BeverlyMar 283 minLessons from the Wool Mill's Draw FrameI took a break from our camp sock yarn this week to clean up some off-white Suri alpaca floor sweeps from a shearing. (Yes, I know most...
GwenMar 135 minGrowing Clean Wool Fleece: Part 2 Coating SheepIf 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...
GwenMar 63 minGrowing Clean Wool Fleece: Part 1A current growing pain we have is how to economically keep the sheep’s fleece as clean as possible. Unfortunately, the nature of wool...
BeverlyFeb 144 min“Don’t Let the Old Man In” Toby Keith passed away last week. If his name doesn’t ring a bell, he was a country artist that Bryan and I listened to especially in the...
GwenJan 102 minWhat is Tallow?Welcome to the first of four posts in a series about tallow. Tallow is a type of rendered animal fat that is obtained from the fatty...
GwenAug 30, 20233 minSheep aren't dogs. Thank goodness. When I first started working with sheep, I assumed that over time we would develop some sort of “relationship”. Even at the beginning of...
BryanFeb 15, 20235 minThunder Bay is not close to Cookstown: A Shipping Sheep DisasterI think we have mentioned in earlier blogs that I had bought some additional sheep – four rams and five ewe lambs for breeding. They were...
GwenFeb 8, 20233 minTallow soap, anyone?It’s funny how life works. A few months ago, I was not thinking about making soap. Although I have made soap before, it hadn’t even...
GwenJan 4, 20232 minCelebrating 2022Like most people, I tend to focus on what is not going well or what we didn’t get to, but before we swap out the calendar, I wanted to...