Another wet day. The grass and weeds are loving this, but we’re not. The garden needs weeding and the lawn needs mowing. And wet weather means wet dogs – ugh!
We’re hoping to get a break from the wet weather soon, but the forecast sounds like we have scattered showers and humid weather again tomorrow. It’s shaping up to be a good day to spend skirting fiber in the barn. I hope to get a few batches off to the mill this week – finally!
Recent conversations with new and prospective alpaca owners prompted me to think about how we manage our farm during the winter months. Things vary quite a bit seasonally on a farm and winter has its own challenges. Staying warm is challenge number one – not for the alpacas, but for us. Long underwear is a…
I spend a lot of my knitting time working with fingering weight yarn. Socks are one of my favorite items to knit and I also love fingering for shawls and scarves. Snowshoe Farm produces a lot of fingering weight yarn in 100% alpaca as well as in a number of blends. We’ve only been making…
Details of our Mid-Summer Sale are posted on our website. We are offering all alpacas on our sales list for 50% off during the month of July! Yes – 50%. We have several generations of some of our foundation breeding stock as well as a number of consigned alpacas. This is a great opportunity to…
We picked up our first load of 2010 second cut hay yesterday! We usually get our first load of hay in late August, so this is early and very welcome! It always feels so good to start putting up hay for the season. You have to keep in mind that we don’t have pastures available…
My yarn is still packed up in boxes after last weekend’s fiber festival and will stay that way until Friday when I head to Tunbridge to set up for next weekend’s Vermont Sheep & Wool Festival. Let’s hope the rain clears out by then and we have a nice weekend. We don’t need a repeat…
Use coupon code FREE-SHIP to get free shipping to all US addresses through May 8. We’re expecting more yarn to arrive from the mill soon and our dye pots will be busy. And we just finished shearing, so we have a lot more of our beautiful alpaca fiber to send to the mill. This is…