Animal Activities #64

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The Gold-fleece Caretaker.

In the ragged mountains, where there is a thin air, and the grass is sun-bleached tufts, Elara lived in the mountains. It was a Merino ewe, and was so thick and crimped, that she looked as though she had been covered with frozen sea foam. The valley people would have ignored her presence as another fact in a beautiful scenery, but Elara was aware of the truth and she and her flock were the movers and shakers of the oldest business on the planet without getting credit.

One morning she had a frost that was crunching her like sugar beneath her hooves and Elara brought the flock into a new paddock. This was the hooves dance, the dance of the hunger. They were not only grazing when they ate, but tilling the land. Their selective nibbling further prevented the establishments of invasive weeds and native grasses grew and their constant mobility caused the seeds to be deposited deep into the soil to establish a living breathing aeration system.

The husband, the Farming giant.

The Sheep is no match when it comes to the selection of a foundation block to the history of the agricultural world. Other than the fictitiousness of a tale, their biological studies are crucial to the wellbeing of food and cloth in the globe.

Vitality of Soil: Sheep are good sources of organic manure. Their manure contains high levels of nitrogen and potassium that by itself make the soil fertile to the next planting of the crops without any form of artificial chemicals.
Landscape Control: They are biologists of grass. They reduce the fuel load associated with wildfires because of grazing activities in too rocky or too steep to be accessible by tractor, and ensure biodiversity in sensitive habitats.
The Dual-Purpose Economy: Sheep have a threefold threat of products compared to most other livestock applications: wool to create sustainable textiles, meat (lamb and mutton) to create protein products, and milk to create artisanal cheese products such as Roquefort or Manchego products.

Driven on by the down of the sun behind the ridges Elara sat down in the clover. Her wool would then be sheared to make warmer clothes many miles away and farms that she would walk would then be green the next spring courtesy her footing. The thread of the great tapestry of agriculture, which is the soil and the economy is the sheep.

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