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What is LocalFiber – Part 5
Committees Move LocalFiber In ‘What is LocalFiber – Part 4’ I described how we decided on our first community-based action towards identifying and solving our supply chain challenges. In this article I will…
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What is LocalFiber – Part 4
Choosing Our First Initiative In ‘What is LocalFiber – Part 3‘ I described how we came up with a list of potential solutions from previously identified high-priority needs (‘What is LocalFiber – Part…
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LocalFiber Goes to the 3rd Annual HV Textile Summit
An early start to the day Just before 6 am on Wednesday, March 20th Meg, from Wolftree Farm, messaged “On my way, want anything from Wegmans?” I had picked up snacks the night…
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What is LocalFiber – Part 3
In my previous blog post Identifying Needs in the Local Fiber Community, I talked about how the LocalFiber community worked together to identify the collective needs of our regional fiber producing community. Now I…
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What is LocalFiber – Part 2: Identifying Needs in the Local Fiber Community
Small flock fiber farmers throughout the northeast face numerous hurdles in getting their fiber to market. One of the primary goals of LocalFiber is to bring the Finger Lakes and CNY fiber farming…
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The LocalFiber Quarterly Meeting
Community is the foundation on which LocalFiber is built and quarterly meetings are a vital component of building that community. Meetings build community and drive purpose According to the EPA’s Public Participation Guide…
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Shearing at Kyle Farm: a 3000+ head sheep farm in upstate NY
“Jump right in, we’re an easy-going lot,” said Matt Kyle one of the owners of Kyle Farm, in between the gentle passes of his shearing blade over the hind quarters of an ewe…
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What is LocalFiber – Part 1: Creating Community-Based Solutions in the Finger Lakes and CNY Animal Fiber Supply Chain.
In March of 2018, together with the Cornell Cooperative Extension of Tompkins County, LocalFiber was awarded a NESARE Partnership Grant (ONE18-321). The goal of this grant gets at the core of LocalFiber's mission…
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