OWGA
35768 Blakesley Creek
Philomath (Wren)
OR 97370
email:

Presidents: Lois Olund, Blakesley Creek Farm and Linda Hansen, Dayspring Farm
Secretary: Carolynn Avery, Neverends Farm
Treasurer: Sharon Allen, Ramifications

To qualify for farm membership your farm must be in Oregon, you must direct-market your farm goods, and you must raise one of the following fiber animals: wool or dual-purpose sheep breed, fiber goat, angora rabbit, alpaca, or llama.

Fiber Partners must operate a fiber related business in Oregon that uses some Oregon fiber. Membership is granted at the discretion of the OWGA board with a probationary period of six months. Fiber Partners retain their membership at the discretion of the OWGA board.

Our term of membership runs from July 1 to June 30, Farm membership costs $40/year, and is not prorated. Fiber Partner membership costs $70/year, and is not prorated.

Each farm member receives one vote at the annual meeting and anyone from that farm may proxy for the rest of the members of that farm. Our annual meeting is held each June on Sunday of the Black Sheep Gathering in Eugene. Fiber Partners are nonvoting members.

Every paid member may add products and farm or business information to this website. The website rules are listed below. In addition we can currently offer an email address to members needing one.

First, click here to get our membership form.

Then print, fill out and sign the form.

Mail along with your membership fee to the address listed on the form. Please write the check to OWGA.

Each new member pays a one-time setup fee of $70. This means farm members' first check should be written to OWGA for $100. Fiber Partners' first check should be written to OWGA for $120. Subsequent years you will be charged only the annual membership fee. The setup fee goes to site construction, update, maintenance, and/or advertising.

We'll send you a password once your membership and setup fees are paid. You may then load your farm, business, and product information. This site is member friendly. You needn't go through the organization or the webdesigner to load or edit your farm or business material, including photos. All your editing can be done directly in any web browser on any computer that is connected to the internet. All you need is your password.

These work best if they are taken with a digital camera. We do have a member who is a professional photographer who will happily negotiate a photo package for your farm and products (for a fee) should you not be able to provide photos yourself. You can include up to five photos for your farm page, and you can change these as often as you wish. In addition, you are encouraged to include a photograph of each product you list. Each product will have a detail window in which this photo will appear. All photos you provide for your farm or your products will be displayed at 300 pixels in width. For best results, you are encouraged to make them 300 pixels wide before uploading (transfering) them to the website. However, any picture that is 800 pixels wide or less will be automatically resized by the website when it is uploaded. If you have questions about this, please contact us.

You may list all your farm products in the general description of your farm, and you may include a link to your individual farm website. However, please list only products from or about your fiber animals on the Product List. We encourage Fiber Partners to especially list those items with Oregon fiber in them. Fiber Partners may not advertise wool processing. If you have questions about this or wish to petition an exception, please contact us. We will remove products from the site that do not qualify. Farm Member products are given priority on the Products Page. Fiber Partner products rotate below those of the Farm Members.

Please feel free to add your farm or fiber partner events to the calendar or local events related to fiber animals or their products. Fiber arts shows, sheep shows, farmers markets that include fiber animal products, etc.

Send us breed information and or links if you don't see your breed listed on the breed page.

Send us links you think we should include on our links page. Also, tell us about sites where we should be listed on the links page.

We have no paid staff. The farms listed on this site do all of the work. Please participate by attending our annual meeting, suggesting ways to improve the site, helping out with advertising and promotion, being on the board, and giving feedback about how the site is working for your farm.