I’m Sold Out of My Bedlam Farm Wool Pellets For Now

“The garden was a world that depended on care and nourishment.   And it was an interplay of forces, as much as I responded to the garden, the garden, in turn, responded to my touch, my presence. ”   from The Wild Braid, by Stanley Kunitz

In September I sent ten pounds of waste wool to Otter Lake Farm and Fiber in Western NY and got back ten pounds of wool pellets.

Tomorrow I’ll send out another ten pounds or so of waste wool to have it processed into pellets.  I didn’t even get to put my Bedlam Farm Wool Pellets in my Etsy Shop, they were sold by the time I checked my email this morning.

I spent the day packing up pellets and shipping my Shadow Bird Potholders.   I feel like I have the wool pellets figured out and I’m excited to be selling them.  I’d love the idea of having  them seasonally to sell, like my yarn, roving and dryer balls.

I’m not sure how long it will take to have the wool pellets processed this time,  but it should take less time than the first batch.

One of the wonderful things about the Wool Pellets is it makes all that waste wool that would have gone in the garbage into something that can be used to help replenish the garden soil.   It’s really the way things should work and do work in the natural world.

I like being a part of that natural cycle.

It’s the same idea that I use in my work, using unwanted fabric to make into art.  But here the process is even more direct.  Nothing is added to or taken from the my sheep’s wool.  It’s just compressed into another form that is easier to work with.

I think that soon, adding wool pellets in the garden will be as ordinary and accepted as adding compost or manure.

That’s Asher, Issachar, Lori and Merricat.  My sheep give in so many ways, more than I ever expected.