A 15-acre small farm · Puget Sound, Washington
Josh and Erin bought a derelict Longbranch property in 2016 and set to work. Today the farm raises sheep, goats, Angora rabbits and hens for fiber and food, hand-dyes yarn on site, makes cold-process goat milk soap, and grows 1½ acres of organic heirloom produce.
Hand-dyed on the farm Cottage-mill processed in WA Heirloom varieties from our garden
What the farm makes
Everything the store sells starts on these fifteen acres — or a few miles of it.
Fiber
Sheep, goats and Angora rabbits are raised for their fiber, which becomes yarn. We also source fleeces from other small local producers and have them processed at cottage fiber mills in Washington State. When the yarn comes home, Erin hand-dyes it here on the farm.
On the shelf
Worsted, DK, sport and lace weights in wool, alpaca and Pygora blends — plus hand-knit hats, fingerless gloves and a brioche cowl.
See yarn & fiberSoap & bath
Our old-fashioned goat milk and lard soaps are made in small batches from the milk and fat our own herd provides — the same closed loop that feeds the compost heap feeds the animals.
How it's made
Small batches of bars and sets, with washcloths woven to pair.
Produce
In the southwest corner of the pasture sits our organic vegetable garden, growing varieties you will not often see at the store — six varieties of garlic, tons of tomatoes, sugar pod peas, green beans, beets and cabbage. Herbs and flowers beside the house add flavor, tea, and natural dye.
From the garden
Fresh, organic produce picked in season from our own garden.
The dye table
Fleece becomes yarn at a Washington cottage mill, then returns to Longbranch for hand dyeing. Colors are pulled from what is around the farm: garden herbs, flowers, and the wool itself.
Dyed in small pots, spun at nearby cottage mills, and made into goods by hand here on the farm.
Land, water & livestock
Longbranch sits at the southern tip of the Key Peninsula, where seasonal waterways run in the wet months and a year-round creek feeds Filucy Bay.
“Our animals provide fuel for compost that nourishes our garden and pasture; in turn, our pasture and garden nourish our animals.”
That closed loop is the idea behind everything we make — fiber, soap and food all come from the same land.
There is more work to do, and we will keep going — hand in hand with the Conservation District — to maintain healthy land and a healthy farm.
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