Wayland Winter Farmers' Market
Farm Fiber Day #1
Sunday, January 22, 10:30 AM to 3:00 PM
Farm Fiber Day is back! Join us on January 22nd and again on March 5th
from 10:30 AM to 3:00 PM. We will have over 40 fiber vendors, with some of your
favorite Saturday food vendors joining us as well. Just like our Saturday market,
you'll find vendors indoors and outdoors. Look for yarn, roving, fleeces, spinning
fiber, finished items (socks, hats, woven scarves and table linens, felted objects).
We will have visiting sheep and bunnies, vendors spinning on wheels and
drop spindles, and sock making machine demonstrations.
Vendors are located outdoors under cover, in greenhouses, under tents
Looking for hot coffee, tea or kombucha?
Feeling hungry?
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Maps will be available at the Information desk in the Plant Shop.
Feel free to print them at home in advance or view it from your phone to save paper.
Map details are subject to change, so we will have the latest version when you arrive.
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The Needle Gauge/Stitch Gauge made for us by Katrinkles
can be purchased at the Plant Shop (see map) register area at Russell's.
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Jim from Good Karma Yarn will be cranking socks with his special machine.
Come witness the magic!
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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. We will have hand dyed yarn in unique saturated colors, knit and crochet kits, project bags, mini skeins and gradient yarn cakes.
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Aaronap Cellars is a micro-winery located in Westford, MA. They focus on producing small volume, innovative, artisanal wines from the best vineyards and orchards in New England and beyond.
Located outdoors at the market, you will
be able to enjoy samples.
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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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Biltmore Wool Barn offers alpaca yarns from alpaca raised on their farm in Brewster and then they do the hand dyeing.
They also do processing of hand roving, and fleeces brought in by customers.
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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 and USDA certified organic lamb meat.
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Our mission is to bridge the gap between New England shepherds and hand-knitters.
As sheep farmers, we have the expertise to identify high-welfare farms. We source our wool from small flocks of sheep who are beloved by their shepherds, because premium wool comes from happy, well cared for sheep. That’s the only kind we buy. 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 shuttles, niddy-noddies, bobbins for Journey Wheels, and carrying bags for our charkhas.
Sheila Bosworth will mesmerize you with her drop spindle skills!
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I'm Nicole, and I'm a fiber artist, farmer, food lover, nature wanderer, wife, and mother of 2 homeschooled nature loving children, living on the eastern coast of Connecticut.
My design philosophy is simple - it's rooted in a desire to fuse the practical with the artistic. I seek to create vessels that are unique, beautiful, and can stand up to the needs of everyday life.
LOOK for Nicole in a NEW location this year - she needed more space for the TONS of baskets she is bringing us!
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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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Handmade products started from a small flock of local sheep and finished by local New England craftsmen and craftswomen.
Pick up kits to make your own sheep and alpaca ornaments.
"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. I work with local artists to create the blankets." - Alicia Monks
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Evergreen is an Angora rabbit farm specializing in handcrafted yarns and textiles. They are breeders of Giant, English, and Satin Angoras & Lionheads.
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"
Featured on National Geographic TV and listed in Wikapedia, don't miss the opportunity to meet Louise!
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We welcome first time vendor Christine Boucher who is traveling from West Baldwin, Maine to join us!
"I offer hand spun, hand dyed yarn and roving, as well as carded batts. I focus on showcasing the beauty of natural fiber with an artistic approach to color and texture.
My goal is to make products that inspire creativity in the crafter.
The majority of my fiber is sourced from small New England Farms
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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.
Enjoy and cup of coffee outdoors while you shop!
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Foxhill Farm
Alice Field from Foxhill Farm in Lee, MA
One touch of her Cormo and Romney yarn and roving, and you will know why.
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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 are fiber enthusiasts working together to provide handspinners and knitters beautiful hand dyed rovings, exotic blended batts and handspun yarns
Exotic and luxury fiber for spinners: mink, cashmere and yak. Hand dyed combed top for spinners. Hand dyed locks from local sheep. Handspun luxury yarn: mink, cashmere and yak.
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Amy and Jim Grant will bring worsted, sport and sock yarn, spinning batts/roving, soap, hats and socks and patterns.
Jim will bring his sock machine to demonstrate how their socks are made.
Everything they bring is made in their shop in Bridgton, Maine.
Jim does all the spinning and Amy does all of the dyeing.
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Great Bay Wool Works was started in 2003 to provide knitters and fiber enthusiasts with farm fresh yarn from Romney sheep in natural fleece and naturally dyed colors.
Look for tote bags, project bags and patterns designed for our yarn by Donna Kay. Our fleeces have won many awards thanks to the lustrous, soft fiber.
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Hungry from your fiber shopping?
Pick up scones, cookies and bread (Apple Pie, Brushchetta Twist, Cheddar Garlic, Cinnamon Chip Swirl, Dakota, Honey
Whole Wheat, Pepperoni and
Old Fashioned White) to keep you going!
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All products barehand dyed by Lisa with natural dyes I have grown or ethically sourced through sustainable businesses.
All natural dye material are grown on my farm in Lanesborough utilizing organic production methods.
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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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Islay's Terrace is a line of modern fiber arts with a quirky, whimsical, southwestern style, all hand-crafted by Jillian Melnyk.
I hand dye hand-spun (& US commercial) yarn in micro-batches. I also use my spinning wheel to create hand spin fiber I have dyed.
I work with merino and targee fibers from
US and local sources when possible.
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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.
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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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All products are from our own sheep.
We raise Gotland's and also keep Merinos, Border Leicesters, Lincoln, Alpacas and
Angora rabbits.
We will bring raw fleeces (high-quality and well-skirted), locks, roving (natural and hand-dyed), farm cards and photographs, yarn(natural and hand-dyed), rug yarn, knitted and woven items.
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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 are just some of the flavors they make.
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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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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.
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As temperatures drop, the insulative properties of alpaca are apprieciated.
"Alpaca is a semi-hollow fiber, giving it great insulating abilities," says Laura of North Brook Farm.
"If you hold some of the raw fiber in your palms, you will quickly feel the warmth generated between your body heat and the fiber."
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Baltimore based Plied Yarns is releasing two new colors this week in honor of hometown poet Edgar Allen Poe's 214th birthday.
There will be kits: a collaboration with Ex Libris Fibers combines their fingering yarns. The Westknits Eyeball Shawl (left) will be available on Sunday.
Our thanks to Ann Weaver for making the trip all the way from Maryland to join us.
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Prado de Lana Sheep Farm (translation Wool Meadow) raises Romney, Lincoln Longwool and CVM Romeldale sheep in the
They have a lovely shop on Main Street (down the alley) in Stockbridge, MA.
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Handmade woolens for the whole family: socks, wristers, leg warmers, felted vests*, hats, mittens and slippers, silk scarves and felted playmats.
(*HIGHLY recommend the felted vest - made to order, and they were highlighted in a New York Times article about the New York Sheep & Wool Festival in October:
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Jen and Neil Kapitulik create hand-spun yarn, roving, dyed locks, art batts, quilted and chicken shaped potholders, needle felting kits, wool hats, fabric fridge magnets and quilts.
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Don't miss Ellen Raja's unique fiber hats, thrummed mittens and neck pieces using dyed and natural colored fiber from her Longwool sheep.
Ellen has been raising sheep on her farm in Lincoln since 1960.
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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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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.
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Say Cheese is a family owned and operated grilled cheese food trailer that caters to any type of event you can think of!
We are based out of Worcester but travel all over New England making gourmet grilled cheese sandwiches with the cheesiest and most fresh ingredients.
What's more comforting than a delicious grilled cheese sandwich?
Nothing.
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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 made to order by owner Tatiana.
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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.
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We source from farms near you. Buying ingredients we smell, touch, wash, peel, slice, cut, roll, stir, roast, poach, grill, smoke, sift, whisk, brush and bake.
We will have prepared soups, meals, and baked goods.
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Hand selected fleeces from New England and Upstate New York, spun into beautiful yarn at New England spinning mills,
dyed at home using plants, bugs, roots, nuts and sustainable botanical extracts.
Patricia Fortinsky will bring her yarn, sweater patterns and small project patterns.
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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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SOUP: A variety of organic frozen soups.
CHEESE: 2 year Cambridge, 4 year Reserve Cambridge, Middletown Blue, Steel Wheel,Marinated Feta, Marinated Fresh Chevre
MUSTARD: Maple Bourbon, Garlic, Horseradish, Hot Pepper, Vermont Dark Ale, Spicy Brown, Cranberry
PICKLES: Bread & Butter, Dill, Horseradish Dill, Beets, Carrots, Fennel & Onion, Corn Relish, Jalapeno Peppers
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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.
We will bring raw fleeces, batts, roving and hand-spun yarn, mill spun yarn from Red Barn Farm (in attendance), felted soap, dryer balls, eco-printed scarves and bandannas.
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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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Farmer Tammy White, with the help of her children and community, have been cultivating a home with a heart for fiber animals of all species and breeds in Vermont since 2001. The focus on breed specific fiber, by beloved flocks, keeps her busy year round. Tammy teaches Natural Dyeing, Baking, Soap Making and Farming Workshops. Wing & A Prayer Farm is home to Vermont’s first pure blood Valais Blacknose Sheep.
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Upcoming event: March 5
Would you like to learn how to use a drop spindle?
Penny Lacroix will teach a Drop Spindle Spinning class from 1 to 3 PM on
March 5 during our second Farm Fiber Day.
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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 7 through March 11, 2023. The Sunday Farm Fiber Days take place on January 22 and March 5, with extended hours: 10:30 - 3:00.
397 Boston Post Road
Wayland, MA 01778
508-358-2283
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