life... on the farm: Knitting projects

Thursday, August 22, 2013

Knitting projects

My plan has been to do some knitting while I am home recovering from surgery. I knew the first few days I wouldn't be up to it, and I expect it will be awhile before I want to spin yarn, but some knitting seemed do-able.

What I didn't consider is that digging around for just the right pattern might be hard with healing incision. I mean, those books are heavy and my cupboards hard to dig into when I can't get down in the floor:

I made a mess and I don't think I can clean it up :(

But, I found several patterns I am excited about and that right there is the point!

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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.