What is the SponsorSheep program?     We know that there are lots of people out there who would love to have a farm full of woolly sheep, but for whatever reason, they aren’t able.  This year, we are offering a SponsorSheep program for anyone who would like to be a “virtual” shepherd for a year.  You will have the benefits of photos and stories of your selected lamb as he or she grows through the seasons, and a chance to visit the farm throughout the year.  What you will be missing is the regular mucking out of barns, the mending of fences, and the late night visits to the sheep…all the daily chores that go towards making a farm happen.  And at the end of the year, you will have some gorgeous lambswool to yourself, to make into something special, as well as a few other special treats.

The SponsorSheep program benefits our farm, as well.  The extra income helps pay for the best quality hay we can get our hands on, which means the lambs grow strong and healthy, as seen in their fleeces.  It also contributes to any medicine and vet bills that we might need.  But most of all, the SponsorSheep program allows us to share, in a meaningful way, our love of shepherding with others.

How does it work?     Read the descriptions of each of the lamb and choose one that interests you.  Then, select a SponsorSheep package  and receive all the benefits that each level offers.  All three levels include naming your lamb, monthly updates and photos about your lamb, a 2022 calendar from our farm, a bumper sticker, and either some cleaned fleece or some yarn.  (Please note that you will be choosing between an amount of washed fleece for spinning OR an amount of yarn, but not both.)  You will receive some of the goodies in the fall, with the rest to follow at the end of the SponsorSheep program in the spring of 2022.

How long is the program?     Each Sponsor-Sheep package is good for a year.

What are naming rights?     This means that you get to name your lamb!

About the fibre…     We won’t be shearing until the end of your sponsor year in spring 2022, and there is up to a year wait after that with the wool at the mill.  Because of this delay, where you would not see your own sponsored lamb’s wool until 2023, we offer up one of two things.  You may choose some cleaned, sheared wool from your very own lamb after shearing (this is a good option for a spinner or felter), or alternatively you may choose Wool Maiden’s Lambie-Pie yarn.  This super soft yarn is made with a mixture of our own lamb’s wool mixed with soft kid mohair from another Canadian fibre farm.

What happens to my lamb?     At the end of the year, we shear all the sheep and all the lamb’s wool goes into our Lambie-Pie yarn.  And after that first shear, the ram lambs will then be sold to other fibre farms in BC or Alberta as our farm is too small to keep every single newborn…oh, but I wish I could!!!  But we will be keeping up to 4 girls born this year.  Also, being a farm, sometimes things happen outside of our control and a lamb dies.  If that is the case, you may pick another lamb to sponsor (though the naming rights may already be spoken for) and you may follow all the updates on that lamb, and get all the gifts at the end of the year as before.

We will be lambing in later May and early June this year, so the lambs for SponsorSheep will be available in the beginning of June 2021, so stay tuned!

In the meantime, here are some favourites from last year’s SponsorSheep program :

 

Now, choose from one of the SponsorSheep levels listed below, and follow the link to take you to the Wool Maiden shop…