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Heirloom|Heritage|Wholesome
Historic Farm, Eden, NY
Naturally Hand-Dyed Longwool Yarn
Mindfully Grown Veggies
Soy-Free Pasture Eggs
Pod: Women in Food
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09/25/2026

All packed up for WNY Fiber Arts Festival with a rainbow of my farm yarns naturally hand-dyed mostly with plants I grew. Couldn’t feel prouder of this work and so grateful to soooooo many folks who@have helped me along the way:

First of all, all my WWOOF-USA® guests and other folks who help move sheep, harvest and dry flowers, water gardens, skirt fleeces, assist with shearing, clean pots, label and twist yarns and more. To my compatriot in natural dye and dear dear friend NEXUS BOTANICAL ARTS

Second to Wing & A Prayer Farm for inspiration, shepherdess support and my very first lessons on natural dyeing. Also to Tami Fuller for your experience, passion and women in wool adventures.

I absolutely CANNOT leave out Mike and the crew Three Points Fiber Mill who treat my sheep’s fiber with care and get as excited as I do about it!

And of course the mentors and teachers through Food Animal Concerns Trust NY FarmNet Cornell Small Farms Program Rustbeltfibershed Pennsylvania Fibershed The Livestock Conservancy NY Fiber Trail and more who have taught me refinement of my processes and systems (as well as being on call in the wee hours for sheep emergencies —ahem, Barb!)

Add to this the vets and authors, podcasters and video makers, many farmers and more.

Finally to the folks who are passionate for what I do here, the makers and artisans, customers and admirers who are also passionate about farm to fashion and knowing where your fibers come from.

All this to say, it takes many many people – – truly, a community – – for fiber farming to happen. If you hold one of my yarns, you now know the many hands and hearts that are all part of this collaborative creative endeavor. See you tomorrow at the festival!

09/15/2026

Two firsts today as I prepare for the WNY Fiber Arts Festival on Sept. 26th

First: finally after two years, I have the very first yarns with wool from the Shetlands. Although I mentally knew it was have a different feel from my Border Leicesters, having it my hands makes that so real. It has a luscious weight and softness to it as well as a little more bounce. This beautiful silver is a mixture of fiber from Punkin and MaeMae. BEAUTIFUL!

Second, is this 2-ply yarn from my Border Leicester Miriam. I’ve always gotten 3-ply and so this is a really different feel that I think highlights the lustrous quality of this fiber. Seeing more texture in the ply gives it the reflective quality a bit more. This was spun as a sport weight but once it was skein washed, it bounced up to an almost worsted weight.

I feel like the discovery in this work is never-ending. The magic of how grass grazed by these sweet beings becomes all this beautiful array of yarn always awes me. May that wonderment never cease!

Thank you Three Points Fiber Mill for the partnership in spinning these beautiful yarns! It is truly a collaborative process between Mother Nature, these sweet animals, myself, the flowers, the good folks who mill it and eventually the folks who weave, knit, crochet and otherwise make with it.

My first career was in another collaborative art form, theatre, and this current collaborative creation returns me to those roots.

09/07/2026

I don’t even know where to begin about last night’s Farm to Table Chef Dinner with Valentina Garcia Montaño Valentina Garcia Montano.

We were QUITE ambitious taking on a full mocktail pairing menu along with an incredible 5-course dinner. That was all for 40 wonderful folks, 90% of whom had not been here to Crown Hill before.

To start, it was a GORGEOUS day to be out on the farm! Our tour was such a joy for me to share: the farm’s history, my personal story, talking about heirloom vegetables, livestock guardian dogs and heritage livestock, delicious food, wellness, gardening and more. The questions were fun and thoughtful and I was delighted by everyone’s curiosity.

And then dinner at our giant long table graced by beautiful glassware by Roaring Spring Home , my vintage dish collection, musical workings of Mikee Strongmen , bright colorful flowers cut Henry’s Gardens , and of course… a DELICIOUS menu designed and prepared by Valentina Garcia Montaño Valentina featuring the freshest of the season here in WNY from Crown Hill and Healing Poem Farm | Ecological Produce & WNY CSA

Our small team rocked serving five courses and five drinks (that was a total of 200 dishes, 200 glasses and 240 pieces of silverware if you’re counting!) with themes of bright colors and perfect flavors throughout. I think my favorite was the carrots using Huacatay fresh from my garden in 3 different ways.

Most of all I’m so touched by the connections made. Every time I walked up to the table the conversation was lively and mirth palpable. Connecting people that wouldn’t otherwise is my joy and to create a container for that natural unfolding, I feel, is one gift I can bring to the world.

Thank you Helen, Ash, Greg, Valentina, Mikee and mom. Thank you all our guests.

Thank you, thank you. For all of it!

Last night was the close of our 2026 farm dinner season and the 30th (by my count) farm-to-table dinner I’ve hosted here at Crown Hill since 2019. What a way to celebrate!!

I’ve mentioned this is the 10th Anniversary year of my arrival here— ! So stay tuned for a late October Open Farm Potluck / campfire / c***r pressing Celebration!

09/03/2026

✨ MENU DROP ✨ for our farm dinner on Sunday, Sept 6th with Chef Valentina (Valentina Garcia Montaño) of the Saturn Club.

I love every time Chef Valentina is at the farm. We have such a fun time creating food together between what I grow and her passion. You can be sure it'll be a fantastic meal and in this case, it is the last of the 2026 season at Crown Hill.

This dinner features what is at its best in this season: earthy vegetables, herbs, slow cooked lamb and the first pears of the season from my beautiful pear tree.

And.... what's more exciting is that Chef Valentina has created a menu of paired mocktails for each course rather than our usual w**e pairings. Enjoy a refreshing, delicious alcohol-free farm meal.

Tour the farm, meet the sheep and animals, see the gardens where your dinner started and then sit down to this 5-course gourmet one-of-a-kind meal against the backdrop of live music from Mikee Strongmen as the sun sets over Lake Erie.

LINK IN BIO for tickets!

08/15/2026

It’s a beautiful day, come visit me and all the farmers and fun Erie County Fair ! You can find me in The Ag-Grange Building with my farm yarns, garlic, and farm gifts while sharing about the sheep to sweater process. See you soon ❤️

08/11/2026

Spend a day or two on the farm in the next couple of weeks. Message me if interested.

08/10/2026

One of the things I write, talk, and teach about is the process of observing, then getting curious, then being resourceful.

This awareness and the value of it becomes very clear in instances where I’m growing something new that I don’t know much about. For example, these giant beans.

I have been observing them grow since I put them in the ground. The vines are large and all over the place, the red flowers are beautiful and the hummingbirds seem to love them. And I’ve slowly seen pods form and the lumps of beans inside.

So, it was time to crack one open and look at what’s inside. Are the beans fully grown? Do they still have more to go? What does it look like from the outside at this stage? How might I know when they are actually ready to harvest? Should I let them go all the way to dry beans on the vine? Or harvest them fresh and freeze them? All of these questions, observations, and curiosities help me learn how best to grow these and went to harvest them as well as how to store them.

I’ve grown other beans and I know that the pods usually need to look quite full and almost ready to burst if I want to harvest them fresh. I also remember that these beans were pink and black mottled together when I planted the original ones. These are only just showing the pink so far. That leads me to believe these are not quite ready yet, and I will let them go further.

I’m pretty self-taught here on this farm along with many resources like friends and neighbors, other gardeners, Books, and of course the Internet. But always it always starts with these three simple things: observe, get curious, be resourceful.

Address

9411 Sandrock Road
Eden, NY
14057

Telephone

+17165755205

Website

http://crownhillfarm.com/

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