“I always read that people should find their passion in life. I found mine with my sheep, fiber and teaching fiber classes.”
My name is Kathleen Meeks and I live in Wardsboro, Vermont. I live in my grandmother’s house that my Dad built for her in 1947. My daughter iives in the farmhouse next door where my mother was born in 1905. My two grandchildren who have grown up on the farm are the seventh generation of our family to live here which was originally settled in the 1860s.
We started raising registered Shetland sheep in 1999. We named our farm “Maybelle Farm” in honor of my mother. We started with 5 sheep and currently have 34 sheep. For several years I had 75-80 sheep as I was selling breeding stock. I have the sheep sheared every spring and sell the raw fleeces, some fleeces are sent to Green Mountain Spinnery whee I have it made into yarn for roving to spin. I send some wool to Minnesota to have socks and mittens made. I also dye wool to use for needle felting, wet felting and other projects. I have a lovely fiber studio where I can teach classes for spinning, needle felting, wet felting, processing and dyeing wool.
