Scuttleship Farm

Scuttleship Farm A small-scaled, woman-owned farm in the Champlain Valley of Vermont, specializing in humanely raised grass-fed lamb!

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01/16/2022

Less than 12 hours and Christmas was cleaned up for the year.

Our girls are getting closer to lambing and will be in the barn through the spring, eating “the good stuff” and loafing around gestating.

01/15/2022

I don’t know why they always give birth on the most brutal days of the year, but it appears to be a condition of the Cow Charter on our farm.
Here’s to warm milk mustaches and cozy hay piles in the barn!


Merry Christmas to ewe!
12/24/2021

Merry Christmas to ewe!


11/21/2021

A floating moment of peace, brought to ewe by the Ladies in Addison, who are wrapping up the season’s penultimate off-site graze this weekend.




Caught ewes lookin’
10/14/2021

Caught ewes lookin’



Bristol (left) came out of her mother with the personality of an actual ham. Born on Easter Sunday 2017, she was one of ...
10/10/2021

Bristol (left) came out of her mother with the personality of an actual ham. Born on Easter Sunday 2017, she was one of our first lambs and had had us shrugging our shoulders ever since.

She was not a bottle baby, nor has she ever received special treatment (or grain) beyond our compliant scratching of her proffered head. And yet, she follows us, chases our dog, and generally seems to know “how it all works.”

She’s generally our first sheep into the trailer or work chute, and during pedicures (pictured), she swings by to comfort the ewes in the tilt-table with a nuzzle or a sniff.

True, she’s never been much of a looker or a rockstar producer, but since she hit the ground in 2017, we’ve known that there’s something extra going on up there. As our very first girls—5 Icelandics from — retire from breeding life and move on to w**d control and general loafing-about, we’ll keep Bristol with our ewe herd to show the new girls the ropes and demonstrate, by example, to the other sheep that things are, in fact, just fine.

To everyone who checks in about her: Yes, Bristol is doing great.

An autumnal lady and her pearls. The fields along Panton Road are bursting with life after last year’s rest from grazing...
10/07/2021

An autumnal lady and her pearls.

The fields along Panton Road are bursting with life after last year’s rest from grazing and two seasons of heavy meat-chicken occupation.


Everybody loves a hill; those flat and square paddocks get boring! Thanks for the lovely grass and scenery. We’re “flus...
09/26/2021

Everybody loves a hill; those flat and square paddocks get boring!

Thanks for the lovely grass and scenery.

We’re “flushing” our breeding ewes with high quality forage in preparation for October, when we turn in the rams.

If the girls are fit and healthy going into breeding, we will be rewarded with more and healthier lambs come March 2022!






09/23/2021

Fresh grass for our Golden-yolk Girls this morning!

The grass and bugs and dirt and excitement for today are the “secret” ingredients that make our eggs famous.

They get to live like proper homegrown chickens, it just ain’t rocket science y’all.




Grazing is easy, social media is hard. Look at those grass lines, though! We move our herds fast through the landscape, ...
08/22/2021

Grazing is easy, social media is hard.
Look at those grass lines, though! We move our herds fast through the landscape, so animals only ever have the very best (cleanest and most nutritious/tasty) bites of grass from a given area. This also leaves a lot of grass behind. We’ve been accused of wasting feed here, but that’s way oversimplifying the job. Zoom out a bit!

We don’t just feed cattle, we harvest sunlight with grazers. The pastures are our most important crop and the grass needs some (50% +) of those leaves left over after grazing in order to capture sunlight and sustain growth of roots to regrow its vegetation without getting brown and “stalling-out” due to over-harvesting stress. Ultimately, by harvesting less of the grass and leaving some untouched to speed up post-grazing recovery, we will be able to return to this land sooner and more frequently than we would following a more intensive graze.






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2214 Arnold Bay Road
Panton, VT
05491

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+18028700554

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A small-scaled, woman-owned farm in the Champlain Valley of Vermont, specializing in humanely raised grass-fed lamb! We prioritize the health of our animals, stewardship of the environment, and consumer transparency. The best meat comes from happy animals. Eat better meat!