Wayland Winter Farmers' Market
Farm Fiber Day
Sunday, March 5, 2023 10:30 AM to 3:00 PM
We've got a great lineup for Farm Fiber Day, with both new and returning fiber vendors and a "supporting cast" of a dozen food and beverage businesses to keep us nourished.
Our thanks to Prado de Lana Farm for bringing their Lincoln Longwool sheep all
the way from their farm in Stockbridge, MA and to Lucky Lane Farms for introducing
us to the Ouessant breed of sheep, who will also be visiting from Lincoln, MA.
Look for yarn, roving, fleeces, spinning fiber, and finished items, sheep and bunnies, spinning on wheels and drop spindles, and sock making machine demonstrations.
Vendors will be located outdoors under cover, in heated and unheated greenhouses, under tents or indoors spread throughout the lower level of Russell's Garden Center.
(Top photo: Demetrius from Wing & A Prayer Farm)
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Fibershed is a non-profit organization based in California that develops regional fiber systems that build ecosystem and community health. Their work expands opportunities
to implement climate benefitting agriculture, rebuild regional manufacturing, and connect end-users to the source of our fiber through education. They transform the economic systems behind the production of material culture to mitigate climate change, improve health, and contribute to racial and economic equity.
We are pleased to have the Western Massachusetts Fibershed Affiliate group join us. "We are farmers, spinners, weavers, dyers, designers, knitters, and sewists, working together to grow and make our own clothes from our regional Fibershed."
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It's back! Thanks to the Blue Heron Farm family team, we will have the
Needle Felting tables back for the first time since 2020.
This fun activity is for all ages!
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We’ve gone from a few bins of yarn at
the Wayland Farmer’s Market to attending fiber shows all over the country, but along the way our focus has been the same as it was in the beginning. Yarn we love, colors we love, and every skein dyed by hand
with the exact same care and attention to quality on our hundred thousandth skein
as we took on our tenth.
Hand dyed yarn, mini skein sets, project bags and knitting and crochet project kits.
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Aaronap Cellars is a micro-winery located in Westford, MA. We focus on producing small volume, innovative, artisanal wines from the best vineyards and orchards in New England and beyond.
Our Stonewall White (crafted from MA grown Seyval Blanc) is the perfect pairing for a post-market cheese snack!
Choose the Farm Market Pickup option.
Select "Wayland Farmers Market" as the pickup location. Deadline: Friday, 9 PM
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Our yarn is spun for us in Peru and is the softest alpaca yarn you’ll ever feel. We then hand dye in small batches in solid, tonal and hand painted colorways.
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In November 2007, inspired by CT and RI, we met to discuss a wool blanket project for Massachusetts. The program is now in its 12th year with new contributors from all over Massachusetts. In addition to the blanket they will have hand spun yarn, fiber, felted items, Farm to Fiber earrings and stitch markers.
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Wool fiber is a renewable, sustainable and 100% biodegradable resourse, which sheep love to give away! Sheep are shorn once or twice a year. The process of making wool felt has a very low environmental impact - all you need is warm water and soap. Felt is a nonwoven fabric that is extremely durable and makes the best material for footwear - it is warm, hygenic, breathable and therapeutic, and, just like when sheep wear wool, it repels dirt!
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Biltmore Wool Barn offers sheared sheep, goat and alpaca wool. They also specialize in processing their products as well as fleece brought in by customers.
Natural color alpaca yarn, hand dyed yarn and hand dyed roving.
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Bloom creates high-quality yarns made in small batches from wool grown, spun and dyed in and around the Western Massachusetts Fibershed.
Our offerings include yarns ranging from Sock Yarn to Rug Yarn and many weights in between, some blended with mohair or alpaca, naturally or organically dyed, and even a Yarn CSA which delivers 6 seasonal boxes of yarn throughout the year.
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The 30 acre farm has a CSA in Grande Isle, Vermont. We continue our dream of growing a diversified family farm with produce, grazing sheep for fiber and meat, sweet cows for raw milk and beef, poultry for eggs and meat, apprenticeships, and therapeutic/educational programs.
We are bringing our organic wool yarn from our own sheep that is naturally dyed, wool dryer balls, roving, needle felting kits.
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Our mission is to bridge the gap between New England shepherds and hand-knitters with the existing vibrant yarn shop communities of New England. As sheep farmers, we have the expertise to source our wool from small flocks of sheep, because premium wool comes from happy, well cared for sheep. New England wool from small flocks.
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Wood artisan Jonathan Bosworth has been making beautiful tools for spinners for nearly 40 years. His drop spindles are known for their superb spin and balance.
A variety of woods provide a wide range of available colors and weights.
We offer a wide variety of handmade tools including drop spindles, niddy-noddies, boat shuttles, bobbins for Journey Wheels, charkhas and carrying bags for our charkhas.
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Nicole Clark is a fiber artist, farmer, food lover, nature wanderer, wife, and mother of 2 homeschooled nature loving children, living on the eastern coast of Connecticut. Her design philosophy is rooted in a desire to fuse the practical with the artistic. She seeks to create vessels that are unique, beautiful, and can stand up to the needs of everyday life.
"I want all of my creations to be functional and add their own bit of character and beauty to your home and lifestyle."
LOOK for Nicole in a NEW location this year.
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Stephanie offers hand-dyed yarn, knitting kits and yarn bundles. Her table is always overflowing with samples to help you decide which knitting kit you want to purchase. SO helpful!
Do you have your own pattern? She can
help you find the appropriate yarn for your project.
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Dorchester Farms
Ken Abert from Dorchester Farms is making the trip from Provincetown to bring us his colorful hand dyed wool, roving and yarn.
New this year: handwoven items including tea towels, scarves and table runners.
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Do you have a quilt project that needs finishing? Margo Coates specializes in completing quilts, but can also make you a quilt from scratch in the color and style of
your choice. Margo will have quilts, aprons, placemats and table runners for sale.
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Handmade products started from a small flock of local sheep and finished by local New England craftsmen and craftswomen.
"My extended family owns a farm in Maine. The wool in my products come from those sheep. "I make sheep ornaments, dryer balls and wool rocks." - Alicia Monks
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"A fiber artist's fiber place and bunny hutch, from our farm to your home!
Angora bunnies, Angora wool, Angora yarn, needle felting kits, hand crafted ready to wear and home spun yarns.
Louise Walsh, will bring her rabbits and bunnies for you to meet at Farm Fiber Day. "I am the creator of the Giant Angora rabbit breed. It’s the only Angora originating from the USA."
They are breeders of Giant, English, and Satin Angoras & Lionheads.
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The coffee you purchase has gone from the tree to the final product in days: hand-picking the beans and roasting all happens on our small farm. Our passion is to produce a naturally processed coffee using traditional techniques so our customers can enjoy this Colombian treasure.
Enjoy a cup of coffee outdoors while you shop!
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Foxhill Farm
Alice Field from Foxhill Farm in Lee, MA
has won many ribbons at the New York Sheep & Wool Festival through the years, including Supreme Champion in the Fleece Competition. One touch of her Cormo yarn and roving, and you will know why. They will also bring Romney yarn and roving.
Foxhill will bring natural colored and dyed yarn in multiple weights, as well as fiber
for spinning.
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Lilly and Mona make organic German pastries.
"We use all organic, non GMO, fair trade ingredients, sourced locally, to bring out the authentic and traditional flavors of Germany and Europe. Handcrafted in small batches, bursting with distinct flavors." Choose from a large selection of German pastries! Kekse, Tarts, Kuchen, Gebaeck and Strudel. Special Orders are available.
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We love sharing our love for fiber and all things wooly to other fiber enthusiasts
We will be bringing many of the things we offer in our Etsy shop and a little more.
- luxury and exotic top such as yak, camel, cashmere, mink and specialty blends we have created
- hand dyed combed top
- dyed local Cotswold locks, silk
- felting supplie
- a spinner's sampler of British Hill Sheep
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Amy and Jim Grant of Good Karma Yarn and Soap have opened a store in their new hometown of Bridgton, Maine.
They continue to make yarn and soap, and offer Sox School classes.
Watch Jim demonstrate how to make a pair of socks using a Circular Sock Machine.
They will bring worsted, sport and sock weight yarn, as well as spinning batts/roving, hats, socks and patterns
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Bread to choose from includes:
Apple Pie, Brushchetta Twist, Cheddar Garlic, Cinnamon Chip Swirl, Dakota, Honey Whole Wheat, Pepperoni and
Old Fashioned White.
Pick up scones, cookies and baking mixes, too!
Bring your bread rewards card.
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Starting with a family farm and a one-sheep-at-a-time milking parlor, Herd Supply Co. creates mindful skin care and home goods. Featuring sheep milk soap, lanolin salves, and wool for everything from pillows to garden pellets, we find sustainable solutions for your home from our favorite animal: the sheep.
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Hand dyed wools and yarns come from select New England farms, including Lisa Dachinger's own flock.
Naturally dyed natural fiber textiles, kits for dyeing fiber and textiles, needle felting, weaving, needle punch, hand crafted stitch markers, natural material buttons and closures, plus knitting patterns.
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We are a small family farm in the quite corner of Connecticut raising Leicester Longwool sheep as well as a menagerie of barnyard friends.
It is the sheep themselves that have inspired the products from the farm. The Leicester Longwool has a unique fleece that is long, strong, and lustrous. You will see their beautiful tendril locks in the hand made fiber art and the luster it holds in the yarns." - Keri Boucher
Home grown yarn, hand dyed locks, felted wool collars, hand spun yarn.
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Since the Jagger family arrived in Maine in the 1880s, the name has been synonymous with high-quality worsted spun yarns.
Today, their tradition continues with dyed, heather, and white yarns spun from 100% wool and blends with natural and synthetic fiber – all manufactured in Maine.
We manufacture custom spun products in 500 lbs to 5,000 lbs spinning lot orders to meet our customers’ specific yarn requirements. Jagger Brothers also offers a stock yarn service through its Jagger Spun Division. Jagger Spun maintains ten ranges of yarn with 28-54 shades in stock for each yarn type.
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Jan’s highly-textured and vividly-colored hand-spun & hand-dyed yarns are sought-after by hand-knitters, felters and weavers.
Fleeces acquired at sheep & wool festivals are lovingly washed & hand-picked and processed into roving, then they are hand-spun and hand-dyed by Jan for his avid repeat and new customers. They are delighted to use the color and texture of yarns that are perfect for those very special projects.
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Junction Fiber Mill is a wool processing mill in the heart of White River Junction, Vermont.
Our goal is to promote and invigorate our local fibershed by providing top-quality custom processing, local fiber products and educational opportunities to inspire the community about sheep and wool.
It is our honor to turn your flock’s fleece into the very best product possible.
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We feature naturally dyed rambouillet and alpaca/rambouillet blend yarns as well as other regional wool sourced from small farms.
We use only natural dyes to color our yarns and choose plants and insects that create lasting color.
In season we also grow many dye plants. The farm is located in Buxton, Maine.
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If you would like to spend more time crafting and less time cooking, the farm has many frozen prepared foods: sweet & smokey pulled pork, chicken pot pie,
turkey pot pie, beef & stout pot pie, chili, beef stew, Shepherd's pie, hand pies, meatballs, and soups.
The farm offers many cuts of meat, as well as eggs. Check out the latest on their website.
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Cardinale Montano from Lineflax & Roving in West Stockbridge makes open, zipped, and crossbody totes from Greenguard Certified vinyl, 100% USA soured materials, hand sewn in her studio one at a time.
Reviews that have come to us from past Farm Fiber Day purchasers agree a that they make great project bags for durability and style. Zippered purses are available in a variety of colors as well.
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Littles Creek is primarily a fiber farm run by Katie O'Donnell in Marshfield, MA.
We lovingly care for a mixed flock of sheep and sell raw fleeces as well as breed-specific roving and yarns from our gorgeous Gotland, Border Leicester, Merino, and Scottish Blackface sheep, as well as from our llama and alpaca.
During the summer, we operate a seasonal farm stand with fresh, local, and delicious heirloom fruits and vegetables.
Look for handspun and mill-spun yarn, locks and Farm cards.
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Lucky Lane Farms
Ouessant Sheep are considered one of the world's smallest domestic sheep breeds. Native to the Breton Isles off the coast of Brittany, France, these sheep with their delightful and inquisitive personalities have been exclusively bred in the United States at Breton Meadow Farms in Lincoln, MA since 2008. Raised primarily for their luxurious fleece which range in three natural colors: black, brown, and white. They make wonderful pets due to their small size with ewes weighing an average of 35 pounds and rams 50 pounds.
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Luluna Kombucha is micro-brewed with fresh organic ingredients and the fruit and herbs are always local when in season.
Flavors: Blue Ginger, Elderflower Grapefruit, Strawberry Fields, Hibiscus Lemonade and Solar Eclipse.
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Raw Fleeces, Washed Locks, Roving, Yarns, Rug-bumps, and Socks!
Leicester Longwools are renowned for their luster and it stays with the fiber through washing, combing, spinning, and dying.
The glow from these yarns, even the dyed ones, resembles mohair. It's spectacular. The yarns are soft and wonderful to work with.
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I am a beekeeper of 14 years, and have won numerous awards from the Worcester County Beekeepers, Spencer (MA) Fair and the Sterling (MA) Fair.
I keep about 20 hives and have the "Best of Show" honey awards from 2019 and 2022.
I sell only local, raw honey and products,
as well as my own handmade balms and creams.
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Finnsheep have lustrous, soft fleeces which are lovely for hand-spinning & make strong, soft yarns. They are a low-grease breed, so fleeces are easy to clean. They graze between rows of cider apple, chestnut, and heartnut trees and are moved to fresh paddocks daily.
The lamb is delicate but divine - deep, sweet & tender in flavor. Finn lamb is known for being an incredibly fine meat, not having the gamey flavor often attributed to lamb and mutton.
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Here at Keldaby we raise the beautiful, gentle and shyly friendly angora goats that provide Moonshine Design with the cloudsoft and highly lustrous mohair used in our fine selection of hand dyed, hand woven goods."
Wrap yourself in a throw, toss a scarf or shawl around your shoulders or luxuriate
in our fabulous ruanas. Step back to a more romantic era in a Western Isles hood.
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At a very young age, Laura took an interest in making things with fiber. She began to knit and crochet almost as soon as she could manage the needles and hooks. She went thru many fiber phases, but always came back to knitting. In 1997, she and husband, Michael, turned their turn-of- the-century farmhouse back into a working fiber farm. Laura’s fiber interests grew, as she added spinning and weaving to her skills. Her retail business, offers alpaca that are completely USA made and sourced.
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Prado de Lana Sheep Farm (translation Wool Meadow) raises Romney, Lincoln Longwool and CVM Romeldale sheep in the
Berkshires. From our organic garden to our free - range chickens, sheep were the perfect livestock for our family.
All of our sheep are grass fed on lush pastures right in the heart of Southern Berkshire County, MA. We have recently added Mangalitza, Gloucestshire Old Spots, and American Guinea Hog Pigs to our farm.
Amanda and Alberto Barcenas have a lovely yarn shop on Main Street (down the alley) in Stockbridge, MA.
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Quill & Quiver Fiber is a yarn company founded by two friends with a shared love of history, craft, and story. We offer small-batches of hand-dyed yarn in color palettes inspired by traditional crafts and the people who keep these heritage skills alive. Our yarn bases are thoughtfully sourced from family-run mills in the U.S. that seek to uphold and support the continuation of the wool industry
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Rag Hill Farm is a family owned and operated fiber art studio located in rural western Massachusetts near the village of Shelburne Falls.
All of our items are handmade, including handspun yarn,
dyed locks, art batts, quilted and chicken shaped (and standard shaped) potholders, needle felting kits, wool hats, fabric fridge magnets and quilts.
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"I’ve been an avid knitter since I was 7 and have always been in search of the ultimate button to finish my projects. Out of necessity, I started making clay buttons last year. I’ve expanded my design line to include shawl pins and yarn bowls. Please stop by repertoire design and let’s design your perfect design." - Debi Leibovitz
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SAORI is a studio where people feel safe and comfortable to express their inner creativity regardless their age, sex, abilities and social status. We teach basic weaving skills and encourage students to make unique work that only the person can create at the moment.
We will bring scarves, tops, tunics, jackets, dresses, hats, pouches, handbags and fingerless gloves.
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My name is Lakisher Hurst. As an avid crocheter, I see the world through yarn-tinted spectacles. I started Sassy Black Yarns in my kitchen with a simple desire to create a small selection of hand-dyed yarns that would offer people beautiful color alternatives with sassy names & colors.
The definition of sassy is someone or something that is lively, bold and a little feisty. Sassy Black Yarns specializes in bold, fresh colors of hand dyed yarns for knitters and crocheters alike. Through my yarns I aim to give other makers more colorway and base options for them to bring their next project to life.
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Menu: Caprese: mozzarella, tomato, fresh basil, balsamic glaze
The Wedge: bleu cheese crumbles, cheddar, bacon, tomato
Pickleback: cheddar, bacon, dill pickles
Figgin’ Goat: goat cheese, fig jam, arugula
Just... cheddar
*add bacon to any sandwich for $3
All sandwiches served on Tuscan Pane
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The farm is a certified organic herb and flower farm in Winchester. They also produce small-batch, hand-crafted herb, spice and tea blends from organic ingredients, and rubs and infused vinegar.
Hot tea is available. Choose your flavor on the spot.
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Looking for fine fiber tools? Stephen Willette will join us with his handcrafted fiber art tools: looms, weaving tools (shuttles and shed sticks), shawl pins, lucets, naalbinding needles, darning eggs, spindles, yarn bowls, buttons, seam rippers, hair sticks, crochet hooks and tapestry needles.
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They are family of artisans.
Cindy spins, knits, designs, felts, cranks, machine knits and punch hooks.
Her daughter Sarah knits, cranks, machine knits and designs.
Meaghan, Cindy's second daughter needle felts our very popular catnip mice and beautifully detailed earrings.
Cindy and Meaghan will be at the March market with lots of knitting patterns, and colorful yarns. Meaghan has restocked her carrot embroidery kits and added a few new vegetables into the mix.”
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"Taproot Magazine is our ad-free independently published print magazine focused on food, farm, family, and craft. Inside the pages you will find inspiration for people who are deepening their connections to their families, communities, and themselves as they strive to live locally and closer to the Earth. Taproot Market is our curated collection of handcrafted goods made by independent artists and makers. Available online and at our brick-and-mortar shop located in Portland, Maine.
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After many years, at many great restaurants and three amazing kids, we are cooking "Food for Home". We use as many local ingredients as we can get our hands on and cook with delicious simplicity. Tom and I have spent years cooking together, and the kitchen is where we continue to find the greatest joy.
We source from farms near you.
Deadline: Thursday, 5 PM
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My yarns begin with visits to local fiber growers. The gentle care and sound practices of these small farms radiate through the soft and lustrous fleeces I select. The wool goes to the spinning Mill to be washed, carded and spun into beautiful two ply fingering and worsted weight yarn. Then the dyeing begins. Color is a passion of mine. I extract color from natural dyestuffs that I grow in my garden and forage. With the blending of high quality plant based extracts, the Tidal Yarns palette blossoms into a heathery, earthy color spectrum.
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"Our primary goal is and always will be to exceed our customer’s expectations by utilizing high quality ingredients and offering exceptional service!"
Since 2018, Uncle Joey’s Cannoli has been providing a delicious variety of fresh filled cannoli for farmers’ markets, festivals, town fairs and private functions such as weddings, birthdays, corporate events and much more.
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Fresh pasta and vegetarian, carnivore and gluten-free ravioli are available on the farmers' market menu.
Pick up meat and vegetable lasagna and pasta sauces: Pizza Sauce, Red Gravy, Golden Gravy, Arugula Pistachio Pesto
and "alla Norma".
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CHEESE:
Marinated Fresh Goat Cheese, Marinated Feta, Cranberry Chevre, Plain Chevre,
Steel Wheel (sheep's milk), Cambridge 2 yr (cheddar), Edelweiss (double cream).
MUSTARD:
Garlic, Honey, Vermont Dark Ale, Maple Bourbon. Dill, Tarragon, Horseradish, Dijon.
JAM: Fig, Blueberry Rhubarb, Blueberry Jalapeno.
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We’re building a regional fiber system centered around Local Fibers, Local Dyes, and Local Labor.
We’ll have DK knitting yarns in two natural shades, yardage, and blankets from our first four production cycles on hand for show and sale.
Come learn how going local helps strengthens our ecosystem, benefits climate, and builds community!
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We began breeding Shetland sheep in
2010 and never turned back. Our farm is a labor of love between mother and daughter (Carol and Montana Airey). We strive to produce quality breeding stock with an emphasis on fiber and personality.
The farm is situated in picturesque New England on the old pumpkin patch of the historic Wilder Farm in Bolton, MA.
We will bring raw fleeces, roving and handspun.
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Our flock: Romneys, Teeswater, Bluefaced Leicester and Border Leicester Crosses. '
We blend our wool through cross-breeding - right on the sheep!Teeswater sheep trace back to the Romans, enhances our fiber's luster, length and strength.The wool is long and lustrous - an outcome of selective breeding. The shine, softness and strength of the wool make this a hand-spinner's delight!
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Windy Hill Farm is located in Lakeville, MA. Carol and Richard Tripp create hand-dyed, hands-on wool and blended yarn, handwoven items , hand knits and roving for spinning and felting.
Interested in spinning? Carol will have her wheel so you will be able to watch her skills at play.
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The farm is located in Shaftsbury, VT,
and is owned and operated by farmer/proprietress Tammy White since 2001.
Her fiber flock of sheep, goats and alpacas include many rare and heritage breeds. She harvests wool and alpaca fiber from her flocks and hand dyes with plants which she and her daughter grow or forage for on their farm.
Tammy runs Natural Dyeing, Baking, Soap Making and Farming Workshops.
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Invite a friend and make it an outing - fiber, food and fun! |
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Our sponsor, Russell's Garden Center welcomes dogs in the store. However, during Market hours, the Wayland Board of Health has asked that we keep all pets from visiting. Thank you for your understanding.
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The Wayland Winter Farmers' Market takes place
weekly on Saturdays from 10:30 AM to 2 PM, January 8 through March 12, 2022. The Sunday Farm Fiber Days take place on January 23 and March 6, with extended hours: 10:30 - 3:30.
397 Boston Post Road
Wayland, MA 01778
508-358-2283
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