Ewe Know It Farms

Ewe know it farms started with a single lamb in 2021, her name was Penny. Lynn had just come home to Ohio from university in Canada during the middle of the pandemic and felt like she needed something to jump back in to farming right away! So she and her boyfriend Jared drove from Ohio to Connecticut to buy a lamb, not just any lamb, but an East Friesian dairy sheep lamb. In 2023, when Lynn had finally graduated from university, she made the decision to start farming sheep “for realz” and dove in to the process of starting her own farming business. Of course, Lynn wasn’t alone, she was backed by generations of farm experience and to this day still lives and works on her family farm as well (learn more about that in the “about the farmer” section below). So with grant funding secured and pasture on rent, Ewe Know It Farms went from 1 sheep to over 100 in just two weeks. Hi! My name is Lynn Born, and I like to describe my farm life as my 5-9 after my 9-5. In my day job I work as an accountant in a small family-run tax service. I really enjoy accounting and it is actually what I went to university for(my actual degree is in Management, Economics, and Finance), but farming is my true passion. How did I figure that out? Short answer: COVID, but the long answer has a few more details than that. I went to the University of Guelph in Ontario Canada. No, I did not grow up in Canada, I grew up in Ohio, but I wanted to get an international education because I think it is really important to diversify your life experiences to better understand the world and to be able to form your own goals and sense of self. I absolutely loved going to school at Guelph, I could rave about it for hours, but unfortunately, I was there in the heat of the COVID pandemic including all the lockdowns and border closings. This meant that I could not come home to Ohio even for the weekend for 9 full months (which was an extremely long time for me). During that year I spent most of my time alone doing online courses, learning how to ice skate, going on hikes, and I even composed and recorded an entire album of French Horn music (I almost went to school for music performance but decided business was a more secure route). This left a lot of time for personal reflection and I started thinking about where I wanted to end up in life, what was going to make me happy. At the time I was living in a small dorm room in an environment very opposite of the one I grew up in. At home, I had wide open spaces, so many pets and livestock animals that we were starting to run out of names, and the freedom to cater my environment to my wants and needs. At school, I had a 90-square-foot space and the only living things I interacted with on a daily basis were my house plants. The first time I ever had to buy chicken from the grocery store was when I was 19! Before that chicken came from the yard where we raised them and the freezer (which was always full of some type of meat or another). This sort of culture shock set me off researching the type of animals I wanted to keep on my homestead (because at this point I was deeply ingrained in the homesteader and gardener side of youtube). I was looking for types of animals and breeds that would fit my idyllic dream of self-sufficiency and easy slow living. I came across dairy sheep and felt like I had hit the jackpot! Triple purpose! Milk, Meat, and Wool!!! So I went on the search for lambs that I could buy in the US and found a small farm in Connecticut where I road-tripped to buy my very first sheep not even a week after I came home for summer break. It seems that no one in my life could possibly fathom WHY I would want to own so many sheep or WHY I want to spend all my free time taking care of them. To me, it is as simple as “why do you read a book/watch a movie in YOUR free time?” It is something to do, I find it enjoyable, I have fun learning and picking up little things through the process. I have always loved being outside and a