{"id":491,"date":"2010-08-14T09:27:46","date_gmt":"2010-08-14T13:27:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homegrownonahobbyfarm.com\/?p=491"},"modified":"2011-11-15T18:03:26","modified_gmt":"2011-11-15T23:03:26","slug":"about-our-wool-episodes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homegrownonahobbyfarm.com\/index.php\/2010\/08\/about-our-wool-episodes\/","title":{"rendered":"Blog Post About Our Wool Webisodes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-492\" title=\"churrowool\" src=\"https:\/\/www.homegrownonahobbyfarm.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/churrowool.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" \/>The Navajo-Churro wool is beautiful! Just look at the colors of the sheep I was able to photograph before everyone came charging into the barn last week. I&#8217;ve been fascinated by their coats since we first purchased Reese and her twins, Lovey and Clara (Clara Barton Angel Of The Battlefield, so named by my history-loving son) years ago.<\/p>\n<p>Attending sheep and wool festivals is always a treat because you get to see how spinners are using the wool and wool blends. I couldn&#8217;t wait to visit Loch&#8217;s Fiber Mill to \u201cfill in the blanks\u201d&#8212;I see the wool when it&#8217;s fallen from the sheep after shearing and I&#8217;ve seen the finished product in skeins, ready for knitting or weaving, but didn&#8217;t know exactly what went in to processing wool.<\/p>\n<p>The morning we spent at the fiber mill was fascinating and informative&#8230;.so much so that we couldn&#8217;t do just one quick segment\u2014we had to break it down into parts! Jamie and Randy were so hospitable they invited us back to their maple syrup festival next year.<\/p>\n<p>For more information, visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lochsmaple.com\/fibermill\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>www.lochsmaple.com\/fibermill\/index.html<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Navajo-Churro wool is beautiful! Just look at the colors of the sheep I was able to photograph before everyone came charging into the barn last week. I&#8217;ve been fascinated by their coats since we first purchased Reese and her twins, Lovey and Clara (Clara Barton Angel Of The Battlefield, so named by my history-loving [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[35,18,19,20,40,23,21,24,65],"class_list":["post-491","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-family","tag-farming","tag-hobbyfarm","tag-navajo-churro","tag-raising-sheep","tag-shearing","tag-sheep","tag-wool","tag-wool-processing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homegrownonahobbyfarm.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homegrownonahobbyfarm.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homegrownonahobbyfarm.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homegrownonahobbyfarm.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homegrownonahobbyfarm.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=491"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.homegrownonahobbyfarm.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homegrownonahobbyfarm.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homegrownonahobbyfarm.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homegrownonahobbyfarm.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}