24710 Reynolds Hwy            Willits CA 95490
707-459-9590
Contact Us

---

Home :  Wool Fleece :  Comforters :  Orders

---

We are located in the beautiful Little Lake Valley in Willits, Mendocino County, California. Willits has been dubbed "The Gateway to the Redwoods" and is a popular vacation spot known for the Skunk Train. The lush pastures of the Little Lake Valley and the surrounding hillsides are home to a variety of livestock. One neighbor has a large herd of dairy goats for commercial cheese production; another has a herd of miniature horses, still another breeds and trains cutting horses.

Here at Merry Meadows Farm, sheep are a way of life. Our flock of 300 started some 20+ years ago with a few Finn-cross ewes. In the early days, we tried to market lambs for meat, but our soft hearts would break every time we saw our babies leaving the safety of the farm. Some claimed we went soft in the head when we started keeping most of our babies, and our focus changed to wool production. We introduced a retired champion Targhee ram to our girls, and they hit it off just fine, producing many triplets and twins. Sometimes, a cute little black lamb would pop out and, we entered the world of natural colored wool. The Targhee cross ewes were then bred to our Merino ram producing some outstanding fine-wooled babies. These Merino-crosses were then bred to Cormo rams and their offspring have produced some of the most outstanding white hand-spinning fleeces we have seen. Our first Cormo ram consistently produced black lambs when bred to our colored ewes. We now have an assortment of Cormo crosses in lovely shades of silver and grey.