MORNING SENTINEL • June 22, 2025
Fourteen students, mostly from Maine, a handful of auditors and several instructors, attended a two-day workshop on sheep shearing at Sunrise Farm and adjacent North Belgrade Community Center, organized by the University of Maine Cooperative Extension. Students learned about sheep handling, shearing and equipment maintenance, with participants expected to have had prior basic sheep-handling experience. Some of the students took the course in hopes of becoming professional sheep shearers and some because they own sheep and want to shear themselves.