Look at our yarn in action!
We have been getting very positive reviews from people who have worked with our yarn.Anya Raskin made a beautiful crocheted hood that I hope to get a picture of very soon. My mom knit my brother a hat, but unfortunately it is somewhere between Oklahoma and Brooklyn, lost. Mary Bonhag spun our roving into some fine, fine yarn. Elena Erber knit this fabulous hat that you see pictured here.
If you have created something with our yarn, do send us a picture or let us know what you made.
Things are about to get bigtime at the farm. Next Sunday morning we will be receiving 70 new ewes from a farm in Pennsylvania. These ewes are a Dorset/Polypay cross. They will be much larger than the dainty Icelandic we have are used to working with. We bought the new ewes from a farm in Central Pennsylvania where the farmer has been raising them on only grass and hay. The ewes are due to lamb in May and we expect to have over 100 lambs running around our farm by the end of May.
Owen, Tracy and I will be going to shearing school in March. We then plan to do all of our shearing and hopefully get some additional practice shearing other people's sheep. We have heard many supportive things about the yarn that our new sheep will yield, so we look forward to a bounty of beautiful yarns and meaty, grass-fed lambs.
In chicken news, with the increasing daylight, the hens are ramping up egg production. We are starting to get close to 3 dozen eggs per day. I am in the process of trying to find a market for the eggs while we wait for Montgomery Place Orchards to open in May. If you would like eggs or have suggestions for places to sell them, please contact me via email or phone.