Best of The British Six

Fernhill Farm is proud to share with you our amazing lustre flock which has the most luxurious, long and shiny fleeces.

The breeds that create our Lustre Flock are Teeswater, Blue Faced-Leicester, Wensleydale, Leicester long wool, Romney and Shetland.

Our story creating luxurious lustre locks;

Since we first added the Teeswater ram into our Pure Shetland flock this created our Smashem as a beginning to our crossbred ewe genetics, stronger than a purebred with their delicate tendencies, our Lustre long wool flock originated from Shetland ewes with Teeswater Ram.

We then added a colourful BFL Ram to cover these half-bred ewes and also pure Shetlands. The BFL Shetland ewes were born as a finer, smaller half-bred ewes, offering different fibre qualities alongside our Smashem.

Over time, our speciality fibre flock gradually multiplied with the added genetic addition of a Rasta Ram in the form of a coloured Leicester Long Wool and dark Wensleydale rams, and thus the length and lustre have been developing naturally to grow fine, colourful, curly locks like you just don’t see from a commercial ewe here on the Mendip Hills in the UK.

Specifically, this flock are 100% grass-fed and only comes into the shed for shearing or difficult lambing issues which are extremely rare as these girls are so naturally hardy. Their characters are a reflection of their curly wool types, a bit bonkers with long legs like their wool, happy and bouncy and demanding our attention as they are very observant and vocal about their needs, which we feel demonstrates their unique niches being just 0.01% of the global sheep population.

The Best of the British six comes from adding coloured Romney rams over this mix of genetic diversity and the results are just WOW … their wool is something we never believed possible to achieve and the most important aspect of this Fernhill Fibre Farm creation, is their happiness in themselves as sheep living naturally on this land.

Their meat is also lean and mature with nutrient density unlike any young lamb meat dish can offer, and this is the flock that offers mutton for our Mutton Club suppers - a social dining experience on a winters night where we celebrate togetherness in its simplest, prehistoric manor.

Finally - sheepskins from this flock are just not in the shop long enough to list as they fly off the shelves with their long lustrous curls. They are a delightful reminder of the true offerings sheep give to us as Human beings and that our holistic approach is the very best method of living regeneratively within our struggling planet.

A spinner commented - “it feels like merino”, but it’s local, not imported from across the globe and verified as regenerative by the Savory Institute, and available on the Land to Market Platform as we continue to manage the land according to biodiversity developments and the ability to capture this information and share with the world.

So why not try some of our wonderful offerings from this amazing flock we are so lucky to have. Our shop includes some amazing things including spinning fleeces, felting fleeces, rovings, and many more fun things to enjoy.

Below are just a few of the amazing things we have on offer in our shop in the section “best of the British six” To see more here is the link:

https://fernhillfibre.co.uk/shop?category=Best+of+British+Six