Homesteading: How to Start A Backyard Flock
August 22 @ 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm
$35.00 – $40.00
Homesteading:
How to Start A Backyard Flock
with Patty Williams
Friday, August 22nd, 2025
6:00 pm – 7:30 pm
Enfield Shaker Museum
447 NH Route 4A
Enfield, NH 03748
This is a hands-on strategizing workshop for those who want to get sheep or recently purchased sheep. Discussion will be had on what is an absolute must for a flock, what is nice to have, and what you can do without. Please bring a notebook. If you have fencing, structures for housing, or other equipment questions (or sheep), please take and bring pictures so we can discuss them. Our goal is for each participant to be armed with good information for making solid educated discussions to be able to use current materials, obtain materials, and avoid major pitfalls of new shepherds.
Who is Patty Williams?
Patty Williams is the owner of Aker Fiber Farm located in Enfield Center, NH. She began working with fiber arts as a young girl with her aunt and mom in Walpole, NH. She learned how to crochet, wash fleeces, draft, or treadle, and card wool along with tying her shoes. She began Aker Fiber Farm part time after leaving the Army with her husband in Virginia. They then purchased the flock that had been supplying their fleeces and moved everyone to New Hampshire where Patty added Shepherd to her resume. Aker Fiber Farm has evolved into a Farm to Yarn Company providing flax to linen and fleece to yarn to customers all over the US and Canada.
Patty began teaching fiber arts without even realizing that was what she was doing. Always wanting to share her passion, she taught friends how to crochet and knit while in grade school and continued as she gathered more skills and moved around the country. Today, she travels up and down the east coast teaching workshops and giving lectures on Shepherding skills, flax, linen, spinning, fiber prep, dyeing, and knitting. Her favorite students are folks that “never thought they could”, as Patty believes everyone CAN!
Advanced Registration Required. Limit to 25 participants.
Cost:
Members – $35
Non-Members – $40
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