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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.

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