Our podcast guests today are Jeri Robinson Lawrence and daughter Irina Lawrence Mathias. This hardworking mother/daughter team has contributed a few soundbites in between Points A, B, C and X in the rush of the New York State Sheep and Wool Festival every year, but as they’re the ones that everyone needs something from at all times, a relaxed moment has been hard to come by with these two.
So we went to the mountain (so to speak, although it’s southern Pennsylvania just west of the Susquehanna River, so there were a few hills in there). They have plenty of things available on their website for anyone who might want some delicious shades, colors, and types of fiber, but the physical location of the farm and shop known as Flying Fibers is a place for the senses.
Sheep (mostly Shetlands, with a few Leicester and Wensleydale in the mix), chickens, dogs, cats, toddlers, and what seems like every other creature in Noah’s Ark are napping, creating, munching, gamboling or just sitting picturesquely on this little homestead, with green pastures surrounded by waving wheat and banks of bee-covered lavender. We don’t know how they trained all the critters to perform so beautifully for the cameras (but not the husband, I’m afraid – he ran when we pushed “record”), but the visuals were absolutely lovely. The scents were fantastic too -- lavender AND lanolin included.
Our Shetland mascot, Jane, could not have a better home with better people. And the world is a better place because of pretty much everything connected with this little spot of heaven.
Links:
https://www.flyingfibers.com/
https://www.shetland-sheep.org/
https://sheepandwool.com/