Sylvia's Farm
The Journal of an Improbable Shepherd
“For those unfamiliar with Sylvia, discovering her stories is like stumbling into a fully loaded wild blackberry patch—impossible to rush through, sweetly fulfilling, with an immediate longing to return to them again and again.”
—Joshua Kilmer-Purcell, The Fabulous Beekman Boys
This collection of stories chronicling Sylvia Jorrín's life on the farm provides comfort and inspiration to all those searching for meaning in life's many blessings.
The world of Sylvia's Farm is a rich landscape of natural beauty and simple pleasures. Sylvia Jorrín never expected to become the first woman in the New York City Watershed to solely own and operate a large livestock farm. But first the farm, and then farm life, captured her heart as it has…
Sylvia Jorrín has been a farmer raising sheep in Delaware County, New York more than 25 years. Her farm is one of the few large regional sheep farms solely owned and operated by a woman. She has published over 1,000 articles about her farm, agricultural subjects, her recipes, and book reviews in such agricultural publications as Country Folks, Small Farm Journal, and The Delaware County Times. Sylvia's house was photographed for Farmhouse Revival by Susan Daley and Steve Gross. Sylvia was also featured in Martha Stewart Living magazine in an article about shearing on her farm and Sylvia's homemade recipes. Sylvia's Farm was chosen for the Book of the…
Sylvia's Farm
Sylvia Jorrin; Foreword by Joshua Kilmer-Purcell