FRENCH LIFE

Summer Is Almost Here, Time To Move The Sheep

It gets hot under all that wool

Where do we go from here? (All photos by author)

A sure sign that summer’s almost here — I saw a Transhumance sign. Transhumance, something I’d never heard of before I moved to France, is the seasonal movement of livestock from one area to another. Here in southern France, this mostly involves moving sheep from lowland fields where the…