Sheep Fibre Specialty Gotland Yarns Available From North Beach Farm We have a new selection of specialty yarns available for purchase direct from our Salt Spring Island farm. The mill creates our specialty yarns by blending the farm's natural Gotland/BFL fibre with mohair or silk. This blending process softens and lightens the yarn while maintaining the Gotland lustre. For
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 two wonderful registered ewes over the past two years, Crystal and Daisy. Berg and our four Gotland/BFL foundation ewes have produced 16 healthy lambs with white,
Blueberries Featured Fresh Blueberries from the Farm Good News - We have started our blueberry harvest. With the cooler spring, our harvest is a bit later this year. While we have had some difficulties with our crop due to the weather conditions, we still anticipate being able to fill a significant portion of the preorders we have
Sheep Fibre "Sheep to Sweater" - Hand Crafted on Salt Spring Island Last year 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. Last year Marnie
Sheep Fibre Gotland Sheep have Personality Crystal has become enamoured of our dog Charlee. They even shared a kiss!
Sheep Fibre Nuno Felting with Gotland Wool Gotland sheep's wool is fabulous for felters. Artisans are known to felt beautiful articles of clothing - hats, vests, wraps, dresses, shoes from Gotland fibre. Recently, Marnie took a course right here on Salt Spring Island and tried her hand at Nuno felting. She enjoyed the process very much and
