In this episode of Mother Earth News and Friends, Charlotte French chats with Deb Robson and Deborah Niemann, both sheep breeders and fiber experts, about raising sheep and processing fleece.
For part 2, we recorded and edited a class taught by Deborah Niemann on using your fleeces to make a fiber business. Deborah taught this class at the Seven Springs, Pennsylvania Mother Earth News Fair in September 2019. Used with her permission.
In part 3 we recorded and edited class taught by Deborah Niemann on using your fleeces to make a fiber business. Deborah taught this class at the Seven Springs, Pennsylvania Mother Earth News Fair in September, 2019. Used with her permission.
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Deborah Niemann and her family moved to the country in 2002 to start producing their own food organically, including their own goat cheese. Before she knew what happened, 2 milk goats turned into 20, and a desire to make a simple chèvre launched a whole new career helping people raise their goats. Deborah is the author of Homegrown and Handmade, Ecothrifty, and Raising Goats Naturally. She teaches online courses on raising goats and chickens at the University of Massachusetts and contributes to magazines such as Hobby Farms, GRIT, Mother Earth News, Chickens, and Urban Farm.
Links mentioned in Podcast
- “Shave ’em to Save ’em”
- The Independent Stitch
- Fleece and Fiber Sourcebook
- The Thrifty Homesteader
- Homegrown and Handmade, 2nd edition.
- Fleece and Fiber Sourcebook
Additional Resources
- Emily Chamelin and Kevin Hickman, Shearers
- Dharma Trading Co.
- Welsh Women’s Sheep Shearing Competition. (In Welsh)
- Gulf Coast Native Sheep
- Florida Cracker Sheep
- No Fleece Left Behind
Podcast Editorial Team: Carla Tilghman, Managing Editor; Jessica Mitchell, Associate Editor; Haley Casey; Associate Editor; Jesse Nedeau, Web Services. Interviews by Charlotte French.
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