What an amazing celebration of wool and fibre. Thank you so much to everyone that came out to support the farm and watch the harvest of our wool! Thanks to the amazing vendors who came and set up and provided free demonstrations on dyeing, spinning, weaving and more.
Knowing that this community is interested in sustainable, textile production is so encouraging and we areso encouraged by all those that chose to spend their Saturday at our farm. A huge thanks to Christel Lanthier from Ferme Fiola Farm for all the photos of the day.
We had over 200 people attend Shearing Festival. Many had never seen a sheep be shorn before!
Our fantastic shearer Stacey!
The incredible fleece skirting team did a fantastic job of cleaning up the fleeces!
Our amazing vendors did natural dye demos, sock machines, indigo dip, weaving and more!
Fresh eggs, fresh alpaca yarn and other great goodies!
Thank you to everyone who helped make this an amazing day!
Spinning demo!
Long Way Homestead naturally dyed yarn
First time shearing for little Rosie.
Bjorn and his beautiful fleece!
Post shearing chin scratches, must feel so good to have such a close shave!
Post Shearing - hardly recognize these girls!