Welcome to Greywether Farm

Icelandic Sheep

est. 2017

At Greywether Farm, we raise registered horned Icelandic Sheep here in the foothills of North Central Vermont. We offer high quality breedstock, as well as grass-fed lamb and naturally tanned sheepskins. Our focus as shepherds is on natural husbandry, improving our flock’s health and genetics through careful and intentional breeding, and supporting healthy soil and land through rotational grazing.

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There’s a window in the back corner of the barn that was, I assume, sawed out one afternoon long ago by someone desperate to feel the gauzy February sunshine pour across their frostbitten face and then tacked over later that summer after a side

The tenacity of this year's rams has inadvertantly ushered in a new wave of the postmodern livestock detention center architectural movement.

🙄😂

Winnowing down to the final grazing days of this somber and achingly beautiful fall.

#sheep #icelandicsheep #sheepofinstagram #grazing #sunset #mountains #rotationalgrazing #vermont #vermontbyvermonters #vermontliving #newengland

The first batch of our 2025 lamb is in! We're fully restocked with all cuts of our 100% grassfed, antibiotic-free lamb for the final string of October markets. Boneless legs, ground, stew, shanks, loin chops, offal, soup bones, shoulder roasts, and m

Of the six color patterns that are found in Icelandic sheep- earnest solid, sophisticated mouflon, convivial badgerface, orthodox white and avant garde SGGM- its the morally corrupt grey pattern that you need to watch out for. All sheep are born carr

During the summer I mercilessly rank each grazing cell, running a shifting hierarchy in my mind of which sections are the best, and which leave me with a vague sense of unease for the duration of the flock’s occupancy therein. Often, a grazing

The golden resolution to a day punctuated by strawberries and deerflies.

#sheep #icelandicsheep #sheepoftheday #sheepofinstagram #june #sunset #grazing #grassfed #smallfarms #grassfedlamb #pasture #farmstead #farminglife #meadow #pastoral #lambs

There are still a few spots left in our Full Flock Health Clinics this summer, the first of which is happening next Tuesday, June 24 from 10-2! Join us for a hands-on day on the farm as we run through the ins and outs of a full flock health check. We

Last week, somewhere in between getting the sheep back out on grass and bottle feeding Beatrix’s ewe lamb and ear tagging and painting signs for market season, Ilka unceremoniously plopped down the final two lambs on the year in the northern co

I woke up to my alarm at 3 this morning. Through bleary eyes, I opened the barn camera app on my phone to see Drifa standing munching hay, her waterbag gently swaying between her back legs as she chewed. I watched her for a few minutes but there she

Last spring, I was chatting with a friend in Oregon about sheep genetics when she casually mentioned, “you should give AI a try.” I brushed her comment aside; although I’ve long swooned over the rams from Iceland that are used for a

The most perfect 7.5# black solid ewelamb to kick off lambing proper! Out of Elio and Idra. Born just before lunch, at the tail end of a spring snowstorm.

#sheep #icelandicsheep #lambs #lambing #sheepoftheday #farmanimals #babyanimals #vermont #sma

In early January, the snow took over, moving in with conviction and endless inches to back it up. We've all been relegated to dooryards and narrow pathways for months; to dip into the untouched snowscape was to be swallowed whole. The sheep have been

Yesterday I ran through pre lambing health checks for the ewes, trimming hooves before their growing pregnant bellies make it too uncomfortable to do so, and dosing everyone with a selenium-forward cocktail of herbs and vitamins to give them a boost

Here now, six years a parent. Here having never really understood just how demanding this role would be. How my sense of self would be sacrificed, laid down in its entirety at the feet of these beings with tears and exhaustion and incalculable love.

I’ve always admired farms that adhere to an organized naming system, methodically choosing lamb names beginning with matching letters year to year. Or choosing a different letter for each dam line, or a theme (tree names, flower names) for each

Ikla and Arwen 🩶

#icelandicsheep #sheep #sheepoftheday #sheepofinstagram #smallfarm #livestock #farmanimals #barnyard #wool #fiberflock #grassfed #grassfedlamb #friends

This morning, after days of unyeilding arctic skies and knifing snow and the rousing of every last draft in this old house, the wind reconciled its rage and the sky softened, and on tepid hoof, the sheep ventured outside for the first time since Sund

Sheepskins are here! This batch came out so beautifully, especially since I was convinced they were doomed after a series of laughably unfortunate events befell them this September; there was rain-felted wool, a run-in with a burdock patch, a miscomm

There’s a window in the back corner of the barn that was, I assume, sawed out one afternoon long ago by someone desperate to feel the gauzy February sunshine pour across their frostbitten face and then tacked over later that summer after a side

The tenacity of this year's rams has inadvertantly ushered in a new wave of the postmodern livestock detention center architectural movement.

🙄😂

Winnowing down to the final grazing days of this somber and achingly beautiful fall.

#sheep #icelandicsheep #sheepofinstagram #grazing #sunset #mountains #rotationalgrazing #vermont #vermontbyvermonters #vermontliving #newengland

The first batch of our 2025 lamb is in! We're fully restocked with all cuts of our 100% grassfed, antibiotic-free lamb for the final string of October markets. Boneless legs, ground, stew, shanks, loin chops, offal, soup bones, shoulder roasts, and m

Of the six color patterns that are found in Icelandic sheep- earnest solid, sophisticated mouflon, convivial badgerface, orthodox white and avant garde SGGM- its the morally corrupt grey pattern that you need to watch out for. All sheep are born carr

During the summer I mercilessly rank each grazing cell, running a shifting hierarchy in my mind of which sections are the best, and which leave me with a vague sense of unease for the duration of the flock’s occupancy therein. Often, a grazing

The golden resolution to a day punctuated by strawberries and deerflies.

#sheep #icelandicsheep #sheepoftheday #sheepofinstagram #june #sunset #grazing #grassfed #smallfarms #grassfedlamb #pasture #farmstead #farminglife #meadow #pastoral #lambs

There are still a few spots left in our Full Flock Health Clinics this summer, the first of which is happening next Tuesday, June 24 from 10-2! Join us for a hands-on day on the farm as we run through the ins and outs of a full flock health check. We

Last week, somewhere in between getting the sheep back out on grass and bottle feeding Beatrix’s ewe lamb and ear tagging and painting signs for market season, Ilka unceremoniously plopped down the final two lambs on the year in the northern co

I woke up to my alarm at 3 this morning. Through bleary eyes, I opened the barn camera app on my phone to see Drifa standing munching hay, her waterbag gently swaying between her back legs as she chewed. I watched her for a few minutes but there she

Last spring, I was chatting with a friend in Oregon about sheep genetics when she casually mentioned, “you should give AI a try.” I brushed her comment aside; although I’ve long swooned over the rams from Iceland that are used for a

The most perfect 7.5# black solid ewelamb to kick off lambing proper! Out of Elio and Idra. Born just before lunch, at the tail end of a spring snowstorm.

#sheep #icelandicsheep #lambs #lambing #sheepoftheday #farmanimals #babyanimals #vermont #sma

In early January, the snow took over, moving in with conviction and endless inches to back it up. We've all been relegated to dooryards and narrow pathways for months; to dip into the untouched snowscape was to be swallowed whole. The sheep have been

Yesterday I ran through pre lambing health checks for the ewes, trimming hooves before their growing pregnant bellies make it too uncomfortable to do so, and dosing everyone with a selenium-forward cocktail of herbs and vitamins to give them a boost

Here now, six years a parent. Here having never really understood just how demanding this role would be. How my sense of self would be sacrificed, laid down in its entirety at the feet of these beings with tears and exhaustion and incalculable love.

I’ve always admired farms that adhere to an organized naming system, methodically choosing lamb names beginning with matching letters year to year. Or choosing a different letter for each dam line, or a theme (tree names, flower names) for each

Ikla and Arwen 🩶

#icelandicsheep #sheep #sheepoftheday #sheepofinstagram #smallfarm #livestock #farmanimals #barnyard #wool #fiberflock #grassfed #grassfedlamb #friends

This morning, after days of unyeilding arctic skies and knifing snow and the rousing of every last draft in this old house, the wind reconciled its rage and the sky softened, and on tepid hoof, the sheep ventured outside for the first time since Sund

Sheepskins are here! This batch came out so beautifully, especially since I was convinced they were doomed after a series of laughably unfortunate events befell them this September; there was rain-felted wool, a run-in with a burdock patch, a miscomm