Alpaca owners, How you can Help!!!

 

Donate your Fiber/Fleece/Blankets (Huacaya or Suri)

In the name of Sock Brigade, Flaggy Meadow Fiber Works is excepting donations of both suri and huacaya fleeces 3-5" in staple, 26 micron or less sent as individual blankets. Please do not combine blankets. Include a note with each blanket that it is a donation to Sock Brigade. Periodically transport for fleeces will be available through Randy Coleman's transport runs.  

This fleece can be a charity donation, tax deductible, if you like. Just follow up with Sock Brigade and request a receipt for your donation.

Other wise ship to:

Flaggy Meadow Fiber Works

2110 Mackville Road (KY-152)

Springfield KY 40069

 

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Kentucky Proud alpaca producer provides Adventure Socks for U.S. troops

 

by chris aldridge, kentucky proud connection

 

When a U.S. soldier in Afghanistan or Iraq takes his or her boots off, that soldier might be wearing a pair of Kentucky Proud socks from Flaggy Meadow Fiber Works in Springfield.

The small fiber mill, the only one in the state, turns soft fleece sheared from alpacas into the yarn to make its new outdoor Adventure Sock. In less than a month, nearly 1,500 pairs of Flaggy Meadow’s rugged yet comfortable socks have been sent to American troops serving in the Middle East through a grassroots volunteer organization called the Alpaca Sock Brigade.

In 4½ years, the Sock Brigade has sent more than 11,000 pairs of socks to soldiers in the field. The organization describes its effort as “a simple goal – warm feet for our troops in harm’s way by way of our soft, luxurious alpaca socks!”

Before Flaggy Meadow got involved in May, the Sock Brigade was purchasing socks made in Peru. Then Flaggy Meadow co-owner Shawn Malloy gave Sock Brigade co-founder Randy Coleman a pair of his Adventure Socks to try.

“Randy called me up and said, ‘Hey, I like your socks,’” Malloy said. “I mentioned to him that they’re made in U.S. with fleece bought from small farms, and he said, ‘Hmmm.’”

That struck a chord with Coleman, who owns an alpaca farm in Oregon along with his wife, Barbara. So Flaggy Meadow was announced as the official supplier of the Sock Brigade at the Alpaca Owners and Breeders Association National Show and Auction in May in Denver.

The Sock Brigade collects tax-deductible donations of fleece, known in the industry as fiber, from alpaca farms across the country. Flaggy Meadow then pays a generous $6 per pound to the Sock Brigade for the fiber........

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