If you visit Sankow's Beaver Brook Farm in Lyme, you'll likely find 81-year-old Suzanne Sankow interacting with her 600 sheep, making a fresh batch of sheep's milk cheese or crafting hand-spun wool into vests or socks that they sell in their on-site wool shop. Her husband, Stan, was born on the [...]

Suzanne Sankow will tell you that she learned everything she needed to know about raising sheep by reading books. Now 81, she married into the Sankow family, which has owned Beaver Brook Farm in Lyme since 1917, when the original 150 acres were purchased for $2,000. (An additional 25 acres were [...]

Link: The Day: Lambing Season Author: N/A Press: The Day Date: March 20, 2019

LYME, Conn. (WTNH) - With about 10 Jersey cows and 180 sheep, Sankow's Beaver Brook Farm is a landmark in Lyme where the same family has worked the fields for more than 100 years.  "We have 165 acres," said Suzanne Sankow, who, along the way, began selling raw milk. "It just makes sense, it only makes [...]

Lyme — Sankow's Beaver Brook Farm opened its doors Saturday for its annual Farm Day, offering hayrides and live music, among other activities. Sol Ballard, 3, right, of Hamden throws straw at his sister, Lily Ballard, 13, left, and their friend Erika Morrison, second from left, of New Haven while [...]

Link: WFSB: Find Out Where Your Cozy Wool Clothes Come From Publisher: WFSB - Channel 3 Eyewitness News Reporter: Melissa Cole

On one of the first crisp days of autumn, I took a country drive over to Sankow’s, a 100-year old family farm in Lyme. You’re probably familiar with their cheese offerings from local farmer’s markets, but the dairy farm is just up the road from me and, believe it or not, [...]

If you think buying local is a new trend, consider again. Sankow’s Beaver Brook Farm recently celebrated 100 years of being just that. At this local business, one can buy cheese, meat, milk – and even wool socks, sweaters, vests and blankets – to help keep one warm on a cold [...]

Link: Connecticut Public Television Executive Producer & Director: Heather Fay Dawson Director of Photography: Kevin Kuhl Editor: Tom Oliveras Camera: Kevin Kuhl, Mike Dunphy Audio: Larry Roeming Graphics: Sam Hockaday

Farm Day at Sankow's Beaver Brook Farm LYME, CT. NOVEMBER. 7TH- Sankow's Beaver Brook farm is hosting its 28th annual FARM DAY on Saturday November 25th from 11am to 4pm at 139 Beaver Brook Road in Lyme, CT. The event provides the opportunity to bring the family together to celebrate 100 [...]

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WITH the days long and warm, wool gathering can be a periodic state of mind. For the Sankow family, though, it is a year-round way of life. They tend nearly 700 head of sheep, turning the wool into sweaters, vests and other knitwear, much of which is for sale at their [...]

THE sign at the entrance to Suzanne and Stan Sankow's farm, named Beaver Brook for the creek that runs through the property in Lyme on its way to the nearby Connecticut River, is a quaint portrait of a black-faced sheep. The farm makes and sells, among other products, artisanal sheep and [...]

BEAVER BROOK FARM in Lyme, Conn., has been in the Sankow family since 1917, but it wasn't until 1984 that Stan and Suzanne Sankow introduced sheep to their 175 acres. They broke into the cheese business in an unconventional way with ''half a flock,'' as Mrs. Sankow put it: a ram [...]