Monday, May 4, 2009

The New Greenhouse



The new greenhouse is up and running. Finally this year the greenhouse in progress is almost done. For all that don't know about our greenhouse business it started with a little sunglo greenhouse purchased at the Philadephia Flower Show. Then Bob decided that he would grow a few extra plants and sell them at the Rochester Public Market at Flower City Sundays and The Proud Market at Highland Park. Well soon he ran out of room and decided to buy this hoop house. We grow about 35 different varieties of tomatoes, 10 different sweet peppers and 8 different hot peppers. And all kinds of pumpkins, squashes, melons, etc. We grow everything in separate pots because people like to pick lots of different vartities and not be limited to just one

Tuesday, April 28, 2009

Deliah's Ewe and Ram Lamb




We are excited to have two katmoget babies this year from High Bid Deliah. The father is Ewe Can Do It Plato. Both babies are very uniform and look to have great fleeces. Their parents have outstanding fleeces. We will be putting the ram up for sale. Not sure at the present if the ewe will be for sale/

Sunday, April 26, 2009

Claire's Babies


Here is Claire's babies both white. She had both a ewe and ramb lamb. The proud parents are High Bid Farm Claire and Painted Knoll Chips. Both are very sweet and should have great fleeces. Both are for sale.

Saturday, April 25, 2009

Shetland Yarn


I have been spinning lately. I finished off this skein of Shetland. It was a blend of natural and dyed colors. I am going to knit a hat with it. It was a combination of our Deliah (a katmoget) and our two wethers Spook and Merriweather (dyed). Be watching for a future post of the hat

Friday, April 24, 2009

Rosie's Lambs


We all know how hard it is to get good pictures of lambs. So I am going to start with the lambs which have the best pictures (they are not that great). High Bid Farm Rosie and Painted Knoll Chips gave us two great ewe lambs. They were good size at 7 or 5 pounds. We were excited to get a fleckett baby. They question will be will she stay fleckett like here dad or grey out like her mom. The other ewe lamb is black which we are hoping may turn emsket as her fleece grows in since she has the color in her background

Thursday, April 23, 2009

Sage and Homer

My great niece was here from Maryland this weekend and just loved the lambs. She is holding Homer our bottle baby. We never had a Shetland bottle baby before. Sage and her brother Cole loved the lambs following them around. Of course Homer loves everyone since he thinks that you might have a bottle in your pocket.