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July 2015 Newsletter: Summer Thunderstorms | Farmers Markets | Gold Discovery Days

7/15/2015

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July is Half Over!
Here on the ranch as always a lot is happening.  We have weaned this year’s beautiful lamb crop.  I will have 3 new black and white spotted fine wool fleeces.   Let’s hope there are no wool breaks.  We will have to wait until shearing.  It will be very noisy on the ranch for a few days until the ewes and lambs have settled down. Check out our current selection of black and white fleeces.


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Summer Thunderstorms
We have been blessed to have a week of thunderstorms.  So far no fires and a lot of welcomed rain.  It sure has freshened up our range ground for the ewes.  They will be able to maintain themselves nicely until we separate them into their breeding groups in the fall.

We had a little scare with our twelve and a half year old, three legged Australian Kelpie.  He does not like the loud thunder.  One afternoon he followed me down the driveway.  He was picked up by a passing car about 5 miles from the ranch.  They took him to the animal shelter where I was able to pick him up the next day.  He spent the night in quarantine but at least he was safe.  Rockie is quite an inspiration to me being able to overcome his disability and still love working the sheep every time he gets a chance.  I am so thankful to have him back.


Fiber Festivals
Monterey County Wool Auction
2004  Fairgrounds Road
Monterey,  CA
September 7
 
88th Annual California National Wool Show
Mendocino County Fairgrounds
September 18-20 | www.fiberfestival.com
 
Oregon Flock and Fiber Festival
Canby, OR
September 25-27 | www.flockandfiberfestival.com
 
Lambtown
Dixon Fairgrounds
Dixon, CA
October 3-4
 
Trailing of the Sheep Festival
Hailey, ID
October 8-11 | www.trailingofthesheep.org
 
SCHG Fiber Festival
Cultural Arts Center
Torrance, CA 
November 1

Farmers Markets

Romano’s Farmers Market
1329 County Rd A23 Beckwourth
Fridays 10am – 2pm

Truckee Community Farmers Market
12047 Donner Pass Rd. Truckee,CA
Sundays 10am -2pm

Gold Discovery Days

Take a drive up to Johnsville for the Gold Discovery Days and meet Hope, our bottle baby.  

Eureka State Park
310 Johnsville Rd. Blairsden, CA
July 18-19 |10am-3pm
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May 2015 Newsletter: Shearing is Done | 2015 Fiber Festivals

5/4/2015

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We Have a New Website!

View and purchase fleeces and blankets, plus reserve for next year! We've been hard at work this spring, creating a new, beautiful website to sell our fleeces and blankets.  You can even reserve your fleece for 2015 online! 


Shearing is Done

This year we started a little early.  We decided to take advantage of the beautiful warm weather.  We ended up shearing close to 100 sheep and 2 angora goats this year.  We have some very nice fleeces for sale.  They have all been carefully skirted for your hand spinning pleasure.  Whether you spin in the grease, wash it or send it out to be processed into beautiful roving you won’t be disappointed.

Our lambing season is in full swing.  With the exceptional warm February, our lambing percentage is 187%.  Four sets of triplets really helped the average.  Lots of twins and very few singles.  I am very happy with my numbers this year.  We have 84 lambs and there are still 24 ewes left to lamb. 


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Work on the Farm

Now that our lambing season is winding down we have some extra time to work on the barn roofs.  The big winds we had back in February tore the roofs off of two of our barns and collapsed the southern wall of one barn.  We were very fortunate.  We did not lose any livestock.  There will be some long hours, milling boards to replace what was destroyed and rebuilding.

Spring is almost here on the calendar but the outside environment tells me spring has sprung. We took on the project of refurbishing the old Freeman manure spreader.  It has been parked for over 40 years.  Can’t believe the tires still hold air.  Soon we will be adding nutrients back to the fields.  None too soon for the pasture is starting to come out of dormancy and it’s time to over seed and start the pumps.  Unless we get some rain out of the overhead clouds. The ground is so dry, I worry about the feed conditions for the sheep this summer.  The one thing that I have learned over the years about being a rancher is that nothing is set in stone.  Conditions are always changing and you have to learn to adapt.  What worked well one year might not be the best approach for this year.  We take each day as it comes.


Lamb at the Farmers Market


Romano’s Farmers Market | June 5- September 11 |  Fridays 10a - 2p


It is also time to start thinking about the farmers markets for the summer months.  Romano’s Farmers Market will start June 5- September 11.  Fridays 10am-2pm.  We will be there selling our wonderful cuts of lamb.  It is very mild in flavor.  They feed on the native grasses and brush.  We supplement with Sierra Valley alfalfa. We do not give our lambs grain, growth hormones or antibiotics. Along with our meat products we will have our beautiful wool blankets, natural and hand dyed yarns that are made here in the USA.  We will also feature our signature wool felted soap made with sierra valley artesian spring water. 

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Fiber Festivals 2015 


Retzlaff Winery
Spinning with Treadles to Threads Guild
Livermore, CA
June 6, 2015 | 10am-4pm
 
Blacksheep Gathering
Lane Events Center
796 W. 13th Ave.
Eugene, OR
June 19-21
 
Monterey County Wool Auction
Monterey County Fairgrounds
September 7
 
California National Wool Show
Mendocino County Fairgrounds
Boonville, CA
September 11-13

Trailing of the Sheep Festival
Hailey, ID
October 8-11
www.trailingofthesheep.org
 
Fiber Fusion
Patrick Ranch
Durham, CA 
October 10-11
 
Oregon Flock and Fiber Festival
Canby, OR
September 25-27
 
Lambtown
Dixon Fairgrounds
Dixon, CA
October 3-4

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