Meet the Farms
Wadhams Collection Farms
Adirondack Field’s Wadhams Collection knits are made possible through our membership in the New York Carbon Farm Network, an interdependent group of small brands and independent designers sourcing Climate Beneficial™ fibers from Upstate New York farms that are implementing Carbon Farm Practices on their lands.
The Carbon Farm Network is organized as a purchasing cooperative, where designers work collaboratively to source fibers and make yarns for the commercial production of textile products. The Network provides Carbon Farm Planning to our collaborating farmers through our affiliate organization, Fibershed.
Image: Blue Pepper Farm Jay, NY
Meet our partner farms.
Blue Pepper Farm Jay, NY Blue Pepper Farm is a regenerative farm producing fiber from a small flock of pasture-raised dairy ewes in New York’s Adirondack Mountains. The farm produces high quality fiber by respecting the interconnectedness of soil, pastures, and the health and happiness of the flock.
Clover Brooke Farm Hyde Park, NY Clover Brooke Farm is a family-run homestead in Hyde Park, New York, built from the ground up by Andrea and Michael Tibbetts, who transformed a long-dormant 1850s farmstead into a working fiber and agricultural farm. Today they raise sheep, llamas, and alpacas alongside an orchard, hop yard, and honeybees.
Dashing Star Farm Millerton, NY Dashing Star is a humane and sustainable New York State Grown & Certified sheep and poultry operation located in the Hudson Valley. All livestock have free range on rotated pastures and are fed locally grown, non-GMO, and organic whole grains and forages, producing high quality, hand-selected fiber.
Essex Farm Essex, NY Essex Farm has been producing a full diet of meats, eggs, dairy, vegetables, fruits, maple syrup, and more since 2004. Owner Kristin Kimball’s recent books - The Dirty Life and Good Husbandry — tell the story of what it’s really like to conjure food and fiber from sun, soil, and hard work in the Adirondacks.
Faraway Farm Alpacas Yorktown Heights, NY High on a hilltop in the historic Hudson Valley, Faraway Farm is home to award-winning huacaya alpacas, prized for their soft, colorful fleece. Organic vegetable gardens, fruit trees, berry bushes, shiitake logs and flowers dot the hillside alongside the alpaca pastures as owners Leda Blumberg and Steve Cole are committed to keeping this enchanting property a sustainable working farm.
Laughing Goat Fiber Farm Ithaca, NY Laughing Goat Fiber Farm is a 50-acre farm perched at the top of a hill in Ithaca, NY, in the heart of New York’s Finger Lakes region. The farm is committed to sustainable, local agriculture and is enrolled in a dedicated agricultural farm easement, ensuring that the land will forever be used for farming purposes.
Lazy Acre Alpacas Bloomfield, NY Lazy Acre Alpacas was started in 2000 by owners Mark and Sharon Gilbride and their five children. Set on 100 acres in the rolling hills of the Finger Lakes, Lazy Acre animals enjoy the lush pastures and comfortable loafing sheds necessary for happy animals and quality fiber.
Little Creek Farm Alpacas North Salem, NY Located in New York’s Hudson Valley, Little Creek Farm is renowned for its top quality Huacaya Alpacas with demonstrated prepotency for fine fiber. A committed NYCBF partner, Little Creek implements the latest standards in carbon beneficial farming.
Pinecroft Farms Waterville, NY Approximately one hour southwest of Syracuse, Pinecroft Farms owners Benjamin and Karin Wood raise diverse sheep herds with wool emblematic of the Upstate New York Climate.
Wedding Hill Farm Greenwich, NY Owner Phil Gitlen is an environmental lawyer and a shepherd who started sheep farming in 2005 with 4 bred ewes. Since then, Wedding Hill has produced about 500 lambs and maintains a flock of about 75 sheep and 40 lambs each year.
Windsong Farm Burdett, NY Windsong Farm is home to a flock of Wensleydale and other lustrous longwool sheep as well as a small herd of grass-fed Belted Galloway cattle. The farm grazes livestock in the uncrowded pastures of the 175 acre farm during the warm months of the year and then provide them hay and bed them on straw, both of which are harvested here on-site.
Image: Clover Brooke Farm, Hyde Park, NY