Life Lessons
Episode 5: RIP Milo: Love Doesn’t Die
We’ve lost 6 animals in the last 3 years on our farm: five guanacos and one goat. Now, as a…
Episode 4: Where it all goes when we are gone
Have you ever thought about what you’ll leave behind when your time on this planet is up? An amazing accomplishment…
Episode 3: How to Love Like a Goat
The first year we brought the guanacos to our Whidbey Island farm, my husband Greg and I embraced the challenge…
Episode 2: The Stories Hidden in Our Tools
Sometimes, when I go to work in my studio, I feel this void. Like it’s just me and the fiber.…
Episode 1: Why “fake it til you make it” doesn’t work
It used to be that handling guanacos was scary business for us. See, guanacos are forces of nature; beasts that…
Episode 7: Farming in the face of inevitable grief and loss
Facing death, losing loved ones, it’s a universal experience. But it can challenge you to the core. In the gut-wrenching…
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