In the heart of Vermont’s Green Mountains, Helen Whybrow and her partner are presented with the opportunity to steward a two-hundred-acre conserved farm. Whybrow knows that “belonging more than anything requires participation” and radically intertwines her life with the land. Six months after purchasing Knoll Farm, they unload a flock of Icelandic sheep onto the field and Whybrow becomes a shepherd entering into “nature’s constant cycle of life into death into life” and all its unexpected lessons.<\/p>\n
The challenging and profoundly rewarding work unfolds for Whybrow in the everyday rituals of farmsteading and caring for her family\u2014birthing lambs in the late winter, harvesting blueberries in summer, fending off coyotes and foxes, seasonal shearing\u2014while instilling the lessons of the land in her daughter and caring for her mother. As life at Knoll Farm endures years both abundant and lean, she learns that true stewardship is about accepting change and adapting. She embraces a transcendent rhythm of blood and bone, milk and muck.<\/p>\n
At once inspiring and brave, deeply felt and gorgeously written,\u00a0The Salt Stones<\/i>\u00a0is a loving look at the world through a shepherd’s interconnected ethos.<\/p>\n