Westwinds Farm a small heritage farm in the middle of Michigan…lburditt@gmail.com
Spring! or winter in hiding…
Well the last of the ewes have lambed and we’ve already sold out of lambs and wool for this year. The Gulf Coast fleeces were all gone in a week this year so if you’re interested in having one reserved just let me know. The picture with this entry has Shirley cuddling the last little [...]
Lambing season
Lambing season is going well on the farm. With only one ewe to go we’ve had almost all twins, including the little red on in the image. They are all out of the nursery and on pasture now. It’s amazing that a lamb that’s only a few days old will already be sampling grass. But [...]
Twins!
Well, we woke this morning a set of twins from one of our Gulf Coast yearling ewes. She had a little female weighing 7 pounds, and a little ram weighing in at 5.5 pounds. Everyone is doing fine but the ewe didn’t have a lot of milk when we checked so we will keep an [...]
Fleeces and lambs (soon)
Well our Gulf Coast fleeces have all been sold! We will have some Gulf Coast roving from Ruth once it comes back. One of the suits bled onto her fleece and we wanted to make sure the dye came out before we sold any of her fleece. The others are beautiful and Jackson, our new [...]
Shearing day!
Today was shearing day. We have some beautiful fleeces. I hope to have photos of them posted soon, and get them listed on Etsy. If you have any questions please let us know.
New knitting for the holiday season
We have had an amazingly nice fall so far. The one big snowstorm that has come through the region went south of us. We didn’t even get a dusting from it. We have gotten a few inches of snow, but it was followed by rain the next day that melted all of it. So, it’s [...]
Pecans
Yes, I realize that the banner image isn’t pecans, even though I titled this entry “Pecans”. But we got side tracked recently and now have three white Chinese geese. Every time I tell someone we have them I get the same question, “What are you going to do with geese?” Well the truth is, I [...]
Fall Garden Report, Pt 2
In my last entry (submission? Posting? Hmm, I’m sure there is an official term) I started reviewing our successes, and a few failures, from this year’s garden. I didn’t manage to get through them all so now we will see how part two goes. Peppers, 2011 was a year of trying new peppers in our [...]
Fall Garden Roundup, part 1
Well the garden is pretty much finished for this year and with some plants finally just reaching the end of their growth and more frost on the way. It has been a very good gardening year for us so I thought I’d share the successes, and failures, with you. Just to put things in perspective [...]
Breeding Season
Yes, its already time to start making breeding season plans for the spring. Everything has to be planned to far in advance on a farm that sometimes it gets daunting. We will be putting together the breeding groups in around the first of November which will mean we could start getting lambs the first of [...]