Fiber artist Fran Stafford of Newport has called herself many things in her career – spinner, knitter, crocheter, but the Livestock Conservancy would subsume all of those under one title, Sheep Employment Specialist. In a world where the Agricultural Industrial Complex has bred out taste in plants, in favor of ship-ability and shelf life, and turkeys have been bred to have breasts so large their legs can almost not accommodate them, the Livestock Conservancy is trying to preserve genetic diversity …
