November Shop Hours
Nov
1
to Nov 30

November Shop Hours

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Visit our Wool Shop + Apothecary at 983 Myers Road, Shaftsbury, VT during the month of November. Find our natural dyed flock yarns for your projects, wool for needlefelting and batting, felting and crafts. We have apothecary goods, as well, such as farm made soaps and tallow balms.

We also sell homemade pies and fresh eggs! Email hello@wingandaprayerfarm.com for questions

Parking on lawn or in drive. Pets are not allowed to wander or walk about the farm for biohazard reasons. No public bathrooms.

Hours are noon to 5:00.

Sat, Sun, November 1 + 2

Fri, Sat, Sun, November 7, 8 + 9

Fri, Sat, Sun, November 14, 15 + 16

Fri, Sat, Sun, November 21, 22 + 23

Sat, Sun, November 29 + 30

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Tallow Soap Making Workshop at Wing & A Prayer Farm
Nov
9
1:00 PM13:00

Tallow Soap Making Workshop at Wing & A Prayer Farm

Discover the unique process of turning Sheep’s milk, Lanolin and tallow into quality soap…

Led by farmer and soap making expert Tammy White of Wing & A Prayer Farm, you will be guided through the process of both tallow-based soap making with nourishing additives such as Sheep’s milk and Lanolin. You’ll learn the process of rendering tallow from fat, how to measure for recipes and go home with a pound of freshly made soap to cure.

Workshop runs Sunday from 1 - 3 p.m. and will allow for short breaks. The workshop will be ongoing but allows for listening time intermingled with participatory activities.

Bring a good fitting mask and gloves and smock or apron. Soap Making is best done with long sleeves.

We will be working with lye which is caustic.

Class Size is 10 students.

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Ecoprint Silk Pillowcase Workshop
Nov
15
1:00 PM13:00

Ecoprint Silk Pillowcase Workshop

Saturday, November 15 from 1 - 3 we’ll use farm grown flowers and more to make beautiful natural dyed eco prints on Silk Charmeuse Pillowcases. The pillowcases will have be prepared ahead of time so that we can get straight to dyeing. The finished product is stunning gift for others or for yourself. You’ll learn the tips and tricks of getting detailed botanical impressions or impressionistic results, and materials aplenty, then the time to create. If you’ve never naturally dyed before, or ecoprinted, this is a wonderful introduction. If you have, then you know that this is going to be an indulgence for yourself as you expand your knowledge creating with botanical color.

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Needlefelting for Beginners Workshop
Nov
16
1:00 PM13:00

Needlefelting for Beginners Workshop

Learn about the properties of wool that allow you to create soft sculptures and textiles in this relaxing workshop. Choose from a variety of wool colors that are natural or naturally dyed for two hours with the owner of Wing & A Prayer Farm, Tammy, as she walks you through the art of needlefelting, step by step. Techniques will be demonstrated for you to model and a variety of materials will be provided as you make the decision of what you’d like to create, based on a few examples.

At the end of the class, return home with your woolly creation along with the skills and confidence to continue DIY needle felting. It’s the beginning of your love affair with needlefelting!

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NYS Sheep + Wool Festival
Oct
18
to Oct 19

NYS Sheep + Wool Festival

Visit us in Booth 21, Building 31 at the New York State Sheep + Wool Festival in Rhinebeck, NY at the Dutchess County Fairgrounds on October 18 + 19. We’ll be packing up everything from the farm and taking it to the booth so that you can see just what we’ve been working on all year round. Wool in all its various iterations - from fertiliser pellets to sumptuous yarns, Wool Blankets, Wool Roving, Wool Felt, Wool Locks, and farm made tallow soaps. Breed Specific Fiber from Beloved Flocks

We also stock notions and project bags for crafters and as gifts. We also bring along our special Wing & A Prayer Farm merch such as Golden Earth Designs’ mugs, unique to our farm, and totes and sweatshirts.

All of our fiber is in natural colors or naturally dyed by Tammy from the flowers and forage on Wing & A Prayer Farm.

We’ll be in the Breed Barn, as well, with our Shetland Sheep and our Valais Blacknose Sheep. Come meet the Lambassadors of the flock in person!

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Open Farm
Oct
12
to Oct 13

Open Farm

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Open Farm on Sunday October 12, 11 - 4:00

Cancellation by 9 a.m. on Sunday, October 12 on www.wingandaprayerfarm.com in case of weather or farm emergency.

Come visit for a fall farm tour, delicious homemade treats, craft cocktails, pumpkin decorating for the kids, meet the sheep and more! Raffles, demos and shopping in our Farmer/Artist Makers Market from 11 - 4:00 and in the Wing & A Prayer Farm Shop.

$5 each, 13 + up

Portapotties and handwashing stations available.

Parking in the field, wear appropriate footwear.

Bring your knitting or crafting and sit with kindred souls on a fiber farm in Vermont during peak foliage viewing!

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GRAND OPENING Wool Shop + Apothecary
Oct
3
to Oct 7

GRAND OPENING Wool Shop + Apothecary

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Sweater Weather is coming and we’re ready to open the doors to the public for our new Wool Shop + Apothecary at Wing & A Prayer Farm.

Starting on October 3rd, at noon, you can visit the farm and shop in our new space that’s fully supplied with all of your favorite farm yarns and kits in beautiful natural and naturally dyed colors. We also sell Jamieson’s of Shetland’s Spindrift and Double Knitting yarns in our shop, with lots of knitting kits to go with the variety of colors.

We have wool in so many forms! We have wool batting for quilters or for pillow making, and we have wool felt, wool for spinners and wool for needlefelters or wet-felting.

We even have wool pellets for the garden!

In addition to all of the wool we sell, you can find our farm-made soaps and other apothecary items. Herbal tinctures and fresh herbal bundles and wreaths will be in limited supply for the Grand Opening. We have plenty of farm soaps and other apothecary items that we make on the farm or source locally from small businesses.

We even have candles made locally by Ardent Flame and our own beeswax candles.

We have Embroidery supplies and rug hooking supplies, beautiful notions for crafting and sewing, and gorgeous Tannei Casey Handmade natural dyed project and tote bags.

You can find stationery, puzzles, stickers and notebooks/pads in all kinds of beautiful and whimsical prints, too.

Special treats such as homemade pie and hot apple cider, tea and coffee will be available during the Grand Opening. We will also have eggs, mutton and pies for sale.

Each day of our Grand Opening, there will be surprise discounts and giveaways. Come and join us in the fun of sharing our new space.

Shop is open from Noon to 5 from October 3 - 7, and we will post weekly hours on our Social Media and Website after that.

Plenty of parking is available and someone will direct you if it is not obvious when you arrive.

RSVP’ing is not necessary, but it does help us to know how many to expect/how much pie to make!

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Wool Shop + Apothecary Hours
Aug
10
12:00 PM12:00

Wool Shop + Apothecary Hours

Wool Shop + Apothecary Hours on Sunday August 10 are from noon to 3. The Shop is in a new location - opposite the farm house. We are still opening it, so there is not a sign in front of it yet. It has two doors that are green/glass and you can go in the door on the left!

There are NO public bathrooms.

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Wool Shop + Apothecary Hours
Aug
9
12:00 PM12:00

Wool Shop + Apothecary Hours

Wool Shop + Apothecary Hours on Saturday August 9 are from noon to 3. The Shop is in a new location - opposite the farm house. We are still opening it, so there is not a sign in front of it yet. It has two doors that are green/glass and you can go in the door on the left!

There are NO public bathrooms.

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Summer Blues:  Indigo Dyeing Workshop with Green Mt. Spinnery
Aug
9
to Aug 10

Summer Blues: Indigo Dyeing Workshop with Green Mt. Spinnery

On August 9 + 10, we’ll spend two days singing the summer blues with Kate and Maureen of Green Mt. Spinnery here at Wing & A Prayer Farm.

From 10 - 4:00, Tammy White will teach shibori techniques and vat building for the first part of the day. You will work at a table for the first part of the day to design/bind/tie off the designs we make using textiles. We’ll dye our work along with beautiful skeins of yarn from Green Mt. Spinnery in the afternoon and then let them dry overnight. Tammy will tour you in the dye garden and you’ll pick and dye with fresh indigo in a variety of methods to experience indigo pigment in a range of incredible shades of blues.

Bring a smock/apron and gloves to keep your clothing and hands clean.

On Sunday, bring your needles at 9 a.m. to wind our indigo-dyed yarn into beautiful cakes of blues. Maureen Clark and Kate Salomon will assist while we cast-on for our own adventure for a Summer Blues KAL of one of three accessory patterns from Green Mountain Spinnery.  You'll receive PDF copies of all three patterns, when you sign up! In celebration and conclusion, we’ll enjoy a relaxing Farm Lunch altogether from 1 - 2:00 p.m..

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Tallow Soap Making Workshop
Aug
3
10:00 AM10:00

Tallow Soap Making Workshop

Discover the unique process of turning Sheep’s milk, Lanolin and tallow into quality soap…

Led by farmer and soap making expert Tammy White of Wing & A Prayer Farm, you will be guided through the process of both tallow-based soap making with nourishing additives such as Sheep’s milk and Lanolin. You’ll learn the process of rendering tallow from fat, how to measure for recipes and go home with a pound of freshly made soap to cure.

Workshop runs Sunday from 10 a.m. - 1:00 p.m. and will allow for short breaks. The workshop will be ongoing but allows for listening time intermingled with participatory activities.

Bring a good fitting mask and gloves and smock or apron. Soap Making is best done with long sleeves. If the weather is too warm to wear long sleeves, bring a long sleeved top to wear over your clothes during part of the soap-making process.

We will be working with lye which is caustic.

Class Size is 10 students.

Questions? Email Tammy at hello@wingandaprayerfarm.com

Reservations are non-refundable.


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Journal your Natural Dyeing Journey Workshop
Aug
2
2:30 PM14:30

Journal your Natural Dyeing Journey Workshop

egister for a Natural Dye Journal Workshop at Wing & A Prayer Farm.

Dye Journals help you to remember and learn from your work, as well as showcasing nature’s magnificent gift of pigments. A Journal of your Natural Dye Journey will be a treasure for you throughout your life, and the notes and samples you include will be a lesson to you now and for the future. This workshop is designed to introduce you to a variety of journal examples and samples, providing inspiration as you decide upon your own journal styles.

We will create a method that best suits you for chronicling your work/play, including samples from a couple of dye pots we’ll use that day. Individual discussions will help you best determine how to keep your records. You may bring other samples of natural dyeing if you have dyed before and would like to showcase them in your journal.

Materials will be provided.

Workshop runs Saturday from 2:30 - 4:30 p.m. and will allow for short breaks. The workshop will be ongoing but allows for listening time intermingled with participatory activities.

Class Size is 10 students.

Questions? Email Tammy at hello@wingandaprayerfarm.com

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Natural Dyeing on Wing & A Prayer Farm
Aug
2
10:00 AM10:00

Natural Dyeing on Wing & A Prayer Farm

Register for a Summertime Natural Dyeing Workshop at Wing & A Prayer Farm with Tammy White. Tammy teaches you how to prepare and dye using botanical pigment, from petals, roots, bark and more on the farm. Materials are included and you will learn how to dye both cellulose and protein fibers with useful samples of silk, cotton, linen and wool to take home. We will cover topics such as terroir of color, sustainable pigments, mordanting, modifiers, kettle dyeing, We will forage and harvest from the farm’s Dye Garden to sample a variety of materials local to Zone 5.

Plan on bringing an apron or smock to protect clothing, and kitchen gloves for working with the dye materials. Bring a pad or notebook for taking notes.

Workshop runs Saturday from 10 - 2 p.m. and will allow for short breaks. Snack and Beverage provided. The workshop will be ongoing but allows for listening time intermingled with participatory activities.

Class Size is 10 students.

Questions? Email Tammy at hello@wingandaprayerfarm.com

Reservations are non-refundable.

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Tallow Soap Making Workshop
Jul
20
10:00 AM10:00

Tallow Soap Making Workshop

Discover the unique process of turning Sheep’s milk, Lanolin and tallow into quality soap…

Led by farmer and soap making expert Tammy White of Wing & A Prayer Farm, you will be guided through the process of both tallow-based soap making with nourishing additives such as Sheep’s milk and Lanolin. You’ll learn the process of rendering tallow from fat, how to measure for recipes and go home with a pound of freshly made soap to cure.

Workshop runs Sunday from 10 a.m. - 1:00 p.m. and will allow for short breaks. The workshop will be ongoing but allows for listening time intermingled with participatory activities.

Bring a good fitting mask and gloves and smock or apron. Soap Making is best done with long sleeves. If the weather is too warm to wear long sleeves, bring a long sleeved top to wear over your clothes during part of the soap-making process.

We will be working with lye which is caustic.

Class Size is 10 students.

Questions? Email Tammy at hello@wingandaprayerfarm.com

Reservations are non-refundable.


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Journal your Natural Dyeing Journey Works
Jul
19
2:30 PM14:30

Journal your Natural Dyeing Journey Works

REGISTER for a Natural Dye Journal Workshop at Wing & A Prayer Farm.

Dye Journals help you to remember and learn from your work, as well as showcasing nature’s magnificent gift of pigments. A Journal of your Natural Dye Journey will be a treasure for you throughout your life, and the notes and samples you include will be a lesson to you now and for the future. This workshop is designed to introduce you to a variety of journal examples and samples, providing inspiration as you decide upon your own journal styles.

We will create a method that best suits you for chronicling your work/play, including samples from a couple of dye pots we’ll use that day. Individual discussions will help you best determine how to keep your records. You may bring other samples of natural dyeing if you have dyed before and would like to showcase them in your journal.

Materials will be provided.

Workshop runs Saturday from 2:30 - 4:30 p.m. and will allow for short breaks. The workshop will be ongoing but allows for listening time intermingled with participatory activities.

Class Size is 10 students.

Questions? Email Tammy at hello@wingandaprayerfarm.com

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Natural Dyeing on Wing & A Prayer Farm
Jul
19
10:00 AM10:00

Natural Dyeing on Wing & A Prayer Farm

Register for a Summertime Natural Dyeing Workshop at Wing & A Prayer Farm with Tammy White. Tammy teaches you how to prepare and dye using botanical pigment, from petals, roots, bark and more on the farm. Materials are included and you will learn how to dye both cellulose and protein fibers with useful samples of silk, cotton, linen and wool to take home. We will cover topics such as terroir of color, sustainable pigments, mordanting, modifiers, kettle dyeing, We will forage and harvest from the farm’s Dye Garden to sample a variety of materials local to Zone 5.

Plan on bringing an apron or smock to protect clothing, and kitchen gloves for working with the dye materials. Bring a pad or notebook for taking notes.

Workshop runs Saturday from 10 - 2 p.m. and will allow for short breaks. Snack and Beverage provided. The workshop will be ongoing but allows for listening time intermingled with participatory activities.

Class Size is 10 students.

Questions? Email Tammy at hello@wingandaprayerfarm.com

Reservations are non-refundable.

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Primitive Sheep Needle Felting Workshop with Debbie Trantham
Jul
13
10:00 AM10:00

Primitive Sheep Needle Felting Workshop with Debbie Trantham

Joining us from Candler, NC, Fiber Dreams Santas’ own Debbie Trantham will teach a Primitive Sheep felting class with natural dyed locks.

Debbie has been raising long wool and various heritage breed sheep and livestock for over 25 years on her farm in the Blue Ridge Mountains. She has been creating her award-winning felted wool sculptures with her hand harvested and dyed locks along the eastern seaboard and will be joining us to teach this traditional art.

We’ll work together on July 13 from 10 - 1 pm to learn the ancient technique of felting wool to create a sculpted sheep, embellishing it with beautiful garden flowers in natural dyed wool locks from the flocks.

There’ll be time for questions and answers and how to transfer these skills to other projects. You’ll go home with a beautiful creation for display or gifting and the skills to create more wool felted ornaments and sculptures.

Dress comfortably for outdoor workshop in barn. Materials + Refreshments included in Workshop Fee.

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Natural Dyeing on Wing & A Prayer Farm
Jul
12
10:00 AM10:00

Natural Dyeing on Wing & A Prayer Farm

Register for a Summertime Natural Dyeing Workshop at Wing & A Prayer Farm with Tammy White. Tammy teaches you how to prepare and dye using botanical pigment, from petals, roots, bark and more on the farm. Materials are included and you will learn how to dye both cellulose and protein fibers with useful samples of silk, cotton, linen and wool to take home. We will cover topics such as terroir of color, sustainable pigments, mordanting, modifiers, kettle dyeing, We will forage and harvest from the farm’s Dye Garden to sample a variety of materials local to Zone 5.

Plan on bringing an apron or smock to protect clothing, and kitchen gloves for working with the dye materials. Bring a pad or notebook for taking notes.

Workshop runs Saturday from 10 - 2 p.m. and will allow for short breaks. Snack and Beverage provided. The workshop will be ongoing but allows for listening time intermingled with participatory activities.

Class Size is 10 students.

Questions? Email Tammy at hello@wingandaprayerfarm.com

Reservations are non-refundable.

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Sheep In the Shires Yarn Crawl
May
10
to May 11

Sheep In the Shires Yarn Crawl

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May 10 and 11 visit the beautiful Sheep in the Shires Yarn Crawl which covers the south Shires of Vermont to southern Berkshire, and a little over the border in Chatham, NY! We’ll have wonderful yarns, specials exclusive to those that come to our shops that weekend, and a $100 Gift Certificate to lucky winners at each of the shops on the Crawl. You can plan out your weekend to take in time at each of the venues and enjoy the beautiful of the rolling green hills of Southern Vermont and the Berkshires, dotted with farms and small mill towns. There are numerous places to take in a meal or rest your head for the evening throughout this thriving tourist region in New England. Map your own adventure! The last shop on your stop will be where you can submit your ‘punch card’ (available at the first shop you stop at) to be in a raffle for a $100 Gift Certificate.

Our farm will be crawling with lambs! You’ll be able to visit them in the barn and also enjoy Mother’s Day tea + cake.

Our Wool Shop + Apothecary Hours that weekend will be from 11 - 4 on Saturday and Sunday.

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