Summer Travels: Part IV
Franklin/Somerset Travels: Wynmere Farm, Jill Snyder Wallace, Mount Vernon and a loon As luck would have it, Maine Fiberarts’ member Jacqueline Horn of Wynmere Farm in New Vineyard was home. …
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Rhinebeck 2019
Wandering through the New York Sheep and Wool Festival A group of friends traveled to Rhinebeck, New York last Fall to attend this grand event of all things fiber! Animals, …
Traveling our Fiber Arts Mini Tour
In August, several of us spent three days traveling along Maine’s midcoast using Maine Fiberarts’ newly-printed Fiber Arts Mini Tour. This is what we saw and did: First, we toured …
A Trip to Rhinebeck
Six spinning friends rented a house in Rhinebeck, NY this October to tour the New York Sheep & Wool Festival. Thousands upon thousands of people attended and we saw some …
Spring Shearing at Ruit Farm
Several friends gathered at Ruit Farm in Bristol, home of Nina and John Ruit and their herd of goats, several sheep, watchful llama, loud donkey, and whomever else wandered by. …
Island Retreat
This summer, a few members of Salt Bay Treadlers—a group that meets in Damariscotta to spin one Wednesday evening per month—took a retreat on a beautiful Maine island. The idea …
Sheep Dairy Farm Visit
In August, the Emerging Maine Sheep Entrepreneurs visited a sheep farm in Dedham, Maine. Northern Exposure Farm—just east of Bangor—is run by Jim and Janet Weber who have been producing …
Shearing time
A scene from Ruit Farm North in Bristol where Emily, the shearer, is clipping Coopworth fleece. Several shearers came to help for the day. Shared, luncheon. Click image for a …