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Geoffrey the Ram goes to Tintagel Farm

Geoffrey, a Border Leicester ram which I had used for two years, found a wonderful new home and breeding assignment when he was purchased this summer by Leslie Orndorff of Tintagel Farm in south central Pennsylvania.

At left: Leslie Orndorff of Tintagel Farm with her new breeding ram, Geoffrey, who was bred by Nancy Weik of Overlook Manor Farm.

Leslie is a renowned fiber artist who combines Border Leicester wool with mohair from her angora goats to produce lustrous, hand-dyed spinning fibers and yarn.  She liked Geoffrey for his dense fleece, thanks to some infusion of English AI bloodlines.  Besides his desirable fiber, I found him to be an outstanding ewe sire.

Geoffrey should feel right at home at her picturesque farm with historic stone barns and grassy hillocks; the original Tintagel in England is where King Arthur was born.

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Laingcroft

Congratulations to John & Trudy Cuoghi for the purchase of the yearling Bluefaced Leicester ewe, Wits End 823, the highest placing Bluefaced Leicester in the White Long Wool Yearling Ewe Class at this year’s Maryland Sheep & Wool Festival.She is off to Powhatan, VA, to join their flock of purebred and crossbred Bluefaced Leicesters at Laingcroft Farm. Check out their website at www.freewebs.com/laingcroft.    

The beautiful white ewe in the right foreground is now at Laingcroft Farm in Powhatan, VA.

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Mountain Laurel Montessori Farm School

We were recently honored to supply the three Border Leicester foundations ewes that will establish the fiber and meat sheep flock at the Mountain Laurel Montessori Farm School, located in Flint Hill, VA. The photo shows the two white and one natural-colored ewes surrounded by the excited students who enthusiastically greeted the girls when they arrived.We look forward to assisting the students as they learn to tend their sheep. Meanwhile, the two white and one natural colored ewes are living in an ‘ovine heaven on earth’ as they tackle belly-high grass in their pasture. To learn more about the farm school’s innovative curriculum for 7th to 9th graders, visit their website at http://www.mountainlaurelmontessori.org/.    Susan Holmes, director of the Farm School, has also begun a fun and informative blog. 

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Sunny Pond Farms        

We are so pleased that Melissa Heneghan of Sunny Pond Farms has purchased three venerable girls from our brood ewe flock in order to establish her own Border Leicester flock here in Rappahannock County, VA. ‘New York Red’ was bred by JoAnne Tuncey of Twin Birches Farm in New York and is the full sister of a past Supreme Champion Ewe at the Maryland Sheep and Wool Festival. She has produced beautiful lambs for us for seven years, and still going strong.  Making the trip with her are two natural-colored brood ewes, one also from New York and the other a Pennsylvania gal.  Both have fruiitful production histories, and they are ready for their next adventure with the Heneghan's.  Thanks so much, Missy!

'New York Red' (her friends call her Ana) looks ready to go to her new home in Boston, VA.  (She does have four legs -- she's hidden her fourth one just to mess with us!)

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