My daughter has spent the year working on a small sustainable urban farm on California’s central coast. She prepared the land, planted, grew, and harvested food, tended to chickens and sheep, and two amazing dogs. This one in particular, Mr. Bluford Jenkins the Third–Blu for short–was her special friend. Blu was a guardian dog, bred …
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