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Weekly Check in February 15

Happy Valentine's Day Friends!


We celebrate at home with small traditions like exchanging home made cards and baking a special chocolate treat or two. Did you know that today is National Chocolate Day? It's the perfect day to binge on the treats from the day before.


This week on the farm, we are working on wholesale dryer ball orders. This will be the last wholesale order we are able to do for this year. We are out of dryer ball fleece! I can't even believe it.


Alpaca fleece, when sheared, is divided into sections for usability. The blanket, the part of their back, is used for yarn. The rest is used for dryer balls with the exception of the front part of the chest. That area is referred to as baby alpaca. Did you know that baby alpaca fleece is actually a part of the animal and not from a young alpaca?


As a rule, the younger an alpaca, the better the fleece quality. As alpaca age, their fine fleece becomes more coarse. I firmly believe that alpaca fleece at any stage is soft and usable but some fleece is softer than others. Every animal is so unique.


If you were interested in any dryer balls before summer, now is the time to make your purchase. I do not know how many more we will be able to make before we are totally out for the year.


Also, we are out of black fleece for custom hats and yarn orders. We will resume production of those in the late spring after shearing. We only have a limited amount of fleece for custom hats left so again, do not hesitate because once it's gone, that's it for the year.


Thank you all for all of your support of our farm. I hope in the coming weeks to add more to our sustainability series both on Instagram and on this platform.



 
 
 

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The Buzzard Farm is a small, regenerative fiber farm in the Pennsylvanian Appalachian Region. As an aspiring carbon neutral fiber producer, we hope to merge farming and cloth production by means of knitting machines and looms. Our ultimate goal is to produce clothing as a small scale manufacturer, designer, and fiber supplier. By enacting responsible rotational grazing, composting manure to spread on healing lands, we hope to help our planet by greatly improving our overall soil health while keeping our own carbon footprint as small as possible. 

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Fiber farming today is an uphill battle. Competing with fast fashion simply isn't an option. Each garment is made slowly and until we reach our goal of becoming a factory led company made from locally made cloth, we will be taking donations to contribute to our animal husbandry and ongoing slow fashion work.

Joining us on this mission to local sustainable cloth is the Rustbelt fibershed, our local fibershed sector. 30 percent of all donations we receive goes directly to their community involvement.

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