ShropshireSheep.org

I’m Montana Jones. Apparently I am FARMED and dangerous… But I am not a criminal. I’m a shepherd, farmer and writer who has been preserving rare breed Shropshire sheep for the last 12 years, and farming various other heritage breeds and vegetables for the last 30.

NEWS—May 1st—2010: Owner Montana Jones alarmed to discover signed, certified government document declaring scrapie contamination—dated 16 days before any samples were actually shipped to the lab for testing.

Last Monday April 2, 2012, the Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) intended to destroy 41 apparently healthy heritage breed Shropshire sheep at Wholearth Farmstudio, a Northumberland County farm that conserves heritage livestock genetics. 20 of the flock are pregnant and due to lamb shortly. CFIA arrived to find the flock was gone, and were met [...]

Click on the photo for a direct link to sign a petition to STOP CFIA from Destroying these 41 apparently healthy pregnant rare sheep…you’ll help save this Wholearth heritage Shropshire ewe with traditional breed character — her lineage dates back to the first Shropshires imported to Canada in early 1900′s by the Millers to their [...]