If you live in Ypsi, chances are, over the last few days, your social media feeds have been filled with images and videos of sheep wondering across Riverside Park, adorably chewing up grass to the delight of young and old alike. Well, local filmmaker Dan Blakeney went one step further and didn’t just document the chewing, suckling and baaing, but actually interviewed the shepherd behind Project Mow, Yuko Frazier… Enjoy.
What’s the deal with the sheep “mowing” Ypsi’s Riverside Park?
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This is a distraction, sheeple.
This is cute and everything but it does burn gasoline to transport the sheep and doesn’t the leftover poop cause an issue in the park where people go to hang out in the grass?
Obviously any means of mowing parks burns energy. Don;t mowers also have to be transported??
Sheep poop is one of the best possible fertilizers. It is ‘hot’ and doesn’t need composting like cow manure. Its tiny herbacious pellets decompose very quickly.
If anything I worry about people bothering the sheep versus the opposite. They are highly sensitive creatures.
I used to work on a sheep farm during the lambing. I’ve had a lot of jobs; Shepherd was a good one. I’m fond of sheep. This is a cool thing. I’m a bit jealous of Yuko.
emma,
you could solve that emission dilemma by taking your non-motorized push mower there, and mowing and raking up (and composting) all of that foot high grass on a steep hill.
reel mowers don’t cut anything over 6 inches high, Dan. you’ll have to push your gas-powered one over there and get to work.
oh wait, you were being *witty*….oh right.
Are they going to sell the sheep meat when they are done?
I wish they would. I love mutton stew.
You have to eat the boys. They are largely useless otherwise. Not worth feeding them through the winters. Not even for wool bearing sheep.
People who love farm animals and don’t eat meat are short on the concept.
People who keep single sheep as pets are guilty of animal cruelty.