Sheep Fibre Featured North Beach Craft Milled Yarns Available from the Farm We have a new stock of yarns from the last spring and fall shearing! "See us at the six Guild Show , this weekend May 16th to 18th 10:00 to 4:00 daily at Mahon Hall, in Ganges on Salt Spring Island" Gotland/BFL Lamb's wool yarns in vibrant colours
Felted Fleece Rugs and Covers You may remember a post from last year advertising a fleece for sale which would make a perfect felted rug. Well, we decided to go ahead and felt the rug (shown above) ourselves over the winter. This season we decided to let our sheep's fleeces grow a little longer and
Raspberries North Beach Raspberry News Update Raspberry Season is over at the Farm Thank you for your orders this year. We had a slightly smaller harvest this year than last but the new canes are coming on strong for next year. Interested in Raspberries this July, get on our list by writing David@northbeachfarm.ca
Sheep Fibre New Lambs on the Farm Last spring we had 5 healthy lambs born on the farm. Dorey's Flip is pictured above. His sister Fiona is seen below with Lola's single, Fred. Maeve's twins Fabio and Felesia are shown below. These lambs wool fleeces are at the mill for processing into yarn this spring. We will
Sheep Fibre Featured Gotland Sheep North Beach Farm breeds Gotland Sheep registered with the American Gotland Sheep Society. Our recorded ewe Luna and recorded ram Berg have produced three wonderful, registered ewes over the past three years, Crystal, Daisy and most recently, Emily. Berg and our three Gotland/BFL foundation ewes and our two recorded
Sheep Fibre Our Fleeces have been skirted and have been sent to the Mill We have completed the shearing and skirting of our fleeces and they have been sent to the mill to spin some exotic yarns. While we have sold out yarns from previous years, we are hoping to have these new yarns available at the farm this summer. Notice of new arrivals
Sheep Fibre "Sheep to Sweater" - Hand Crafted on Salt Spring Island We came up with the idea of producing hand crafted sweaters direct from our farm. We had our two daughter-in-laws Katie and Celine independently pick out a pattern that they would like. The only stipulation was the patterns contain the natural colours of our sheep. A few years back, Marnie
Sheep Fibre Gotland Sheep have Personality Crystal has become enamoured of our dog Charlee. They even shared a kiss!
