Similar to the unique terroir of the fine wines grown here in the Walla Walla valley, every Collection produced on our farm covertly captures a distinct sense of place.

The Collection encompasses the high performance traits inherent to the fiber - insulating warmth, naturally wicking and hypo-allergenic.

Bound to each fiber are all the unspoken environmental factors occurring during its growth - nourished by fresh spring pastures…occasional summer showers after long, hot days…brisk fall breezes and snow-capped winter nights.

The saturated colorways are courtesy of the passing season’s dye garden - an assortment of heirloom dye-bearing flowers and roots used by our ancestors for millennia.

Rich, deep color grown alongside the fiber, using the nutrient-dense manure from the herd.

2021

This vintage is comprised of fiber grown during a global pandemic — April 2020 through April 2021. It was an unprecedented time, punctuated with constant change, growing uncertainty, and unrelenting worry. But the resulting fiber is as soft as it is resilient.

Unable to welcome visitors to the farm, it was a season of quiet reserve and longing, making this Collection homegrown in the most genuine of ways.

Many evenings were spent in the barn listening to the symphony of a happy herd munching on delicate green hay. It became a meditative part of our daily routine and helped to pass the unusually long, dark winter.

Finding joy in the everyday became our ethos and it is seamlessly woven into each finished piece.

The whipping winds that arrived in January and February were no match for their fiber. Easily 6 inches in length, it provided a stunningly beautiful cover as it billowed and bounced!

The increasing daylight revealed its luster and sheen - a humble reminder that it was there the whole time.

The snowcapped winter days showcased just how insulating the fiber is - the herd never shied away from frolicking in a fresh dusting or traversing through a deep blanket.

Despite ample barn space, their winter coats equipped them to enjoy many a frosty evening reflecting under the stars…a reminder that nature always provides!

March brought enthusiastic anticipation when it became evident we had 4 new baby cria on the way.

The tiny cria tumbled and turned from within, creating ripples and waves of fleece on the bellies of mamas-to-be, and earnestly wrapping each piece of the Collection in great expectation & a deep sense of renewal.

With the help of friends, our annual harvest happened on a Tuesday morning at the end of April. With busy hands and the steady buzz of clippers —the final phase of growing came to a close.

The silken strands were shorn off in sheets. Then were bundled and rolled, and readied for shipment. Evidence that transformation is as swift as it is essential.

A safe and bountiful harvest went by in a fuzzy blur - like much of the year that went into growing it.

365 days of sunshine, water and grass would take another several months to be condensed into cones of pristine yarn.

It was a year of many lessons where each piece of the Collection is confirmation that perseverance will never go out of style.

2020

Grown predominantly in 2019, the year before the whole world would be brought to its knees.

And a beautiful year it was - ideal growing conditions, a healthy herd and lots of farm visitors.

April 29th, 2020 was our annual harvest, and we reaped our biggest bounty - 60 pristine pounds of prime fiber.

It was a harvest that almost didn’t happen as the pandemic was taking hold across the nation.

Fortunately the family run fiber mill in Tennessee was still able to process our harvest.

The yarn returned to the farm in July - a small lot of knitting yarns for the local shop and a large batch of super fine yarn ready for the knitting machines.

Finished garments, including a re-styled beanie hat, were completed in August and went straight into the dye pots using the dye plants grown faithfully alongside the herd all summer.

Our very first crop of indigo produced the bluest sky blues, and grass greens when dyed yellow first.

Crimsons and corals came from madder roots; butterscotch and lemon from chamomile; coppers and pumpkin hues from coreopsis; and bronzed yellow from marigold.