Losing Our Shirts, Keeping The Farm

Restoring a historic farm. Raising Icelandic sheep, Guinea hogs & Orpington chickens. Trying not to go broke.

Tuesday, December 29, 2009

Did You Notice Our Redesign?

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If you look at this blog regularly, it's probably pretty obvious: I gave the blog a bit of a redesign today. Since we finally sold our ...

The Magnetic Attraction of Hay

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This is the time of year when my sheep are mostly eating hay, but I let them have access to our big pasture anyway. There's not much to...
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Monday, December 28, 2009

More Needle Felting

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I spent the long weekend doing more experiments with needle-felting. Like the previous ones, these are all made in natural colored wool fro...
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Thursday, December 24, 2009

Needle Felted Necklaces

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Today I tried my hand at needle felted wool beads for the first time, using natural-colored Icelandic wool from my own flock. Aren't the...
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Monday, December 21, 2009

A New Home for Senter Stage

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Congratulations to Heather Bolding of Noble Farms in Clinton, IN. She is the new owner of our beautiful Oldenburg stallion, Senter Stage. ...
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Saturday, December 19, 2009

Snow Sheep

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It started snowing here last night at about 4:00 pm. Twenty-one hours later, and it's still coming down. The snow is about knee deep n...
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Monday, December 7, 2009

Venus of Willendorf and the Sacred Cow

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Now that the farm's outside chores have quieted down a bit, I've finally had a chance to start working on some of my long-postponed ...
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Tuesday, November 24, 2009

Ingleside Farm Calendars, Cards, and Gifts

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Here's another of my new products from the farm! I have gotten so many compliments on my farm photos, I finally decided to offer some of...
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Peacock Shawl

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I finally opened a shop on Etsy and have just posted my first item for sale: My glorious, one-of-a-kind, hand-spun, hand-woven Peacock Shaw...

Sheep's Milk Soap

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I've been working very hard over the past few months developing new products for our farm. One that I'm very excited about is our ne...
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Nancy Chase
Buckingham, Virginia, United States
Shepherd, Farmer, Artist, Writer.
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