Welcome to WereWool!

My partner, Sebastian Lousada, and I are regenerative, organic farmers who first brought you delicious hard ciders and brandies from trees we planted and have cultivated since 1985 (See www.flaghillfarm.com). We are now introducing a new product from our lovely sheep fibers, and endeavoring to help other Vermont farmers become known and to prosper.

WereWool of Vermont proudly presents Birds & Bees Hat Kits

Each kit contains enough breed specific yarn for anyone to create a soft, warm hat.

Our “Birds & Bees” Hat Kits allow you to discover the qualities and characteristics of a variety of different fibers. Depending on the kit, these will include, Alpaca, Angora rabbit and wools from over fifteen local farms. We will be offering wools from the Blue Faced Leicester, the Romney, the down wool breeds such as the Tunis, and the heritage breeds, Icelandic and Shetland.

The Birds & Bees Hat Kits will also include the softest wool for forehead and ears from my own sheep, Cormos, and Fine Shetland lamb’s wool. Our hat patterns are being designed by local pattern designers who are as passionate about re-localizing fiber as we are. There will be a variety of natural colors and patterns for baby to adult sizes to choose from!

For decades, we’ve kept sheep to provide friends, neighbors and family with incredibly lovely, soft yarn. As organic farmers engaged in regenerative practices we also know that grass grazing sheep play a powerful role in drawing carbon pollution from the air into the roots of grass where it is kept or “sequestered” in the soil. Our apple trees and pastures benefit from their manure and in turn, endangered native bumblebees and monarch butterflies thrive with more clover and milkweed as do Bluebirds and Bobolink when there is a marked increase in insect diversity.

About our first Birds & Bees Hat Kit:

This first hat kit features two breeds of sheep that I raise, Fine Wool Shetlands and Cormos. The very dark, almost black yarn in your kit is pure, Fine Wool Shetland from “Babette”. Worldwide Shetlands are now considered a “rare’ breed. Originating on the Shetland Islands of Scotland they are well suited to our Vermont hill farm. Since they are quite small they only yield a few pounds of incredibly soft fiber each year. Hence these special animals are not part of the mass production of wool. Being a very old, heritage breed, my shetlands are full of character. They’re the wily smarties of my diverse fiber flock!

The Cormo on the other hand are large and their fleeces are as soft as merino. Their name reflects the breeds that were selected in Tasmania in the 1960s to garner their beautiful attributes. Cormo came from crossing Corriedale, (Saxon Merino –super fine x Lincolns a very lustrous longwool breed) back to Saxon Merinos. My Cormo are the Appley dappley, squishy teddy bears of the flock. I have both pure white Cormo and colored Cormo.

The off white yarn in the kit is Cormo and the beige is 50/50 colored Cormo from my oldest ewe named “Marble” and my moorit, Fine Wool Shetland from “Coco”.

Thanks for stopping by.

With love and many thanks from the woolly crew at Flag Hill Farm . . .and Sabra and Sebastian

P.S. Stay tuned for the next Breed Specific Hat Kit…. will it be made with Gotland and Blue Faced Leicester yarns?