Unique Insights from a Food Animal Medicine Professor
October 9, 2026
Growing up in a matriarchal family in Zimbabwe, I was assigned the role of the family shepherd from an early age. I took our animals to graze every day after school. I helped name our cattle, sheep, goats, cats, dogs, and pigeons. I trained our cattle to plow the crop fields and protected them from predators. I treated our animals for many ailments using plants, a skill I learned from my mother and grandmother, whose passion for our farm animals shaped my own
