SupplyChain
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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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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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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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SE New England Fibershed Writes About NEAFP
Another great article put out by our friends from the Southeastern New England Fibershed. Scaling Fiber Production with the New England Alpaca Fiber Pool NEAFP. Many of the alpaca farmers from throughout the NE (including…
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Farm Yarn and Textiles Get National Media Attention
United States farm yarn and textiles get national media attention with this article by the Associated Press. We often preach to the choir, let’s grab this opportunity to reach out and keep their…
