Our farm is located outside of beautiful Northfield, MN, overlooking the Cannon River Valley
Natural Grazing
At our farm we allow the sheep to open graze on 30 acres of woods and prairie, mimicking their natural grazing preference. The sheep seek out the plants they need to increase their health, moving and roaming as they were designed to do for centuries.
Wool and Meat
We shear the sheep in the spring and fall. Their winter coat is wonderful for bedding, spinning, yarn, and felted products.
Icelandic lamb meat is very lean and well-marbled and is considered gourmet. It will easily adapt to any recipe. Lamb meat is typically available in the fall, we sell by the half and whole, and sometimes we have a variety of USDA cuts that can be picked up on the farm or farmer’s markets.
Small Scale
We raise our animals using sustainable practices, ensuring that they are healthy and happy. Our sheep have access to both wooded areas and pastures. They lamb in the spring and the lambs stay with their mothers until they are naturally weaned. To maintain the size of our flock we butcher lamb rams, and sell breeding ewes in the fall.
We feel it is important to use all parts of the animal, from tail to snout as they say. We sell tanned sheepskins, taxidermy skulls, meat, and wool. We use local family-owned mills to process our fleeces into beautiful yarns, batting, and bedding. Our methods honor the animal and the land.
About the farmers
After growing up in the city and suburbs, we felt a need to be closer to nature and to be more connected to where our food came from. In 2014, we found a farmhouse for sale with a barn, some outbuildings, and a little acreage where we could start our farm.
Later that year we decided on Icelandic sheep and purchased our first two ewes. Fun fact, our logo is the face of our first ewe Badger face. We named her that because the breeder said she had badger face markings, so that became her name! Badger is still here on the farm and gives us lovely lambs and wool each year. We grew our flock the following fall and purchased two additional ewes, Jill and Dolly, and our first ram, Rambo. That spring we had our first lambs and kept many of the ewe lambs which make up our current flock. We traded Rambo for Ramrod the following year and have grown each year.
Once we had a good size flock we started to figure out how to market the amazing meat and wool. We found that many mills in our area do not process dual-coated long wools, which slowed down our growth in yarn, but we did find a great market for wool-filled bedding products and batting for spinning. Fast forward to now, we have a variety of yarns, batting, and roving as well as finished products like dryer balls, sheepskins, and wool bedding.
What's next? We have found the backup at local mills decreases our inventory and makes it difficult to market our products, so we figured it was time to open our own mill!
Theresa enjoys spending her time with the flock, ensuring they are healthy and happy. She watches their grazing patterns and ensures they have enough minerals and fresh areas to chew down. Theresa spends her free time spinning yarn, felting, knitting, and advocating for local fiber and grass-fed meat.
Jake specializes in the carpentry and machinery work required to run a farm. He also fells trees, cuts and bales hay, and puts in fencing. Jake likes to spend his free time making homebrewed beverages, riding his motorcycle, creating art, weaving, and learning to knit.