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 ...

About 10 years ago, Trafford resident and knitting enthusiast Liza Jennings Seiner began to wonder: where does yarn come from? “I’ve been a knitter since I was a kid, and it just never occurred to me, ...

MILFORD, Maine (WABI) - On Saturday freshly sheared wool was spun into a sweater in Milford, all for charity. The Back-to-Back Wool Challenge is an international competition involving an eight-person ...

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 ...