A little background about us--- my wife and myself have both had the opportunity to be involved with agriculture and raising sheep for most of our lives, so we decided that we should not let that knowledge go to waste. The only problem was we did not own any land, buildings, equipment or livestock. We contemplated on if we should buy or rent a farm and once we found a farm what type and or breed of livestock should we raise. At the time land prices were very high, so we figured the only way we could make this work would be if we could raise everything on rented pasture. This would allow us to reduce our expenses by not having an investment in land, buildings, equipment, etc. Now that we had decided we would be renting a farm the question was asked what type of livestock would be best for us to raise? Sheep, of course was the obvious answer since we both had extensive knowledge and they would require a lot less equipment to get started. The next question was what breed of sheep should we acquire? We decided on the Katahdin breed which would enable us in obtaining the objective of raising sheep entirely on pasture due to their high resistance to internal parasites, heat tolerance, excellent carcass quality, plus I would not have to shear them since they do not produce any wool! So, we set out in search of a farm to rent. This was not as easy as we had thought and of course before we could find a farm to rent we had the opportunity to buy a flock of Katahdin ewe lambs, but of course had no place to pasture them. Luckily we had some very understanding friends and family who helped us pasture the sheep until we found a more permanent home. Finally after several years we found a farm to rent in Clear Spring MD. All of this seems such a long time ago and we have had the opportunity to expand since them. We currently have approximately 70 commercial Katadhin ewes and we have just had the opportunity to buy a flock of registered White Dorpers which we are very exited about.