High Bid Farm

The New Greenhouse

2009-05-04T14:28:00.000-07:00

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

Deliah's Ewe and Ram Lamb

2009-04-28T06:00:00.000-07:00

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/

Claire's Babies

2009-04-26T07:32:00.000-07:00

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.

Shetland Yarn

2009-04-25T05:45:00.001-07:00

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

Rosie's Lambs

2009-04-24T07:32:00.000-07:00

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

Sage and Homer

2009-04-23T06:47:00.000-07:00

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.

Ready to Roll

2008-11-02T08:30:00.000-08:00

Hello Everyone

Finally I have high speed internet so I am ready to roll on my blog.
This is kind of a test to see if I am ready

Welcome to Our Blog

2008-09-16T16:25:00.000-07:00

The purpose of this blog is to share, with family and friends, the happenings at High Bid Farm. Check in with us from time to time on what's happening on the farm, in the gardens, home projects, fiber projects. I plan on updating weekly.

Come see us at Finger Lakes Fiber Festival on September 20 and 21.