Lamb, Mushrooms Roasted over Wood, Sauce of Forbs

Sheep will eat a variety of grasses, clover and pastoral plants, but it’s forbs — a herbaceous flowering plant that is not a grass — that they love. Sheep consume a much greater and tastier variety of plants than cattle so maybe they are the more enlightened species! If you ask my father, Rob, who has farmed both sheep and cattle for the better part of thirty years, he is of the same opinion. Here’s a word from him on exactly how cunning his sheep could be.