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Cedarbrook Ranch

Cedarbrook Ranch started as a small farm in 1992, in the Ozark foothills of northeast Arkansas.  This region sports a four-season climate, poor soil, and beautiful scenery.  It is also the place where the flat Mississippi delta region meets the Ozark Mountains.

Besides grass-fed lamb and beef for the meat market, this farm is about wool and mohair.  The sheep and angora goats have been selected for quality, fine diameter fiber.  But there's more than good animal genes to raising a good fiber crop.  Many management details are important in every season of the year.  Pasture planting, fertilizing, controlled grazing and mowing head the list.  Then there's one sheep shearing and two goat shearings per year, each of which is an event that requires coordination, preparation, execution, and follow up.  Hay hauling, predator control, and fence building and repair are routine tasks.  Veterinary tasks like hoof trimming, parasite control, ear tagging, and tail docking are chores that every small livestock farmer pencils into his or her schedule.  How diligently all these management tasks are performed play into how healthy the animal is during the fiber growing cycle, and many of them influence whether the fiber stays clean enough to be processed in a simple mill like ours.

Fine wool from Cedarbrook Ranch forms the basis for our standard line of yarns and prepared fiber.  The pictures below are a few scenes of the calmer moments on the farm.  Let our products be your little piece of this farm.

Spring Lambs

Back Porch View

Sunset Flock

Ram

Evening

Summer Morning

Winter Sheep

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Spring Lambs