather than an actual pasture.

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Todd Smith, the local caretaker of the property, is interested in reclaiming some of the land from the encroaching forest, so I let the sheep hit the vegetation harder than I would in other circumstances.

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By this evening, they had eaten every leaf and blade of grass within their reach, except for a plant call sweetfern (Comptonia peregrina, an angiosperm, so neither a fern, nor detectably sweet; go figure).

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There was no easy way to extend the fence to give the flock access to more grazing, and I was exhausted from a long day in Boston, so I brought them take-out to tide them over.  Tomorrow morning I plan to move the flock across town to new pasture.

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