In March this year, I had the very great privilege of visiting Granite Haven, a Gotland sheep and Llama farm in Central Victoria. Cheryl Crosbie shared her story of introducing Gotland sheep to Australia, improving the quality of their fleece over many years and her approach to promoting the health and wellbeing of her sheep and the land they graze on.

Her story and my experiences of spinning this delightful fibre have just been published in the Fall 2016 issue of Spin-Off.

It is available electronically now. Whilst print copies are on sale in the US, they take about a month to get to Australia so I haven’t seen the flesh and blood version yet.

If you enjoy a farm story, you are curious about long wools or Gotland sheep in particular, I hope you will give it a read.