These animals have been raised with love and care and respect. We have taken the difficult decision to reduce the size of our flock in order to earn off-farm income. Many members of the flock went to nearby families who received them with loving care. Some of them have taken the path of leaving behind their gifts to provide nourishment for our surrounding community. Here at Ferme Sol, we have a small, cherished group of sheep who are continuing to carry on our mission of re-envisioning a regenerative fibre system.
Ces animaux ont été élevés avec amour, soin et respect. Nous avons pris la décision difficile de réduire la taille de notre troupeau afin de gagner un revenu ailleurs. Plusieurs membres du troupeau sont allés dans des familles voisines qui les ont accueillis avec amour. Certains d’entre eux ont pris le chemin de quitter cette vie et nous laisser leurs cadeaux pour nourrir la communauté environnante. Ici, à la Ferme Sol, nous avons gardé un petit groupe de moutons que nous chérissons et qui continuent de nous aider à poursuivre notre mission consistant à repenser un système de fibres régénérateur.
Breeding Program
We started with East Fresian and Shetland ewes in 2013 and added East Fresian, British Milk Sheep and Icelandic ewes in 2017, bringing in rams of different wool breeds to enhance the genetic diversity of the flock and improve the quality of the wool. We now have a flock of hardy ewes with beautiful wool, healthy hooves and udders who thrive in a rotational grazing system, foraging on mature, re-naturalized perennial pasture and hay from the same fields. They are excellent mothers who give birth to vigorous lambs, unattended. The lambs grow to a modest size during the grazing season and provide meat of exceptional quality and taste.
- 2022 Lambs are from our BFL ram, ‘Pete’ and our Gotland/Icelandic/Shetland ram, ‘Poppy’
- 2021 Ewes are from our Gotland/Finnsheep ram ‘Beltane’ and Gotland/Icelandic/Shetland ram, ‘Poppy’
- 2020 Ewes are from our Gotland/Finnsheep ram ‘Beltane’
- 2019 Ewes are from our neighbours’ Icelandic ram ‘Chevy’
- 2018 Ewes are from our neighbours’ Icelandic ram ‘Blackie’
- 2016 Ewes are from our Icelandic and mystery-wool-breed ram ‘Fluffy’
- 2014 and 2015 Ewes are from our Sheltland ram ‘Dexter’