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PA Sheep & Wool Growers Association Upcoming Events

Posted on October 17, 2024October 17, 2024 by web admin

PA Sheep & Wool Growers Association Upcoming Events PA Sheep Symposium and Annual General Meeting, October 19 Solar Grazing Workshop, October 30

Penn State Offers Sheep Management Course

Posted on August 8, 2024August 8, 2024 by web admin

Penn State Extension is offering a Sheep Management and Production online course that will include live webinars focused on breeds, nutrition, health, grazing and marketing of sheep. The course opens […]

APHIS Offers HPAI Info for Small Ruminant Producers

Posted on August 8, 2024August 8, 2024 by web admin

Worried about how Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza might affect your flock? The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service has resources available online for small ruminant producers. […]

Farm to Farm: Hardscrabble Farm

Posted on September 17, 2022September 17, 2022 by Anne Choi

Meet Shari Gifford who, with her daughter Virginia, raises Shetland sheep in Stockton, NJ. Shari is a retired professor and a talented spinner, knitter, and sewist. Virginia is a professional […]

Shearers

Posted on September 2, 2021September 16, 2021 by Andrea Holladay

Please let us know of any outdated information on our list. If you still can’t find a shearer, call your local 4-H office and see if a high schooler is […]

Farm to Farm: Nils-Dale Farm

Posted on June 3, 2020June 3, 2020 by Anne Choi

Meet Greg and Jane Kornhaber, who raise flocks of sheep and chickens in Flemington. Nils-Dale Farm Shetland sheep are bred for their fine, dense, and crimpy fleeces. Greg and […]

Farm to Farm

Posted on February 3, 2020June 1, 2020 by Anne Choi

Meet Andrea Holladay, one of the three founding Trustees of NJ Fibershed. Along with running her farm and fiber business, Dancing Waters Farm, Andrea is our web administrator, membership coordinator, […]

Our NJ Fibershed

Posted on April 18, 2019April 18, 2019 by Anne Choi

Welcome to our very own local fiber system. We are starting to build our Fibershed, one fiber farm at a time. Many of us are first-generation farmers, and without the […]