Island Retreat

View out to sea.

This summer, a few members of Salt Bay Treadlers—a group that meets in Damariscotta to spin one Wednesday evening per …

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Sheep Dairy Farm Visit

Friesian three-month-old lambs came to greet us.

In August, the Emerging Maine Sheep Entrepreneurs visited a sheep farm in Dedham, Maine. Northern Exposure Farm—just east of Bangor—is …

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Shearing time

hands of the shearer are clipping black and white fleece

A scene from Ruit Farm North in Bristol where Emily, the shearer, is clipping Coopworth fleece. Several shearers came to …

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