Val has over 40 years experience as a smallholder in the West of England. She currently runs a flock of 20 Ouessant sheep and keeps hens and grows lots of veg. She formally lived on the Blackdown Hills in Somerset and ran the award winning business The Woolly Shepherd from 2006-2012 but is now based in Cornwall where she has lived since 2013. Follow life on this permaculture based holding where there is never a dull moment
Friday, January 22, 2010
Wool Duvets from Devon! There was a fascinating programme last night on the tv.... called 'my dream farm' it followed a family who moved to Devon and took on a small farm, some sheep and some pigs! They wanted to make some money from their produce so decided to make wool duvets. Well it DOES help if Monty Don give a bit of help and advice and brings in the buyers from London! Good luck and go for it is my advice to them!
Meanwhile we are to be featured in a double page spread in the Western Morning News next week! They are really interested in our business of keeping people warm with sheeps wool insulation! Above are pictures of a recent installation in a grade 2* listed house!!
We have expansion plans in the pipeline having been awarded a loan from The Fredericks Foundation to purchase a needlefelting machine......more news on that front soon!
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I have been eyeying up your insulation on your website :o) but that in those photos looks positively sumptuous!!is it whiter than the stuff on your site?
I think we can go for a middle thickness as theres already a good wad of other stuff here,it makes such a difference. I really like the idea of having a woolly lid up there.
See you tomorrow
GTM x x x
looks very cosy!
Any programme with Monty Don in it has my wife glued to the screen.....
It's getting better and better Val - woohoo !
I love the insulation, wish my landlady would lay it in the loft here... if, no, when I go back to France perhaps you could fit it in my lofts??? All three of them
Meanwhile, can't find your email address but No, please reassure your friend that I haven't heard of the individual in question...
Men! Honestly I sometimes think we'd be better off ...
but only on a bad day!
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