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Welcome to our Farm
L ocated in the small hamlet of Medusa in the Catskill mountains of
New York State, our farm has been in the family since the early
1930's. Currently we are restoring our large dairy barn with the support of
a grant from the NYS Barns Restoration and Preservation Program. Although
we've found a marked beam citing the barn's erection date as 1875, the barn
is believed to be from before the Civil War, with the likelihood that a
portion was moved from another site. Watch this site for more as our
restoration progresses!
We currently house most of our
sheep in a newly
constructed barn on the other side of the road. Here our flock is guarded
by our donkey, Jenny. Donkeys make wonderful guard animals, as they live
peacefully with the smaller farm animals in their care, but are always alert
to predators, and are able to use their sharp hooves and quick wits to keep
coyotes and others at bay. Our Jenny has already proven herself invaluable
by sending up a loud braying alarm one afternoon to alert us that the sheep
had managed to slip through an unlatched door and into the road!
In addition to Jenny and the sheep, we have chickens, who produce eggs
which we sell locally, and honey bees, from which we harvest
honey and beeswax products. To learn more about our farm, check out
the rest of our site!
In addition to checks
and money orders, we now accept PayPal for purchases
made on our site! This means more flexibility for you in
payment methods, but also speedier delivery - we can ship as soon we are
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From Ewe
to You
Our wool comes from our small flock of sheep. Each spring we shear, and
the raw wool is shipped off to a mill in Maine to be cleaned, carded, spun,
and dyed into skeins of our
100% wool yarn, Our yarn
is ideal for all your knitting, crocheting, and fiber craft
needs. In 4 ounce skeins (measuring approximately 210 yards), our 2
ply yarn comes in the colors below and many more. Visit our wool page
to see them all.
  
  
Don't forget to check out our patterns - we're one of the only sources
online for Yankee Knitter Designs, a series of
classic knitting patterns that knit perfectly with our own wool yarn. Choose
from a selection of sweaters, vests, hats, mittens, socks, and more in both
adult and child
sizes!
For spinning and other fiber crafts, we have
wool roving in both natural and dark colors.
We've also made some of our wool into cloth-covered
batting which is perfect for creating comforters or quilts.
 In
addition, we produce
honey and beeswax products from our own beehives.
If you are interested in raising sheep, we sell lambs every spring, including registered Horned Dorset,
Romney and colored wool sheep.
Peace Fleece
Peace Fleece is not your typical yarn company. The Peace Fleece
office is a barn on a sheep farm in Maine. Peter Hagerty and his wife Marty
Tracy started buying wool from the Soviet Union back in 1985 in hopes that
through trade they could help diffuse the threat of nuclear war. Since then
they have worked with shepherds in Russia, Kyrgyzia, Israel and the West
Bank, as well as in Montana, Ohio, Texas and Maine.
By working with people who tend livestock every day, they hope to find a
common ground that slowly leads to mutual understanding and economic
interdependence. Peace Fleece sells knitting yarns as well as knitting
and felting accessories.
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