NORTHFIELD, Minn. — Fiber for hats, rugs, sweaters and other items can come from sheep, but it most certainly can be produced from other sources. Organizers for the upcoming Sheep & Fiber Farm Tour, ...

From gardening to construction and insulation, New England producers of sheep and alpaca wool are looking beyond the clothing ...

On a recent spring day, Anne Choi went searching for her sheep, who were hiding. Striding across her roughly 12-acre farm in Bedminster, the fiber farmer and artisan called out for the fluffy ...

Fiber animals are one of the smallest groups of animals at the fair. They are the only animals at the fair that are judged solely on their fiber. Patty Pittman, superintendent of the fiber animals for ...

Attendees can never say there's nothing to do at the Pennsylvania Farm Show, especially in 2026.

Sometimes animals act just like little kids, and that's definitely the case when it comes to Curtis the alpaca in this video that @Useless Farm shared on Friday, September 1st. Curtis lives on a farm ...

When Melissa Ashley’s youngest son met his first alpaca, she knew it could be the key to conquering his fear of animals. A sign at a local farm that read “Alpacas for Autism” inspired her to begin ...

Sat, 22 May 2010 15:26:41 GMT — When Springside Farm does its spring shearing this year, the results will go to more than yarn: this year some of the alpaca'sfleece is also going to the Gulf Coast, to ...

TEPIC, Mexico, Feb 8 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - High on Ecuador's Andean plains, the Comuna Espejo co-operative is counting on a recent delivery of 20 woolly alpacas to keep its moist grasslands ...