BDN reports on sheep shearing school offered by UMaine Extension
The Bangor Daily News reported on a recent sheep shearing school offered by the Maine Sheep Breeders Association and University of Maine Cooperative Extension at Wolfe’s Neck Farm in Freeport. The groups hold workshops every spring when sheep need to be shorn, according to the article. “There seems to always be a need for qualified shearers to get out there and harvest the wool,” said Richard Brzozowski, a food system program administrator at UMaine Extension who was facilitating the class. “It’s an interesting skill. Even if you don’t end up becoming a professional shearer, you do know about wool.”