Fibershed Producer Program
For Northern and Central California Farmers & Artisans
Producer Network Membership
The Fibershed Producer Program is a membership-based network of farmers, ranchers, designers, sewers, weavers, knitters, felters, spinners, mill owners and natural dyers living and working within 51 counties in the North and Central regions of California. To connect with regional producers and their work, check out our Producer Directory! If you are a farmer or artisan in the Northern and Central California Fibershed and would like people to know that your work supports regional agriculture, a local and fair economy, and ecological balance, consider joining the Fibershed Producer Program.
Program Guidelines
Program Requirements:
- All fiber is farmed/sourced within Northern CA, from San Luis Obispo to the Oregon border
- All botanic dye is farmed/sourced within Northern CA, from San Luis Obispo to the Oregon border
- All labor is sourced within Northern CA, from San Luis Obispo to the Oregon border
Program Exceptions:
- Until the region has its own cotton and fine gauge wool milling facility, Fibershed verifies goods from farmers that have had to send their raw material out of the area for milling.
- Sewing thread and most notions are also not yet manufactured in our region, Fibershed verifies goods from artisans whose thread and notions are from out of the area.
For more detailed information, please download:
Fibershed Certified Product Guidelines
Current Producer Members
You will receive an email once a year when it’s time to renew your membership.
Access the producer member resource library using the password supplied in your welcome email. In the library you’ll find:
- More information on membership benefits
- Access and passwords to our Producer Business Curriculum and Grazier’s Toolbox
- Climate Beneficial agriculture and carbon farming resources
- Archive of producer newsletters
New Producer Membership Application
New producers residing in Northern and Central California may join our producer network if they fit the program guidelines described above. To join the Producer Program, please fill out the membership application form. Once we have reviewed your application, you will receive instructions on how to pay the $40 annual membership fee.
If you prefer to pay by check and send us your application via regular mail, download and print the application form and mail it with your $40 check to: Fibershed, P.O. Box 221, San Geronimo, CA 94963.
For more information, please contact producer@fibershed.org
Benefits of the $40 annual membership fee
- Inclusion in the Fibershed Producer Directory, which includes being on the interactive map and your business page with a brief bio, photos, your contact information and links to your social media
- Access to free educational resources, including extensive business development curriculum and the Grazier’s Toolbox
- Monthly Producer community email updates with relevant resources and event reminders
- Opportunity to be featured in the Fibershed blog which includes a professional on-site interview and photoshoot of your business, to which you will have access to photo for further use
- Inclusion of your upcoming events on the Fibershed calendar and promotion via the Fibershed email newsletter and social media channels
- Support in joining Fibershed’s Climate Beneficial Verification program, including carbon farming educational resources, initiating carbon farm planning, and technical and financial assistance for completing soil carbon sampling and interpreting results
- Invitation to have a vendor booth at select Fibershed events
- Fibershed Certified Producer web-badge and Fibershed Certified Product tags (up to 100 free tags per year). Tag size: 2.75″ x 1.375″
- 10% member’s discount on all Fibershed events
- Complimentary subscription to Fibershed’s annual print newsletter The Yarn, providing a tactile reading experience for the fiber and natural dye community
- Invitations to producer community meet-ups virtually and in person
All photos by Paige Green
