HALL, Mont. — About 20-years-ago a rancher near Hall decided to semi-retire. But Ed James got bored. So he and his wife Sue, decided to start a new business. Now, the couple's value added, ...

A fiber arts demonstration featuring shepherds, wool spinners and drum carders at Frederick's North Market Farmers Market on Wednesday educated the public about the county's sheep industry. "The sheep ...

One hundred years old and still running. That's the 1916 Davis & Furber carding machine, known as The Card, at The Green Mountain Spinnery, a worker-owned cooperative in Putney that produces and sells ...

The 40th annual Maryland Sheep and Wool Festival will be at the Howard County Fairgrounds in West Friendship on Saturday, May 4 and Sunday, May 5. Festival hours are 9 a.m. – 6 p.m. Saturday, and 9 ...

The used machine from North Carolina weighs 15,000 pounds and required two days to change just half its 10,000 needles. It now sits in an old barn attached to a store on the main highway in Valley ...

Four southeast Minnesota farms hosted the first annual Sheep and Fiber Farm Tour. Organized by Fiber Folke, a group of nearly 30 fiber enthusiasts, the event promoted wool sheep breeds and fiber arts, ...

GANADO, Ariz. (AP) — Growing up in Ganado, a small town in Navajo Nation in eastern Arizona, Nikyle Begay always wanted to visit their grandmother’s sheep. Begay’s parents had grown up raising ...

WOOL? It is just about the snuggliest stuff on this planet, and maybe every other planet, too. It keeps us nicely toasty when we lounge on the couch, it offers us a warm sweater when the air is chill, ...

CALEDONIA, Minn. - Four southeast Minnesota farms will welcome the public Oct. 8-9 for the first annual Sheep and Fiber Farm Tour. Fiber Folke, a group of nearly 30 fiber enthusiasts, organized the ...