life... on the farm: fiber weekend

Tuesday, August 3, 2010

fiber weekend

This past weekend I was very busy with fiber. I flicked fiber, spun fiber and knit fiber.

Here are 3 locks of Lightning's fiber:

This is what it looks like after I flicked one of the locks:

Flicking opens up the locks so when I go to spin it into yarn, it can adhere to the other locks.

I often will sit and watch TV while flicking fiber (or keep on eye on Zack while he's in the pool). I hold a bin under where I'm flicking to catch as much of the dirt/debris that I can:

Here is the flicked fiber in a cloud, ready to spin:

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The Adventure of a Lifetime

Our farming adventure began with the purchase of 3 alpacas in the fall of 2007. This eventually grew to an alpaca farm that birthed 23 cria. While we averaged 20 alpacas on a farm at any given time, we hit a peek of over 30 alpacas. We were involved in every aspect of alpaca farming: from breeding decisions, birthing, to attending alpaca shows, and shearing our own alpacas along with making product from their luscious fiber (hand spinning yarn and knitting product). We participated in 24 alpaca shows, and became very involved in the alpaca community.

In 2013 we added hair sheep to our farm.

Throughout this process we continued to tweak and revise our business plan. Our business plan evolved over time, and in 2013 it became clear that our goal was to raise grass fed animals for human consumption. While the initial plan was for this to go along side of alpaca farming, we slowly came to the conclusion our adventure was going to take us somewhere else.

In 2013 we began to sell off our alpaca herd to begin our new adventure with grass fed sheep and cattle.

Our adventure is still unfolding, so please, join us in our adventure of a lifetime as our journey unfolds.