Shepherd is the most graphic, honest, heartrending, and heartwarming account of undertaking an adventure in farming that I have ever read. Embracing both untamed nature and human nature, this book makes compelling reading for both those who farm and those who don’t.
—Gene Logsdon, author of All Flesh is Grass: The Pleasures and Promises of Pasture Farming
Shepherd explores one man’s realization of a boyhood dream. But as they say in southern Ohio, “It weren’t easy.” Richard Gilbert writes with honesty, in gorgeous prose, about the joys and setbacks, bringing to vivid life an enchanted Appalachian valley filled with unforgettable characters.
—Dinty W. Moore, author of Between Panic and Desire
What a delightful book. So authentic in its descriptions of those peculiar critters, sheep. It brings back so many memories of my life at Malabar Farm and the spring lambing season, which seldom failed to deliver to me an orphan to be brought up on a bottle. People say sheep don’t have much sense. But from the sheep I’ve known, this strikes me as being a very precipitous judgment. Anyone who reads this book will be encouraged to see what I mean.
—Ellen Bromfield Geld, author of The Heritage: A Daughter’s Memories of Louis Bromfield