Fiber CSA

Do you know where your fiber comes from?  Are you ready high fiber diet? Now that our flock has grown to over thirty-five head, we are pleased to announce the 2011 Kindred Spirit Farm Fiber CSA.  Fiber enthusiasts near and far, come join us a year-long escapade in raising endangered breeds and receive the fruits of our labors in yarn, roving, fleeces, and dye plant materials. 

CSA stands for community supported agriculture.  The most common form of CSA's are produce CSA's.  But there are fruit, winter, meat, and dairy CSA's as well.  Farmers sell shares or memberships to customers.  In return, the customer receives a weekly delivery of the farmer's harvest.  Usually the highest quality products go to the CSA members and whatever is left goes to the farmer's market.  A CSA creates a relationships between farmers and consumers and established connections between rural and urban communities.  CSAs provide family farmers, like ourselves with a more stable income and allows us to keep doing what we love and receive a fair price for our products.  

The part that we really enjoy about a CSA is that it creates a community.  We used to operate a produce CSA and loved delivery days, when folks would come out to the farm to pick up their shares.  Our customers would breathe in the fresh air, take in the landscape, play with the animals, and walk through the gardens.  They'd head home renewed and relaxed. This year,let that inner farm girl or farm boy in you, come out to play. Romp with the lambs, sit with the sheep, and get up to your elbows in fleece. Our sheep our very friendly.  They like to cuddle, take walks on a leash, and listen intently to whatever is on your mind.  They especially like being sung to.They look forward to meeting you.

Here's a chance to know where your fiber comes from.  Just think, instead of saying, "Ya I picked up this yarn at the local superstore". You will be able to proclaim, "This is Essie's wool.  She's a three-year old Leicester Longwool ewe down in Spring Valley.  Isn't her wool gorgeous?"As a CSA member you will be helping us keep endangered breeds like the Leicester Longwools going.  Its not for the faint of heart nor is it particularly lucrative, trying to bring back endangered breeds from near extinction. But it sure is rewarding and we want to share that with you. 

Treat yourself to a fiber CSA share in 2011. If you know someone who is a knitter, crocheter, felter, or spinner a CSA share makes a perfect gift.With a CSA membership you’ll get a monthly newsletter and detailed information about all our sheep.  We even provide you with the name and photo of the sheep that provides your wool. In addition, you will receive:

• A certificate of membership
• Regular farm updates
• A monthly delivery of fiber for twelve months
• Your choice of fleeces and the opportunity to reserve next year’s fleece
• Your choice of natural, colored, or hand dyed fibers
• Treats of angora, silk, corn, glitz, and crumbles
• Ideas for quick and easy fiber projects
• Opportunity to name a lamb
• Invitation to join us for special farm events such as lambing, spring and fall shearing, fiber dyeing days, fiber painting, and lamb roast
• A free spinning lesson
• A 20% discount on our other farm products and Kindred Spirit Farm clothing
• The option of using one of our sheep to enter the lamb lead competition at the Minnesota State Fair.

 Choose the share that’s right for you.

Shepherd’s Share – receive a variety of our yarn spun locally at a mill on our friend’s farm. Enjoy a range of yarns that includes lace weight, fingerling, worsted, aran, gurnsey, lopi, and bulky. To top it off, we’ll add handspun, hand painted, and art yarns.  It’s a mix that will satisfy knitters, crocheters, felters, and weavers.

Spinner’s Share – receive a variety of our fibers as washed wool, locks, roving, sliver, and spinning batts. We’ll sneak in crumbles, glitz, silk, corn, angora, and mohair just to make things really exciting.

Each share comes in three levels: half, full, and double.

• Shepherd’s Half Share is $95.00 for a total of 2 pounds of yarn
• Shepherd’s Full Share is $160.00 for a total of 4 pounds of yarn
• Shepherd’s Double Share is $320.00 for a total of 8 pounds of yarn
• Spinner’s Half Share is $95.00 for a total of 3 pounds of fiber
• Spinner’s Full Share is $160.00 for a total of 6 pounds of fiber
• Spinner’s Double Share is $310.00 for a total 12 pounds of fiber

CSA shares are payable in full via personal check, Pay Pal, master card or visa prior to the first shipment. We realize that not everyone can come to our farm for deliveries.  So we will gladly mail the fiber and yarn to you.  We are also talking with local yarn shops about the possibility of delivering at their stores. The 2011 season begins with lambing and the first shipment in April. Shipments or deliveries will be made every other month for the rest of the year: June, August, October, December, and February.We limit the number of shares to ensure that each member gets our best fibers.

When you join, we’ll send you a questionnaire about your fiber and colorway preferences.  You tell us what you want and we’ll do our best to produce fiber and yarn to your specifications. Its like having your own fiber farm and mini mill.  How cool is that?

CSA Share prices include postage via priority mail within the contiguous United States. Additional shipping costs will be added to orders sent to Alaska, Hawaii and outside the U.S.

Please contact us at info@kindredspiritfarm.com is you have questions.  CSA shares can be purchased from our website using PayPal, with a credit card from our farm store on localharvest.org, or by mailing a check to 

Kindred Spirit Farm

20232 121st Avenue

Spring Valley,, MN 55975