The Day: Shearing 180 sheep is a one-day task at Lyme farm

  Lyme — Managing a farm is a year-round production of planning and preparation, carrying out those plans and reaping its benefits. As part of that annual ebb and flow, the end of October stands as Sankow’s Beaver Brook Farm sheep-shearing period — a weekslong process that will yield more than 1,000 pounds of fleece [...]