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Farmer Created A Giant Heart Using His Sheep to Pay Tribute to Late Aunt [Video]

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  • Due to the pandemic, Australian farmer Ben Jackson cannot attend his late aunt’s funeral.
  • Ben’s aunt passed due to cancer and the borders were closed.
  • To pay tribute to his beloved aunt, Ben created a massive heart using his sheep in a touching farewell message.

An Australian sheep farmer was unable to attend his late aunt’s funeral due to coronavirus border closures. Using his sheep, he thought of a way to honor her.

Ben Jackson is a sheep farmer in Guyra, New South Wales. His aunt succumbed to cancer she’s been battling for two years. Her funeral was being held in Brisbane, over 200 miles away from where he lives.

Due to strict coronavirus border closures in the country, Ben is unable to attend the funeral so he thought of a creative way to pay tribute to her.

When it was time to feed his hundreds of sheep, Ben scattered barley on the ground in the shape of a hear and the sheep huddled around the grain. 

The video was filmed above by drone and sent to his family in Brisbane. Using Simon and Garfunkel’s ‘Bridge over Troubled Water’ as the background music, it’s hard not to get emotional. It was played at his aunt’s funeral.

Watch Ben’s interview from a local Australian network below.

“My aunty loved coming down to the farm and poking around so I just thought a heart for her would be very appropriate,” Ben told ABC News.

“I just hope that when I did it, she was having a peep through the clouds and was able to see it,” he told 7News in Sydney.

The “sheep art,” as Ben calls it, is not the first time he has used livestock to tell a story. In 2018, he “got a little bit despondent about going and feeding grain every day” to his sheep during the drought. So, he bought a drone and started creating messages using the grain and his sheep. 

Ben notes that farming can be lonely sometimes, so he likes to create entertainment and be crafty.

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“This heart that I’ve done for my auntie, it certainly seems like it’s had a bit of an effect across Australia,” he said to NBC News, in reference to the outpouring of love on social media. “Maybe we all just need to give ourselves a big virtual hug.”

Source: The Guardian

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