As part of our carbon farming cohort, Plain View Alpaca Farm owners Keith and Debbie Tetreault took on practices this spring and summer to better their pasture grazing area for […]
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Regenerative Farming With Massachusetts-Based Sippican River Alpaca Farm
When I arrive at Sippican River Farm, a small alpaca farm located in the beautiful town of Rochester, Massachusetts, I am greeted by rolling green fields of fescue and orchard […]
Read MoreSoutheastern New England Fiber Production Survey
The Southeastern New England Fibershed and SEMAP would like to know more about the potential for regeneratively-managed fiber animal grazing land in Southeastern New England. Based on the information from […]
Read MoreBedfellows Blankets Channels Positive Outlook for New England Textile Industry
Bedfellows Blankets founder Peggy Hart with good friend and textile mill afficionado, Leonard Brodt Story and images by Fibershed intern Charlotte Atkinson Tucked away in the tiny town of Shelburne […]
Read MoreFrom Woolen Lace to Industrial Fabrics, Draper Knitting Innovates for U.S. Manufacturing
Story and images by Fibershed intern Charlotte Atkinson
Read MoreIs New England Textile Manufacturing Dead?
Story and images by Fibershed intern Emma Werowinski In history class I was taught that the textiles industry in New England was dead. Two years ago, as a junior studying […]
Read MoreBartlett Yarns Champions Wool Manufacturing in New England
Story and images by Fibershed intern Charlotte Atkinson Lindsey Rice, Co-Founder of Bartlettyarns Times have undoubtedly changed since the age of the Industrial Revolution in America. The textile manufacturing that […]
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