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Lessons in Patience

April 18, 2020

It’s not easy waiting around for the best part of a shepherd’s life….lambs!  For the last 16 days, every morning, we have declared that today lambs would arrive!  Any moment, surely.  And……nothing.  It is hard to believe that our poor ewes might be able to contain growing lambs any longer.  The mama’s bellies are taut, […]

Spring Shearing

April 5, 2020

One thing grounding me during these turbulent times is our own familiar rhythm of life on our little farm.  Despite pandemics and car accidents and caring for loved ones facing illness, wool continues to grow and fleeces need to be sheared.  Each of us has an (un)conscious daily rhythm and in times of stress and […]

Meet the Sheep ~ Winter 2019

February 5, 2019

Open the gate, and step inside the pasture and you can meet our flock of fibre sheep… Posey is my sidekick, if a girl can have a sheep for a sidekick.  When I open the gate, she is the first to greet me.  When I walk by the fence, she trots over to baaa a hello. […]

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Jules

Hello, welcome to Gladsheim Farm! My name is Jules and I am delighted to share my family's homegrown, homesteading adventures here.

I grow, spin and dye yarn on our small hobby farm with the help of my beloved flock of sheep. Here at Wool Maiden, I am hopeful you will find a little something from a selection of woolly goodies my family creates. Thank you for joining me.

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mama :: wife :: shepherd
yarn farmer :: wool spinner :: natural dyer
grower of veggies, flowers, and dreams

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After many moons, I am planting these treasured se After many moons, I am planting these treasured seeds that were gifted to me by a longtime friend here. 

Actually, before Here.  When blogs connected many of us as we raised our babies in faraway places yet also on similar paths.  I will forever be grateful to all of you who were there during those sweet days of young mama hood.  What a community!  Feeling grateful to still be connected to many of you, all these years later…gosh, technology is a trip!

And to this dear woman who continues to inspire me with her creativity, her wisdom, her grounded sense of self, her generosity, and her kindness.  Sara, these Hopi sunflowers are perhaps one of the best gifts ever…okay all that wool and the naturally dyed fabric (eek!) and the very coveted quilted pouch.  Thank you thank you.  So happy your presence is now part of my garden.

Much love.  And now to pass on the generous goodness….the wheel keeps turning…
Ten hours old, Cassidy has stolen our hearts. One Ten hours old, Cassidy has stolen our hearts.  One giant ewe lamb born to Delilah and carrying on the tradition of being a Grateful sheep to those before her…matriarch Sugaree, then Samson and Delilah, Sugar Magnolia, Cosmic Charlie, Reuben, and now Cassidy.

At 3am as I waited in the cold barn lit by my headlamp, and sweet Delilah took her time deciding on wether she should go ahead and lamb in the middle of the night or not, this song kept playing in my mind….(and perhaps quietly sung out loud to mama Delilah).

🎶Fare thee well now
Let your life proceed by its own design
Nothing to tell now
Let the words be yours, I’m done with mine 🎶

Welcome Cassidy!
I love May…that is all. (Well…and that the te I love May…that is all.

(Well…and that the temperatures are perfect, there are no mosquitoes yet, everything smells of wet, damp earth…and every flower is a miracle of Life affirmed, like these raindrops in lupine leaves).
Stinging-kopita! My very favourite way to eat sti Stinging-kopita!  My very favourite way to eat stinging nettles, all because my daughter had a hunch these would be delicious.  I picked from our own patch and she was the kitchen magician.  With a little tzatziki for dipping, nutritious foraged food doesn’t get any better.
Bouquet season has arrived! Bouquet season has arrived!
Lambing season has begun at Gladsheim Farm….well Lambing season has begun at Gladsheim Farm….well, six days ago now.

Meet Willy and Edie…75% Shetland and 25% Gotland, and just 12 hours old in this photo.

Another three or four ewes to lamb…a small group this year as we are downsizing slightly on account of hay costs.  But that also means higher quality of fleeces as we are keeping the best of the best and all that we have are amazing already.  Hard decisions but that means we will keep more babies. 

For now, these wee lambs have the run of the place and are settling in beautifully.
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