02/04/2026
Our local fiber community is a family. We’re not just vendors and teachers, we support and uplift each other. Amy and Melinda have have lost everything, and if you can help, please do! 💛
ETA For those of you who would like to help, we are working on a direct donate button on the website at therossfarm.com
It would mean the world to us If you’d help In that manner ❤️
https://www.therossfarm.com/news/the-historic-1910-ross-farm-barn-is-gone/
I suppose I should say something. It’s on the news now so everyone will know. My personal version of hell keeps expanding.
Last night around 11pm I got a call that the iconic big barn at the farm was “fully engulfed” and a total loss. All of our heritage and rare breed sheep were in the barn. They were due to lamb in 12 days. They did not survive.
The skid loader’s tracks were frozen. It wouldn’t move so it caught fire too.
Wonderful Oliver saved the big tractor *we think* with just melted plastic and broken glass. The volunteer firemen kept it contained and saved the rest of the structures and equipment.
Melinda lost her whole flock AND all her shearing equipment.
We lost tools, equipment and basically my history and my future.
There will be no lambs to cuddle or fleeces to prepare this year. They’re all with Drew now. Everything he loved is with him now.
