Fibershed Indigo Project 2015 CALL FOR VOLUNTEERS A call for volunteers to help plant over 2000 indigo seedlings in two days. Many areas to help from planting to weeding to support […]
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Full Belly, Full Heart.
Story by Caroline Spurgin, photography by Alycia Lang. Full Belly is a farm of divine splendor. As the name suggests, it is a wholesome place, pregnant with happiness, abundance and good […]
Read MoreA lifelong love of fiber arts
Photography by Paige Green Colleen Simon has enjoyed an interest in fiber arts for as long as she can remember. She learned to knit as a child growing up in Minnesota, […]
Read MoreSonrisa Family Farms — The New Kids on the Block
By Caroline Spurgin / Photos by Alycia Lang Lisa Colorado is one of those people with such tangible conviction it all but glints in the sun. She is an activist, […]
Read MoreAma Wertz — Weaving without Limits
Story by Jess Daniels / photos by Alycia Lang In an ecosystem, a limiting factor puts pressure on a population, eventually leading to adaptation. For Fibershed artisan and weaver Ama […]
Read MoreWelcome to the Borderlands
Story by Caroline Spurgin, photography by Alycia Lang. The air at Mimi Luebbermann’s farm hums with organic magic. We arrive at Windrush Farm under a rainbow relinquished by the early […]
Read MoreCooperatives & the Next Clothing Industry
Text and photographs by Jess Daniels, unless otherwise credited. Three simple words: Made In _________. This phrase, adorning nearly every item of clothing in our closets, is a frustratingly simple […]
Read MoreKentucky Hemp
Thanks to grants from Patagonia’s Environmental Grants program and the Blackie Foundation, Fibershed has been in collaboration with various organizations to support the raw plant processing and cloth creation processes […]
Read MoreFrom Sheep to Shop
Photos by Paige Green Jackie Post is living the fiber lover’s dream at her farm in Vacaville, California, where she settled around four years ago with her husband Leonard, who works as a scientist, but grew […]
Read MoreFibershed’s Colorado Hemp Research Project
Fiber systems are best designed to minimize detrimental impacts on the biosphere, and to enhance ecosystem function where possible. Fibershed has chosen to research the use of industrial hemp as a fiber crop because it fits both […]
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