I recently read Unraveling by Peggy Orenstein after borrowing it from the library. The book, whose subline is ‘What I Learned About Life While Shearing Sheep, Dyeing Wool, and Making the World’s Ugliest Sweater,’ follows the author’s journey through learning ‘essential skills for the apocalypse’ during pandemic lockdowns. This entails all the skills needed to […]
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The Woodstock Fleece Festival – Woolstock
We haven’t made it to Rhinebeck (which was this past weekend), but we went to our local fleece festival, the Woodstock Fleece Festival (aka Woolstock) in Woodstock, Ontario, the weekend before. Some friends joined us so we had a nice little field trip out to the country to buy some beautiful fibres! I made sure […]
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Cooper’s CSA Farm
Over the weekend, we visited Cooper’s CSA Farm in Zephyr, Ontario. For the past three years, we’ve been a member of their CSA (community-supported agriculture) and had shares in their vegetable, egg, chicken, and pork bounty. At the start of the season, the farm hosts an open house where they provide tours of the farm and explain […]