Diversified Family Farm since 1987
Michigan Merinos proudly carries fiber products created at Happy Goat Lucky Ewe Fiber Farm.
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Super-soft and lofty, our 100% Merino Wool yarn is sourced from our own Happy Goat Lucky Ewe Fiber Farm and it is spun at Stonehenge Fiber Mill, making it 100% Michigan-grown and processed. Our wool is grown on our MEAEP-certified farm to ensure that whatever you create with it is both climate-beneficial and amazingly soft for everyday wear. 6-8 Skeins can make a beautiful simple sweater (pattern depending), while even just a single skein is enough for a cute hat or small gloves! For this season, we also carry a limited amount of Superioryarn from Why Knot Fibers. Kat buys the wool from our sheep and has it processed. We thought this might be a nice way for folks to try wool from our sheep and fall in love with Why Knot Fibersat the same time. We offer our yarn in natural and in a variety of hand-dyed colors. If you would like a custom color, we do make custom dye batches at an extra $5 per pound. Please email us with your request. Want to add a fun splash of texture and color to your spinning project? Our spinner’s mohair locks are hand dyed in a variety of beautiful tonal colors and mixes to add that extra finishing touch to your handspun yarn. We also offer undyed locks if you want to add some natural softness and sheen to your project. Our dyed mohair locks are $10 per ounce, and our undyed locks are also $10 per ounce. All locks are sold in 1 oz. quantities, except for our one-offs and remnants. To add more ounces, increase the quantity. If you would like a custom color, we do make custom dye batches at an extra $5 per pound. Please email us with your request. Looking for a gift for a crafty friend, but don’t know what colorway best suits them? Let them shop to their heart’s content with a gift card! These make a fantastic gift for any occasion for anybody: Know someone outdoorsy? They can pick up a moisture-wicking super warm 100% merino wool hat in their favorite color, along with some camp soap for their next adventure. Have a fiber lover in your life? Our 100% merino wool yarn and our spinner’s locks will delight them. Are you or a friend trying to make more eco-friendly adjustments in your life? Try our 100% wool dryer balls and never buy micro-plastic infused dryer sheets again. Purchasing this digital gift card creates a unique code, which you can choose to have emailed to yourself or to the recipient. Then, the gift card recipient can enter this code at checkout to subtract the gift card value from their order total. This gift card never expires. We established in 1987, as Happy Goat Lucky Ewe Fiber Farm (a hobby farm) and in 2017 as Michigan Merinos (a working farm). We grow the wool (and mohair in our handspun yarn, from our Angora goats) in the products that we sell, and carry other U. S. made products such as Serendipityknitting needles. As a MAEAP-certified farm, we utilize state-certified, ecologically-friendly farming practices to provide you with biodegradable/low carbon impact fiber products, which are grown locally in Michigan and enjoyed globally. 👍The 2026 natural color batch of merino yarn is beautiful! It’s a multi-toned brown (we threw six natural color fleeces together). And we have three weights of white merino for you discerning knitters. A lovely bulky, and two types of worsted skeins. The 156 yard skein is perfect for the one-quick-project weekend. Then, for you sweater makers we’ve dyed batches of 6 skeins together. Each is 236 yards, 3.9 ounces and 3-ply worsted. Four with make a beautiful top town raglan sweater. If you’re adding in cables, get an extra skein to be safe! By the way, thank you for supporting the farm each year we add to the infrastructure. Your purchases help us improve the farm by making our practices more eco-friendly and sustainable. This spring we will be frost seeding the pastures. The sheep bought handling and lambing equipment. If you visit in May, you’ll see the equipment at work. In 2025 we plastered and insulated the wool shed, and this coming summer we will ge
Happy Goat Lucky Ewe Fiber Farm Established in 1987, as a hobby farm, supplies the wool for many of the products sold by Michigan Merinos. We are MAEAP-certified, and committed to creating our fine Merino wool using environmentally safe and climate-conscious practices. Established in 1987, Happy Goat Lucky Ewe Fiber Farm is owned and operated by Bridget Kavanagh. Happy Goat Lucky Ewe Fiber Farm and Michigan Merinos are located north of Mason, Michigan. We are home to 50+ Merino sheep, as well as a small herd of Angora goats, which supply us with the eco-friendly fiber in our home-grown products. Our farm is also home to a pollinator sanctuary. In the spring of 2018, we prepped our soil and planted 5.8 acres of wildflowers and seed grasses for pollinators (thanks to Environmental Quality Incentives Program [EQIP] incentives from USDA). The buffer strips of flowers surround the pastures. We did this mostly for the fact that mono-culture farming is great for pollinators for two weeks, when the crops are flowering, but where do bees, dragonflies, butterflies and hummingbirds find food after the crops have been pollinated? They need to eat, and we have the land to feed them. We have always had a garden for our farm visitors, the buffer strips were a natural extension. So, read on about our history. But think about making an appointment to visit, there's so much more to see in person! We have been an operating hobby farm since 1987 and got serious about farming (as in making a living) in 2017. Our property is the original Dobie Farm, which was settled in 1836. In 1991 Grandpa Doc gave the kids an ewe lamb to bottle feed. My son was four at the time, my daughter was three. We named the ewe, Meryl Sheep (Sesame Street gets the credit) and she was the beginning of a love affair with fleece. From that point forward we began to collect fiber animals - I bought a small herd of Angora goats from a friend, and picked up additional does; then I picked up more sheep and found myself obsessed with spinning and felting and knitting - so much for the horses. We rescued a few sheep, took in a bunch more when a friend moved to California, adopted a bottle lamb (again) - and the next thing you know we have a flock/herd of over 30 animals with spring kids and lambs adding to the mix. Today, the farm is home to a flock of 50 Merino sheep, as well as our flagship Angora goats. We utilize the wool they grow for us in a variety of ways: roving for spinners, handspun yarns, millspun: yarn, hats, headbands, cowls and socks, dryerballs, and so much more. We are thankful that so many people are interested in our ecologically-conscious practices and continue to support us. We are always trying to use our wool in new and exciting ways, so please stop in to see what we’re currently up to! Want to visit the farm? To learn more, check out these articles about our farm. City Pulse Article, May 2019 Lansing Journal Article, March 2019 Great Lakes Fiber Shed Directory Merinos are often heavily wrinkled. Our shearer takes his time to avoid nicking the sheep.
Meet Bridget Kavanagh
Farm Owner · Since 1987
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