The Salt Stones : A Shepherd's World, a Shepherd's Mind

“Helen Whybrow is a to-the-bone writer, and this is a to-the-bone book-beautiful, real, full of life.”-Bill McKibben, author of The End of Nature“Sheep have helped me become a good shepherd, not just to them, but to a place that is my sustenance and joy as well as my unending labor and worry."In the heart of Vermont’s Green Mountains, Helen Whybrow and her partner set out to restore an old two-hundred-acre farm.Knowing that “belonging more than anything requires participation,” they begin to intertwine their lives with the land.But soon after releasing a flock of Icelandic sheep onto the worn-out fields, Whybrow realizes that the art of shepherding extends far beyond the flock and fences of Knoll Farm. In prose both vivid and lean, The Salt Stones offers an intimate and profoundly moving story of what it means to care for a flock and truly inhabit a piece of land.The shepherd’s life unfolds for Whybrow in the seasons and cycles of farming and family-birthing lambs, fending off coyotes,