Wee Family Farm LLC

07/22/2026

Polarding willow as chop and drop fodder for the sheep is a great way to boost their nutrition during the summer slump with pastures are browning.

07/20/2026

Video I made yesterday talking about pasture and soil nutrients.

06/22/2026

My ewe, Lupin, is an East Friesain x Lacaune x Finn ewe with a nice fleece and currently in milk and looking for a new flock. She is trained to the stanchion and stands well for milking without kicking. Lupin has moderate size teats and could be a good choice for someone who machine milks or hand milks. Her yield (as of June 15) was 49.2 oz per milking, a little over 6 cups, with once per day milking. Earlier in this lactation her yield was over 9 cups, over a half gallon per day, with every 12 hours milking. She gave birth to twins, unassisted on March 5, and was a good mother to both lambs, weaned now. Her breed mix is 75% dairy (East Friesian and Lacaune) x 25% Finn. She is a second freshner, born in 2024. Her mother is Marigold and paternal grandmother is Columbine, udders pictured. Lamb photo is Lupin as a baby. More sheep available from my farm . Flock is healthy, tested clean, and we take bio-security seriously.

06/22/2026

Sheep milk and egg preservation as ravioli with future easy dinner prep. This afternoon is too hot to be comfortable outdoors. Kiddos are away at summer camp, I've got the house to myself and I choose to play in the kitchen. I mixed home made sheep milk Ricotta, Mozzarealla, and Asiago with basil from the garden for the ravioli filling. 4 eggs in two cups flour for the pasta. Loving how quick and thin the pasta comes out with my new pasta maker from neighbor Cheri. I ate 5 ravioli for my lunch and froze a few dozen. Wow, so good! I'm excited to be able to eat the sheep milk cheese months from now when the ewes are dried off.

06/07/2026

Garlic plants in my garden are sending up flower buds now, in June. I want the plant's energy to be directed to the bulb, not the flower. I pull the flower and stem in their fun corkscrew shapes, bring them to the kitchen, and blend them with a little olive oil and salt. A paste forms with a lovely garlic flavor that I can use in place of garlic cloves. I freeze dollops and pull them any time I'm cooking in a hurry, or out of garlic. Pulling the flowers from the plants yields bigger bulbs too. Happy Gardening.

04/27/2026

In Search Of Ram Lamb. Located in NW Oregon, I'm looking for a dairy sheep ram lamb, East Friesian and Lacaune breeds preferred. I like colored, not white wool and looking for a ram out of a ewe with a good udder for hand milking. Please let me know what you have available and your location. Open to purchase or trade. I have a clean flock with extensive health testing and good bio-security practices. Photos are some of the fun colors in my flock and the good udders on my ewes

04/23/2026

I was interviewed for a podcast by Teagan Moran, host of For the Love of Farming, for the Oregon State University Small Farms Program podcast. My episode just launched.

A new episode of For the Love of Farming podcast has just been released! LINK HERE: https://beav.es/fUT

In today’s episode we’re visiting a small farm tucked into the rolling hills of Yamhill County, where oak trees lean over the road and the landscape opens into sloped pasture and woodland. This is Wee Family Farm (⁠https://www.weefamilyfarm.com/home⁠), a diverse ten‑acre property where animal welfare, ecological diversity, and deep connection with customers guide every decision. Sheep, pigs, laying hens, and broilers have grazed across the south‑facing slopes.

At the heart of it all is Ann Partridge, a horticulturist‑turned‑shepherd whose journey has taken her from New Zealand to the Pacific Northwest, and finally to this piece of land she now calls home. Anne named her Farm after her love of the word WEE — the name of her creek, the other French oui of yes, the “wee” that means little, and the meaning of togetherness. That playful curiosity shapes the way she farms. We talk about her evolving dairy‑sheep breeding project, her experiments with pasture‑based pigs, the rhythms of milking and cheesemaking, and the art of building a flock with both temperament and udders in mind.

We also explore what it means to arrive in a new rural community — through neighbors who become mentors, through shared work and traded skills, through Extension workshops, NRCS projects, and the kind of mutual support that makes small‑scale farming possible.

Join us as we learn how one farmer is shaping a life and a landscape with intention, curiosity, and a whole lot of heart. This episode was recorded in march of 2026

03/23/2026

Old-timers from my neighood tell me the forested part of my property (and my neighbors property to the south) was pasture up through the 1980s. I logged my woods in 2025 and I seeded an area yesterday, in March 2026, for new pasture establishment. Details on what plants I choose in the video. I didn't mention the cleavers plant makes a burr type seed that is horrible, gets tangled in my dog's fur, sheep's wool, and my socks. I'm hopeful the new species are able to out-compete the cleavers aka Velcro plant.

03/16/2026

Are you looking for rural place to live where you can grow a big garden and connect with nature? I remember before I was able to buy my own farm, my heart ached to get out of town, have room to live my farm dream. Now I have enough land to share and I'm looking to connect. Open to a like-minded woman (I'm female too) to share the house and farm.

Farm Rental Coming Available in April 2026. To learn more read the Wee Family Farm 'Collaborate' page.
https://www.weefamilyfarm.com/collaborate

Private room in shared house includes access to farm land. Asking $700/month + share utilities for single occupancy. Location is Yamhill County, 50 Miles SW of Portland, Oregon.

Please share my post with folks you think will be a good fit.

03/13/2026

Family Groups - Why I don't recommend buying a ewe in milk alone. When a ewe in milk is purchased on her own, without her lambs, the buyer will need to milk the ewe every day, preferably every 12 hours, including the evening of the day of purchase. Moving is stressful for sheep: leaving their flock mates, separation from her lambs, riding in a truck or trailer, integrating into a new flock on an unfamiliar farm, being milked by a stranger, all of this is stressful for a ewe. Milking her out completely is likely to be a struggle. It puts a new owner's relationship with their new ewe on rough start and puts the ewe at higher risk of mastitis. If mama ewe can move with her lambs, in a family group - not alone, she can settle in more gently, the babies drink all her milk on the day of the move, maybe the first week on her new farm. The ewe, and her new shepherd can build a kinder relationship for milking with more patience.
Nootka and her twins pictured are available now as a Family Group from Wee Family Farm located in NW Oregon