life... on the farm: Tumbling fiber

Wednesday, August 15, 2012

Tumbling fiber

After skirting the fiber, I walk the bag over to my fiber tumbler, and give it a spin:

This removes even more debris, and it gets the fiber ready for me to process and spin it into yarn.

2 comments:

Zenitude said...: Please tell me more about your tumbler!
I love that you process all of your fiber yourself...sounds like a lot of work but it's a special thing to offer your clients (and yourself!).; August 16, 2012 at 7:05 AM
oak haven alpacas said...: here is a link to my blog post about making our fiber tumbler:

http://lifewithalpacas.blogspot.com/2010/08/tumbler-trials.html

I am going to repost it because it's one people are always interested in.

Cara; August 17, 2012 at 7:34 AM

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.

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