Make a memory while you create a one-of-a-kind treasure.
Working with rare guanaco fiber is a unique experience not many spinners get to have. Our fiber and luxury batts are a spinner’s dream that’ll make you swoon the instant your fingers touch the softness.
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Our animals work year round to grow the most exquisite fibers because we’re the only commercial source of guanaco fiber in the US. Spinners, knitters, and natural fiber wearers, we can’t wait for you to touch the softness.
Meet-our- Guanacos
When we bought our herd of guanaco, descendants of the llama, we became producers of the second finest fiber in the world. We jumped into the endeavor with no knowledge and a whole lot of enthusiasm.
Our stories about handcrafted living and how you can better live, connect, and just breathe.
When you live a fast paced life, where routine and ready-made is a necessity, it’s easy to get ungrounded. Read our essays about the connection between handcrafting, raising exotic fiber animals, and how tuning into a handmade process gets expressed in our lives and relationships.
Episode 3: When a couple finds their third thing
Every couple needs a “we” or a third thing—a focal point that exists not solely within one individual but rather something shared between them. Something cherished mutually, binding them together. Greg and Lisa explore this idea and find a new third thing. Important links: Connect with Lisa on social media: https://www.instagram.com/afiberlife/
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Episode 1: A Frog Family Lives in our Basement
This season, we’ve set out to capture and celebrate ordinary moments in our lives on the farm. Because even the little things like the basics and the mundane are important. They can be lessons on how to live well and, in their simplicity or maybe because of it, they can form significant touchstones in our…
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Season 3 Trailer: Ordinary Moments on the Fiber Farm
It turns out that we humans are terrible at estimating the value of the present. There is a study I just read by Harvard researchers. They found that as time goes on, we regret how easily we let moments go. So, maybe the question, “What’s next?” doesn’t need to be answered by moving or with…
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In 2018, we started over.
We left our urban life.
We bought a farm,
on an island,
in the Pacific Northwest... and
began our project.
- To work the land, shovel the poop, and commune with animals.
- To go back to the very beginning—to the very source of fine fiber.
- To live a different rhythm and find joy in our natural environment.
We found out that special things happen when you start to grow fiber and make things from what you grow.
You learn things about yourself, what your hands are capable of, what it means to know the animals who grew the fiber, and what it means to start from scratch and make something beautiful that keeps you warm.
When you go back to the beginning and create, from scratch, with your very own hands—you reconnect with the value of things.
When you start from the raw materials—the natural materials—you tune in and find a rhythm all your own.
There’s peace here. And calm. You find a sense of grounding that gets expressed in the rest of your lives. You reconnect with the meaning of things. AND IT IS BEAUTIFUL.