2026 Vermont Sheep & Wool Festival

The 2026 Vermont Sheep & Wool Festival celebrates "Weaving Traditions." Special guests, Navajo shepherds Jay Begay and Nikyle Begay, will present weaving and shearing demonstrations and shepherding talks. The Festival features a wide variety of vendors offering fleece and yarn, fiber animals, handspinning and fiber crafting equipment and supplies, handcrafted natural fiber products and local meat and cheese. The Festival includes contests, fiber arts classes and demonstrations, shepherd workshops, herding demos, fleece sale and more set against a backdrop of rolling hills during the peak of Vermont fall foliage.