Now that Juniper Moon Farm is serenely settled in our new beautiful location, Erin and I are very excited to be starting up Shepherding Camp again!
Our Shepherding Camp is a six-day, five-night fiber vacation at our farm You’ll stay at our farmhouse, help us take care of the flock, and knit and spin yourselves silly.
The price for Shepherding Camp is $1300 for up to two people. The accommodations are a private room with two twin beds, so it’s a great trip for two girlfriends or a Mother and Daughter. We can, in some cases, host a third person for an additional charge. While we encourage you to spend some time with our flock, you can do as much (or as little) farm work as you choose. If you’ve ever considered having a flock of sheep or herd of Alpaca of your own, Shepherding Camp is a great way to find out if shepherding is for you.
[2009 Shepherding Camper Kay snorgling Colorado]
When you’re not helping out on the farm you are free to explore the Charlottesville area. There are some lovely Vineyards nearby, as well as Thomas Jefferson’s Monticello, The fee for Camp includes all meals, served family-style with the farm staff, but we can recommend some amazing restaurants nearby.
Space at Shepherding Camp is very limited! We can only accommodate two people at a time and we will only be doing three week-long Camps this year. However, we will be offering several mini-camps this year for the first time ever. The mini-camp will be a shorter, long weekend version of Shepherding Camp, with arrivals scheduled for Thursday evening/Friday morning and departures on Sunday. Just like with the week-long camp, all meals are included and we will keep you busy while you’re here. The cost for the Weekend Shepherding Camp is $600 for two people.
We will only be booking six weekends throughout 2010 so reserve your weekend early. I highly recommend the weekends during our lambing and kidding season, although we can’t make any promises that you’ll get to witness a birth. (Although, I will say that one lucky camper this summer saw twins being born half an hour after she arrived!) Kidding will begin in March and lambing will hopefully start in April.
And now, for the giveaway! You can enter here to win a Shepherding Camp Weekend for up to two people, all meals included. All you have to do is leave a comment here telling me why you’d like to spend a weekend at Juniper Moon Farm and who you’d bring with you if you win AND help us spread the word about the giveaway. Post the info and link on Facebook, twitter, your blog, in your Rav group, everywhere you can think of, cause we have to have 1000 comments before I’ll pick the winner. Fair enough?
One winner will be chosen at random from among all the entries. One entry per person, please. The winner’s name will be posted on the blog- then winner then has 48 hours to email us at prizes AT fiberfarm DOT com to claim his/her prize. A second drawing will be held in the event of an unclaimed prize and the clock will start again when the new winner’s name is posted.
The winner will work with Erin to schedule a mutually agreeable weekend for the visit. The winner will be responsible for all travel expenses to and from our farm.
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Looked through all the photos and fell in love with the kids, lambs, dogs, llamas, & all creatures great and small. I truly believe that wearing wool, having wool, being near wool would definitely be the answer to world peace. Soft, resilient, strong, protective, warm, flexible, comforting-wool has all the qualities that define the perfect world leader.
My friend Elaine spends her vacations at “Best Friends” and “Dogtown” and is an animal rescuer. She knits beautifully and is a true champion of animals. That would be my companion if I were to win a trip to your farm. Sincerely, Suzanne
Looks like I’m too late, but just in case, I’ll state that I would love to visit your farm. My husband and I are planning to start a flock sometime in the relatively near future. We would love to get some hands-on experience before we take the plunge.
I would love to win the trip to the farm because I am a beginning spinner. I want to learn what all is involved in the care of the fiber animals along with the whole process of the fiber in order to really appreciate where fiber comes from
i would love to spend a weekend at juniper moon because it sounds like a ton of fiber-filled fun! i would definitely bring my maja.
I would love to win a shepherding weekend! What a great prize. I’m a city girl with a country heart and would greatly enjoy the outdoors, animals and good company. Would either bring a friend who also knits or one of my neices.
I would love to go to Juniper Moon Farm to learn about the process of making yarn from raw sources. I feel very removed from where yarn comes from and how it is made. This would be a great opportunity to learn about the process and think about how I can apply that new knowledge with different kinds of fibers. I would bring a dear knitting friend with me, because nothing says girl bonding more than watching a live kid birth!
I would love to win a weekend at Juniper moon farm. I fell in lover with sheep when I was invited to a friend’s farm. She was having a shearing open house. I fell in love with the sheep right away. I got to hold a 2 day old baby and did not want to let him go. I would love to have sheep but I live in the city and we are not allowed. I told my husband how I wish I could have a couple of sheep but he said we have too many animals already(3 dogs, 2 cats). I even told my husband I could through him out and keep all the animals.
If I would win I would bring either my sister or my niece with me. They both love animals and my niece is studying to be a zoologist. I know she would love being around the animals. I also would spend my time learning all I could about how to take care of them and would also manage to find some time to spin.
OMgoodness…this would be the awesomeest thing ever to win! I live in Canada and have never seen a sheep farm and probably never a sheep up close. I’m a spinner, knitter, crocheter and love all sorts of fluff so seeing it at it’s source would be so cool. I would love to see the babies too and bring back tons of pictures for my kids, who all want to learn how to knit and spin too.
I would bring my friend Anne! She has been a wonderful friend and support from the moment I met her, and she has helped me get through stuff that I never would have been able to on my own. She’s a knitter and spinner too and I think she totally deserves to go on something like this.
For both of us, I know that winning would be the only chance that we would ever be able to go on a trip like this…and it’s a very rare opportunity!
All the best to you and yours!
I would love to meet and talk to you. I would love to work my butt off for you and learn everything you could teach me. I would love to have a get-a-away that leaves me, my mind, my muscles, my heart satisfied instead of bored and ready to be home and stressed at the cost of it. I would bring my husband, he loves hard work and can’t really relax and have a good time in conventional ways. He’s a produce farmer– as I am sure you are aware– there is never a time to clock out as a farmer. I will do my best to spread the word of your fiber-y goodness. Blessings!
Count me in! I’m not allowed to have sheep on the Navy base that I live on!
I’d like to go to sheep camp to learn more about caring for my merinos. I’d like to help with lambing so that I will have some experience when the time comes for my girls to become sheep mommies. My friend, Jessi would come along because she deserves a week away from all her cares.
I am a vet tech and have never worked with anything but dogs, cats, small mammals, birds and lizards. I would love to have the chance to work with sheep and alpaca.
I would love to visit with my 14 year old daughter. We live on a farm in Davidson (NC) with 4 horses, but may try to add other livestock??? Thanks for the chance of getting to see your beautiful farm! Do you have bees, too?
I’d just like to win. I’d bring my wife, she’s the one who told me to leave a comment…
What a fun idea when I heard this from my daughter. I always like a getaway when you learn something new. I would bring my daughter Valerie because she likes to crochet a lot.
What a great giveaway! I first stumbled upon a blog when you were at Martha’s Vineyard. My husband’s ancestors were from there and we went up to visit Edgartown two years ago. It is such a lovely area.
I would share this adventure with my niece who has sheep and llamas in her future.
I’d love to win a weekend at Juniper Farm so I can unwind….learn how to spin/rewind. Get to know the animals.Get some yarn for my stash. Regroup and reacquaint myself with Nature! Take photo’s – lot’s of photo’s so I take can take my watercolors out when I get home and paint and paint. I would take my friend, Karen who I taught to knit! Thanks for the possibility!!!
Since I’ve found out about your farm I’ve been eager to come and visit. See all the beautiful animals and get dirty and help clean a stall.
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