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Weston Hill Farm -
Saturday January 28, 2012 - By eileen
It is January and I am staying as busy as possible ! January and Febuary are the months that I get the most done when it comes to Fiber work. The weather this year has been exceptionally warm for the most part, but winter is a time where often times , you find...
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Happy Hills Alpaca Farm -
Thursday September 08, 2011 - By wawanuky
Well, every family has a black sheep and now ours does too, but literally! I've always wanted a sheep, even back in college at the Univ. of Wisconsin. When I was bored, stressed, angry or all three I would walk to the Ag. barn and watch the sheep. ...
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At Home in Nature -
Sunday May 29, 2011 - By Mary
Nourishment is important to many kinds of farm production, but also for wool production. Texas A&M University has known through the efforts of James Addison Carey III ( Effects of Range Management Practices on Wool Production , 1984) that even...
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Natural Fiber Works of Knox Farms -
Monday January 31, 2011 - By Janet
We're a family owned and operated fiber mill located in Southeast Michigan. Our fiber mill is grown from our love of Alpacas and the wonderful fiber they provide.
What we do We will take your fiber and turn it into the finished product you desire. We can...
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Rainbow Ranch Farms -
Saturday January 08, 2011 - By Poly
The Issue of Fraud at California Certified Farmers Markets
posted Nov 11, 2010 6:44 PM by URCA News Staff and Randy White [ updated Nov 11, 2010 7:53 PM ]
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Cranberry Moon Farm -
Wednesday December 15, 2010 - By Miss Lisa
In an extraordinary twist of fate, I'm headed to Tasmania Australia for the Holidays this year. Perhaps not so unusual that I'd be going to an Island to visit, since the Island life is where I feel most at home. But to go half way round the world to see where...
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Cranberry Moon Farm -
Wednesday December 08, 2010 - By Miss Lisa
On the verge on leaving for Tasmania Australia. This will be a trip of a lifetime for me. The rare wooly English Leicester flock in the United States was restored by sheep from this farm, Heazlewood Farm, Whitemore.
I look forward in sharing with...
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Tuckernuck Farm (formally Seaweed&Codfish Farm) -
Monday November 08, 2010 - By Veronica
November 8th, 2010
Woke up to snow & slush today! Poor sheep, ducks, chickens & peacocks all stuffed in the barn watching sleet and rain drip off the roof. All the rams are in rut of course with noses stuffed...
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Cranberry Moon Farm -
Wednesday October 06, 2010 - By Miss Lisa
2010 breeding of ewes has begun. We are breeding purebred English Leicester Longwool and purebred Bluefaced Leicester stock. There are two exceptions, Luna de Sombra and Assumpta II, mother and daughter out of Blossom, our matriarch and lead ewe. We have every...
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Three Springs Farm -
Saturday August 28, 2010 - By Judy
Well the garden is winding down...tomatoes everywhere..more freezing and canning soon! New [June] chicks are ready to go out with the "big girls" and the rest of the hen population is still recovering from a dog attack last month, where 5 were...
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Kyle Farms All Natural Lamb -
Wednesday June 16, 2010 - By Anne
Local herders see sheep industry comeback By Howard W. Appell Apr 29, 2010 Shearing is an annual process usually done in the spring. Last week,
from Monday to Saturday, about 2,300 sheep were being sheared in a five
stand shed on Nations Road. ...
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Evergreen Students for Sustainable Animal Agriculture -
Sunday May 23, 2010 - By ESSAA
Today E.S.S.A.A. hosted a fiber arts workshop as part of the Synergy Conference at Evergreen. Through this workshop we brought the wool sheared from our sheep to those in the Evergreen community who want to use it. A local fiber artist led the workshop and...
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Millennial Way Farm -
Tuesday May 11, 2010 - By millennialway
Hi Everyone!
About a week ago we were at Maryland Sheep and Wool festival in MD. It was wonderful to see old friends, shop for fibers and yarns, be in the spinning contest and most of all SPOT new trends. This years trend for yarn seemed to be soild...
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Evergreen Students for Sustainable Animal Agriculture -
Monday April 12, 2010 - By ESSAA
We sheared all the sheep this weekend! It was hard work, but we worked through it together, taking turns and helping each other. One person would hold a sheep while one or two more sheared and a third took the opportunity to trim the sheep's hooves. While this...
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Cranberry Moon Farm -
Thursday March 18, 2010 - By Miss Lisa
Beautiful lambs are starting to arrive! The Bluefaced Leicester ewe "Glory" has twins, a ram and a ewe. Two of the Leicester Longwool ewes have lambed. Beatrice has twins, a ram and a ewe, while Anna Harrison II delivered a huge single ram lamb of...
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Shady Hill Farms, Ltd. -
Tuesday March 09, 2010 - By Ben
This is the Fourteenth Blog From the Sheep Farmer at Shady Hill Farms.
It has been a long time between Blog entries and a very long Winter in Northeast Ohio!
It occurs to me as we struggled through Winter and the shed lambing of our 80 ewes that an...
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Dolce Farm and Orchards -
Thursday March 04, 2010 - By Annie
The rain has stopped, the sun is out - slight breeze twirls about. I step outside and start setting up my skirting "table" - a screen with a wooden frame that my husband made -, grab two saw horses, open them up and proceed to place the screen over...
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Cranberry Moon Farm -
Thursday December 17, 2009 - By Miss Lisa
The month of December will host two full moon displays, yet again. It’s been a very bright lite time for this first full moon. The weather is still unstable and not typical for the season. It has hardly brought freezing temperatures and snow. Some, yes, but...
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Wool n Feather Farm -
Wednesday November 25, 2009 - By Melissa
We have had such a nice response to our new FIber Share program. 2009 Shares are all sold out, but we are in the planning stages of our 2010 shares. Thank you for all your interest in our farm. We are also in the planning stages for our new farm. I can't wait...
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