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We are very excited to offer our own small, but growing line of yarns. Our yarns range from natural colored brown, greys and white, to naturally dyed hues. This is a particular passion of Merrit’s, since knitting has been a part of her life since childhood. In addition to a finished product of yarn, we also have skirted fleeces available to those wishing to process and spin yarn themselves. The fleeces that don’t get sold or processed for the farm are sold to other local NW businesses such as Pendleton Woolen Mills and Olympic Yarn and Fiber.

The first step to gathering wool is to shear the sheep. Pierre is a passionate sheep shearer: he helps teach others the skill at various shearing schools, and travels throughout the Northwest, shearing for ranches of all sizes. With a steady hand and a steady temperament, he provides the ideal shearing experience for both sheep and shepherd.

While we spend much time focusing on mothering instinct, lamb growth, and overall vigor as genetic markers in our sheep, we also spend a lot of time focusing on the quality of their wool. We strive for a very elastic, crimped, bright white fleece that can be tested at below 22 micron fiber diameter. This is achieved two ways: by selecting our replacement ewe lambs not only on their mothering traits but their fleece traits, and by carefully selecting the rams we use in order to ensure a high quality fleece in generations to come.