life... on the farm: Yarn!

Over the weekend I completed this skein of yarn. It is a two ply yarn, one strand from our blue ribbon winning girl Tehya and one strand from our herd sire Greyt. I thought the mix of fading fawn vs rose grey would be very pretty - I love how it turned out!

Both Greyt's fiber and Tehya's fiber is for sale at our ETSY shop. And I may be putting this yarn for sale there too (if J doesn't snap it up and start knitting with it).

Here is when I got my first glimpse of what it would look like, as I plyed the two together:

See the strands:

And here is the whole skein, 168 yards of it:

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.

life... on the farm

Wednesday, September 7, 2011

Yarn!

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