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Sheep

Researchers are rushing to document carvings made by Basque herders, before they're gone.

The Disappearing Arborglyphs Carved by Sheepherders Across the American West

Basque immigrants inscribed jokes, names, and historical happenings on aspen trees.

Iñaki Arrieta Baro July 15, 2024

Podcast: Nevada Week: The Martin

Feast like a sheepherder at a Basque boarding house turned restaurant.

Sponsored by Travel Nevada

Caraway and candied citrus flavor the buttery sponge.

Welsh Sheep-Shearing Cake Is a Forgotten Pastoral Pleasure

Cacen gneifo was a traditional gift for farmhands during wool-gathering season.

Jamie Ellis September 22, 2023

Olympic Valley, California

Whiskey Creek Camp

A well-preserved sheepherding camp now lies in the heart of the Granite Chief Wilderness, in the high Sierra Nevada.

Luxembourg, Luxembourg

Hämmelsmarsch Fountain

Some believe that the artist behind this whimsical statue inserted his own likeness as a way to discreetly flip the bird.

Every year in the remote reaches of northeastern Georgia, shepherds drive hundreds of sheep along a dangerous mountain trail to seasonal pastures. In May and June, shepherds make the trek up to pristine summer pastures high in the Caucasus Mountains. Then, in September and October, they drive the sheep back down to the valleys below.

The Stark Beauty of Tushetian Shepherds’ Journey Across Georgia’s Caucasus Mountains

These stunning photographs reveal the determination and resilience of a centuries-old way of life.

Sarah Durn March 2, 2023

Podcast: Trailing of the Sheep

What happens when thousands of ovids take over an Idaho town.

Sponsored by GoUSA TV

Viskafors, Sweden

Viskafors Blå Får (Blue Sheep of Viskafors)

A flock of peculiar-colored sheep graze in this small Swedish town.

Geelong, Australia

Stanbury Jacko

A stuffed, prize-winning ram is all that remains of a world-renowned stud line, and a reminder of its owner's gruesome end.

The historic bar has been a meeting point for area cowhands and sheepherders for nearly a century.

For Sale: The Only Bar in a 14-Person Montana Town

You could own the busiest watering hole for miles.

Luke Fater December 5, 2019

Edinburgh, Scotland

Sheep Heid Inn

One of Edinburgh's oldest pubs hides a 19th-century skittles alley in the back.

A sheep and a bear square off in a 2018 protest in France.

In the Pyrenees Mountains, It’s Bears vs. Sheep vs. Humans

A bear named Claverina has stoked an age-old debate about where predators belong.

Sabrina Imbler September 3, 2019

It takes 20 sheep to make 2.2 pounds of Torta del Casar.

Casar de Cáceres, Spain

Museo del Queso

A cheese discovery made by shepherds became the pride of a region.

Montebore

By the 21st century, one lone woman held the recipe for what might have been da Vinci’s cheese of choice.

Torta del Casar

In Spain's Extremadura region, local sheep and a touch of thistle make for an ultra-creamy, slightly bitter cheese.

Dala-järna, Sweden

Café i Fårhus

This restaurant gives a new meaning to farm-to-table cuisine.

Won't you be my neighbor?

These Seaweed-Munching Sheep in Scotland Need Someone to Fix Their Wall

The small island of North Ronaldsay is looking for someone to repair the dyke that keeps the flock close to the shore.

Jessica Leigh Hester June 25, 2019

Divle Obruk

The rare, cave-aged Turkish cheese is one of the last vestiges of a dying cheese-making tradition.