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Newspaper
Country Today
Location
Eau Claire, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
May 01, 1985
Page
6
At Rainbow Fleece Farm near New Glarus 220 guests gather for an annual sheep shearing day described as the season’s social highlight. Guests renew friendships, enjoy a gourmet lamb menu, and observe pre event chores including barn cleaning, washing and carding wool, dyeing fleeces for sale.
Ms. Reedy operates Rainbow Fleece Farm with multi colored Jacob, Columbia and Cotswold sheep. Buyers from Iowa Illinois and Wisconsin select fleeces on shearing day watching fleece shed from the sheep. The farm offers walnut dyed tan fleece cochineal scarlet and logwood purple, with breeding stock sold nationally. Reedy left a college teaching career to pursue full time lamb and wool business earning multiple championship fleeces including 1983 Wisconsin State Fair Natural Colored Fleece Grand Champion and 1982 National Lamb and Wool Show National Champion Colored Fleece.
Monroe man David Brennan was photographed Saturday at Rainbow Fleece Farm clipping a black ewe with shears. Photo by Amy S.
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