June 2026
Spring has finally sprung! Late winter is both a time of recovering from our hectic Christmas Craft Fair schedule and a time of waiting until it is warm enough to plant. We spend the time dyeing and spinning fleece, planning out the next season, and dreaming of warmer weather. After a winter that never seemed to end and a very rainy start to spring, things are finally starting to take off here on the farm! We are excited to be able to get back to doing what we love and making quality products and providing ethically and sustainably sourced honey and eggs to our farm friends.friends.So
Our spring honey harvest has begun! This year’s harvest was considerably easier with our new, larger electric extractor. We were able to uncap and spin 100 frames of our delicious spring honey and have the frames back on the hives in just one week! The next step is to filter debris from the honey (we do not filter out the pollen or process the honey), then bottle & label it. Visit our Order page to get some today!
The alpacas have been sheared, and we will be skirting the fleece and sending it to the mill soon! While they look silly without all that fleece, they definitely feel better. We now have the tedious job of picking out all the unwanted debris (known as vegetable matter or VM), from the “blanket” fiber, which is the highest quality fleece. This is the part of their fleece that we use to spin yarn. The seconds and thirds will be used to make our amazing dryer balls. We have been very busy dyeing and spinning the remaining fleece in our stock to make room for last year’s harvest, which we will be picking up from the mill soon. It seems we are always busy with some stage of the fiber arts process: organizing, cleaning, dyeing, spinning, knitting or felting. Not to mention the day-to-day care we give our alpacas. But it is all worth it when our customers tell us how much they enjoy our hand-crafted yarns and products. Learn about what it takes to go from animals to neck cozies on our alpaca web page.
We have a new product made from our sustainably sourced beeswax! New this year is our amazing wax melts. Perfect for your wax warmer, they come in 5 amazing scents: Lavendar Fields, Warm Apple Pie, Sandlewood & Patchouli, Eucalyptus & Spearmint and Winter Birch & Pine. Safer and cleaner than candles, they can be melted multiple times without losing their fragrance. They are made with beeswax from our hives, high quality oils and Phthalate-free fragrance oils. Visit our Products Page to learn more.
Remember—Life is short…live happy!