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Neighbors | Jessica Harker .Children gathered June 12 at the Austintown library to watch Lindsay Sprauge's sheep sheering demonstration.
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Neighbors | Jessica Harker .Children worked on decorating their own whool spinning tools June 12 at the Austintown library's first sheep sheering demonstarion event.
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Neighbors | Jessica Harker .Children and their families watched as Lindsay Sprauge demonstrated how to sheer a sheep at the Austintown library June 12.
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Neighbors | Jessica Harker .Winterberry Farm representative Lindsay Sprauge visited the Austintown library June 12, answering questions about sheep from the children gathered at the event.
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Neighbors | Jessica Harker .Delilah the sheep, from Winterberry Farm, visited the Austintown library June 12 for a sheep sheering demonstration.
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Neighbors | Jessica Harker .Lindsay Sprauge from Winterberry Homestead sheered Delilah the sheep June 12 at the Austintown library.
By JESSICA HARKER
The Austintown library hosted a Sheep Shearing demonstration on June 12.
Lindsay Sprauge from the Winterberry Homestead traveled to the library with her sheep, Delilah, for the demonstration.
“It’s actually really important that sheep are sheared,” Sprauge said. “Which is something not everybody knows.”
During the event, children watched as Sprauge hand-sheared the sheep, and answered any questions they had.
Children asked about how much weight the wool had, and what it was used for.
After the demonstration, children and their families decorated their own wool spinning tools.
Sprauge gave every person present at the event a piece of wool, and showed them how to spin it themselves.
“It’s really easy and sustainable to do stuff like this,” Sprauge said.
She explained that she has raised sheep her whole life.
“I have owned them my entire adult life, and I love it,” she said. “It’s also why I love doing events like this, so other people can see how cool this is.”
Sprauge will also visit other libraries in the Mahoning County area.
For more information on these upcoming events, go to www.libraryvisit.org.