Mumble farm to sweater mumble
Mar. 7th, 2025 06:18 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
walkitoutI was having a great phone convo with K today about the various fiber machinery out there that has been downscaled to home level / hobby / craft production. I was trying to figure out if we’re headed into a world in which you can farm-to-sweater like you can farm-to-table restaurant.
Obviously, reddit was the correct place to figure this out.
https://www.reddit.com/r/sheep/comments/18anz4h/has_anyone_had_sheep_they_sheered_then_had_the/?rdt=62532
ETA
I asked the expanded version of this mumble on FF last night, and P told me about a llama farm in the PacNW that sells stuff made from the fiber from the farm. He did not know if it was made on the farm or the processing was outsourced. The following is a link to a llama farm on this coast that does similar things:
https://www.outofsightalpacas.com/
He also mentioned Pendleton, which I knew about (having purchased their very nice products on occasion) but did not realize was a cooperative. I’ll try to remember to look into that later today.
And here is where he got the extremely cool hatchet he keeps in his car in case he needs to clear a tree.
https://bentelbowworks.com/
It looked like a really nice hatchet.
Finally, P is slightly older than me and still very, very active and so he had a solution for R.’s ankle compression issue. Ankle compression sleeves from here (altho you can also buy them at regular online stores as well):
https://kemford.store/
ETA:
I looked at Pendleton, and then for related articles about the ranches which supply wool to Pendleton. Pendleton is family owned, private, and while they continue to buy domestically produced wool, they also buy globally. The people they buy from domestically are, in the articles, often ranches still in family hands, often with a handshake connection to Pendleton that goes back a hundred or so years (to the beginning of Pendleton). This is not a coop on either side, but I can see how it might look and at times sound that way.
Obviously, reddit was the correct place to figure this out.
https://www.reddit.com/r/sheep/comments/18anz4h/has_anyone_had_sheep_they_sheered_then_had_the/?rdt=62532
ETA
I asked the expanded version of this mumble on FF last night, and P told me about a llama farm in the PacNW that sells stuff made from the fiber from the farm. He did not know if it was made on the farm or the processing was outsourced. The following is a link to a llama farm on this coast that does similar things:
https://www.outofsightalpacas.com/
He also mentioned Pendleton, which I knew about (having purchased their very nice products on occasion) but did not realize was a cooperative. I’ll try to remember to look into that later today.
And here is where he got the extremely cool hatchet he keeps in his car in case he needs to clear a tree.
https://bentelbowworks.com/
It looked like a really nice hatchet.
Finally, P is slightly older than me and still very, very active and so he had a solution for R.’s ankle compression issue. Ankle compression sleeves from here (altho you can also buy them at regular online stores as well):
https://kemford.store/
ETA:
I looked at Pendleton, and then for related articles about the ranches which supply wool to Pendleton. Pendleton is family owned, private, and while they continue to buy domestically produced wool, they also buy globally. The people they buy from domestically are, in the articles, often ranches still in family hands, often with a handshake connection to Pendleton that goes back a hundred or so years (to the beginning of Pendleton). This is not a coop on either side, but I can see how it might look and at times sound that way.