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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i’d like to spend a weekend at juniper moon farm because i’d like to catch up with susie & erin & see their fabulous new digs. more importantly, i’d like to see how much the beautiful lambs, dakota & delaware, have grown since i saw them being born in july (yes, i was that lucky camper). i’d bring my husband because i’m currently trying to convince him to let me start my own fiber farm.
thanks, susie!
I would like to spend a weekend at Juniper Moon Farm so that I could knit and nap instead of changing diapers and filling sippy cups! I would probably bring my sister because she loves animals and is hoping to be a vet some day.
My mom and I have always dreamed of one day owning a fiber farm. Sheep, goats, perhaps and alpaca or llama or two. A few fuzzy angora bunnies. For now this is just a dream, but a weekend at Juniper Moon would bring us one step closer!
I would LOVE to come spend time with you on your new farm! I wanted so much to make it this year, but the stars just never aligned. I’d bring my mother with me, she lives in another state from me and I don’t get to see her nearly enough.
Mostly, I’d like to see how you run your farm, since I’m starting up my own farm in a few months and will be procuring goats and sheep to go along with our current chicken flock. I want to see how you do things, the hard, the easy, the worthwile and see if perhaps I can skip some of the mistakes that it’s likely that newbie farmers can make.
I’m so glad to see you’re settling in well!
I wish you the best of luck with your upcoming season and the new farm!
Why would I love to spend the weekend with you ladies? Well, mostly because I’d love to be able to immerse myself in the grit and joy of raising sheep and goats, if only for the weekend. I know I’m probably not the person to do it full time because it is incredibly hard work, though rewarding. But to see and learn, to be so up close to the animals and people who make the connection between farm, wheel, needles and then the finished product… that would be awesome indeed.
I would to spend a weekend at the farm so that I could see what living on a working farm would really be like.
I would bring my daughter, because she loves animals, thinks she wants to be a vet, and I’d love for her to see what a farm is like too!
I’d love to spend a weekend there, following the blog and learning that you’re now much closer to me in the new place is just a great opportunity. I’d love to see how a farm is run, and meet the flock that I’ve seen so many pictures of!
My husband and I were just daydreaming this weekend about buying a place in VT and running an inn or an alpaca farm. This would be the perfect way to see if I am cut out to be a “farm girl” or not. I’d bring hubby along, or maybe one of the knitting girls if we can’t find a sitter.
I’d love to come visit the new farm and spend more time with the goats and sheep! Of course I’d bring my mum along with me. Our trip during the summer was wonderful, I’m very glad to know that you’ve chosen to keep this camp going!
You are always so generous!
I would love to spend a weekend at Shepherding Camp with my fiance. We are considering getting a few fiber animals once we have a place we could put them (so in a few to several years). It would be great to get some experience with the animals to see if this long term goal is something we would really be able to accomplish! (Plus winning it in the giveaway would be nice as we’re saving all extra money for the wedding right now
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I’ll be sure to retweet your blog post on Twitter!
I’d like to spend a weekend at Juniper Moon Farm for several reasons:
1. I adore the CSA model.
2. I used to live in Charlottesville and love the area.
3. I’d like to be a lambcam star!
I’d bring my fiance, because he loves Charlottesville too, and he’s the one who surprised me by giving me a spring share as a gift last Christmas!
I would love to take my husband to shepherding camp. We’re stuck in NJ for now, but he is always dreaming of moving back to upstate NY and having his own little farm. He’s been reading books for years, and it would be great for him to get some practice in.
i’d love to come out to the farm. i’d bring my friend amy along with me. i want to come out because i live in a townhome. and while i am trying to start as much as a homestead as i can, sheep just aren’t in the association bylaws. i’d love to visit just to get a real taste of the farm life. i’d also LOVE to interview you and your farm folk for my weekly podcast. i’ve done lots of interviews with spinners, knitters, dyers, weavers, and i haven’t had the pleasure of interviewing a farm yet. AND a CSA farm would be even better!
I would like to spend a weekend at the farm simply because its something altogether different. It would be so interesting! I would likely bring my 12 year old daughter – she is all about animals and she knits too! great giveaway. Thanks Susie.
I would love to visit the new farm to get away, kiss some furry animals, and knit all day long. I would bring my good knitting friend Gina with me.
My husband and I would love to spend a weekend at the farm because we’ve dreamed of owning fiber animals and would love to see how it would be to actually live that life.
Your farm is so beautiful. I would love to win the weekend getaway at Juniper Moon. It would be great to get a chance to play with the sheep and goats, and get an idea of what being a shepherd really is like. I’m not sure who I would bring – I’ll need to put more thought into that because it would be such a special trip (and I do have a special someone in mind).
I think it would be awesome to come and see the new farm. I want this for my friend more than for myself. She is slightly handicapped but her physical handicap is not the problem is in my eyes. It’s her lack of confidence to jump in the car and head off for an adventure that feels like more of a handicap to me. She has been so good to me with her wisdom and guidance and I would love to be the youth that shows her she can do this! She has been following you farm blog for a long time and she split a share of wool with a friend here. We were making plans to drive to NY but now that you have a place in VA it’s only a four hour drive to show her she can do this!
OMG – I totally need to win this one. Miss Linda owes me a report and I need to consult with her on the Copenhegan talks. We further need to stratigize Fenat’s training. Ernie has gone incommunicado and I fear needs new password and top-secret status. Daisy has been bugging me to show her how to de-bone a chicken (run chickens, run). She has tried YouTube but her lack of opposable thumbs renders most how-to videos useless.
Who would I bring? My friend Lucinda who moved to Radford (VA – quite close to you!) I never get to see her and I miss her terribly! We are both EXCELLENT at shoveling shit!
My husband and I have dreamt of having our own little flock of sleep or alapcas one day, we’d love to come have a chance to experience the real thing!
Oh, I would love, love, love to come out! I would probably choose to come out in early May, right around kidding season and my birthday – I’ve never seen anything being born, so this would really be a highlight for me. Also, it would be lovely to see some of my favorites people (waves to Susie and Erin!) and spend some quality time in some of the country’s most beautiful land. As for my guest…I’d either bring my friend Andrea, who is interested in starting a farming coop for less privileged women and could learn a ton about the art of farming, or my Mom, who grew up with animals (but none as cute as the yarnmakers you’ve got!!).
My son, a city kid, desperately wants a farm experience. If I won, I would bring him–a sturdy, reliable, gentle 9-year-old. He’s been leafing through the Heifer International catalog every day since it arrived and I so wish I could give him at least a taste of the experience of tending farm animals.
Why would I like to spend a weekend at the farm, oh let me count the ways. I would finally get to meet Susan, Erin and Paige. I would get to meet the goats and sheep whose yarn I hope to soon be knitting with. The farm looks just so beautiful and peaceful. I would probably bring my daughter
I have a sheep obsession! My dream is to have a sheep farm and knit all day long. And have at least five border collies. I would bring my best friend Kim who is similarly sheep and fiber obsessed. Sounds like heaven!
I would LOVE to visit Juniper Moon Farm! I’m a non-profit attorney in Newark, NJ and would love to indulge my “country” side and snuggle with some lambs! I’d bring Michelle, one of my favorite people in the world. She inspired me to start knitting. Shortly after learning how to knit, I fell in love with yarn and started spinning and am now completely fiber-obsessed!
I would love a stay at shepherding camp because I feel like, since moving to the DC area 11 years ago, I have lost my connection with nature and physical labor. I grew up in rural NH, and had a variety of farm animals as a kid (pigs, goats, sheep), and always loved spending time with them. I would bring my husband, because he grew up in suburbia and needs a taste of farm life before I sucker him into buying a farm for our next home.
I would like to spend the weekend there, because I miss you not being around the corner, and it would be great to see you again. I would probably bring my husband Rob because he loves the animals too. That way he could get more photo’s to do another watercolor painting. Or maybe one of the local Ravelry girls might twist my arm enough and I would take them..
Thanks Susie and Erin
It would absolutely be amazing to learn about the wooly creatures who give me so much knitting and spinning pleasure… who I would bring? Perhaps my mother. She loves to do watercolors of sheep and I think a weekend or a week in which she could squeeze in some painting time would be lovely for her.
OMG! I would love to spend time on your farm as a shepherd. Like many others I secretly dream of having a farm, it is far from being a reality but it would be great to find out what it would really be like, to connect with where my yarn comes from. I would bring a friend.
To be honest, I know that this giveaway would probably be the only way I’ll ever get a chance to see the farm and really spend time with the animals I love so much. Because it was lambcam and the farm that got me through some really tough places in my life in the spring, and the pictures on the blog is what is making me smile today. I can’t express the love I have for these animals… just from pictures. I’m not sure exactly who I would ask to come with me… it would have to be someone who would understand my need to just sit… take it all in… snap eleventy million pictures and just smile. Maybe Suzy from OK or Lori from CA… or my dear friend Lesley from Maine.
For a long time, my partner and I have had a running joke that when we get tired of our current work in digital publishing, we’ll move to a goat farm. It’s a way of having a dream future without really acknowledging how remote it is. But I would love to make it a bit more real by finding out more about what it would entail and whether it’s something we could really do. I’d love to spend a week at your new farm with him (or with my favorite college roommate who also harbors a fantasy about farming) learning what it’s really like and helping you out to the best of our ability. (As an added bonus, the son of a dear friend has decided to take up farming in the Charlottesville area so this would be a chance to see something of how he is living and working now.) Anyway–no matter whether we win or not, the Shepherding Camp is such a great idea! You are an amazing font of creativity… reading this blog is like sitting in on the most intense brainstorming session ever, on the topic of “wouldn’t it be cool if…?”
A weekend on juniper moon farm sounds like a beautiful dream! I spend many days dreaming of an alternate life where my husband and I live in the country, running our own fiber farm. This would be a lovely way to feel out the life, and get to know you guys! I would bring along said husband, as I know he would adore the animals and the chance to learn something new and lend a hand. I’ve already fallen in love with your beautiful farm and animals and selves, watching from afar, so I would love the chance to pitch in!
I would LOVE, LOVE, LOVE to win a weekend at the farm! I would bring either my husband or my son. Our family is planning to get a small starter flock of sheep in 2010 and would welcome the chance to get some hands on experience with fiber animals. Thanks for the chance to win! Jen
There is not enough room here to say how much I would love to spend more time at Juniper Moon Farm. I would love to take my husband to see where my attentions have been for the past 7 months!! I only wish I could bring more than one person!! (there are so many people who I need to share the farm joy with – Sara, Susan, Lori just to name a few…)
Off to spread the word!!
I would love to do a shepherding weekend. I am a city girl who has immersed herself in fiber the last few years. I think it would be a great time learning to care for the sheep. I can’t justify taking the money from the family budget right now (4 school aged kids) for any sock summits or knitting camps, so winning would be a great opportunity. I would bring one of my knitting buddies or my daughter.
ME!
Now that I got that out of the way, : ) I would love to win, because I want to have a sheep farm when I grow up. Or win the lottery- whichever happens first.
I’d bring my mother in law with me, since she is super supportive of my fiber addiction, and I know she would love working on the farm for a weekend.
A weekend at Juniper Moon Farm would be a great opportunity to spend some quality time with my sister. A few more years, husbands, families, etc, and we won’t have the flexibility to get away as easily for a sisters’ weekend.
My husband and I would love to come to shepherding camp! We often talk about starting our own alpaca farm and this would be a good way to see if we’re cut out for it. We’d also love to come pet all of your cute sheep and goats.
I would love to spend a mini-camp shepherding weekend with my best friend. We live 600 miles apart and are both fledgling fiber artists. (I am more fledgling than she); We are both in our 50’s and have been friends since 2nd grade… we never get to spend enough time together! I have a few sheep and goats, and she is getting an alpaca, so we plan to swap fleeces; it would be great to spend some time together pursuing something we love to do and learning some new skills!
I’d love to spend a weekend at Shepherding Camp because I would love to have the opportunity to give a little bit back to you and the farm, after everything you and everyone involved with the farm has given me over the past year. If I win i will bring a fellow auntie with me, so that they can enjoy the hands on experience as well.
I would love to spend a weekend at Juniper Moon Farm with my Daughter as this would be the best bonding experience for us.We had wanted to visit your MV farm but never did get the chance, this would be a dream come true!!
Hello. I’ve talked for years about having sheep and my boys – hubbie and son, are all for it. Unfortunatley, we don’t live near any sheep to learn! We’d love to have a taste, so please consider us. P.S. We’ll pay of course, for our 3rd!
I’d like to spend a weekend away without cellphones and get back to basics and see if I have what it takes to make that daydream of having a farm a reality. I’d take my best friend Jen. She is newly divorced and needs to try something new and different.
I’d like to spend the week with my mom….perhaps she will be inspired to start her own farm!
I would like to spend time at Juniper Moon farm because I think my soul would feel renewed with some time to slow the pace, connect with the animals, and enjoy the beautiful surroundings. And shovel poop.
I’d bring the man in my life because his soul would feel renewed by these things too.
i would love to attend. First, to meet you both in person, as well as the flock! I grew up on a small dairy farm and had goats as well but, well.. that was years ago! I so am working towards having a small self sufficient farm in the next few years so this would be a wonderful intro/refresher to help steer in decision making. Depending on when the camp was held i would bring either my 17 year old daughter or my mom. I know they would both enjoy it as much as i would!
OOOOH!!!!! I want to go to shepherding camp because I think that I want to have sheep and goats someday, but boy it sure would be nice to get a tiny glamorized glimpse of it before taking the plunge. Plus I love the interaction I have with Susan and Erin and the flock from across the country. Imagine how much better it would be face to face! I’d bring Jessica because she needs to experience the snorgle factor before she’ll commit to getting into this whole sheep and goat thing with me.
Thanks Susie!
I’d love to take some time and be able to see first hand what goes on at a fiber farm. My husband has been looking at land and I’m trying to convince him that we need some sheep! It would be easier to convince him if I knew what I was getting myself into!! In addition to that, I’d also love a small break to be albe to get some serious knitting done and less diaper changing!!
Oh, please let it be me. I spent a weekend visiting the farm, and the only thing better would be a weekend STAYING at the farm. I love it, and Susie-n-Erin-n-Paige so much.
Like Suzy, I would want to bring all the Aunties…but as I’m restricted to one, I would bring my daughter.
I want to come out to the farm becasue I just left it, and I miss it already! I would bring my husband this time so that maybe he could understand why I came home gushing about the experience,
My daughter would like to start a fiber farm so I’d love to experience a weekend at Juniper Moon Farm. I’d bring her because she is such a fantastic knitter, and my nickname is “Mooncrazy”!
I’ve wanted to do the camp from the first time I heard about it. After spending a few hours at the farm, I only want to do the camp more! I do wish all the Aunties could be there at the same time. I don’t think I’d be allowed to return to work if I didn’t bring Eileen with me, and Victoria would probably hide herself in the suitcase.
I am a fairly new knitter who moved to the country four years ago trying to live a simpler richer lifestyle. My husband and I now have two horses as well as our three dogs and two cats. I have been fantasizing about having sheep and goats so that I could take that next step to be able to shear and process my own fleece. I would likely bring my friend Meghan of stitch it podcast with me if I were so lucky as to win this great experience. Thank you.
I’d like to spend the weekend at the farm because i want to have my own fiber farm someday, and your journey is so inspirational! as a college student on a budget, i haven’t been able to work up the funds to visit yet, but i’d love to learn what it is really like! i’d bring my best friend, who loves animals and farming as much as i do.
I would love to have a few sheep and an alpaca some day and a shepherding weekend would be the perfect way to see if its really for me.
Our (husband and I, starting to view ourselves as an actual farm with chickens and honeybees in place) plans for the coming year include sheep. This would be an excellent learning experience for us!
I would love to spend time at the farm! Knitting and working with the herd would be wonderful for me. More importantly, my husband wants to start our own farm someday when we can afford to buy a real house with land and everything! He would love it more than me!!
a weekend on a beautiful farm isn’t enough reason? I would love to see how they make it all work
I would love to go to shepherd camp! I am thinking of having a farm in a few years and I think this would be a great way to find out if I am cut out for farm life. I would bring my friend Lisa with me because she is thinking of doing the same. And the thought of having time off just to spin and knit amongst the other activities seems like a dream!
I’ve been a long time follower of the blog, though finances have kept me from becoming a shareholder. I participate in the Ravelry forum (a little) and I love the community. Every year DH takes a weekend trip with his buddies and I’ve never gotten around to scheduling my own trip. Lately I’ve been thinking that I want my trip to be to the farm. I do harbor the dream of owning an alpaca farm–but that is many, many years off. I’m not certain who I would bring–possibly my mom, or my knitting/spinning friend Dana who babysits my kids for free, or I may just have my own contest on Ravelry for the second bed!
I want to spend a weekend at the farm for many reasons. First, to meet Susie and Erin and the flock. Second, to be more involved in the CSA, which will make me feel more connected to my share. And third, to spend some time outside the city. I’ve started to get citified, and I don’t like it. I think some time in the country would do me good!
I would bring my mother with me, because I think she would enjoy it the most. Also, she needs a vacation!
This would be so much fun! I’d love to come work with the flock. An entire weekend meeting all the sweet animals that you post about would be amazing, and I’d bring my high school buddy. As moms, we rarely get the chance to hang out and chat. This way we’d have time to catch up.
Ooh, I’d like to do this because I’m a knitter – reason enough, right?
I’d bring my mom. She taught me to love knitting, and we’d both love the experience!
I started reading your blog the week before fair (we have dairy goats, chickens, and rabbits) began for my kids back in Sept. I have goats because my partner in crime, goat owning, knitting friend got me hooked on fresh goat milk…and I, in return, offer to “pick up” her alpaca from the farm nearby and drive it down in my van (we live 4 hours away from each other) the next time I visit. She has been grappling with the idea of owning a fiber alpaca, as well. Both of us encourage the other in ways of knitting, fiber hoarding, and goat herding that our husbands don’t exactly, um, appreciate…She would be my PERFECT partner for a getaway shepherding (okay, truth-she’s allergic to wool, so alpaca- and goat-herding) weekend! I can do the sheep chores. We both have teenagers that can take over OUR farm chores while we’re gone…and if they refuse, we’ll find someone to goat-sit!
I would love to see how you turn something that my husband regards as a very expensive hay-eating hobby into a lifestyle and a business. And how you keep yourself going in the day to day labor of it all, without getting discouraged in the grey gloom of the winter. This year I fell in the spring and broke several bones…I’m healing up, but not being able to care for my animals in the way I wanted to when I wanted to had me struggling to justify to the hubby, really, why they were so important to me. Now, I know they *are*, but it’s hard to put into words. I know you ladies get that…they just ARE important, and doing the work to care for the animals is fulfilling, somehow. I need to convince myself that I will be able to do this on my own again, and be strong again, and that just giving up on raising animals is not a choice I can make. I have somehow been drawn to this, it is worth all the work to keep them for what they give back to me, even if it is mostly right now the sort of thing you shovel out of a stall!! Some time to regroup with ladies who have come out the other side of a bad year would be just what the doctor ordered for this mom. Now, enough time on the computer, gotta go feed my goats!
I would love a getaway to such an idyllic place — I would love to learn more about shepherding! I would bring my husband. We’re newly married but the recession has hit us hard… We love trying out new and different things. This is a part of the country we’ve never been to.
I would take my mom and I would love to see the new farm and see, 1st hand, all of the hard work Susie and Erin put into the farm. It would also be nice to spend a weekend with my mom without her having to babysit my kids!
I’d like to attend shepherding camp because I didn’t get to do all the things I wanted to do while I was visiting, like spending more time with the animals and more time in the kitchen with Susie learning how to make some of the great dishes she makes. I promise I won’t sleep as much as I did last time if I’m chosen. I’d take GrandpaTutu with me–he’d LOVE the farm!!!
I would love to spend the weekend at juniper moon farm so that I can learn more about the fiber farm business. It has been my dream to raise sheep and goats. Currently I am a college student so financially it would be near impossible to find to money to pay for the shepherding camp.
This is a wonderful idea. I would love a weekend away and for it to be around fiber would be lovely.
I would so love this! I really love the IDEA of having a farm w/ various animals, and would love to introduce my husband to the whole thing, and to see if a couple days of vacay-reality does anything to change my mind (I’m sure it won’t, just make me want it more).
I would love a long weekend at your farm! I want to learn how to spin and dye my own yarn and I could be your apprentice. It looks so peaceful there and I could use a retreat/getaway. I would bring my friend who loves yarn almost as much as I do. Fingers are crossed.
I’d love to spend a weekend at Juniper Moon Farm to experience the process from animal to fiber to yarn. I have never visited a farm with sheep and alpaca before. I want to see and feel the fiber in its native form before it becomes luscious yarn to knit beautiful pieces with. I would take my mom along as she’s an old school knitter whose not familiar with most wool yarns. Starting from the animal, she’ll get to see the how it’s made versus the factory big box yarn. It would be an engaging way to learn about fiber firsthand.
Oh, I would SO love to win this! I’d bring my Mom. She lives in Front Royal, VA. She loves the outdoors and gardening and animals but hasn’t had much exposure to sheep or goats. Since my Dad passed on in Feb. (and her dog shortly after) she’s been exploring life on her own. It would be so much fun to have a weekend of girl time with her at your beautiful farm! I went to UVA but I’m in the Philly area now. Thanks for a wonderful contest!
I would really love to visit the farm…I want to play with the loom and the animals! But even more, I want to bring my husband to visit the farm. He grew up on a working farm, and we moved back to the farm when his parents died. It is no longer a working farm, but we have a grandson who really REALLY wants alpacas! My husband has had a very difficult year, healthwise, and I think this would be just the treat he needs!
I am very lucky to have a wonderful wife and a career that I find incredibly fulfilling, but I want to be more closely connected to the earth and the environment around us. Right now, my wife and I live in a suburban condominium where I have a fairly expansive container garden (I just planted apple trees!). My dream though is to buy a small house on a few acres so we can have a little farm so that we can live off the land and really practice farm to table values everyday.
I’ve gotten pretty good at gardening, but I want to learn more about raising sheep (and then eventually other animals). My wife knits, so we would shear the sheep for her. I want to learn how to make cheese, and I’d love to make cheese from our own milk. The one thing I could never do is eat our animals. A few weeks ago I went to a farm that practices permaculture, and I think raising and caring for sheep are a part of that.
It would be such an honor and a privilege to come to your farm to learn from you and spend time with your adorable wooly friends.
Thank you,
Jonathan Strausberg
Wow! What an awesome thing to give away. I would love to come and spend a week playing with sheep and goats. And the opportunity to do it when there’s the possibility of brand-new babies!?!? If I were to win, I would bring my sister who needs a touch of cuteness in her life right now. Add that we haven’t seen each other in two years… It’s time we had an excuse to spend some time together.
I only recently discovered JMF, but have already purchased a 2010 share to give my dear sis for Christmas and a calendar. I would absolutely love to bring my sister Claire for a Shepherding Camp Weekend for two reasons. First, because we are both enthralled by your entire operation and second, because she has actually shorn sheep when she worked on Fair Isle through a Thistle Camp run by the National Trust of Scotland. We both love sheep, knitting, helping out, etc. Oh, please, it would be a dream come true!
There are so many reasons: because I fantasize about having a little farm (even here in Fairbanks Alaska), I knit and would love to learn more about the sheep-to-yarn process and I love the Charlottesville area most of anywhere I’ve been. I would bring my best friend, who knits like a fiend. We are both turning 50 in 2010, and are looking for the perfect way to celebrate — this is it!
I am renovating my kitchen in the city because I will probably end up living here forever. And there is this LARGE part of me that wants to give it all up for the rural life – I want to go to shepherding camp so I can sort out fantasy from reality. And if I win I want to share with a “runner-up” for double the pleasure – double the fun. I will be paying off my kitchen for a while but have lots of vacation time due to those nasty furloughs.
I would love to come to the farm and see that there are folks living my dream and it can be a reality. I would bring my friend Diane because she is into this sort of life too and has a better car than I do and she can drive!! (haha)
I would like to spend a weekend at the farm so that I can learn more about shepardry and spend quality time with a flock. As an undergraduate student I am planning my future and would like it to include a farm. I would bring would bring one of my best friends, who is also a roommate and fellow fiber nut. We regularly discuss if it would be possible to sneak a sheep into the apartment…
I would welcome this to be an opportunity of a lifetime for me, I love all animals big and small!!
I would love to attend the shepherding camp so I can meet and know well the animals and people that supply me with yarn/fiber. I would bring a girlfriend or daughter…have to think that over ’cause so many would enjoy this! Thanks for offering.
I’m in my 3rd year of raising sheep. I’ve grown into a competent shepherd, but still have so much to learn!
Juniper Moon seems like an amazing place; My husband and I would love to attend shepherd camp as part of our education. Our sheep really do benefit from all of our visits to other fiber farms!
I’d love to win a shepherding camp weekend. I’d bring my daughter it would be a great addition to her 4-H projects.
Oh goodness, it would be wonderful to spend time with you, Erin and Paige for an entire weekend and possibly see a new lamb enter the world. You are such a blessing to Virginia, farming and raising awareness about the entire world of fiber. One thing I can guarantee -whomever wins this weekend will leave changed people
Best wishes.
My husband and I are both graduate students in theatre, and every day after mentally exhausting classes we collapse at home and talk about how we should drop it all and start a fiber farm. I would do the spinning, dyeing, and knitting, and my husband would tend to the sheep. We try to get as much fiber in our life as we can, but our academic & career demands make it difficult – both financially and timewise. This shepherding weekend would give us the skills needed to launch our dream and let us have a lovely weekend together – something we don’t get to do often enough.
I would love to spend a weekend at Juniper Moon! I think it would be a lovely experience. I enjoy seeing and reading about your flock in this blog so much, and I think it would be even more enriching to experience life there in the flesh. I would definitely bring my mom with me. She always jokes about buying a couple of goats or sheep for me, and I think she would really enjoy & appreciate a Shepherding Weekend with me.
Ooh, this sounds so lovely but how would I pick who to bring? I’d love to bring my mom (who is a fellow knitter) and my baby girl who loves sheep and goats! I’d also like to see/experience more of farm life in person and have a chance to get out of nyc for a bit!
I have never been to Virginia and your farm seems so much more graceful and civilized than the sheep farms I grew up around in the rural Rockie Mts. I would love to bring my daughter, visit some historical sites and maybe also visit some other farms. Farmers have a lot to learn from each other and you have been such an innovator. I would love to meet your lovely flock and the amazing Erin. We would have to rob a bank for the airfare, but who knows….
This would be a great excuse to spend time with my wife (Jen) and kids (Lou and Maggie). Maybe the kids could sleep on the floor?
Having a chance to see the new place and spend some time with Susie, Erin, Paige and the fleece growers would be a dream. If I were to win, I think I would run my own little contest among the Aunties to see who I’d bring with me. I’d want to make sure that it was someone who understood how special the experience was.
I’d love to spend a weekend at Juniper Moon because It would be wonderful and amazing to spend time with my best friend Debbie, play with lambs, kniit, read, rest, hike, and experience some renewing sabbath time!
Juniper Moon sounds like an amazing experience. I’ve always loved everything country but know very little about actually raising sheep and would love the experience. I also think it’d be cool b/c I’m a preacher and could learn a little bit more about all the sheep/shepherd metaphors Jesus uses in his teachings. My friend Jeannine is the one who mentioned it to me and it’d be a great way for us to get away and reconnect since we live so many states apart!
I’d love to spend a weekend at the farm because I love sheep and would love to experience caring for them and getting to know some of them personally. I would bring my friend Sarah who is my knitting buddy because I know she’d love it!
Wow, what an amazing gift you offer! I would bring my friend Kristina, who has been toying with the idea of raising alpaca for a few years now. She’s currently training to become an accountant. So the plan is for her to earn a tidy nest egg in her new career and THEN pursue alpaca farming! I will be her spinning consultant. We both knit. That’s the plan. Pick us!
Oh my! How fun would this be for a lucky gal/guy! I’d love to go and play with the all the sheeps, goats, dogs, chickens and anything else I could find! And learn how a farm works day/night. I would bring my husband, maybe, if he was a good boy, or my friend, who loves to knit/crochet and would love to get away.
I’d love to spend a weekend at the farm because we moved two years ago and for the time being don’t have any farm animals to take care of. I miss the care, feeding and the smell of my wonderful fiber animals. I would love to knit and spin and have a get-a-way. Haven’t been out of NH in almost 10 years – it is time!!
I’d bring my daughter or my friend Mandy. Mandy is a fellow “fiber freak” and my daughter is a “fiber freak cheerleader”. Might consider bringing my husband so that he will get inspired to get back into the fiber “biz”.
I think this is an awesome opportunity! Living a self- sustained (as much as I can) lifestyle is my dream. I am learning as much about everything as I can now. I would bring my friend Fran since she’s a fellow critter lover and she “gets me” – or, hee, hee, hee – since she’s older, I actually “get her”.
When I grow up I want to be an alpaca/sheep farmer. Oh, I want to come!!! In real life, I am a lawyer, but I still want to change careers. Please pick me.
Jenny
I would LOVE to win that weekend! I would bring my husband. If my hsuband couldn’t come I would invite my cousin, Leslie who’s a fiber fiend like me. It would be great for us to catch up over a little front porch knitting and doing a little shepherding! My husband and I want to have a small working farm somewhere and I so want to raise goats and sheep! It would be fabulous to have a weekend for some practice at being a shepherd and meet the folks behind one of my favorite blogs ever! It would be soothing to my soul!
I would love to win this trip because I’ve always wanted to have a farm of my own. I love animals and it would be an amazing trip to take with my matron of honor also my favorite knitter before my wedding. So we can have some time together. As it is now we live a few states away from one another and don’t really get a chance to have any girl talk/ knit and chat time. Also I would love to see all the sheep in person, I love following the blog!!!
I’d love to spend a weekend at Juniper Moon Farm because I grew up on a farm and have fond memories of helping my dad do morning chores. I’d bring along my spouse, who sometimes thinks my knitting is crazy, but I know he’d have a great time seeing the animals and the workings of a farm.
I would love to come and snuggle with all the cute critters! Also, having an excuse to spend a weekend outdoors on your beautiful farm would be an ideal vacation. I would bring my husband as a thanks for all his hard work renovating our basement.
I wrote about it on Facebook. And I’m not sure who I would bring with me. Maybe I would meet my sister there since we live 1500 miles apart. I don’t have any friends who knit, but maybe I could bring one into the fold.
What an incredible idea! If I were to win, I’d choose to take my sister. She’s a new mom and has gone through some crazy things in the last year (including baby, cancer, and her husband losing his job). I totally admire her – and would love to snatch her away to somewhere beautiful. Inside, she’s always been a country girl – and I’m sure it’d delight her!
I have been a student my whole life and am about to finish my PhD this spring. So even though I’m in my 30s, I still have “when-I-grow-up” dreams about having a job, owning a home and–one day–living on enough land to raise goats. One thing at a time…but I think shepherding camp would be such a great glimpse into one of the directions my life might eventually take. I would share the experience with my mum…she raised me around horses, entered her own sheep in 4H when she was young, and I think she would absolutely love a trip out east to stay at the farm.
I would love to visit the farm! My mom owns a yarn store, and it would be so much fun to see the other side of the business
Plus, I could use a break from college, and I can’t think of a better place to go. I would definitely bring my mom because I think we’d both have a great time! Thanks!
I would love to come with my daughter, who is 17. She is a knitter, but doesn’t spin…yet. She loves knitting, though. Or maybe I’d take my 15 year old son, he doesn’t particularly enjoy knitting, although I expect that if I teach him to spin, he might well get into it. What he really likes is animals, and he’d spend the entire time out helping you with all the really really dirty work. I just want to hold some animals and spin and knit myself silly and talk with you people….a lot!
Oh, how I would love to visit Juniper Moon Farm! I would bring my niece, Rachel – my goat shepherdess in training/animal guru along as well. See, I had one of the top ten essays in the Goat Giveaway contest and Rachel so desperately wanted me to win. She texted, she emailed, she contacted everyone she knew asking for a vote. When I told her my essay was not chosen, I think she felt worse than I did. A trip to your farm would give her a small glimpse into what Aunt Sue might attempt to do next year. I would love the opportunity to see first-hand just what goes into all you do, Susie. And I’d have my sidekick, Rachel, with me to remember what I forget, to soak up the experience and to see just what fun (yes, I know – work) it will be if Aunt Sue can finagle a small herd of goats in 2010.
I recently started working for the 4-H. While I’ve got plenty of experience with kids with two legs, I don’t know a lot about those with 4. I would love to expand my knowledge so I could expand our county’s program offerings. If you pick me I promise to pass what I learn on to my 4-Her’s. I’ve also acquired my Great-Grandmother’s spinning wheel and weasel. I’m interested in making them more than just decoration. I would probably bring my good friend Heidi. She has done a lot for me and I would love to pay her back.
I would love to spend a week at your farm because I have a fantasy of leaving my career in law and policy to have a sheep farm from which I could run a yarn and cheese CSA and could get an idea of how feasible that idea actually is. I’d bring my friend April since she brought this contest to my attention.
Wowie! My boyfriend and I have the City Living blues. We’ve been completely enchanted by the window that you’ve opened to the CSA model and the beauty of a shepard’s life.
We’d love a chance to get muddy with the Juniper Moon Farm crew!!
I have been interested lately in what exactly it takes to have sheep and the opportunity to be away from a noisy office and get my hands dirty. I keep threatening that I am going to sell my life and start up a flock of Icelandic sheep. I’m not exactly sure who I’d bring along.
The idea of being able to spend a vacation with you, Erin, and the sheep makes me giggle. I promise I won’t talk incessantly or follow you around forcing you to hide from me in the basement. I will knit too much, laugh too much, help you watch too many dvds, and hopefully have a couple amusing stories saved up to share. And if I can peel her away from the MVCC, I’ll drag Alissa with me!
Ohhhhh I so want to win! The knitting and visiting is lovely but I want to spend more time outside working with the animals or other farm chores and getting dirty. I’ll even buy my own boots! And I’ll remember to hold the feed bucket above Ernie’s head! I’d bring Suzy because she would make sure I actually found my way there! Hey, I know…I could bring an air mattress and sleep in the garage and Suzy and Frank could have the bedroom. See, I’m planning already! Three workers for the price of two..well maybe not, since I eat a lot of cheese!
My city-boy husband has totally surprised me by being enamored with the sheep he saw at the Mass. Sheep and Wool Fest. This would be an incredible learning experience for both of us, an experience of a lifetime…
because i keep telling my boyfriend that one day we will up and move to the countryside and start an alpaca farm. only he thinks i am joking. and because i worked in a barn for two years and really miss it. i would bring my best friend who would also enjoy the experience very, very much.
I would love to win the weekend because I think the Charlottesville area is beautiful, and who wouldn’t want to spend the weekend there. I am a fan of the outdoors and would love to help out with the animals, as I think your farm is great. I would bring my sister who also knits for a fun sister’s weekend.
I would bring my husband. We have two small children, and time together is few and far between. When we do have the rare time alone together, we really enjoy working together on projects – and this would be great. He’s an agricultural farm boy, so no animals, and I’m a city girl with daydreams of the farm life so this would be so great for us.
I’d LOVE to spend a week at Juniper Moon Farm. I would bring my partner, Julie with me. Julie is from Australia, where there are LOTS of sheep, but she has never been to the United States, and I think working on a sheep farm would be a great vacation for both of us. We both come from farm stock a few generations back, and we are both avid knitters!
Susan in HK
seriously wonderful! i would love to spend the weekend at the new amazingly beautiful farm with my daughter and husband, they are my favorite people to travel with and i think that we would all enjoy it so much. we would love to have our own farm some day with all of the wonderful animals like you do.
also i would love to see you and erin again, i met you at the squam art sale in june and really enjoyed visiting with you both.
thanks for the opportunity to take a chance!
Honestly, I’ve love to come to the farm just to help out with everyday barn chores. My favourite part about visiting my great-aunt’s farm is helping out doing tasks. It feels more rewarding then my day job! Manure scooping? Weed pulling? I’m your woman!
My mom & I have always wanted a farm of our own to raise animals (and horses in the case of mom) so I’d bring her & our cameras & knitting. Plus she deserves the holiday away.
I had no idea there was anything like this available to “wanna be farmers”. Hands on trining? I have owned 4 horses in my lifetime. All boarded off my property as a teen. My dream is to have either Alpaca’s or pygora goats one day. This is wonderful oppertunity. ‘Hats off to you for reaching out to others, and allowing them to enjoy your lifestyle” I would bring my friend Donna along for sure. My hubby is not interested, but Donna and I have co-dreamed of starting a farm of our own one day. This would allow us to see if we are cut out for it or not. We are both avid spinners, and knitters. This would also be a vacation well deserved by us both. No hubby’s, no kids….no worries……”Pick me, pick me”!!!
I donate my entry to Melissa Morgan-Oakes if my comment happens to be the one picked. While I’d love to play with sheepies I have a local friend I could do the same thing with if I really needed to. Not ready for livestock yet.
I would like to win so I can see upclose why my wife is so obsessed with knittting. That is who I would take with me by the way.
I would love to spend time at the Juniper Moon farm because I would love to reconnect with animals. When I grew up my parents let us girls, my 2 sisters and I, have so many pets. We had the traditional cats, dogs and fish but we also had chickens, rabbits and horses. I would love to know what it is like to have sheep and goats, a dream of mine, too. I guess I would love to bring my mom as she has a soft spot in her heart for animals. Also, because she never really gets away from home very often. I think she would love spending her day doing crafts and working and loving the animals.
This sounds like so much fun! When I was little, I spent a couple of weeks on a farm and it was one of the best times of my life. I also loved camp so I’d love to do something like that again! I’d bring my husband because he thinks it sounds like a lot of fun as well.
I would love to go to Shepharding Camp because I think there may be a country girl trapped inside this city girl and I need to let her out every so often or she gets antsy. I would bring my sister since we take crafty trips together or one of my knittas but it would hard to choose which one….
I’ve wanted to visit the farm and meet Susie, Erin and the flock since I “met” you all via the lambcam. My daughter Victoria and I spent hours watching, waiting and cheering for each new arrival. If I was the lucky winner, I’d have to choose between my friend Meredith , who introduced to me your wonderful farm and my daughter. hmmm I wonder who…
Top 10 Reasons I should Win
1. Petting real sheep is much more cool than the sheep on Farmville on Facebook.
2. I haven’t been around a goat since the one at the petting zoo chewed on my Easter dress in first grade.
3. I love the smell of hay and sheep.
4. I love wool.
5. I’m a city girl who would like to have some farm exposure with friends who will save me from any possible ravenous goats.
6. I want to learn the sheep to wool concept.
7. We share an accent and you would feel like you’re talking to someone from home.
8. I’m a fellow Texan.
9. I’ve never won a contest.
And fabulous Number Ten:
10. I’d help with the chores.
I’d bring my husband cuz that’s how we roll.
I’ve always loved sheep but never had a flock of my own.
As a child, my great grandmother gave me an antique picture of sheep grazing – I still have it in my living room along with her spinning wheel (which I have never used.)
While living in Iceland, I’ve learned to knit Icelandic sweaters, Icelandic style of knitting(probably European method, not sure).Anyway, I would love to spend time at your farm. It would be a dream come true.
Thank you
Karen Vose
I like to learn about caring for goats and sheep. I
would bring my grand daughter, Heather with me.
What an exciting giveaway! Spending a weekend at your farm would be incredible. I would bring my mom because she loves animals more than anyone I’ve ever known and appreciates my healthy obsession with knitting. Thanks for the opportunity!
I’d bring my mom and I’d like to come because she needs a break! Since getting divorced, moving states and getting a new job, 2009 has been a heck of a year. Did I mention she has a 9 & 10 year old boys?
Since moving, she’s started her own farm: 2 sheep, 11 laying hens and a milking goat in December!
We’d love to visit your farm and learn how the pros do it!
I would like to attend your shepherding camp for precisely the reason you mentioned above. I am thinking about starting a farm, but as a city girl I don’t have any experience. It would be nice to know if I have what it takes to run a farm before I make that leap.
I’ve seen it, I loved it and I want it!!! I loved my visit this summer and all I wanted was for it to last longer. One afternoon was clearly not enough. I would love to see how grown up Dakota and Delaware are! I know my daddy will start a flock some day, so the more I know the more I’ll be able to help. I have 3 possibilities of travel partners 1) Daddy of course, if he can get away from his horses for a weekend. 2) My husband (cuz he loved our visit this summer as much as I did – thought Erin and Susie were adorable) or my best fiber friend Betsy cuz nobody else gets me like she does on the fiber thing. I still have to get my Oatmeal project back to the farm so I may just have to visit soon even if I don’t win. Pick me, Pick me!
I would like to bring my son to Juniper Creek Farm. he hasn’t met an animal he doesn’t like and loves being outside. We live in an apartment now so he hasn’t had as much chance to be in nature as he would like. This has also been a really tough year for him, he got braces and glasses plus major changes to his school. He is in a special gifted program of 10 kids and 5 of the older ones left and 5 new ones came in including a girl his age. 4 of the boys have been together for 3 years alone and the new girl has really made things different. It has been tough on Alex as he has ADHD and is very emotionally immature which drives Katy nuts so they’ve had a big schism in his 5 4th graders, plus this year the regular students have really noticed the gifted kids are different and the bullying has commenced. He would love to meet some of the sheep and goats and chickens in a place he could interact plus a weekend alone with Mom might help him destress.
I would bring my husband. We live in different states right now (I work, he’s in grad school), so we don’t get to spend a lot of time together. He cheerfully indulges my knitting habits (especially when I make him things), but mostly, I think he would enjoy playing with his camera the entire weekend.
I’ve just taken a Betsy Hershberg knitting class and I’d bring her patterns and knit beaded jewelry.
I know some about goats (but would sure could learn more) and nothing about fiber animals… I would love to learn about sheep and spinning. I’d bring a friend who is planning/hoping to have a small fiber farm someday…
I have dreamed of owning and running a fiber farm for quite some time. I would love the chance to spend a weekend learning all about it. I have yet to learn to spin, so that would be an added bonus! I would most likely bring my boyfriend, as this is a mutual dream of ours and we are heading south (from NH) for a couple of weeks in a few months, so it would be ideal.
Thanks!
Alison
What an amazing giveaway! I’d bring my husband, since I dream of having sheep and he is “eh” on the idea. It would be a great experience for us. I’m a knitter and he’s a woodworker. Both of us were raised with horses, cows, pigs, so sheep will be a new experience. Thank you!
I am dying to come see the new farm! There is nothing I find more relaxing than being around animals. I’d bring my husband, for sure, because he is the biggest animal lover I know. I’m trying to convince him to get chickens…hopefully a weekend at the farm would do that, and make him want sheep too!
I would love to spend a weekend at Juniper Moon Farm for a few reasons.
First and foremost, I would like to see how a fiber farm operates. I live in the suburbs so my own flock is not an option for me, although I would love to have sheep of my own (or a lamb to snorgle!). I would like to have the opportunity to see what it would be like to have a flock.
Second, I LOVE Charlottesville. I’m from Ohio, but my father was deployed to Charlottesville after 9/11 to work with NGIC and now my brother and sister-in-law live there because my brother now works for NGIC. I would love to visit the area again and have a nice dinner at the Bavarian Chef restaurant!
I would bring my husband along because I am a city girl and he has big dreams of buying a house in the country. If he ever convinces me to move to the country, I think a fiber farm would be wonderful. I want him see what he would be getting into if he allowed enough land for me to have my own sheep!
To spend a weekend at Juniper Moon Farm would be a treat. I’ve always wanted to be a “farm hand”. There’s just something so exciting about being out there and spending the day with the animals and taking care of them
I’d bring my friend Allison because she loves to knit and to be able to spend time with the sheep and spin her own yarn would be a wonderful experience.
I would love to visit, and would invite the friend who cares for the critters when I have to be away overnight to join me. She’s the one who will be looking after my future flock when I am away, so it seems perfect that we both get some “training” together
wow!!! u guys really do know how to come up with some rockin’, kick-ass giveaways!!!
how cool would it be to come to the farm for a weekend and dig in and get dirty? truly be a part of the next project you will create…
i would bring my 12 yr old niece. she is such an enthusiastic person. she will try ANYTHING once. she is a sponge and wants to learn about EVERYTING. i took her to the hopewell junction farm this past year for the sheep shearing and party and she completely enjoyed herself and was particularly impressed with how the fleece was sheared from the sheep in one piece and the weaving demonstration really caught her eye. she asked a million questions!
she could be a shepherdess in the making!
Excellent! What a great way to spend a week or weekend. Now I just need to learn how to knit! I’d love to spend a weekend at Juniper Moon Farm, to meet the sheep and learn how it’s done…I’d love to own/run a fiber farm someday!
Ooo OOoo Pick me! Pick me! LOL!
I hope all is going well on your new farm. We will miss you in NY, but your new farm sounds just lovely.
Give my best to the flock
Karen
Susan and Erin and beasties and everyone!
I’d die to spend time on your farm and get some quality beastiesnorgling time in! My new husband and I dream daily of a goat and Jacob farm when the Navy is done with me, and I’d love a chance to do some work there and learn about the reality of our dream. I’m off to post on facebook now, if my battery holds out here in the Atlanta airport….
Farming is a wonderful way of life, and i would like to show that to my family, all New York born! I’d like to bring my daughter, who really deserves a break from the rat-race, or my grand-daughters; who just love ALL animals! Think I’d book in another room for two, and we would all come! That’s what family is all about, isn’t it?
Janet
How could anyone NOT want to spend a weekend there? I would love to spend a weekend to get to know the herd. I am almost into my 2nd semester towards earning a two-year veterinary technician degree and I would love to get up close and personal with the animals because I adore them and to learn all about them. I’d also love to spend time knitting and enjoying the great outdoors!
I would love to spend a weekend at the farm because my family is preparing for a move out of the city, up to the countryside, where we plan to have goats or sheep. I would bring my 10-year-old son, who is obsessed with goats, and CANNOT wait to have a goat of his own. I, on the other hand, am obsessed with maremmas, and would love to see more of this amazing breed at work and up close.
thank you!
Larissa
I have always wanted to do a getaway like this. The area is so pretty and calming that s townie like me would love to do. I am a new spinner and a relatively new knitter (3 years). What a great way to spend a week. I have been under a lot of pressure lately (family and finances) and this is the reprieve I would love.
Also, it would give me first hand on what its like to be a “farm” hand.
So I really hope I can get this!
Robin
Hammond, IN
I’d like to spend a weekend at the farm because a certain someone in my life has her heart set on me starting a flock of sheep to fill her knitting needs. I grew up on a farm and want to see if someone at my advanced age (late 40s) could do this
Thanks
dave
Is it bad that I am already sitting at the end of the driveway with my spinning wheel and my knitting bag packed, waiting to go? I’ll bake my phenomenal New York crumbcake and bring enough to share. I think I’d like best to bring my 10 year old daughter as my weekend date. She knits, wants to learn to spin, and would take care of those animals like nobody’s business. Plus, I like her better than any other young woman in the world. I’d like to come because I have recently learned to spin (after having been a knitter for 20 years) and would like to learn more about the animals and the process pre-wheel, as my sister, who owns a farm in North Carolina, is considering fiber animals — to feed my habit. Take good care and good luck with the decision
Donna D.
I would love to spend a weekend at Juniper Moon Farm. I am a knitter which for some reason has advanced into an extreme love of fiber animals. I’d bring my boyfriend because he told me about the contest and because he enjoys a good farm.
If you’d be willing to host a guy and a gal, my girlfriend is an avid knitter and general appreciator of wool. I love cheese made from sheep and goats. We go to the Old Chatham Sheepherding Company whenever we get the chance, and have often talked about moving to a farm later in life. We live in Brooklyn, so our encounters with sheep are rare and very appreciated!
Oh, Oh, Oh Meeeeeeeeee! please. And my friend Sally who is my best friend from childhood. Sally has a farm in Stafford and is just starting out with chickens and two adorable goats who specialize at eating maple leaves. I am always encouraging her and her husband to take on more critters, (I’ve parked two bee hives at their place), but I guess it would be a good idea to have a dress rehearsal type experience before bringing home more animals and getting in over our heads.
thanks!
Please put my name in the hat! I would love to come spend the weekend and knit and check out the farm. I’d have to bring my boss who is also a very good knitter friend. We tend to inspire each other and are always looking to learn new techniques. She’s currently considering Alpaca farming so this would be perfect for her.
I’d love to spend a weekend at Juniper Moon to breathe some crisp, non-California air, watch the sheep, knit a little, sleep a little, and have a weekend away from my everyday wonderful life.
I think I might bring my friend BA because she and I (and our husbands) talk about living on a compound that includes sheep, goats, chickens, knitting, quilting, children, cows, dogs together.
I’ve always wanted to be able to write “shepherdess” as my occupation! I am planning on making it a reality in a few years and would love an opportunity for a first hand peek into farm life! Most kids’ first pet is a cat or dog; mine was a GOAT, so I think shepherding is the life for me!
Sorry, I’m not trying to re-enter myself, but I forgot to mention that I’d bring my mom!
This is so wonderful of you! I am a knitter, crocheter, designer and spinner who is interested in self-sufficiency. I love visiting farms and learning as much as I can about where my products come from. I would bring my other half along, because (even though he doesn’t knit or crochet), he’s very sweet, loads of fun, and he supports me (and delights in, and is excited by) all the design work that I do. He would love seeing me have a great time, and he likes learning about my hobbies, too. After all, if we move to somewhere where I’m allowed to have sheep, he’ll have to know about them, too
I’m captivated by knitting and spinning and would love to learn more about the source of wonderful wooly fibers. I’d bring my friend Cricket, who has been toying with picking up knitting again.
WOW! My dream is to own a farm one day with a flock of sheep, alpaca, llamas, goats and more! There’s nothing I would find more romantic or enthralling than Shepherd Camp. It would be a dream vacation for me, plus, I love working with animals. If I won, “please please please”, I’d bring my husband, one, so that we could both get training before owning our dream farm, and two, because it would be a much needed vacation for us!
First I have to tell you that I feel I know you all already from following your blog. I love lookling at the pictures you post of your beautifully wonderful flock. They just pick me up and make me smile, laugh and basically just want to be there with you. A weekend at your farm would be a totally awesome getaway for me and my husband.I know he would love it too! I knit and spin and hubby is learning to weave. We love being outdoors with animals but have never really experienced what having a farm would be like. It would be like living in a dream, getting out of my office cubicle and into the world outside, caring for the flock I think would end up a caring for our souls experience.
My youngest (Rebekah) will be going off to college next fall. It would be wonderful to spend some extended time with her before she goes. All her friends at school call her the farm girl, because she often shares stories of her great grandfather’s farm (he died before she was born, but we try to attend a reunion there every summer- it is now a horse farm that my cousin owns). We live in Boston, so most of her friends have never been to a farm. Even one of her teachers thought that her stories were so great that he gave her a stuffed pig and a dried ear of corn at the end of school. It’d be great for her to “really” experience farm life.
As a 46 yr old student teacher, single mom of three and graduate student, I NEED a break! I can’t imagine a better way to relax! Miss you all, Lisa
WOW!!! What a great prize–to be able to hang out with the flock and get steeped in all the fun of the farm. I can’t really see myself having my own flock but I’d still like to expereince it.
What could be better…Martha’s Vineyard and a fiber farm? I lived on vineyard in the 90’s nannying and today I live in Sandwich NH with my husband, 2 amazing kids,4 hens,1 gorgeous rooster, a dog 2 cats and newest to our flock 2 shetland sheep. After a busy fall preserving summers bounty and building a sheep shed I dream of a destination like yours…. in wool Amy
I would love to spend a weekend at JMFF. I have been wanting to visit for some time now. I even have my husband asking about the farm. During lambing season last year, we watched a kid being born on a Sunday night. It was great. If I happen to be lucky enough to win, I will take my husband so he can see where the wonderful yarn I received started. Susie, you are so generous to open this up to everyone. You are truly amazing.
Getting to spend a week on the farm would be like Alice stepping through the looking glass in a way. I read about the farm through the blogs, have been to a lambing farm with my daughter when she was little, an aquaintance through work raised Romneys and invited us out. As a child, I spent a great deal of time on my parents dairy farm, so, I am aware it is a TON of work running it. But, for me, to go from reading about it and spending hours listening to the chickens hoping to see a glimpse of the lambs last year, to actually being there, would be like Alice because she stepped into a world she could only imagine and met new creatures at every turn, something completely different from my normal everyday stuck at my desk existence, waiting for tenants and watching the trains pass me by off to their adventures.
I would really enjoy spending time on a farm again. I haven’t been since I was a kid and because I live in the city now, there are times I go weeks without walking on grass. It would be nice to remember that there are green places in the world. I would probably bring the guy I taught to knit, Cody, in the hopes of converting him from acrylic to the good stuff.
I would love, love, love, to spend a high fiber weekend at Juniper Moon Farm. I would like to experience life on a farm. I would take my sister so she could enjoy the wooly goodness too.
i’d like to spend a weekend at the farm because my last visit to the farm only cemented my desire to have my own farm someday. and this time, i’ll know more about what i’m doing and i’ll actually be able to be there WITH susie and erin. i’d bring my princess with me to convince her that we are cut out for fiber farming life.
Yan and I would love to spend a weekend with you guys in your new home! We had so much fun the times we did visit you here in NY, and we both feel like we need to do more things together that involve exercise and the outdoors. I know Yan would have a blast taking pictures again too, AND we never got to meet any of the sheep when you were here in NY.
Sounds like the perfect get-away. I’d bring my wife!
I would love to come camp with you! I own a small flock of Cormo, Jacob and Icelandic Sheep and I am doing my darnedest to make the farm work so I can continue living the dream. I am desperately trying to learn all I can as fast as I can. If I won I would bring my dear friend and fiber festival partner Allison.
I’d take my Mom because she and I don’t get enough time together these days!
I would love to spend time at the new farm. I have heard Susie speak, met her on the vineyard, and would love to just find time to relax on the new farm. As a single mom with two small children, it would be difficult to find the time to do this but I believe it would be a really rejuvenating time. And I have just the perfect knitting buddy who I’d love to join me…
My mom and I really wanted to do the shepherding camp in Martha’s Vineyard and when you moved I was so despondent, thinking I’d missed my chance at the ultimate weekend. When I saw the ad on ravelry today I instantly perked up like never before. I’d love to spend the weekend helping in any possible way I can, I’d give anything to meet the dogs, and disappear off into the pasture to knit with the sheep, I just think that would be the grandest moment in life. My mom could really use the tranquil vacation, I think it would be a trip we would always remember together, plus I think it would forever keep her hooked on knitting. After my grandmother passed away this year, I think we both realized, there is no time like the present to make some memories, and make them good ones! So please pick us, we’ll exceed our cost in usefulness and adorable squeals of delight!
I would like to enter the drawing for the goat camp because i love animals and am intrigued with self-sufficiency and growing food and other needs. Getting wool does not require animal sacrifice and therefore is a humane win-win situation. They get love and care, we get good stuff to wear. Susan Silverman
I would bring my daughter, Sharon Rose, who told me about this contest.
I love yarn, yarnie things, the outdoors and hardwork…I wouldn’t bring anyone as I am the only one of my friends who is obsessed with knitting – I would ask you to select the other person…someone who would appreciate it as much as I….
I’d love to spend a weekend at Juniper Moon Farm for a number of reasons. The first is that, someday, I’d love to have some fiber animals of my own. While I do not currently have a space for them, someday I hope to. The second is that I just think it would be an awesome, relaxing, invigorating experience. I would bring my friend, Tabitha with me. She is a fellow spinning buddy and would have a great time at the farm and could use the weekend retreat.
i’d love to see your farm and virginia.
Sounds like a great experience! We would love to win this!
I would love to win so I can spend a week-end out of the city (New York), surrounded by beautiful nature, farmlife, farm animals and fellow knitters. It sounds absolutely perfect. I would love to come with my hubby but doubt we would find a sitter so probably one of my knitter friends.
Thanks,
Hege
I would invite my dear knitting buddy Elizabeth!
I enjoy knitting immensely and would bring my nery best friend Misty along with me. She moved to Oregon (from Florida) 2 years ago and is the one that got me started knitting. I love your blog and seeing the beautiful pictures of your farm.
Oh, how I would love to come and spend the weekend. I have visited your website everyday since last lambing season. You got me through a very difficult time. My 16 year old Maine Coon had just passed away and watching all your babies come into the world had an amazing healing effect on both my husband and myself. This week when you posted the opportunity for a weekend at the farm, my husband (who is only 58) had a very frightening health scare. He was in the hospital for 3 days, and to pass the time, I brought my computer and I would try to occupy his mind with stories from the websites I usually visit. When I read your weekend at the farm posting, and commented that I didn’t know who I would go with, he immediately said “I’ll go with you”. Now that he is home and on the mend, I am sure he has completely forgotten that he made that promise. He may claim it was the drugs that made him say it. Whatever, we’re coming for a visit, whether we win or not!
I would absolutely love to go to shepherding camp because it is my dream to one day have a small herd of sheep. I’m pretty much allergic to any fluffy animal (with fur- thankfully not wool) and the sheep here seem quite cuddly. I would have to bring my good friend Olga, who would already have a herd if only the zoning laws weren’t so stringent, or her husband (a police officer) wasn’t so set on maintaining those laws.
I love sheep
They make me swoon
Hoping for camp
At Juniper Moon!
Hey Susie
I LOVE to win the getaway because I enjoyed the lamcam and I would have never thought these animals would become so important to me. If I recived the chance to go to visit Juniper Moon, I would have to bring my mom Eileen. But I don’t think Meredith would let me leave with out her.
I’d love to spend the weekend at your farm for the sheer (get it?!) joy of being on a farm with sheep and goats. I’d love to sit and spin and knit and look out at all of the lovely animals. My daughter would love to come with me. She is a knitter and an animal lover to the extreme. She wants to spin but I’m afraid to let her learn on my wheel for fear I’d never get it back!!!
I would love to spend a weekend sharing in your lovely farm. I know how much you have made Kristen (the wonderful winner of the goat giveaway) feel special and to witness just a little of that would be amazing. I would bring my mother with me because she is who taught me to crochet when I was young and I have since re-taught her the art of crochet and am trying to teach her to knit. You are both so giving and loving and I would love to share with you both.
I would adore meeting the flock. I love sheep and knitting. I have a spinning wheel but I haven’t learned to spin yet. I really am looking forward to learning. It would be a treasure indeed to be considered for the mini-weekend. It has been difficult with the econony down and I would be greatful to be the one. I would bring my friend Cookie. She is truely a wonderful friend and person. We have the same interest in textiles. It would be so fun to work on the farm. I have always had a secret dream of having a herd of sheep to love. Thanks for condsidering me and Cookie.
Hi! I would like to spend a weekend at the farm because I have not had a vacation in 3 years. My last vacation was the fall before I was diagnosed with cancer. I am still paying off medical bills, and sometime away is exactly what I need.
I would love to spend a week at your farm to play in fiber! I like how sustainable you are and would be happy to learn about small businesses/farms to call on once I have my own farm and animals. And I am so SO happy that you are a no-kill farm-I love farms that are for the benefit of animals, too!
If I won, I would bring my boyfriend. He loves planning our future farm. Living and learning on a working farm would give us a grasp of what works, and help in our planning process (not to mention we would both love to frolic with sheep!).
Can’t think of enough reasons I’d like to spend a weekend at Juniper Moon Farm. Actually, I would like to give it as a gift to my sister. She is an avid spinner, knitter, tatter, sewer, quilter etc. She gave me and amazing gift of making my wedding dress, entirely by hand. She created the design, sew it, hand make all the lace, and do all of the beading by hand. This meant more to me than I can put into words. She did this several years ago, and her current passion is fiber. I would love for us to be able to spend a weekend together here. Hey, I wouldn’t mind birthing a kid or two also!
I’d love a weekend at Juniper Moon Farm because I think the reality of a fiber farm would probably not meet my idealistic and naive thoughts! I’d love the chance to see what it’s really like. I’d bring my husband b/c I like to spend weekends away with him, and he’d enjoy the farm life.
My Ravelry name is ‘oldgoatwoman’ – I have had a connection with goats since the mid-80s, and have never really been around them, just their fleeces. I have the book on “Raising Goats”, but I do realize the daily hard work required, and just don’t have the energy! I have a spinning friend that would really enjoy this shepherding camp, or my husband would, too. It would be so special to meet you all, and your goats! We have a Leonberger, so I love seeing your dog, too! Love those big guys.
thank you! Patti
I would love to see your farm. I would love to learn to spin and I would bring my mother in law who I know would love the trip as much as me.
I would love to visit to learn more about shepherding and the lovely animals who provide us with so much lovely fiber (some of which I bought from you last summer and am now knitting into a cardigan).
I would bring my friend who was just telling me this morning about a new way to build a shed that’s she’s about to try out on her property so that she can have goats (I’m working on her to have sheep and alpacas too).
I’d love to come! I’m a 25 year old college student with two special needs kids – I definitely need a break! I’m also majoring in Fiber Arts, so I am absolutely crazy about learning anything I can about fibers. It would be a great way to learn more about the sheep-to-spinning process, as well as daily life on a fiber-producing farm! I would probably bring my sister or my mother – both of them could use a vacation!
My best friend and I have played a sanity maintaining , coping mechanism “game” for about the last 15 years. Whenever one of us hits a rough spot, we’re likely to utter the statement, “Tell me about the commune” (In Lenny, of Mice & Men style) where the other will start to ramble pipe dreams about what it would/will be like when/if we were to ever acquire a piece of land where we would live and invite others to share in rural bliss. Lines such as, “will there be lots of sheep?” to which to other might add, “sheep as far as you can see and we’ll have a large sheep shearing party and try not to get falling down drunk…….” “and will we have other animals?”, “Yes, there will be animals of all kinds and a huge garden that we’ll sell vegetables at a roadside stand…………….” Then I get back to my comparatively mundane life and she to hers. It’s one of those private languages among the closest of friends and has helped keep both of us from ‘losing it’ at times. This Shepard camp would serve as a much needed “Commune Starter Kit”. Thanks so much for all your blogs. I so look forward to them everytime. They’re little windows into my fantasies and show me it’s really possible to live the way you do and the way I’ve always dreamed.
I think fiber farms are an important link in a sustainable culture. I am intersted in how they operate, but mostly I’d like to guft the camp to my niece & nephew who would be excited to attend.
My mom really wants to do this- she’s always been a textile person and I’ve always envied her artistic ability. This would be a wonderful oppurtunity for us to share.
wow, who WOULDN’T like to spend time at Juniper Moon Farm??!!! (I’d be suspect of ‘m, I-tell-ya-that.)
Personally, I wouldn’t like to become a shepherdess, so it’s not an “internship opportunity” for me. I’m a rabid knitter, a fiber-freak, and an animal-lover, so it would be a great chance for me to develop a deeper, more intimate appreciation for the interconnectedness of it all, and what goes into creating everything I love.
I’d bring either my BFF or my husband – they’re both smart, funny, chatty, interesting people who love doing really “off-the-beaten-path” kinds of activities, so they’d have a blast!
(oh, and did I mention how much fun it would be to hang out with Susan and Erin? yeah. that’d be neat.) ;~)
I would love to see how your farm is run and what is involved. I’d also like to see what your new farm is like and hear how it compares to your Vineyard farm. It would be a great experience to learn about sheep, fiber, farming. I would bring either my sister, Anne, who just taught me how to knit, or my close friend, Ann, who runs a weaving center and already knows a lot about yarn, but probably would love a weekend like this. Thanks for the opportunity!
From my cubicle in an office building in the middle of nowhere, I often sit and dream of having a farm and working with my hands and actually feeling tired when I finish a day of work. I’d love to come and see just how tired I could get at Juniper Moon! I’d bring my mom, who would probably cook and bake and snorgle some cute little critters.
My wife and I have always wanted to raise fiber animals. This would give us the starting point knowledge of how it’s done.
I have been working with fiber since I was 8 years old and now 51 years later, still dream of having fiber animals. I’m sure my best friend would love to have this opportunity firsthand.
I would love to spend the weekend at your farm and learn about the sheep and goats! I would bring my mother, as I think she would really enjoy it as well.
Awesome contest. I would love to win because I would to live your life and this would be a great way to experience what it would be like to live life on a farm. It would be from dream to reality for me.
I’m preparing to begin raising goats and sheep and would love this opportunity to learn more about shepherding. I’d like to attend with my friend, a natural fiber knitting enthusiast, who will be using the fiber that my animals produce.
My husband and I often joke that, when we have a house, we’ll get a sheep to mow the lawn. Being a shareholder is probably the closest I’ll ever get to owning sheep, so it would be nice to get a chance to see my flock up close. I’d bring my husband — just in case we ever do get that live lawn mower, it would be good for both of us to have some practical knowledge in how to care for it!
I would LOVE to win this! My dream is to have a small farm in Asheville, NC and since I don’t know the first thing about shepherding, this would be an incredible opportunity to learn. Plus, who can resist a weekend of knitting, spinning, and fibery goodness?
I would love to spend a weekend there to see the new animals born and enjoy seeing where all the beautiful yarn comes from that we knit so many items into. I appreciate where it comes from and the animals that create the fiber. Alpaca and goats are so cute and I would love to be able to get to know them better. Getting back to farms and nature is relaxing and helps us appreciate life and how blessed we are.
Thank you!
Why shepherding camp? Because more stories, more press needs to be written about why farms (and sheep) are important.
Shepherding camp not only gives a chance to learn, but also an opportunity to learn *and* share.
Thanks for all the lovely work you do!
I would love to come to your farm with my daughter. This would be a great mom and daughter experience. It would be a great opprotunity to work with goat and sheep again , we had them when daughter was growing up.Plus seeing the east coast would be awesome.
As an “animal person” I would relish the idea of spending several days at Juniper Moon Farm helping out with the sheep and goats and seeing where all the beautiful yarn actually comes from. I would probably bring my daughter along as she is an avid knitter and would love the weekend as much as me!
I would like to come to the farm for the weekend to see the animals and meet Susie and Erin. I’d bring my mom because she’s super awesome and deserves a treat.
I would love to visit the new farm and get my hands dirty. What better way to find out if it’s something I could do myself or not? I would come with Madamepurl who is my cohort on any sort of crazy fiber adventure. Having spun the fiber and knitting the fiber it would only be fitting to come care for the fiber, if only for a few days.
This is so awesome! If I won, I would bring my husband to try and onvince him to catch the fiber bug with me! I think it would be so amazing to get a better understanding of the whole process! Thanks for such a great oppertunity. Rachel
I would love to come and work on the farm and knit and spin – in this modern day and age there are few chances to learn about farm life and the joys it can bring – this would be the opportunity of a lifetime to me.
I would like to spend a weekend at Juniper Moon Farm because of my love for both knitting and the outdoors (especially farms with animals!) and because I think your CSA model is incredible! I’d bring my sister-in-law, since her love for knitting and spinning matches and then exceeds mine exponentially, and now that we live over 1000 miles away from each other, a weekend on the farm would allow us to spend some quality time together… some of which would include swapping stories about our lives married to mischievous brothers and knitting up a storm!
What an incredible gift : )
This would be such an amazing introduction to living with sheep and working with them, spinning and knitting and seeing what this life would be like. This has started to become an increasingly persistent dream of mine and I would love to be able to start finding out more about this at Juniper Moon.
Oh Man…I would love a vacation and having sometime with cuddly animals would be great too!! I LOVE to knit and feel like I never get enough time for it. I would take my friend Champ and we could play with sheep, knit, drink some wine, and just relax… It would be lovely!
I would like to spend a weekend at Juniper Farm because it looks like the perfect place to spend some time knitting and enjoying the outdoors. I am a busy stay-at-home Mom who seldom gets time to myself. I love the Charlotsville area and would love to visit. I would take my BFF Jane. Jane and I have been friends since we were 13 years old (we are in our 40s now). We share a love of fiber and rarely spend time together despite living 15 miles away from each other.
Thanks for the giveaway!
I would love to spend a weekend at Juniper Moon Farm with my friend Lisa because we share a common love for needlecrafts and it would be a great opportunity for a girls weekend. Lisa and I have known each other since the 7th grade when we met in Orchestra and have been friends ever since – even surviving going to college in two very different places (she headed to ASU in Tempe, AZ, and I headed to Truman State University in the small town of Kirksville, MO) and living in different cities for about 7 years. We would love the chance to learn more about different fibers for creating beautiful projects! A bonus for me would be the opportunity to visit Virginia – one of my favorite areas of the country!
I would love to spend a weekend at Juniper Moon Farm because I am very interested in learning about raising sheep. We have a herd of alpacas but I am fascinated by sheep and would love to know more about them. I would probably bring my mom. There is never enough time to be able to spend with her and she’s a big knitter who loves Virginia.
wow! what a neat opportunity! i’d love to visit for the opportunity to be a part of a real live farm. books and blogs can only get you so far!
i’d take my sweet husband so he could live a bit of my dream as well! thanks!
Now that sounds like heaven, a week of animals and fiber and knitting. I’ve long been fascinated with the process that brings me yarn and this would be an excellent opportunity to learn more about it. I’d bring one of my knitting pals.
oooh! I want to come do a mini Shepherding Camp Weekend! Every time I go to a Sheep and Wool Festival I want to play with, pet, touch, spend more time with the animals, but feel like really I’m just harassing them in that environment with so many people around.
I would invite my mother to come with me since she was the original source of my fiber obsession! My aunt would be so jealous too!
I’d like to do a lot more helping, laughing and learning. I would also bring home made biscuits ( am practicing ). I’d like to bring one of the aunties who couldn’t come to shearing day, because it was such a pleasure to meet everyone who WAS there. Auntie meet ups rock.
I’d like to spend the weekend at the farm because I’ve been dying to meet you. I don’t think I know anyone who would enjoy playing with the sheep and goats as much as I. I would be happy to let you pick another person to share the weekend with because new friends are awesome.
I would love to spend a weekend @JMFF because I wanted to visit last summer and the stars just didn’t align to make that possible. I would probably bring my sister because she is also a fiber farm junkie – but Then again, I could bring my husband… He’s one of those guys who has to be doing something all the time and he doesn’t knit – so he would probably build you a barn.
I would love to spend a weekend at Juniper Moon Farm because although I didn’t win the herd giveaway
I am still committed to starting my flock in the near future. The possibility of getting to learn hands-on with the ladies there sounds like such a fantastic time!
I would like to spend the weekend at Juniper Moon farm with my best friend, Fran. She loves all animals and she knits a little. Fran will be glad to help with the chores of the animals while I sit and knit. I am not an outside person but I will help with the chores in the house. The scenery in all of the pictures looks so very peaceful.
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It would be fun to spend time with the animals and a change of scenery is always nice. I’ve linked to this on our blog. What a generous giveaway!
I would love to spend a week on the farm. And I know exactly who I would bring with me… My friend Heidi was a LYS owner who had to sell the business when her baby became a toddler and she needed to spend more time with her. Heidi taught me how to knit more than just rectangles and how to spin. She’s always there for help and fun in our knit group. And she was one of the finalists in your goat giveaway!
This is both the person and the reason for me to want to win your farm stay.
I’d like to spend the weekend at Juniper Moon Farm because I would LOVE to own an alpaca farm. While unemployed last year, I started some preliminary research on this and would love to continue laying the groundwork with a weekend experience. I would bring my best knitting girlfriend, Janelle, with me. While she doesn’t share my alpaca farm dream, she is a huge supporter of mine and we share all things knitting and fiber related with one another.
If I won I’d send my two younger sisters for the weekend, because they are in love with the farm and don’t often take vacations because of their busy teaching schedule — they could definitely use some lamb time =)
I’d like to win the Shepherding giveaway so I could learn even more about fiber from working farmers – that means you and Erin. I’m planning to open my own fiber mill this coming year and the experience would be worthwhile.
If I win, I will bring my mother. She’s been very supportive and not worried about me leaving my corporate career. Plus I haven’t seen her in 2 years and I’d love to come back and spend time with both my families – home in PA and on the farm in VA!
Lastly, I have a crush on Ernie and I could whisper sweet nothings in his ear. Yep. I’m a Sheep Whisperer.
Hello, My name is Michael McElveen. I’m a 24 year old Graphic Designer. I’m signing up for the free weekend giveaway because I’d like to take my girlfriend, Alice, because goats and sheep are all I’ve heard since we got back from our vacation where we saw some goats on a farm. I am interested in self sustainability and want to learn more about what it takes to be a goat/sheep farmer.
Years ago I once read that “imagination x vividness = reality” and so I put together a dream book of experiences I’d like to have. In it I included a picture of a healthy looking woman, outdoors, holding a baby lamb in her arms. It was such a happy picture for me. I love animals , and baby sheep… well they seem to have a heart melting capacity somehow. In the years that followed, saying the word “sheep” represented the dream of country living and hobby farming with animals. “Sheep! Sheep!” I would say, and it would make me smile.
I am happy to say that now I am living in the country with my husband and we are hobby farming with dogs, cats, rabbits, and lots of chickens! The animals take up a lot of time in the day (we really enthusiastically embraced the chicken experience over the last year and a half, and I want all my animals to be really happy, so I put in extra effort) and so things would need to settle out before more animals could be added. However I would love to hold and smell a baby lamb and realize that part of the dream, and would love to come to your farm to see your sheep. I would bring my husband who is an absolute sweetheart.
I will spread the word by posting about your farm on Facebook and bringing the information to my knitting groups. Really enjoying you blog and the wonderful photos, it is my vicarious sheep experience for now! Thank you!
My sister who loves me told me about this amazing drawing! I am so totally hooked on anything fiber and a whole weekend at your fiber farm would be heaven. I’ve been trying to convince my husband for years that we should keep sheep. Or at least I should get a rabbit! But as long as I don’t share in taking care of the chickens, I have a feeling I won’t get anywhere with that argument.
If I win, I promise I will take my sister, who lives on a farm in Iowa and would totally get into the animals!
I would love to spend the weekend at the farm for many reasons: spending time with the animals, knitting, spending quality time with fantastic fibers, etc. I would also like to see if I have the skills to raise my own fiber on the hoof.
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.
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