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 to keep the hay and straw (vegetable matter or VM) out of their fleece. A coat is exactly what it sounds like. It slips over the neck of the sheep to cover their back and sides with leg ties to keep it in place. We haven’t found that the coats are very common on sheep farms here in Canada (when we bought them from the U.S. company, they comme

A current growing pain we have is how to economically keep the sheep’s fleece as clean as possible. Unfortunately, the nature of wool means that once vegetable matter (hay in our case) gets in there it is practically impossible to remove. Our Belfast Mini Mill equipment does remove some of it as a by-product of processing, but it definitely has limits, and it definitely doesn’t remove all of it! It is meant to start with relatively clean wool fleece. So, the goal becomes keep

Adding Lincoln Longwool sheep to our small sheep flock.

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...

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