Nature & Nurture: Working with Animals at Yellowstone Gateway Museum & Zoom
Wed, Oct 18
|Virtual & In-person Event
SHEEP RANCHING AND FIBER ARTISTRY! LORNA MARCHINGTON, LIFELONG SHEEP RANCHER/HISTORIAN HELEN HARRIS, LIFELONG FIBER (WOOL) ARTIST & MT FIBERSHED ORGANIZER
Time & Location
Oct 18, 2023, 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM MDT
Virtual & In-person Event
About the event
More Info on the Event at the Museum Can be found Here
About the speakers:
Lorna Marchington is a member of a fifth-generation Park County ranching family, residing on the flats of Mill Creek in the heart of Paradise Valley at Barely *A* Sheep Ranch. She cut her teeth in the lambing shed on her parents’ ranch, where she now resides and raises a small flock of Columbia-Lincoln cross sheep. Growing up with 4-H, Lorna was always fascinated with sheep, winning many awards with her animals. Lorna enjoying sharing her knowledge at various venues. She has brought bum lambs to Ag Days for Park County Schools during the fall as well as to the museum during Living History Day in June.
The sheep she raises provides locals with farm-to-fork fresh lamb. A portion of the wool is sent to a mill in New York that uses…