Cotton is part of the broader California agricultural system wherein shifting practices opens pathways for whole systems regeneration. For the past year, and throughout a planting cycle, Fibershed has been […]
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California Cotton Fields: Sally Fox reinvented cotton — by going back to its roots
Cotton is part of the broader California agricultural system wherein shifting practices opens pathways for whole systems regeneration. For the past year, and throughout a planting cycle, Fibershed has been […]
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California Cotton Fields: Scaling Carbon Farming Practices with Bowles Farming Company
Cotton is part of the broader California agricultural system wherein shifting practices opens pathways for whole systems regeneration. For the past year, and throughout a planting cycle, Fibershed has been […]
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California Cotton Fields: Nathanael Siemens on a 10 Acre Model Toward Regeneration
Cotton is part of the broader California agricultural system wherein shifting practices opens pathways for whole systems regeneration. For the past year, and throughout a planting cycle, Fibershed has been […]
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California Cotton Fields: a Renewed Opportunity for Rebuilding Soil
Written by Esha Chhabra with photography by Paige Green America’s history with cotton is contentious — to say the least. The crop became the backbone of the colonial economy and […]
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Weaving as a Way of Life at Oakland Fiber
Written & Photographed by Koa Kalish By the time Sheng Lor was old enough to go to school, she already knew how to embroider. Born into the Hmong culture of […]
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Bringing the Supply Chain to Life with California Cloth Foundry
Written & Photographed by Koa Kalish From the land where the cotton is grown to the spinning mills where it becomes yarn, to the manufacturing facilities that form fabric and […]
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Material Justice: in the Studio with Amy Keefer
Written by Valerie Yep and photographed by Paige Green When I met with designer and artist Amy Keefer on a grey and drizzly Thursday morning, I was greeted with the […]
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Grow Your Jeans: Made & Now Worn by the Community
Written by Laura Jean Schneider, with photographs courtesy of the author and Elaine Patarini of Paicines Ranch. I’ve purchased few clothing items with three-figure price tags. Yet, I’m in the […]
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Who Grew Our Clothes?
By Rebecca Burgess Unraveling the story behind the glamor and surface appeal of fast fashion is like Dorothy and her little dog toto pulling the curtain back on the man […]
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