Pinwheel Farm

Pinwheel Farm Pinwheel produces sustainably raised sheep, vegetables, and other farm products.

We also do a variety of value-added products, including natural dyed fibers, hand-knit outerwear, etc., to more completely utilized the farm's resources. Our mission is to help people to live simply, sustainably and spiritually as part of the Earth's community of life by developing, modeling and teaching innovative alternatives to conventional input-dependent agriculture and consumerist lifestyles and economies.

Foraging friends: Rain (finally) is bringing out mushrooms. Some logs are available for purchase, or just pick em. Turke...
11/06/2024

Foraging friends: Rain (finally) is bringing out mushrooms. Some logs are available for purchase, or just pick em. Turkey tail and wood ears love this weather!

Local folks: LOTS of fresh colorful eggs available at my farm, or at Cottin's Hardware Indoor Farmers Market tomorrow fr...
11/06/2024

Local folks: LOTS of fresh colorful eggs available at my farm, or at Cottin's Hardware Indoor Farmers Market tomorrow from 4-6, or at the Downtown Lawrence Farmers Market Saturday rain or shine. PM to make appointment or reserve or arrange home delivery. Farm is right on City Limits in North Lawrence.

Plan now to be a Priority Customer for winter!

New batch of lamb and young mutton also available. SALE on old stock soup bones! It's broth season!

Weather trick-or-treat: Monday: Near-record high. Tuesday: 60 mph wind; still extra hot for October. Wednesday: big rain...
10/28/2024

Weather trick-or-treat: Monday: Near-record high. Tuesday: 60 mph wind; still extra hot for October. Wednesday: big rain (hoping!) then down to near frost Thursday morning.

October is fire prevention month. Smoke detectors are essential! Even hard wired ones often have batteries. Checking min...
10/04/2024

October is fire prevention month. Smoke detectors are essential! Even hard wired ones often have batteries.

Checking mine, I realized some units are expired. There's a date on the back; look for it.

They want special batteries, not just any 9 volt. What kind? It's embossed in microscopic letters in the battery compartment. I used a highlighter and phone camera to be able to read it. Then will write in big letters with permanent marker for next time.

PERFECT yarn chicken score! Exactly the right amount to comfortably weave ends!Pinwheel Improved Half-Mitten, knit in na...
10/03/2024

PERFECT yarn chicken score! Exactly the right amount to comfortably weave ends!

Pinwheel Improved Half-Mitten, knit in natural colored handspun from Pinwheel Farm sheep, using Magic Loop method, working from both ends of the yarn ball.

Stranded design made up as I knit. Any name suggestions?

This is WHY I work from both ends.

For a few minutes this evening, the light was spectacular. These trees aren't actually turning yellow yet...just the se...
09/25/2024

For a few minutes this evening, the light was spectacular. These trees aren't actually turning yellow yet...just the setting sun.

Rain is moving off, it's lovely at Market now! Come see us!
09/21/2024

Rain is moving off, it's lovely at Market now! Come see us!

Very, very happy tonight!No matter how much crap there is on social media tonight, a truly amazing thing happened out on...
09/12/2024

Very, very happy tonight!

No matter how much crap there is on social media tonight, a truly amazing thing happened out on the farm this evening! I found a bucket-list plant that I thought I would never see anywhere...let alone on my sheep pasture.

Lady's Tresses is a native orchid! It's just a few inches high...a leaf or two...among the tangled grape vines and Golden Plume grass (formerly known as Indian Grass) that are invading my most heavily grazed pasture. It's kind of a miracle that I even noticed the tiny thing.

I was setting up a sheep fence, so I looked to be sure there wasn't any on the side to be grazed. Sure enough, 3 more! I didn't hesitate to walk hundreds of feet back to the golf cart to get the string trimmer, to cut a new fence path around the patch.

How came it to be here? This field was in continuous crop cultivation for probably a century or more prior to me transitioning it to organically managed sheep pasture. The dust-like seeds must have blown in on the wind, or been carried on a bird's feet that perched in the small elm above them.

So special!

What next?????This tree back by the barn...the "dessert-quality special you-gotta-taste-this-one"...was just doing its n...
08/26/2024

What next?????

This tree back by the barn...the "dessert-quality special you-gotta-taste-this-one"...was just doing its normal tree thing hovering above the lane gate at 6:30 this evening. When I got back at 9ish and walked out to finish chores, a huge branch was down, blocking the gate.

I reorganized a bunch of fences to run the sheep in on it overnight. Will be much easier to cut up after they gleefully desolate it, and so healthy for them!!!

It's Saturday morning! Farmers Market is on my mind!Come on down while it's still cool and cloudy! There's plenty of sun...
08/24/2024

It's Saturday morning! Farmers Market is on my mind!

Come on down while it's still cool and cloudy! There's plenty of sunshine in natural dyed silk scarves, scrunchies, and wool products.

Gorgeous morning! Come on down to the Lawrence Farmers Market!I did a dye day yesterday, so there's fresh silk scarves ...
08/17/2024

Gorgeous morning! Come on down to the Lawrence Farmers Market!

I did a dye day yesterday, so there's fresh silk scarves in abundance. AND new natural dyed silk product--hair scrunchies!

Anyone want this beautiful Turkey Tail?
08/12/2024

Anyone want this beautiful Turkey Tail?

Come on down to the Downtown Lawrence Farmers Market! 2 more hours of LOCAL shopping!
08/03/2024

Come on down to the Downtown Lawrence Farmers Market! 2 more hours of LOCAL shopping!

07/24/2024

KC area friends, especially knitting/fiber friends and farming friends:

Tomorrow, July 25, from about 2:30 to a little after 5, I would like to have a support person join me in attending a critical public hearing to support Urbavore Urban Farm. Check out their page to see what's at stake...it's a huge government overreach that if allowed, sets a dire precedent of a municipality being able to block your access to your home and business that was constructed with all necessary approvals and permits.

The side challenge--my personal challenge--is that KCMO prohibits knitting needles in City Hall. I tried to attend the last hearing, on July 10, and was not allowed to bring my knitting. I have a disability that makes it extremely difficult to attend large or stressful gatherings without handwork. I was so stressed by the disjoint of being told by people wearing lanyards and carrying keys that my knitting needles were a weapon (while every woman knows to carry her keys between her fingers in the parking garage as a weapon) while their accessories were not, that all I could do was sit in the foyer and try to knit myself back to calmness while sending prayers upstairs to my friends.

I have written to the Civil Rights Specialist to get an up date on her efforts to figure out a way to accommodate my accommodation, but I may not get the information I need in time to be fully prepared with an alternate accommodation that will serve me as well, and will be allowed.

I may need someone to take disallowed things back to my car for me (I am experiencing a bout of foot pain that is exacerbated by excessive walking). And I will need moral support to face Security again. Worse comes to worse, we may end up knitting in the foyer.

Please reach out via P.M. ASAP.

What a pleasant day at the Downtown Lawrence Farmers Market! Come on down!Start planning/ordering/purchasing warm wooly ...
07/20/2024

What a pleasant day at the Downtown Lawrence Farmers Market! Come on down!

Start planning/ordering/purchasing warm wooly items now! Get ahead of the autumn rush!

It's Thursday, and it's not scorching! Therefore, I'm at Cottin's Hardware Farmers Market until 6;30, with eggs, lamb, ...
07/18/2024

It's Thursday, and it's not scorching! Therefore, I'm at Cottin's Hardware Farmers Market until 6;30, with eggs, lamb, machine washable sheepskins, and wool products!

Lots of new wool colors workingg their way through my process right now...pick your colors for custom work!

07/16/2024

SO glad I am routinely masking indoors in public spaces!

I had the chance of a lifetime to spend Sunday at Convergence...the Handweaver's Guild of America annual conference. I went just to go through the vendor area (market research for my wool business) and the juried exhibits. Amazing and wonderful and inspiring!

Now I keep getting updates from the conference about the number of confirmed COVID cases among attendees, and which areas/events contained people who may have been contagious. I REALLY appreciate this information, and I'm thankful that I DIDN'T take classes since those are the main "hot spots" and were in smaller areas with closer personal contact. But it's sobering. I will keep masking. I hope you will, too.

You won't experience much nicer Market weather in July than today! Just the right cool breeze!Sold out of eggs yesterday...
07/06/2024

You won't experience much nicer Market weather in July than today! Just the right cool breeze!

Sold out of eggs yesterday, so decided to fill the empty table space with freshly dyed wool! Available for your spinning or crafting pleasure, or look forward to seeing these colors on my yarn and handknit table!

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1480 N 1700 Road
Lawrence, KS
66044

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