Barbara McLean

Permanently a farmer, temporarily a teacher of English and Women’s Studies, I combined my passions in my book, Lambsquarters: Scenes From a Handmade Life. As a shepherd I am acquainted with grief and interment, for keeping livestock inevitably results in deadstock: stillborn lambs lie buried in the bush and extinct ewes sprout alfalfa in the fields. The death of my parents makes it possible to print the story of what I discovered through finding my sister’s ashes.

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