Details matter when tending a flock:Good care rewarded on La Bergerie McGraw Sheep Farm

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"If you want to come see our farm, Monday is the best day. We take Monday off from our bakery business and we can show you around." Jocelyn McGraw was responding to my phone call, asking if I might write a profile about their farm.Directions were straightforward: Highway 15, just a few kilometers to their farm in Cormier Village, New Brunswick. La Bergerie McGraw Sheep Farm: neat yard, straight fences and big barn; a load of poplar logs piling up in the farmyard.Jocelyn and Jacques McGraw have owned the Boulangerie Shediac Bakery in nearby Shediac for a number of years, and Jacques is the designated early riser who heads into the shop to bake bread in the very early hours of the morning six days a week. Mondaysthe bakery is closed, providing the McGraw' s a day for personal errands and catching up on farm work.