Vermont Fiber Farmers

High and Hidden in the Forests, Meadows and Mountains of Vermont you'll find them. If you know where to look. Fiber Farmers in Vermont are a delightful and engaging group.

With the diverse fibers they farm, passions for the many and different crafts that are born from the farming of those fibers and the stories of the trials and tribulations that Fiber Farming encompasses, you will be hard pressed to find a group of people so committed to doing their part to live in harmony with nature while raising and growing natural fiber.

Fiber Farmers

Here is a growing list of Fiber Farmers in Vermont, and a few close Neighbors. If you are hunting for Fiber to do your own crafts and arts, seeking items made with natural fiber or anything having to do with natural fiber check the lists below to learn more about each person/farm If you are a fiber farmer (Plant or animal fiber) and would like to be listed here (absolutely free of charge) scroll down further for more information.

Cozy Hollow Farm & Hill House Farm

Owner's Name(s)

Cozy Hollow Farm = Susan Stillinger

Hill House Farm = Mary McCarthy

Preferred method of contact: Email:

Cozyhollowfarm@gmail.com

Flowers@HillHouseFarmVT.com

Farm Location:

Cozy Hollow Farm is located in Northfield, VT

Hill House Farm is located in Marshfield, VT

https://www.instagram.com/hillhousefarmvt/

https://www.facebook.com/CozyHollowFarm

https://www.etsy.com/shop/CozyHollowFarm

Hill House Farm + Cozy Hollow Farm is a mother-daughter venture selling homegrown wool from our happy, healthy animals. Our fiber is produced and processed in central Vermont. We started with twin Type A Merino ewes, a rare breed, in the early 2000s. Today we have expanded to a spinner's flock of breeds with diverse wool types split across our two farms, Hill House Farm in Marshfield, VT, and Cozy Hollow Farm in Northfield, VT. We enjoy every aspect of sheep-keeping, from the daily animal chores to knitting with our handspun yarn. The quality of our wool is a testament to the joy we take from working with our animals!

Too Fewe Farm

Farm Name: Too Fewe Farm

Owner's Name(s) Paul and Melissa Perley

https://www.etsy.com/shop/TooFeweFarm?ref=search_shop_redirect

Too Fewe Farm: A Passion & A Purpose

Two Fewe Farm began in 2018 to fulfill our family's desire to utilize our land in a more productive way. Our motto is "A passion and a purpose," and everything on our farm works towards that same goal. We have seven wool bred sheep; Mrs. Chubbers, Daisy, Ethel, Beulah, Sweet Pea, Anne and Charlotte. Their job is to produce wool for us to make into these beautiful wool blankets. We have three border collies who, alongside their shepherdess (hi, that's me!), help work the sheep. There is Sam, Bronte (note: the Bronte sisters Anne and Charlotte), and our newest pup addition Muir, the trainee.
We have seven laying hens and ten newbies in our youth hostel making seventeen chickens who provide us and our community with farm fresh eggs.
We are always learning and continue to take classes, read about managed intensive grazing practices and gain support from our rural community. We are very careful with this work and as a result have been able to avoid using pesticides to worm our sheep.
We are passionate about our animals and our farm, and the daily arduous work of it all gives us purpose.

Nonconformist Farm

~Owner's Name~ Kristin LeClair

email nonconformistfarm@gmail.com

Instagram: nonconformistfarm

Website: www.nonconformistfarm.com

Etsy: www.etsy.com/shop/nonconformistfarm

We are a small, diversified farm in Northern VT, always experimenting and striving for sustainability. Happy to share my knowledge of shepherding basics, raw wool processing, hand-spinning yarn, felting, knitting and natural dyes, and offer these services for other small flocks. We raise a small flock of friendly East Friesian/cross sheep. I do all the fleece processing on the farm and produce handspun yarn, sometimes blended with other fiber from the community such as Alpaca, Border Leicester and Southdown Babydoll. In season, we offer fresh chicken eggs from our free-range flock. Handpainted egg ornaments are available any time on etsy.

Bobolink Yarn and Cloverworks Farm

Bobolink Yarn and Cloverworks Farm
Owner's Name~ Katie Sullivan
Instagram.com/bobolinkyarn

bobolinkyarn.com
I raise BFL sheep and I also run a yarn company procuring beautiful New England wools and making farm and breed-specific yarns from those wools

Broadbrook Mountain Farm

Holly Nash Wolff email: hollynashwolff@gmail.com

Visitors by appointment for fleece or breeding stock.

The farm raises Registered Purebred Romneys and sells well-skirted, clean, raw fleece, usually 5-7 lbs “show fleece,” $12 per pound. Prize-winning. Shear in March for full staple length.

Flock history: since 1965, this is a closed, small breeding flock, bred for black noses and feet, clear faces, hardy and calm dispositions, efficient in lambing, plus superior wool. Grass-fed on large pasture rotations from May-Oct., and in winter, organic hay made on the farm, very little grain (at lambing time). As a result, the fleece is ivory in color, with great crimp, strength and texture.

Lambing is in late March into April from 10-12 ewes. A few ewe lambs are kept for the farm stock, others offered for sale for breeding, or as pasture lamb.

Bristol Cliffs
Farm

Bristol Cliffs Farm

Owner's: Carol and Dennis Hysko

We have 2 Cormo Sheep and 2 Angora Goats

Selling Fiber: Raw

We started with fiber cashmere goats when our daughter asked us to take care of her sheep while she was moving. When we lost one of the cashmere goats we decided to provide company for the remaining goat by adding one angora, then another and then another. After a time we lost the cashmere and then an angora. At that point we added two Cormo sheep to provide company for the goats. They are now one happy family of four. Carol is very active in weaving and spinning groups. She was past present of Twist of Wool.

High Ridge Meadows Farm, LLC

Owner's Name(s)Mary Moran

info@highridgemeadowsfarm.com

Farm Location: 1800 Chelsea Mountain Road, East Randolph, VT 05041

Raising Icelandic and Gotland and their crosses

Instagram @farmhermaryt

Facebook @organicmountainfarm(High Ridge Meadows Farm, LLC)

On our central Vermont farm we raise our sheep (and cattle) following organic methods. We harvest the fleece from our Gotland and Icelandic sheep twice a year for their comfort and their gorgeous fleece. Each of these breeds produces a distinctly different wool. The Icelandic is known for its dual fiber wool, 10-27 microns. The outer coat is long and coarse and weather resistant. The undercoat(thel) is baby soft. Gotland wool is a long silky fiber with a halo to it , similar to mohair, 23-37 microns. The fleece is professionally spun at a local mill as well as hand spun by me on my classic Ashford spinning wheel. This beautiful fleece produces yarn of all weights, natural and dyed colors, roving, woven items, and rugs. We also offer fiber for felting, and warm, cushy pelts to sink your toes into or toss over a chair or sofa.

Is there anything else you would like mentioned on your page? Such as other products or services you offer, or specialty crops, etc? We sell a few select rams and ewes to farms wishing to start their own flock or breed stock. Whole fleeces and Gotland locks for spinners and artisans are also available.

Two or three times a year, I offer a “Yarn in the Barn” event which showcases the products from our sheep and are available for purchase. We also operate The Barn on the Hill, an event venue. www.thebarnonthehill.org

White Dog Farm

~Owner's Name(s) Mollie and Kyle Davis

whitedogfarmvt@gmail.com or insta messenger

~Farm Location: Monkton VT

We raise shetland, valais blacknose, teeswater and Wensleydale sheep- most are mutts :) with either a Valais ram and ewe of a different breed

whitedogfarmvt on instagram or www.whitedogfarmvt.com

Kyle and I began our fiber journey at the start of COVID. Mollie has always been a knitter and works on commissioned knitwear year round so when the opportunity to stay home and acquire sheep was presented they jumped at the opportunity. They began their flock with three shetlands which quickly grew to seven whethers in year one. Their goal is to create hard working wool, soft enough for a sweater yet sturdy enough for working outside. Follow along as they grow their flocks, expand their wool offerings and explore regenerative farming in the hills of monkton.

Oher products or services offered: we offer custom built sheds and small structure buildings like chicken coops

Your Farm Name Here!

You and/or Your Farm can be listed here! Just scroll down for more information.

About Vermont Fiber Farmers

Hello!

My name is Shiloh Tedrow. I am a Shepherdess in southern Vermont, a member of VSGA Vermont Sheep & Goat Association), NASSA (North American Shetland Sheep Association) and a few other groups. Since I began my journey with sheep and fiber I have found not only how hard it is to connect fiber artists with fiber farmers, but how expensive and impersonal it all is.

My goal is to create a directory of Fiber Farmers and make that resource available to fiber artists, designers, other farmers and people who are just curious about what it is to be a fiber farmer.

While there are many programs out there for fiber farmers to take part in, those programs focus on a task or a product. My goal is to focus on the Fiber Farmers themselves. And I intend to do this without charging anyone a single cent. I am not an organization or a company with some hidden agenda. I am a shepherdess who wants to help other fiber farmers achieve their goals.

If you are interested in being a part of the directory, which will consists of a web page, with a printable pdf version of the directory, in which every participating person gets a 1 page website within the directory page with contact information and anything else you as a fiber farmer wants on your page.

I am building the web-site, will build the web-pages and it will cost you nothing but a little time to give me the information and pictures you want posted there.

I know how busy life on the farm is, so I wont make you read to the bottom, but if you have the time, please do, it might answer a few questions you may have.

If you are interested and want to take part, you can copy and paste the questionnaire below into an email and send it, along with any photos you want included, to

SerendipitousShepherdess@gmail.com

If you have time and want to read more then please do.

A few examples of how I plan to publicize the Vermont Fiber Farmers Directory are below;

Work with other groups and organizations that are seeking to or currently utilize fibers. And not just animal fibers! Plant fiber farmers are included in this directory as well!

~Work with news, radio and podcasts hosts who wish to do features and interviews on

Fiber Farmers in Vermont.

~Communicate with some less known groups who seek to find fiber for their art(s) A few such groups

are; The S.C.A. (Society for Creative Anachronisms), Costumers for Comicon conventions, Cos

-players, L.A.R.P.ers, Renfairs and individuals. This might sound a little odd but there are many

in these groups seeking natural fibers to create the costumes they design.

~I will also be working to place information boards in such places as Vermont Welcome

and Information Centers.

~I have begun work on organizing a year round Vermont Fiber Farmers Farm/Shoppe tour as well.

The plan for this is to allow you, the farmers, to set the dates and times when (and if) YOU want

and can welcome visitors to your farm or shoppe to see the wonders of what you do!

If that sounds like something you would like to do, but are not sure what you would do during your tour, I can help with that. And not only can you show off your Fiber Farming through all these venues., if you have other products you grow or create on your farm, show them off!

If you are interested in joining the Vermont Fiber Farmers please contact me back. Just hit reply to this email and let me know you are interested, that you want the questionnaire and ask any questions you have.

If you have fellow fiber farmers, feel free to share this information with them, give them my email, forward this information to them!

All fiber farmers, be they raising animals for fiber or plants, are welcome in this endeavor.

It costs nothing but a little time to get me the information you want in the directory.

Wishing you a Happy, Healthy and Prosperous Year,

Shiloh Tedrow, the Serendipitous Shepherdess

Founder of Vermont Fiber Farmers

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Questionnaire~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Vermont Fiber Farmers Questionnaire

~Farm Name:

~Owner's Name(s)

~Preferred method of contact: (Include those #s and addresses here please)

~Farm Location:

Do you welcome visitors?

(If yes, how do visitors contact you to arrange visit? Or what days and hours do you

welcome them?)

~Are you interested in being part of a Fiber Tours and/ or Festivals?

~What Fiber(s) do you grow and/or Fiber Breeds of animals do you Raise?

~In what state(s) do you sell your fiber?

~Social Media Links you would like listed on your page:

~Logo of your business (if you have one, If you don't and would like help creating one let me know.)

~Include any photos you would like on your directory page

~Short Bio of your Fiber Farming: (A simple list of anywhere from 1-8 paragraphs of info and even pictures if you want some on your page, just put them as attachments to this return email. This is a great spot to share history, hopes, successes, educational information and anything else that you want people to know about your work.)

~Is there anything else you would like mentioned on your page? Such as other products or services you offer, or specialty crops, etc? IE: Meat, Milk, Pelts, Manure, Silage, etc.

(If there is any information you do not feel comfortable sharing in this questionnaire just leave it blank.)

Email this form and any attachments to: SerendipitousShepherdess@Gmail.com