Antonio and Molly have been vending at the Santa Fe Farmers’ Market since 1990. They raise and sell certified organic grassfed lamb at the Market and to natural food stores in New Mexico. They also make and sell yarn and wool products and lamb pelts. Antonio & Molly have one of only two herded bands of sheep left in NM outside of the Navajo Reservation, maybe the largest lamb operation in the country.
Watch the short documentary, The Last Shepherds.
In the late 1800’s the mountains of Northern New Mexico were visited each summer by hundreds of sheepherders, each with a flock of more than a thousand sheep. Today, Antonio and Molly Manzanares run the last such flock. Limited by government regulations, a lack of young ranchers willing to take on the work, and a flood of cheap lamb and wool from overseas, Antonio and Molly have to ask themselves: “Will we be the last?”
Manzanares named Sheepman of the Year – 2016
Shepherd’s Lamb was a 2013 Farmer All Star awardee!
Get Antonio’s mother’s recipe for bizcochitos here!