I'm still not done with the upgrade, but since the world does not wait to me, I wanted to make a quick post.
For those of you who love sheep, and appreciate the shepherds who work hard to give fiber bearing animals a good place to live, I encourage you to help out Susan at Martha's Vinyard Fiber Farm by voting for her small business at the AMEX Shine a Light competition. I've been following Susan's blog for about 6 months now and hope to buy one of her spring yarn shares when they become available. Her pictures of her sheep and goats are beautiful, and her animal husbandry practices are wonderful to read about. She's clearly a person who has found her calling.
But like all small business owners, she's struggling and could use a financial boost. The AMEX program could help give her that.
Please consider taking a look and giving her your vote -- it does require registration, and a little more time than just making one click, but if you take a read through her blog, I hope you'll agree that it's worth the effort.*
* I don't know Susan personally, but I've enjoyed her blog and fiber animal pictures and stories so much that I would jump at the chance to get to meet her sometime.
Theresa, thanks for posting this -- I went over and voted. I'd read about her before, but didn't realize she was in this competition. Wouldn't it be great if she did win? Or at least finish high up, so that more people would find out about her farm?
Theresa, I can't thank you enough for posting this! We gotten lots and lots of traffic coming from your post and I know it's helping us in the voting. I really appreciate you help.
Susan spoke at one of our guild meetings last year and it was a fabulous experience. I've been hoping to get one of the farm shares as well.