This new website was prompted by a customer.  She had visited the wonderful Craft Coop where I sell most of my work on the island.  I live quite a way out on the island and many visitors do not get out this far.  The Woods Hall Craft Shop is a way for island craft persons to sell their work.  Most of us produce our wares in the slow quiet winter season and then sell our work in the summer.  I will tell you lots more about Woods Hall at another time.  

Anyway, she had purchased some of my yarn this summer and emailed me requesting a way in which to purchase more.  I was delighted but do not know exactly what she purchased or what she was looking for.  She wanted some visuals and price lists to make her decisions.  Hence, this website.  

I hope you enjoy it.  I will try to keep this a running notebook of a shepherd's year on the farm.  

Right now, it is breeding season.  The ewes have all had a good summer grazing on lush pastures.  We have had good rains this season and they raised their babies and wandered around looking for more grass for the last four or five months.  

Now they are sorted into groups, checked for weight and fitness and the rams have been turned in to do their job. We are using a Romney cross white ram Phillipe with several ewes and a pure bred Merino ram Tobias for another group.  Phillipe has ten ewes in his pasture and Tobias has twenty ewes in his pasture.  Now it is time to be patient and let them do their work and I just need to keep feeding them in small increasing amounts with lots of fresh water and mineral.  After three months we will remove the rams.  Settle everyone onto winter pasture and wait for the best time of year, shearing and lambing season.  I think a shepherd's year really starts this time of fall.  It is the promise of new and better lambs and fleeces for next season's projects.