Learn to Be An Urban Shepherd at Grazing Workshop

Sheep

Thu 3/19 @ 1-3:30PM

It seems like every time you turn around, someone’s come up with a new angle to expand urban agriculture and bring a touch of the rural to the city — Bees! Chickens! Pigs!

What’s next? Sheep!

A couple of years ago, a group called Urban Shepherds formed with the goal of using ruminants — sheep and goats — to do vegetation management, eliminating the need for herbicides and pollution-causing mowing while managing weeds and invasive plants the old-fashioned way. The group created a model to identify appropriate lots for sheep, make sure zoning and permitting is in place, prepare the sites for flocks, train the volunteer shepherds, and secure the flocks and local shepherds to oversee each urban site area.

Urban grazing came to Cleveland in 2011 when the St. Clair Superior neighborhood started to use them to graze vacant land. Urban Shepherds now has numerous sites in the city as well as an office and training site on E. 71st in the Fairfax neighborhood at the Foundry Project.

If this sounds intriguing and you think you might like to engage in the ancient occupation of shepherding, Urban Shepherds is offering an urban grazing workshop where you can find out what’s involved. It takes place at the COSE offices downtown. If you like what you hear, the group will be doing a day of training at the Spicy Lamb Farm in Peninsula Sat 5/16.

The March 19 workshop is free but you must register. Go to urbanshepherds.org/cleveland.

urbanshepherds.org/cleveland

Cleveland, OH 44115

 

 

 

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