By Karen on August 15, 2011
You may have read the words “trace back” and “traceability “on our website and thought to yourself, “what’s that?” The wool trace back feature that Mountain Meadow Wool provides is truly unique and a boon to the great ranching history we have here in Wyoming.
Wyoming is well known for the large bands of sheep that [...]
Posted in On the Range | Tagged kid carmine ranch, mill, ranchers, scoringag.com, sheep, wool traceback, wyoming
By Val on March 22, 2011
Today is a day of technological errors. QuickBooks, the PHONE, grrr. Now is a great day to bury myself in the soft, lovely wool. Shearing is around the corner. We have some wonderful growers and they grow primarily Rambouillet sheep. This is a breed of sheep that has a funny backstory. I am going to [...]
Posted in On the Range | Tagged france, king, merino, ram, rambouillet, shear, sheep, spain, wool, zoo
By Val on March 22, 2011
Hi all!
We feel like spring is about the show itself. The landscape has not changed much…still beige and sparkly blue skies. But there is just something in the slant of the sun promising more. The rancher near me always moves his mother-cows into a certain pasture which is on my way into town. When he [...]
Posted in On the Range | Tagged anita thatcher, belmoral farms, churro, crow heart, gotland, scottish black-face, shetland, wyoming
By Val on November 11, 2010
I have Basque jealousy. Or more like…Basque envy. I’ve admired the Basque story and the immigrants for years. Perhaps it is my own Polish Mountaineer heritage that resonates because a recent DNA search ties my Dad’s haplogroup to this culture. What ever its origin, I’ve long admired their fierce independence, strong family networks, great food [...]
Posted in Around the Mill, On the Range
By admin on March 30, 2010
We are very excited about our new blog!
Greetings Everyone!! We are coming into the new world of blogging and boy are we newbies! Be patient with us. So much to tell…so little time!
NEW LAMBS!
Where to begin? Well I know it isn’t yarn related, but….I just got a call that two bum lambs needed a home. [...]
Posted in Around the Mill, On the Range | Tagged lambs, scouring train, wool mill, wool washing, yarn