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Alford Family Farms and Spinnery is a working farm and Fiber Mill in upper western Montgomery County Maryland. The farm animals are alpacas, dogs, a horse and various wild animals that live on it or visit on occasion (deer, turkey, fox rabbits birds and a very shy black bear). The farm produces primarily Alpaca fiber and hay. The fiber mill takes in both sheep and alpaca wool. Some of the fiber is produced on the farm and other fiber is from small producers locally and around the country. The output of the Fiber mill can be anything from washed fiber to plied yarn depending on a customers wishs. We also produced a limited amount of dyed yarn and finished garments.
Home safe and plan to make 2020.
Packing up, and heading home! Thank you all - visitors, vendors, volunteers, fiber arts demonstrators, sheep dog folks, and our festival committee - for a fabulous festival!
We'll be back October 3 & 4, 2020! For updates, go to our website and join the mailing list.
We wiil have our own tent on the concourse. Hope you will stop in to see us.
Here's a BEFORE photo of the festival grounds. I know it looks a little gloomy today, but the forecast for this weekend is for cooler and sunny! Tents go up tomorrow!
#fallfiberfestivalva
We will again be there. Hope to see you.
Fathers day!!!
3 generations of Alfords bailing hay on Father's Day!
Well Maryland Sheep and Wool is over. Sat was great and Sunday was a bit wet. Here are some pictures from both days. We will spend the week drying things and getting the mud off of the equipment(floor, tents, truck and RV).
Load out for Maryland Sheep and Wool fest is complete, now set up tomorrow. See you there!!
One week to setup!!!
More sheep and wool than you can imagine -- always the first full weekend in May. May 2nd and 3rd 2020 at the Howard County Fairgrounds; 8:30 - 6:00 on Saturday and 8:30 - 5:00 on Sunday. Admission $5.00.
Hope to see you at the Maryland Sheep and Wool Fest. A bit of fun for all. Come see the fest and if you have a minute, stop by and see us in the Lower Coral vendors - Same place as last year.
Less than two weeks until it opens. We will again be in the back of Lower Corral. Come and see us.
More sheep and wool than you can imagine -- always the first full weekend in May. May 2nd and 3rd 2020 at the Howard County Fairgrounds; 8:30 - 6:00 on Saturday and 8:30 - 5:00 on Sunday. Admission $5.00.
Frist two days of the Ocean city show complete. One to go, come see us.
Cold cold cold!!
CLOSED
Saturday February 2nd the ferry is CLOSED due to excessive ice on the Potomac River.
In bound mill detergent. 55 gallions at the time.
Another beautiful day!!!
Fall colors at the farm!
Fall colors at the farm!
Tent 1 booth 2, hope to see you there. Also we will transport your fiber back to the our mill free.
Welcome! Visit our website for additional info at: http:\\fallfiberfestival.org
Link to us using #fallfiberfestivalva
We have lots of fiber in lots of colors at the moment, Call us if you need something.
Fiber, fiber everwhere. If you are in need of either alpaca or wool , dyed of undyed, call us.
Shearing day 2018, Family affair.
Weather permitting we will be shearing again next weekend. This weekend come see us at the Frederick County Fairgrounds...
Frederick News Post Fiber Fest.
Truly a family farm. We had to pull in an in-law to take Ron's place.
Thanks again Dave.
Finally started on the barn extension to replace the temporary shed that the wind destroyed earlier this year. Almost ready for start the roof support.
The Frederick News-Post l fredericknewspost.com
NEW THIS YEAR: Tickets also include access to the Mother Earth News Fair and a free tote.
Hope to see you there. We will be in location #35.
NEW THIS YEAR: Tickets also include access to the Mother Earth News Fair and a free tote.
Come to Maryland Sheep and Wool this next week end and you will be able to do more than look at the fiber online, but see the actual fiber, feel it, smell it... We would love for you to drop by out booth near the lower corral.
2018 Maryland Sheep & Wool Festival
May 5 & 6, 2018
8:30AM – 6PM Saturday
8:30AM – 5PM Sunday
Howard County Fairgrounds, West Friendship, MD
Another Wool American Peg Loom Rug on it way. One more night of TV and It will be ready to tie off and wet felt.
Soil is ready. I thinking Corn first.
Last weekend Bob put up the sunshades and fans to help the alpacas stay cooler just in time for this new cold front.
Morning feed the day after! Paca are more interested in the sweet feed and Hay than most mornings - pasture is under several inches of ice and snow.
Morning feed! Life of a farmer. The animals get feed before the people do. Make not mistake, I enjoy it even on a day like today!
Batts in the making! Felters and Quilters half you work done for you. Texal wool Batts
Here on our beautiful hill top, day started at a warm 30 degrees and now that the sun has warmed us, it is a not some warm 21 degrees. The alpacas like the cold and not the 20 mile/hour wind. The are all cushing around their hay feeders.
Come join us Feb. 9-11 in Ocean City at the Fiber Expo.
The Delmarva Wool & Fiber Expo will be held on February 9-11, 2018.
Well Show season ended was a sputter in Ocean City. If you need something over the Winter Months call us.
Setting up!!
Come see us at the Maryland Alpaca & Fleece Festival Nov. 11 & 12. We will be located in the Bingo Hall (between the 4-H building and the dining hall)
This coming weekend!!! Hope to see you there. Good chance to drop off you Alpaca or Wool.
Time is drawing nigh! Are you as excited as we are? Forecast calls for beautiful weather, excitable sheepdogs, and fiber arts (and others!) galore!
Alford Family Farms and Spinnery's cover photo
See you this weekend at Berryville, Va
Looking forward to Shenandoah Valley Fiber Festival this weekend? Here's another vendor preview from @shalimaryarns - Mephisto Waltz on BDK really shines. Visit us this weekend in the Dairy Barn at #SVFF in Berryville, VA
#shalimaryarns #luxyarn #studiowhatsnew #breathlessyarn #morefunthanyoucanshakeastickat #svfiberfest #svfiberfest2017 #svffprep
A bit of early morning hay.
This is a very unique Fiber fest. A real family event. Class for all ages as well as well as a big field for the kids just to play and the family to picnic.
Classes, demos, animals, vendors, dog trials, and shearings - oh my! Don't miss it!
We are Outdoor Vendor B. Come see us. Besides natural color Alpaca and Wool we also have added dyed wool of several primary colors.
The 2017 Vendor Map is posted! We will also post an alphabetical list of vendors and locations as the event gets closer. **Spaces not to scale - outdoor vendors with multiple spaces are only shown as singles on the map. Locations may change if emergency cancellations are made.**
https://www.managemymarket.com/mapping/?marketID=2527
Shenandoah Valley Fiber Festival
September 28 - 29, 2019 Berryville, VA
Sun Shades and Fans - are they to keep the Alpacas cool and out of the sun or are they to keep the Alpacas from getting sun burned?
Done with the 2nd third of the hay. We had fantastic help from two really nice local teens, who just happen to use our hay to feed their goats. Talk about "girl power". Look at Anya carrying two bales at a time. We would not have finished without Anya and Liam.
Hay is in windrows and ready to bale. If the rain will just hold off for a few more hours we will have the first 1/4 in the barn.
19515 Darnestown Rd
Beallsville, MD
20839
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