Tag Archive for: Fiber

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Practicing Resurrection: Using Green Manures on a Small Semi-Urban Homestead

By Lee Rinehart, NCAT Agriculture Specialist The garden entrance…

How Sweet It Is: South Texas Citrus Stays Home to Delight Local School Kids

By Robert Maggiani, NCAT Agriculture Specialist It's National…
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Building the Market for Climate-Beneficial Wool

By Allison Cooley-Agee, NCAT Carbon Farm Planner In today’s…

Episode 356. Soil-to-Skin: Tameka Peoples of Seed2Shirt Shares Her Journey

This episode of Voices from the Field continues our Soil-to-Skin…
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Seeing the Farm with Fresh Eyes

By Nina Prater, NCAT Agriculture Specialist Over 15 years…

Learning from Western Fiber: How to Process Hemp into Fiber and Create Your Own Market

Western Fiber is creating new markets for industrial hemp products,…

Episode 251. She’s Raising Sheep: California Shepherd Lani Estill

Lani Estill has built a good life and strong business around fine-wool sheep on the California-Nevada border. Far from a one-woman enterprise, running 3,000 Rambouillet sheep across a half-million acres of public and private lands involves Lani’s family and contract herders.
Lani Estill and Linda Poole

Episode 247. She’s Raising Sheep: Montana Shepherd Becky Weed

This episode of Voices from the Field continues ATTRA’s podcast series on women shepherds, “She’s Raising Sheep.” Becky Weed talks with NCAT Regenerative Grazing Specialist Linda Poole about the role of sheep in “farming as if nature matters.” Becky and her husband Dave Tyler run 80 crossbred long-wool ewes in Montana’s Gallatin Valley, at 13 Mile Lamb and Wool Company.
Linda Poole and Becky Weed

Episode 246. She’s Raising Sheep: New Zealand Shepherd Bev Trowbridge

This episode of Voices from the Field introduces us to New Zealand shepherd Bev Trowbridge. It’s the latest in ATTRA’s five-part series “She’s Raising Sheep.” Trained as an agroecologist in the United Kingdom, Bev has raised heritage sheep and small-frame cattle on New Zealand’s North Island for two decades. Bev tells NCAT Regenerative Grazing Specialist Linda Poole that “sheep are the best biostimulants you could have” to improve soil health, water quality, and biodiversity.
Bev Trowbridg and Linda Poole

Episode 244. She’s Raising Sheep: Indiana’s Denice Rackley

This episode of Voices from the Field is the first in a five-part  series about women raising sheep. The She’s Raising Sheep series features practical tips for starting and growing a profitable sheep business, plus we’ll have some laughs along the way.
Denice Rackley and Linda Poole

Practices Supporting Sustainable and Economic Cotton Production

This webinar discusses conservation practices available to cotton…