Like most ranchers, wool growers who produce fleeces for the handspun fiber market spend a lot of time mending fences, pitching alfalfa and cleaning out water troughs. They also spend hours washing ...

Indiana is home to roughly 2,000 sheep farms and over 50,000 head of sheep, making the state number 28 for sheep production in the U.S. Even with Indiana’s bountiful flocks, however, it’s unlikely you ...

BEAVER VALLEY — It is a crisp February morning and Jennie Watkins is standing in the old barn on her 10-acre farm off Beaver Valley Road. An avid hand spinner and knitter, she is looking over her ...

The Mainely Spinners will be competing in the International Back to Back Wool Challenge on Saturday, Jan. 17 starting at 8 a.

Kelly Friedlen believes every home should have three alpacas in its backyard. She’s so adamant that, in the two days we’ve known each other, she’s said it three times. The last time she’s moved to ...

Imagine running your fingers through long, lustrous locks. It's a sensual experience and it's uniting long wool breeders across the hemispheres. US wool grower and spinner Lisa Westervelt, breeds the ...

Wool production is an agricultural activity that can serve as the basis for a small business in which growing high-quality wool is the focus or as a by-product of a meat production operation, in which ...