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|Spring 2025
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Regular readers of The Country Smallholder magazine may recall the enigmatic therapy sheep who have been featured previously. The small flock of unusual sheep have since made a big name for themselves on the popular channel 5 programme, The Yorkshire Vet and as a result, their keeper, Grace Olson, has written a series of books about them.
'Being on the television was such an amazing opportunity to show people how versatile sheep can be. For centuries they have provided mankind with wool and meat but for me, they offer a different dimension which was completely unexpected.'
Grace explained how she had originally taken on the sheep mainly to keep the weeds down in her horse pasture and had planned to spin their wool to make blankets.

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