Under clear blue skies, I'll be honored to welcome back an enthusiastic crowd of Asheville Urban Landscape Painters for a morning of sketching, drawing, and painting my old-growth trees, lush green pastures, 100+ year old barn and the Colored Angora goats and kids that call this home !
Come one, come all for some complimentary fun on the farm ! My fellow local artisans & I are offering a full day to share The Process with all y'all. The Process, that is, of just about any fiber handicraft you'd like to learn about -- spinning, dyeing, knitting, felting, dollmaking, weaving ! Below, a sampling of...
The goats and I are entirely delighted to once again host members of the Piedmont Fiber Guild from Gastonia, NC for an "All-Day Farm Day" -- featuring a potluck lunch, tour of the farm, plentiful kid snuggles and a not-to-be-missed, not-often-offered 'dyeing demo' of one my 40+ Signature Good Fibrations Colorways ! ...
featured farms in 2019 were: Erin Greene’s Last Penny Farm Alpacas Elizabeth Strub’s Hobby Knob Farm Jacob / Long Wool Cross Sheep / LlamasSebette Hamill’s Cormo & Cormo Cross Sheep / Leicester Long Wool SheepJessica Sanchez's Rusted Earth Farm / Navajo-Churro & Jacob Sheep Marcia Kummerle's Good Fibrations Colored Angora Goats Each of the...
Watch long-time Shearer Extraordinaire, Jonathon Hearne, as he deftly shears the heavy summer mohair fleeces -- from young kids being sheared for the first time to the more relaxed mamas and weathered males. While each goat is lovingly held, hooves are also trimmed -- then goats are weighed, checked out, medicated if...
