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BY ROBIN PHILLIPS
Staff Correspondent
WOMELSDORF - With a
dream in the back of their minds
and a desire for a quieter lifestyle,
two ambitious couples pooled their
talents and resources to purchase
a farm and begin their own
business. The requirements for
their venture included the ability
to stay on their farm, to work with
animals, to provide a service to the
area, and to be self sufficient.
Oonna and Debbie take great pride in their Angora rabbits.
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Amazing Acres - How business sense is
Thus, “Amazing Acres Custom
Wool Processing’Vwas formed in
Berks County.
Owned by Pat and Donna
Kennedy and Donna's sister
Debbie Mikulak and her husband,
Fred Bloom, “Amazing Acres”
just opened its doors in April and
its becoming busier day by day as
its services are becoming known.
‘ ‘We don’t have time to do a lot of
the other things we planned”, its
owners say. But the pride in their
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business, which has achieved such
popularity in so short a time, is
evident in their faces.
"Since the wool pool pays such
pitiful prices for the shepherd’s
wool, we wanted to offer alter
native marketing for them”,
Donna states.
The main purpose behind
"Amazing Acres" is to provide a
quality service to the small and
large wool producer, handspinner,
and weaver. They boast a below
average fee for processing and
have no minimum poundage
requirements.
"Most of our business is from
people who spin their own yams”,
Donna states, and adds that they
guarantee to return the customer
their own wool. (Most other mills
require at least 100-200 pounds of
wool before they quarantee to
return your own wool). Capable of
scouring, picking, and carding a
fleece, and able to make rovings or
batts, “Amazing Acres” uses no
chemicals and treats the wool as
gently as possible.
How did four “non-farm” people
know what it takes to purchase a
farm and begin what must have
seemed like a very complicated
agricultural profession?
"We always talked about a
business together”, Donna stated.
“It sort of came about 40 years
earlier", Debbie added. A former
Spanish teacher at Reading Area
Community College, Reading,
Donna Kennedy explained.
About two and one-half years
ago, Pat, Donna’s husband, who
was a purchasing agent for a
major company, was offered a job
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visiting,” Donna explains, and
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The joint idea was turned into
reality with the purchase of the
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own business.
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homemade pastries and handmade
crafts. It was discovered that their
farm was too far out of town to
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