What Are Wool Pellets? Wool pellets are made from raw sheep wool that’s been cleaned and compressed into small, easy-to-handle pellets. When you add them to soil and water them in, they slowly break down over time. As they do, they release nutrients—especially nitrogen—back into the soil. Nitrogen helps plants grow strong stems and healthy…
You just bought a raw fleece! Hooray! But now what? With a little intermittent work, you’ll be able to turn that raw fleece into wool ready for your next project all within a weekend. Here are our steps to washing a fleece. There are numerous methods explained online so experiment and see what works best…
Several years ago, I had an online conversation about sheep shearing that stopped me in my tracks. The other person was absolutely convinced that shearing sheep was harmful—no matter what I said, I couldn’t bridge the gap between belief and reality. It was clear we weren’t just disagreeing; we were living with very different understandings…
Article by Rich C. Lakeberg, Ottawa County Department of Strategic Impact (posted with permission) The West Michigan growing season may not have started yet, but the Ottawa County Agriculture Preservation Board is celebrating a bumper crop after officially protecting its sixth property, Shady Side Farm, with the Purchase of Development Rights (PDR) program. This agreement guarantees…
I know you’ve been looking at seed catalogues lately. It’s still plenty cold outside, but now is the time to dream. And as you plan, I’d like to encourage you to consider incorporating wool in your garden. Why you should use wool: Conserves water. Wool holds 20-30x its own weight in water and releases it…