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Podcast: Other Voices
Episode: Gary Kleppel โ Knox farm as a laboratory and a refuge
Description: Gary Kleppel is a sheep farmer who likes coyotes.He is perpetually aware of the ecological balance of which he is a part.Every morning, Kleppel and his border collie bring their 30 sheep from barn to pasture and then, every night, return them to the barn.Overnight, coyotes eat all the vermin in the pasture. There are no rats in the Kleppelsโ barn.In ecology, Kleppel explains in this weekโs podcast, there is no competition; rather, there is co-opetition. โWe cooperate and we compete,โ says Kleppel.Kleppel, who has a Ph...