Cestari Sheep and Wool Company

About Us

Farming is a lifelong passion for Francis Chester. As a young boy growing up on Long Island, NY, Francis learned vegetable gardening, how to milk goats and care for chickens while living in a house his family rented on a farm. 

He soon began selling the farm products he helped produce door-to-door, and opened a successful farm stand in Roslyn Heights. His family acquired sheep, and his love for sheep farming was born.

In 1968, Francis and his wife Diane sold their farm in New York and  moved to Virginia where they and their children have continued to farm.