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4th Annual HVTP Summit & Makers Market July 30, 2021
Meeting Rm 6, Empire State Plaza Convention Center, Albany, NY A gathering of farmers, makers, designers, manufacturers, educators, and others interested in strengthening NYS’s textile supply chain. Keynotes by Clara Parkes, founder of…
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A Lesson in Wool Classing
I wondered yet again as I crept up the mountainous gravel road to my AirBnB in the pitch dark, what had made me decide to register for the Wool Classing Course offered by…
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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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Wool Meets Fast Fashion Part 2
Sustainability = Marketability Last week, in Wool Meets Fast Fashion Part 1, I shared quite a few disturbing tidbits, from fast fashion’s destructive advertising campaigns to humans pooping plastic. Now that the full…
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Wool Meets Fast Fashion
As environmental crises penetrate more global communities, concerned citizens are looking for ways to act responsibly. Despite all the good that comes from embracing LED lightbulbs and rejecting single use plastic bags, a…
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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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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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NYS Fiber Farmers Make their Mark on Etsy
The e-commerce platform Etsy is a space where NY Fiber Farmers are finding a market. In my interviews with New York fiber farmers, reaching a broader market was often part of the conversation.…
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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…
