COMING SOON!
Learn about how to become a micro-sheep dairy. 

 Packed with information from the farmers of All Sorts Acres. 

 Tim & Jennifer have raised sheep since 2008 and have been milking sheep since 2015. Over the years they have raised, milked, and processed fibre from many different breeds of sheep.

Beginning on an acre homestead, they have built their farm and micro-dairy as a commercial venture.

In the course you will learn:

KEEPING SHEEP

• beyond the basics of milk, meat, and fibre sheep
• breeding for a pasture-based micro-dairy
• milking sheep nutrition
• how lambing, shearing, milking and weather impacts a sheep
• ewes, rams, and wethers
• health care and how to work with vets
• fencing and fencers
• hay, straw, and why it matters
• feeders, pens, and lambing time
• handling sheep
• shearing, why, when, and how
• lambing time
• breeding season
• how many sheep do you want and can have
• worming, worms, and how to deal with them
• deadstock
• when to let the professionals take over
• AN SO MUCH MORE!

MILKING

• how to milk a sheep
• how to deal with milk
• different milking machines
• training a sheep to milk
• how to know if your sheep is good
• how sheep age impacts milk quantity
• the milking parlour from one to 20 sheep
• sheep milk nutrition on the small farm
• why the number of lambs matters
• pros and cons of lamb sharing or not.
• how to store milk
• AND SO MUCH MORE!

 VALUE ADDED SALES

• direct marketing and sales
• Ontario regulations around sheep milk
• setting up an on-farm commercial kitchen
• what health departments look for
• the ins and outs of packaging
• milk processing from udder to container
• where to make sales
• sheep spreadsheets
•  navigating the local abattoir and butcher landscape
• determining what sales venue works for you
• pricing and budgeting
• sheep milk products
• marketing your products
• insurance for food, farm, and people
• AND SO MUCH MORE!

 FIBRE

• what to do with your fibre
• what's your fibre good for
• how the breed of sheep influences fibre
• ways of processing fibre from easy to intricate
• AND SO MUCH MORE!