If you live in northern Ontario, you are welcome to attend this workshop free of charge – please use the coupon code SHEEPNORTH when filling out the registration form to receive free admission.

All Indigenous growers, land stewards and community members are welcome to attend this workshop free of charge – please use the coupon code INDIG2025 when filling out the registration form to receive free admission.

This webinar is part of the webinar series Exploring a New Enterprise with Ignatius Farm.

Webinar Description:

Have you been wanting to keep livestock?  How about sheep!  Join Brenda Hsueh as she talks us through starting a sheep farm, the challenges and benefits.  Brenda and her family run Black Sheep Farm; an organic farm, raising sheep on pasture for lamb meat, fibre, and tanned lambskins. A recording of this webinar will be available.

Speaker: Brenda Hsueh, Black Sheep Farm, Chesley

Black Sheep Farm is an organic farm, raising sheep on pasture for lamb meat, fibre, and tanned lambskins. The farm was started by Brenda Hsueh in 2009, a Canadian-born Chinese woman, who left a financial career in downtown Toronto to start farming. Eventually, she met Skyler, from the farm around the corner, who took an interest in the sheep side of the farm and has been growing it ever since. Black Sheep Farm is an agroecological farm, prioritizing soil health, biodiversity, and social justice. The sheep are grazed on pasture using intensive managed grazing, to maximize the positive soil carbon capture benefits of ruminants, while producing food and fibre from something humans can’t eat, grass.

This webinar is supported by funding from the Federal Economic Development Agency for Northern Ontario.