Spring has officially arrived! That means our fruit trees are officially available for the spring season of 2023! We are excited with the quality of the fruit trees we have to offer you this year and will also have blueberry bushes in the next two weeks or so! Stay tuned for those updates!
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Sometimes, people come into your life in unexpected ways. A few weeks ago, right after learning that we probably didn't have much time left with our sweet girl Ivory, I received an email from a gentleman wanting to have his dogs fur processed into yarn. I learned his dogs name was Ava, a precious Great Pyrenees dog. He didn't have very much fur collected, so we chatted back and forth about options on how to proceed with processing. That same day, minutes felt like hours for me, just waiting to hear any updates about Ivory, who was in special care with our vet at the time. After chatting with this gentleman for awhile, he mentioned at the end of our conversation that he wanted to do this yarn run as a special surprise for his wife as a keepsake because they had to take Ava to cross over rainbow bridge later that night. Hearing that and knowing Ivory's situation, it hit me and I cried! Knowing how they must have felt... knowing how we felt at the time... thinking of Ivory...and knowing they trusted me with this special task. I needed to do this yarn run! Not only was this going to be a sentimental gift, but it provided a healing process for me while dealing with the loss of our girl. We both were saddened by loss in our family's, but through it, I was able to create something beautiful that can provide comfort to someone else and they were able to help me too! How special is that!? So here is the final product. The Ava, merino, and alpaca yarn blend. Over 2000+ yards of joy, memories, and tail wags soon to be made into sweet keepsakes! Thank you for trusting us with this special project! #fibermill #dogyarn #rainbowbridge #greatpyrenees #familybusiness #familyfarm #keepsakegifts  Ava the dog yarn at Blue Mountain Fiber Mill Happy National Employee Appreciation Day! These are the faces that make Blue Mountain Farms what it is today!! We are very thankful for all of our hard-working team members and couldn't do what we do without everyone! So today... we say Thank You for All You Do! #EmployeeAppreciationDay #pafarm #bluemountainfarms #fibermill #beekeeping #teamworkmakesthedreamwork Comet and Lola are helping give the ponies a nail trims this afternoon!!  Comet and Lola are big helpers here at Blue Mountain Farms Sorry for stealing your picture Christin, but finding notes like these around the mill just make our day! Happy hump day...from Hump the lil man himself!
We haven't posted much in the last week, but it's been a rollercoaster of a few days! This morning is a little quieter in the mill without one of our favorite supervisors on duty! We know she's still watching over us, even though our sweet Ivory is no longer by our side! We already miss her deeply, but we wouldn't trade the years we had with her! Rest easy sweet girlie! This just in.... Punxsutawney Phil is a liar! It sure looks a lot like spring in the mill on this chilly Friday morning in Central Pennsylvania! What a hard working lady! Ivory is helping to wash fleeces this morning in the fiber mill! Looks to us she may just be catching up on her beauty sleep!  Ivory working hard in Blue Mountain Farms Fiber Mill We have been getting a lot of questions on skirting lately for our fiber mill and we welcome questions with open arms. Reason being, the more educated growers are about their fleeces and preparation for processing, the better we will be able to provide you with a beautiful product as a representation of your years worth of hard work raising your fiber animals! Our best advice to everyone is "the cleaner your fiber comes into the mill, the cleaner your end product will be!" & "when in doubt, throw it out." Throwing it out doesn't necessarily mean to the garbage or manure pile. There are plenty of uses for skirting as well (a topic for another day). Creating good yarns all starts in the barns/pastures and when the conditions are right, it shows in the end!  Clean fiber means a consistent, uniform yarn  Leicester Longwool Yarn spun at Blue Mountain Farms Fiber Mill Reviews like this just make our day!! We love sharing what we do with all of you and your support is encouraging! We couldn't do what we do without all of YOU! So thank you!!  We love to hear what you have to say!! Happy customer keep us motivated to continue to provide the best products we can for you here at Blue Mountain Farms! |
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