STORY AND PHOTO BY KAREN BOSSICK

Tickets for Farm to Table Dinners, Cooking Classes, For Love of Lamb, Wool Fest and other Trailing of the Sheep Festival events are now on sale.

This year’s Wool Fest classes include one by Hailey’s Amy Mistick teaching a Knit and Needle Needlepoint Keychain with darling pictures of sheep. The class is open to those 12 and older.

Others will show students how to make felt bowls, forest gnomes, wet felting fingerless gloves, felted pumpkins, snow globe ornaments, needle-felted sheep or highland cow tote bags and more.

Chris Kastner of CK’s Real Food will teach food enthusiasts how to make Lamb Kofta, while Chef Mary Clare Griffin teachs how to make Basque Piment d’Espelette Lamb Rack with Moroccan Apricot Almond and Pomegranate Israeli Couscous.

The Sheep Tales Gathering on Friday, Oct. 10, will focus on Basque tree carvings in the American West with presenters John Bieter, professor of History at Boise State University and Inaki Arrieta Baro, head of the Jon Bilbao Basque Library at the University of Nevada-Reno.

The National Point Qualifying Sheepdog Trials Oct. 10-12 will feature 80 of the most talented border collies from the American West and Canada. And For Love of Lamb tastings will feature may of the usual restaurants, as well as Salted Sprig and Basque Chef Marketita Oaxaguena.

To learn more, visit https://trailingofthesheep.org/.