Month: October 2011

My BDB (don’t ask…she knows what it means!) snapped this pic when she was out in Denver recently at the Botanical Gardens.  She said it reminded her of me and that the sculpture was quite blogworthy!  I must say, I do quite like it!  

Our son just texted us to tell us to look out the window.  Soon we saw him zooming by with the other firefighters on their way to a call!  The siblings thought this was VERY cool!

Living out here, we don’t get a lot of excitement – especially without cable TV, so a firetruck passing by – especially one with your big brother in it, fully geared up, is pretty noteworthy!

My crunchy, tasty dinner after the Farm Market on Sunday, courtesy of Aiki Farms of Ledyard, CT.  

 

They have a very unique method of biointensive farming, and can manage to grow these sprouts and lettuces very late into the year, which is good for salad lovers, and good for the farm to be able to continue to supply restaurants and the public this late into the year!  My salad included buckwheat lettuce shoots, sprouted sunflower seeds, marigold petals, dill and other lettuces.  Lots of flavor and nutrition!  Mr. Burns will be selling this blend at the Denison Market on the rest of the Sundays in October.  Because it is so fresh, it keeps a long time!

What a great day we had at the Denison Farm Market today as guest vendors!  We met so many wonderful and interesting people!

One woman who visited our stand actually lived in Iceland for a year while with the Navy!  She told us of all of the wonderful knit products she purchase while she was there – traditional Icelandic sweaters in natural colors and some with dyed wool, mittens, gloves, shawls.

 

Well you can imagine my surprise when I was sitting there carding and I looked up an hour or so later and saw her walking over to me with tote bags in her hands!  She had driven home and brought all of those gorgeous items with her to show us what beautiful things our fleece can make!

 

I had to snap lots of photos, of course!

 

This beatiful traditional Icelandic pattern was from all natural colors that we have here at our farm!  We held up a lock of Bruna’s moorit fleece to the brown and it was a  perfect match!

 

 

Apparently the real Icelandic people prefered the natural wool colors, but they would dye some for sweaters for the tourists.  This sweater has some nice sky blue in it.

 

Look at the pattern!

 

Here is one she had custom made for her.

 

 

Here’s a snugly warm cardigan.

 

Mittens.  

 

A much finer knit glove.

 

And shawls crocheted out of a very fine yarn.

 

We sent lots of children away with fists full of wool.  We had shelties visit – one young one who is hoping to be a real sheep dog some day – they had a sniff of the wool – and we even sent the puppy’s person home with a sample of wool for ongoing training!

 

We had some knitters visit who just weren’t up to spinning their own wool yet, but loved the colors and texture of the fleece.  It is to these people, who we were pleased to meet, that I wanted to sa
y, in retrospect, that you don’t have to be a spinner to buy raw fleece!  There are actually a few wool mills here in CT that are willing to process individual fleeces into yarn for you!  One that has come highly recommended to us is Fibers 4 Ewe in Putnam, CT.  So if any of you are interested in trying this, just give us a call!  

 

I know that a few of you took our card today and hope to come out for a visit.  We look forward to hearing from you!  Just give us a call and we can set up a farm visit!

 

Thanks again to the Denison Farm Market for having us as guests today.  They were very welcoming and supportive!  We were blessed to be amongst such talented and devoted individuals!