Wild Wind Naturals

About Us 

I live on a small acreage with my family, in rural southern Manitoba. We moved back to Manitoba in 2009 after living in BC for 15 years. My dream was to live on a farm and have animals. I started researching alpaca in probably 2006, after we sold our UPS Store, and was just smitten by them.

After we moved back, we brought four llamas to come and live with us. During the time they lived with us, we had two babies, and added three Icelandic lambs join our flock. Since that time, we had two baby llamas, and most recently, re-homed all our llamas except our gelded boy, Jock. I have achieved my dream: I have alpaca! Three boys came to live with me on our farm early July 2012. Too excited! We did discover, however, that we were not set up for sheep. As much as we enjoyed their attentions, our true love is the alpaca. So, the girls went to live with another flock in the fall of 2012, and have since had babies of their own. The alpaca fleece is processed and spun into yarn (which I can't keep in stock!) and added to many of the fibery spinning products I sell to other spinners. Once I have a good stash of their fleece, I will likely be able to start selling it. :-p

I have two spinning wheels, and Ashford Traveller and a Joy. Both of these ladies have their own jobs and get alot of regular use. I also have different drum carders that I use to hand process the raw fleece that I purchase from animal friendly around the US and Canada. My favorite way to process the fine fleece I use, though, is with combs and a hackle. It really is a tribute to the animal's fibre to process in suI use many different kinds of wool and fibre, creating art yarn, sock yarns, art batts for spinning, and sharing beautiful locks with my customers.

My bath and body products are made using the finest food grade ingredients. Natural fats, oils and butters are used to create wonderful, luxurious soaps, lotions, body butters and again, much, much more. Looking forward to hearing from you, looking forward to making many new friends.

So happy you're here!