Welcome to Schoolhouse Farm. We are a small farm on a picturesque hilltop in central New Hampshire, where we raise and sell registered Icelandic sheep, grow organic hay, and make our own compost for sale. Our diverse range of value-added products, includes: grass-fed meat; fleece, yarn, and roving; colorful, soft pelts from our own flock; and our new custom-woven throws, made from farm-raised fleece. We are listed with Eat Wild under their Directory of Pastured Product Farms. If you go to our "For Sale" page and click on The Studio, you can view Wendy's original sheep-themed paintings and prints that are now available for purchase as well. By navigating our new website, you can learn more about us, our farm philosophy, our products, and our sheep. In addition, we've provided links to resources that have been invaluable to us as beginning shepherds.

The 2012 crop of Schoolhouse lambs have arrived! We had 22 lambs born this past month, in all the colors and patterns that are so unique to Icelandic sheep. Our last ewe delivered her twin lambs on Saturday, April 28th, and all these babies have lots of growing to do over the summer months on lush pasture. It's always a riot, after the ups and downs of lambing, to watch newborn lambs bouncing and running around the paddock with their moms frantically chasing and calling for them. We are pleased with the quality breeding potential of many of our lambs this year, and will be keeping several for ourselves.

We experienced an unusual winter and spring here in central New Hampshire. Winter brought minor snowfall and less insulating cover than in previous years, and spring was characterized by dramatically fluctuating and record-breaking temperatures, in addition to an April with very little rain. We went from near 90 degree weather in March to killing frost and below 20 degree nights at the end of April. Because of the wacky weather patterns, our pastures have been slow to grow to their spring potential. Fortunately, we've had soaking rains in the last week or so, and with rising temperatures, we're finally starting to see the pastures and hayfields green up and thicken. Because our sheep obtain all their nutrition from our home-grown hay and pasture forage, we depend on a good crop of grass and legumes each year.

As our new lambs begin to grow and develop, we will be taking pictures and posting descriptions of each of them on our For Sale/Icelandic Sheep page. We usually have this information available in early June, so please check back then to see what we have for sale. We are also taking our meat orders now for next October. For more information, please go to our Grassfed Lamb Meat page.

Until then, enjoy this video of our spring 2012 lambs romping around the barn paddock, and showing off their athleticism.