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Farm Features

Meet the farms and farmers we've showcased on Farm & Fiber Knits, and learn how they are making an impact locally and globally.

Long Thread Podcast: Gudrun Johnston, Shetland Trader

Avondale Sheep: A Breed-Specific Yarn Rooted in the Snoqualmie Valley

I Spy an Alpaca!

Who’s Running the Show? Sheep at the Photo Shoot

“Stupid Sheep” and Other Sheep Myths

Rare Breed, Rare Yarn: Try Small-Batch Romeldale CVM

Community in Every Fleece: Meet Prado de Lana Sheep Farm

Meet Piglet and Fungo—and Find Out How Their Wool Becomes Yarn

Binge-Worthy Episodes for Knitters

Yarn and Conservation

Long Thread Podcast: Tamara White, Wing & A Prayer Farm

Mitchell Wool Co: Sheep to Skein in Michigan

Olympia Farm: Snuggly Goats and Wooly Hydroponics

Shearing Day at Apple Creek Merinos

Want to Knit with Self-Striping Yarn? Start Here

Lani’s Lana: Sheep, Landscape, and Western Wool

NJ Fibershed: Helping Wasted Wool Become Homegrown Yarn

How to Source Yarn Directly from a Farm

Black Welsh Mountain Sheep in the Hudson Valley

On Location: A Model and a Donkey Walk into a Barn

The Exceptional Fibers of Ross Farm: Meet Rare-Breed Champion Amy Ross Manko

A Global Flock in Texas: Meet 25 Breeds at The Sheepwalk Ranch

A Vegetable Matter: Separating the Wool from the Chaff

A Wooly Visit to the Home of Australia’s First Sheep Breed: Tarndwarncoort Homestead

Field Trip: How to Make a Farm Yarn? Go Straight to the Pasture.

In Profile: Cactus Hill Farm

Clean Cashmere Has Big Plans for Small Farms

Where Your Yarn Grows

A Woman with a Mission: Wool, Cotton, Wheat, and Sally Fox’s Regenerative Farming

Foula Wool—Crofting Small-Batch Yarns in the Shetland Isles

Legacy of Wool: Faroese Gold

“Your wool is worth nothing.”

Rust Belt Fibershed

Yankee Rock: Shearing, Shepherding, and Millspun Yarns

Bringing Heritage-Breed Wool to Knitters’ Hands

Isabella Rossellini: Becoming Mama Farmer

Angora Goats: Why Every Herd Needs a Daisy!

Lambs Galore at Apple Creek Merinos!

Farm-fresh Yarn

Flax Grows through Creativity, Community, Conscience

A Shepherd’s Year: What to Expect When You’re Expecting (Lambs)

It’s Shearing Time!

A Season for Wool

Celebrating Breed-Specific Yarns with Solitude Wool

The Quest for Local Linen: Chico Flax

Ranching Tradition Fiber

Ensuring the Future at Morehouse Farm Merinos

Morehouse Farm Merinos: A Pioneering Yarn Farm

Cotswold Sheep and Benedictine Nuns of Shaw Island

Can You Trust the Wool You’re With? RWS Certification Offers Assurances

Puddin Ridge Fibers: Rescuing Gentle Creatures and Their Fibers

Grazing Groundskeepers

Staying on a Fiber Farm

Shorn in the USA

Crafting Farm Yarn from Local Wool and Mohair

A Shepherd-Knitter Cross

From Alpaca Pasture to Pullover

How Many Colors Can One Sheep Grow?

Join the (Farm) Club

Meet Solitude Wool: Breed-Specific Yarn and Fiber

How to Name a Sheep: Meet Kate’s Lambs Willa and Gus