Alpaca Hobby Farm and National Alpaca Days, A success!

Thank you to all who came to our Open House weekend! You all made it a success. Saturday was a beautiful cool fall day with loads of families visiting. The Alpacas were very intrigued with all the visitors and enoyed all the carrots they got to have. Many thanks to Anastasia for giving such informative tours! Sunday was rainy but you all still came by. Unfortunately the boys tucked themselves away and were not to interested in their visitors. The shop will be open most Sundays, call to be sure. As usual due to family obligations we may be closed (203-736-2630) Our next Hobby Farm Open House date will be Thanksgiving weekend 11 am to 4pm. The farm will be open with the critters welcoming you. Our picnic table is always available to you when you visit, so bring a snack along and enjoy the fall leaves, the farm and do some holiday shopping. Fall is my favorite time of year here on the farm. I'm always adding new items this time of the year so that we have a wonderful selection for the holidays. We are located at 82 Freeman Road in Oxford. Hope to see you. Happy fall!

Local hobby farms open farms to the public

As a reminder we are opening with a farm an educational tour and demos on Sept 26 and 27 11 am to 4 pm. We will be one of 6 farms participating in this event. Stop on by and pick up your brochure for the other 5 farms. All within driving distance of one another. A great way to spend a day and its all free! Hope to see some of you. Call if you have any questions. 203-736-2630

September 26th and 27th Join us for National Alpaca Days

Dream Come True Farm Open House Oxford, CT
The farm will be open September 26 & 27th from 11am-4pm and will welcome guests to join in activities including meeting the Alpacas, demos on spinning, felting and fiber preparation. Dont forget shopping for unique wool products and gifts made here for the family in our farm shop. Farm-grown yarn & roving is also available for handspinners, knitters and weavers. Admission is free
For more info contact the farm at 203-736-2630

Don't forget we are open most Sundays unless a family obligation arises. Call to be sure we are here.

Farm shop open!

Another dream come true! our farm shop has been opened and how we have expanded! The new shop has plenty of room, with a small work table in the center for lessons or to take a seat and share some yarn talk! We even have a rocker out front so if your hubby comes along he can sit a spell while you shop and listen to some good old fashion swing music. The shop is full of yarn and more being added daily as I spin up this years harvest. New potpourri mixtures, turned wood bowls, kiln fired glass jewelry, hand knits, woven items goat milk soap, jams, maple syrup, bread mixes and so much more! We will be open most weekends 11 am to 4 pm from now until thanksgiving. On occasion we may not be open on a weekend day due to family obligations so give a call to make sure we are here. I hope you'll on by and see the shop and take a peek at the critters. We have a big Farm Open House for National Alpaca weekend on the last weekend in September! Be sure come on by and learn all about the alpacas and all of our fiber animals. See you all soon. Call anytime if you need a week day visit.

Dream Come True's Li'l Red Barn Shop is up and running!

Loads of handspun hand dyed yarns, bulky warm hand knit hats and a great selection of woven shawls!

Kiln fired glass jewelry, goat milk soap, potpourri, hand knits and wooden tureasures by Mike

Yarns, natural and dyed, alpaca and sheep! Oil paintings of sheep by local artist!

Farm Tour Day Saturday June 27th

Farm Tour Day on Saturday was a great success. We had a steady amount of visitors who enjoyed the farm and shop. I must say they were some the nicest folks! Below is just a few pics of some of our wonderful guests. After the rain we have had in June the sun was welcomed by all, the visitors, the animals and Mike and I! We had a great day that ended with good food, good wine and GOOD friends! What a way to end an already wonderful day. Thanks to all who attended and all who were here to help!

We had the best people come to our farm!

More visitors on "Farm Tour Day" And meet Anastashia (blue T shirt) who will work a couple mornings on our farm! Lucky us, what a gal!

Dream Come True Farm website has been updated.

www.DreamComeTrueYarn.com

A girls gotta do what a girls gotta do!

With Mike and his hip replacememnt when a leak sprung on the barn roof my niece Kelly and I decided a girls gotta do what a girls gotta do. We tood care of the problem and now the critters will stay nice and dry until Mike can re-roof this end.

These boots have seen a lot of work lately! Whew! Im putting my feet up!

Hanging around enjoying farm life!

Could it get any greener?

The herb garden is doing fantastic! lots of great sachets for this year.

These tomatoe plants loved the rain! At least something did! They are 6 ft tall!

Oxford farm tours, join in the fun!

Homestead Hobby Farm Tour
June 27 and 28, 2009
10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.
There will be a tour of local Homestead Hobby Farms in Oxford. You will be able to tour peoples small farms and talk to them about how they are Getting "Back to Basics" and how they go about it in their daily lives. So come and support your small local farmers...

Coon Hollow Farm- 156 Punkup Rd, Oxford 881-1986 -- Tim & Dawn Sotir
http://www.coonhollowfarmct.com/ or CoonHollowFarm@aol.com

Featured items: Alpaca & Sheep items, Handspun fibers and wool, Roving for spinners, Maple Syrup, Honey, Herbal Vineagers, Goats Milk Soap
Activities: Spinning Demos, Drop Spindle demos, see a Bee Observation Hive and meet a "Queen", refreshments, and more...

Dream Come True Farm- 82 Freeman Rd, Oxford 736-2630 -- Mike & Pam Blasko
www.pamsfiber.blogspot.com or Dctfyarns@aol.com

Featured items: Items such as handspun yarn, hand knit garment, wool for spinning and goat milk soap. In addition to these products our farm offers, herbal items from our herb garden, hand cut kiln fired glass jewelry, and wood working. Spinning wool into yarn is just one of the classes we offer here. Contact us http://www.pamsfiber.blogspot.com/ or call 203- 736-2630 Open anytime by appointment or open on most weekends. Call for more info.

Secret Whisper Farm- 236 Park Rd, Oxford 881-9196 -- Dave & Helen Caitlin
http://secretwhisperfarm.blogspot.com/

Featured items: Eggs and Chickens, Ducks, Alpacas, etc.

Moose Hill Farm- 44 Moose Hill Rd, Oxford 881-1354 -- Becky Laughlin

Featured items: Eggs, Honey, Herbs, Perennial plants, etc.


Join us for some farm fun!!!

Shop opening soon

Most of you that know us know that Mike is having his hip replaced. So for now we are opening Memorial weekend by appointment. In June I will list regular shop days and hours that we will be open. The shop is full, (over flowing) and the customers that have come have been happy with the yarn and fiber selection! Thank you for your patience while we get through the surgery. I hope to see you over the summer!

Three bags full! Yarn, yarn, yarn! And more yarn!

The wool is in the bag! Lots of new yarns to see. These market bags are wonderful for keeping your yarns in. Im finding uses daily for our new market bags. You need to try a few!!

Shearing day has come and gone. We have about 55 lbs of wool to be spun! Yippie!

Doing your part is not so hard. Make SMALL chages to make sure we have a HUGE healthy future! Start by NOT using plastic bags.

1% of sales from our String Bags goes to Member For The Planet

Reduce your carbon footprint use string bags instead of plastic

Our Farm shop is now carrying 100% organic string bags which we had made especially for our shop! Great to stuff and go! We use them for shopping to put my roving in while spinning or transporting it to spinning event, stuff with yarn and hang from a peg or in a closet. I use as a diaper bag for Luke, I store his rattles and books in them. Of course I take them to the grocery store and farm market.They are great for so many things. And the best part is they are organic!
You probably know about the health and environmental benefits of organic food. Why stop there? Organic growing methods support biodiversity and healthy ecosystems, improve the quality of soil and often use less water.
Proven over generations, the woven netting of string shopping bags makes them compact, lightweight, and able to stretch to hold up to 40 lbs. This is a go everywhere, use for everything tote that will never go out of style – especially in organic cotton. Visit http://www.pamsfiber.etsy.com/ or e-mail me if interested in a few of our bags.

Now available through our farm shop and Etsy 100% certified organic string bags www.pamsfiber.etsy.com

100% certified Organic Sring Bags available now through our farm shop

Luke on Grandpa's (Oompa's) tractor. What a big boy! Future Farmer.

More signs of Spring on the farm, the color green! I planted the lettuce and spinach, the day lillies are all over and the mud is gone from the thaw!

Spring has sprung!

Wet felted alpaca neck bags

I have found the perfect project inspired by my friend Dawn from Coon Hollow Farm, alpaca neck bags. This is a perfect use for the neck and good leg fiber from the alpaca boys from shearing time. I gathered all the leg and neck wool that was not so bad and mixed it all together. Then as a surprise to me I was given 2 huge bags of Alpaca Hills neck and leg wool! What to do with all of this was the question? I cleaned it all up, kept the best and sent it to the mill to be made into felt through their wet felting method. I got back at least 20 huge pieces! So I have been playing for the last 2 weeks with it making a few things. These bags are completed so I thought I would share. The necklace part is from our Babydoll Southdown sheep made into kind of a braid. I think the buttons just finish these bags off. I have put deer antler button on 2 and some dogwood buttons of 2. I'm making them all about the buttons. Unique and of beauty. So my search is on for buttons! Hand stitched all the way around with a braided necklace completes the bag. I think they will be great to carry your license and cash, when a purse is not needed. Thanks alpaca boys from Dream Come True and Alpaca Hill!

Alpaca felted neck bags

Did I mention that my sheep need a serious diet after their winter lazziness?

March 28th Farm updates

Herb garden, cleaned and ready for those herbs to pop up

YEA, finally spring on the farm. enjoying a ride on the swing

Spring on the farm

There are certainly signs of spring here on the farm this morning as I go outside with Grandson Luke to the wonderful long awaited sunshine to feed. The gardens are cleaned out with tiny little greens peeking out to feel the sun. The maple sugar buckets are all washed and drying on the fence waiting to be put up until next year. We had a great sugar harvest. We have enough syrup to last us until next year and some to sell in the farm shop. The maple trees are budding from that wonderful sap that ran up and down during sugar season. Another sign of spring is the ponies are beginning to shed their long thick winter coats. The days are longer and I'm wanting to spend more time outside with all the animals. We have dried out from the long winter and have no more mud spots. Mud season is hard on a farm, boots getting stuck in the mud and sucked off, slipping and coming in with your backside full of wet mud having to strip down befor you go any further. ! I now get up earlier each morning to enjoy the sun with a cup of coffee coming in the big front window while I contemplate my day. The animals are all out earlier each morning, waiting for breakfast and wanting to visit me for a quick pat while I get their breakfast. Luke is outside with me on the farm enjoying today, the life of a farm boy! Just wait until he can walk! Shearing is just about a month away. Then all the new spinning dyeing and new yarns will be being made for the shop and Etsy. The 60 degree temps that we are having today is a real sign of spring! Life is good here at Dream Come True Farm. Remember to stop by the farm if your in the area we would love to see you.
Check back for all farm news. Hope to see some of you soon. Pam XOXOX

Garlic and day lillies peeking out of the dirt! Spring has sprung! Im sure of it now.

Gardens cleaned up, maple sugar buckets drying out, All ready for spring!

Thanks Mom we thought you would never serve us!

This is the restaurant we eat our hay at. Won't you join us someday?

We can't talk now, we are eating.

We were starving for breakfast, don't we look under nurished?

Who us?

Breakfast time, Luke in the door of the barn, enjoying the sun, alpacas and his new swing!

Newly spun BIG yarns!

I have never spun such BIG yarn. It must me about 2 -3 WPI. I wanted to do something new and different for Spring. I'm calling this collection of yarns "Out Of The Box" Its Big its, crazy its, one of a kind! The colors remind me of a Spring garden. Take a look at the primary colored yarn toward the back, its potholder loops joined together and spun! What a great kids vest this would make. I'm planning a lot more of these BIG yarns over the next few weeks. I need to set these and dry them and then they will be up on Etsy. http://www.pamsfiber.etsy.com/

March11th Farm News

Just a quick note to let everyone know that shearing is just around the corner! Yippie! We are having the flock of sheep and herd of alpacas done on April 26th. Then I should have about 75-80 pounds of fiber to have processed into beautiful soft roving for spinning. As most of you know I spin most of the fiber myself into handspun yarns to offer knitter's through my Etsy shop http://www.pamsfiber.etsy.com/ or our farm shop which will open weekends by appointment or on any given warm spring weekend. The open sign will be out on those weekends. But to be sure you see our yarn, fiber, soaps, maple syrup and honey give us a call and set up an appointment to drop in. I'm finishing up last years fibers as quick as possible but maple syruping takes up a lot of time. Time that is well worth putting in for that sweet all natural syrup. Spring has been in the air around here and we have started to clean up fallen branches and hay from the ground. Next I will rake the leaves that were left on the garden to winter over the plants. Soon We will be in full Spring! After shearing and spinning the dye pots will come out. I plan on more dyeing this year. I'm planning and jotting down ideas for color so that I can really get creative this year.
Giving my girls a year off from lambing has proven to be good for them. Their fleece is longer than ever before and they look great!
So lets all welcome spring together and I will keep you posted on whats what on the farm.