Welcome to Healthy Living Market!

We are so excited to add Healthy Living Market in Burlington to our list of retailers!  They will be carrying our Vermont Sunflower Oil Soaps as well as a selection of our Artisan Soaps and Lip Balms.  Look for our products on the shelves by the end of next week.   

Meet Our New Neighbors!

The parcel of land adjoining ours recently sold, and our new neighbors have moved in.  Twenty-some handsome and very friendly bovines.  Maggie has introduced herself and is a little intimidated by their size, but everyone is on good terms.  When the roosters get to crowing, the cows line up at the fence to see what's going on.  I'm delighted to have them join the neighborhood!

We Found Our Bees!

 Grey in his protective jacket and gloves cleaning the empty hive.  

The swarm.

See some of the bees flying around?  They were everywhere, and not too bothered by our intrusion.

Saturday was a gorgeous day here in Vermont, and a perfect one for doing some maintenance work on the bee hives.  We'd been concerned about one hive all spring, because while there was a tiny bit of activity in the hive, it seemed that many of the bees were gone.  We assumed the worst--that they hadn't made it through the winter. As Grey was working though, he heard some noise in a nearby tree and found a swarm!  We'd been out to the hives many times before, but I guess the beautiful day had all the bees out working, and their buzzing gave away their new location.   As relatively new beekeepers, we aren't quite sure the best way to get that swarm back into a hive, or why they swarmed in the first place, so we are reaching out to our Beekeeper's Association for some assistance.  We are delighted though that they made it through the winter!  We'll keep you posted on our efforts to get them back in a hive. 

Spring Shearing Day

Sophie getting shorn.  Can you see her front legs? Her head is by Jim's feet.  

Our sheep and goats are feeling a bit lighter these days, after loosing their winter fleeces.  Thomas, our huge Leicester Longwool sheep, has been doing his happy dance, jumping on all four legs, straight up in the air, and then hopping along.  He's such a goof!  The more we laugh, the higher he jumps. 

Now it's time to skirt the fleeces and starting scouring so we'll have finished yarns in time for winter markets.