Fleece Box

Autumn fleece box.

This box contains 420g of Shetland and Shetland Cross carded wool, including lambswool. 

It also contains 10g of both nettle and flax fibres for you to sample.

I am proud to be sharing with you a quarterly seasonal flavour of our land, a connection to my rare breed flock and to the plants and wildlife that we live among here on the farm.

Every 3 months I create a different, seasonal selection of fleece and plant products from my flock and my fields in West Somerset, and carefully selected blade shorn flocks in the South West.

All of my sheep are blade shorn for their own health and wellbeing and because it improves the quality of their fleeces, something that I have seen improve year on year - I manage our small flock sustainably, ethically and with the very best of welfare in mind.

All the plants foraged and harvested will be from the farm and nearby hedgerows, or from local growers where they are sustainably harvested, with information about the plants and our connection to them.

A typical box will include around 400g of fleece, for example:

* Carded batt from a single named animal

* Washed, sometimes plant-dyed fleece from our flock ready for spinning or felting

* Raw fleece such as our Shetland/Icelandic lamb's fleeces or other breeds sourced from within an hour of our farm

* Sliver from the HoneyWoods flock

* Plant dye, natural ink, herbal tea or other seasonal plant-based goodies

Packaged in a recycled box and posted second class.

The products will vary depending on the time of year and the availability of fleeces. 

I will post out every 3 months for the Spring Equinox, Summer solstice, Autumn Equinox and Winter solstice.

Last orders for each will be 18 March, 18 June, 18 September and 18 December.