Elizabeth has worked since 2010 as a writer and consultant covering gardening, permaculture, and sustainable living. She has also written a number of books and e-books on gardens and gardening. Haley ...

Raising sheep for wool is a fun and satisfying experience. The market for wool and wool-products continues to grow as people are eager to learn skills such as felting, spinning, rug-making, weaving, ...

Merino wool is a sustainable material when the sheep are treated well. Sheep Inc, short for Sheep Included, is transparent about its efforts to ensure their animals are: They allocate wearers a sheep ...

At a family farm in central Iowa, a sheep shearer leans over a ram, making smooth, clean strokes through several inches of shaggy wool. For most breeds, this fiber will just keep growing unless it’s ...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – What do you do with pound after pound of sheep’s wool that no one’s taking on the market? That’s a real problem a well-known North Valley farm recently faced. They might not ...

The annual Sheep & Wool Festival at Coggeshall Farm brought artisans and crafters to the Bristol museum on Saturday for demonstrations of sheep shearing, wool processing, dyeing, weaving and spinning, ...

Like so many projects and opportunities, what was supposed to have started in 2020 went on the backburner because of the pandemic. Among those casualties was a program to take wool grown by the ...

"Not Australia's answer to the yeti, but a sheep." When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Months of social distancing to slow the spread ...