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Growing Clean Wool Fleece: Part 2 Coating Sheep

Gwen

Mar 13, 20245 min read

Growing Clean Wool Fleece: Part 2 Coating Sheep

If you follow us on social media, you may have noticed that some of our sheep are wearing coats at this time of year. We coat our sheep...

Gwen

Mar 6, 20243 min read

Growing Clean Wool Fleece: Part 1

A current growing pain we have is how to economically keep the sheep’s fleece as clean as possible. Unfortunately, the nature of wool...

Beverly

Jan 17, 20244 min read

Welcome to the Lincolns

Adding Lincoln Longwool sheep to our small sheep flock.

Beverly

Mar 22, 20233 min read

Dyeing Wool: It's All About Colour

I have been in the kitchen for days and I haven’t been cooking. Instead, I’ve been washing and dying wool to increase the colour variety...

Beverly

Jan 25, 20233 min read

The Joy of Hand Carding Wool

I was asked just the other day what are you working on – spinning? knitting? weaving ? felting? sewing? “No”, was my reply, “I am...