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Rappahannock had a little lamb — lots of them

by | Apr 7, 2025

Audrey Regnery holding one of her recently-born lambs on her farm in Washington. (Photo/Ireland Hayes)
Two lambs on the Regnery farm. (Photo/Ireland Hayes)
A young lamb on the Regnery Farm. (Photo/Ireland Hayes)
A young lamb on the Regnery Farm. (Photo/Ireland Hayes)
Audrey Regnery holding one of her recently-born lambs on her farm in Washington. (Photo/Ireland Hayes)
Young lambs with their mothers on the Regnery farm. (Photo/Ireland Hayes)
Two lambs nursing on the Regnery farm. (Photo/Ireland Hayes)

Entering the world, fashionably

It’s that time of year — farms across Rappahannock County are welcoming spring flocks of new lambs and goat kids. 

Four little lambs, only a few days old, took their first steps outside of a barn Tuesday morning, braving the cold in their fleece jackets to return to pasture with their mothers at Greenfield Farm in Washington. 

Shepherd Audrey Regnery said she has had six new additions to her herd in recent weeks, with a potential for 10 more to be born in the next week. 



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By Ireland Hayes

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Ireland joined Foothills Forum as a full-time reporter in 2023 after graduating from the University of Georgia’s Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication with a degree in journalism and minor in music. As a student, she gained valuable experience in reporter and editor positions at The Red & Black, an award-winning student newspaper, and contributed to Grady Newsource and the Athens Banner-Herald. She spent three years as an editorial assistant at Georgia Magazine, UGA’s quarterly alumni publication, and interned with The Bitter Southerner. Growing up in a small town in Southeast Georgia, Ireland developed a deep appreciation for rural communities and the unique stories they have to tell. She completed undergraduate research on news deserts, ghost papers and the ways rural communities in Georgia are being forced to adapt to a lack of local news. This research further sparked her interest in a career contributing to the preservation of local and rural news.