Visiting a Regenerative Wool Farm and Mill
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- čas přidán 6. 08. 2024
- Wool Series Part 3 - I recently got to visit Long Way Homestead to learn about their regenerative fibre farm and check out their wool mill. www.longwayhomestead.com/
Thanks to Anna for showing us around and chatting, and also to Elise from Fashion Revolution Canada for joining me on a farm trip!
Watch the rest of the wool series:
Part 1 - My Opinion on Wool Has Changed... • My Opinion on Wool Has...
Part 2 - What is ZQ Wool? Transparency, Ethics & Sustainability with Wool • What is ZQ Wool? A Woo...
Timestamps
00:00 Intro
00:39 Meeting the Sheep
01:32 Regenerative Fibre Farming
03:52 What About the Methane Sheep Produce?
05:43 Wool Pellets made from Waste
06:18 Natural Dye Garden
06:44 Wool Processing Mill
07:33 Cost of Yarn
08:43 Fibre Farms VS By-Product Wool
10:05 Animal Welfare
12:06 What Can We Do to Ensure Ethical Sourcing?
12:52 What About Non-Knitters?
14:27 Outro
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I clicked on this video sooo fast 😂 Ethically raised natural fiber, circular farming practices, closed loop in house fiber finishing including carding combing, spinning and natural pigment dyes, under represented communities making positive impact to the people who make and buy WOOL, the heritage breed lama and alpaca who live happy and healthy grazing on open fertile land. Love videos like this 🤘🦙🐑🧶
This was a great video. Very informative about a lot of aspects of ethical and regenerative wool production. This industry will continue to grow - because more and more people want it!
This is so great! Anna is such a leader in the wool industry in Canada. I reached out to her by email this winter and she was so helpful in sharing resources and advice with me. Wool can be difficult to get into right now, but it is definitely my 5 year goal for my sheep farm. Thank you Erin for sharing your experience with us. I think it is so valuable to be open to change as we learn. I admire your transparency and trust your content. My family regenerative farm’s mission statement is “to grow and learn everyday”. Thank you Anna and Erin for being teachers and helping me with my goals!
As 8 year vegan and lifelong knitter, wool has always been a conundrum for me. This explained so much and I feel so much more informed about my choices in fibers moving forward!
I am very much enjoying your channel. Thank you 💗
Soooo helpful! Thank you :)
This was very educational! Thank you!
very interesting & I love their concept with growing dye plants and spinning wool! never heard something like that before and fin it to be really great!! than you 4 sharing erin & anna💚🌼
That was very informative and entertaining, great video.
My goodness! I started watching your CZcams channel because I wanted to know more about building a simple long term wardrobe. I’ve never been a big shopper, but it’s time I invested in some new items.
I really got stuck on your segments, and just spent probably an hour going from video to video. Really good work. Thank you.
There is a business in Victoria, BC called Ecologyst which sells sustainably made natural clothing. The clothing carries a lifetime guarantee and will be repaired or replaced if it fails. Of course it’s expensive, but like much of the clothing my parents had, it just isn’t necessary to replace it.
If we can support more businesses like that, then sheep wool farmers would have more of a market.
Keep up the good work!
Thank you! That's lovely to hear!
I've heard of Longway Homestead before through the knitting community. This deep dive is so cool and inspiring!
Such a great point that the question needs to shift from... Why is this product so expensive? to Why is that product so cheap?
Very interesting! Thank you for this video, I've been taking notes
Educational! 👍
I love this place! I also live in MB and have purchased their wool a couple of times and it’s just so beautiful with those natural dyes. I know Masagna Flower Farm uses their wool scraps around the garden too, and they have noted how nice it is for keeping moisture in and to help some with weeds. Just the best to see people like these folks practicing this kind of agricultural!
Wow I loved this video! It's so fascinating and also heartening to see great regenerative work like this. Thanks so much for sharing this experience with us!
Thanks so much for this deep dive into wool! It's great to hear the perspective of the farmera
Hi Verrena, great video, I really appreciate this series , it’s extremely well though and great representation of the actual cycle of a garment!! So informative;) thank you to Anna for taking the time to explain and I really really appreciate and hope I can support these farming practices. I had a question, what did you mean about the grazing enhancing photosynthesis? Did you mean by fertilising the soil?
Also, please make more natural dyes videos, I love those! What plants other than indigo can you grow in a dye garden?
The animals fertilize the soil, but also encourage healthy plant growth. The way I think about it is grazing is similar to pinching back your herbs - it can encourage a bushier plant and healthier roots. But it's a balance because over-grazing can have the opposite effect. It also can increase biodiversity by reducing grasses spreading and allowing other native plants to grow. Here's a study if you want to read more about it: www.nature.com/articles/srep10892
I'll try to! They also grow madder root and various flowers which can be used for dye. :)
This is so cool! I was just wanting to crochet some socks, but was worried about how I could get ethically sourced wool. This is such a good resource, thank you!
Great Video, Thx for the info. Now to find strategic partners in the US. I have an offer in on a 400 acre farm. Goal is to create a recreational retreat and regenerative farm. Seems most of what I want to do with the property has to be researched from Europe, Canada and Australia....Time to change things here!
A really great documentary that covers more about regenerative farming and how soil health can be one solution to climate change, is called Kiss the Ground. I think it’s still on Netflix.
If we could shift the « let’s do the same thing slightly differently » paradigm, that’d be great overall. Why do we NEED to produce new garments ? Why not turn to the circular economy and reuse ? Why do we NEED to produce more wool when there is already so much ? Why not natural fibers from plants ?
Fantastic video and information. Would like to know more about muelsing (to stop sheep getting fly blown. ) thanks for sharing.
That practice only happens with Merino sheep and countries like New Zealand have fully banned it. It also doesn't happen in Canada. Australia wool is a concern for mulesing but you can check for certifications like ZQ which I talk about in part 2 which also ban the practice
My great grand parents had a cow some sheep and some chickens. My grandma said they treated those animals like pets. I think small farms can be great. Factory farms are nasty.
I'm not convinced by the regenerative arguments. They're quite broad and conceptual as opposed to scientific. Which is probably because regenerative farming has been widely debunked.Whilst this seems like a nice farm, I doubt her experience of shearing is indicative of the wider industry. Examples of bad practice are rife as opposed to being 'hung on too'. This is a very small scale that most people won't have access too (especially if they don't knit themselves). So we end up back ZQ/ woolmark type certifications that will be supporting the meat industry, animal cruelty and a wide scale production harmful for the environment. It's still a hard pass for me. If you want ethical wool, you should buy it second hand.
Who or what party has debunked this, and also why? How have they come to the conclusion that something else is better?
Unfortunately second hand yarns aren't widely available and doesn't give a lot of choices.
Like she said wool industry is already in a pinch and not supporting pro biotope practises is shortsighted and harmful. Obviously we still need to push a lot harder for animal welfare issues but I don't believe stopping wool industry is a better choice considering the fast fashion and plastic clothing problem.
@@Ami5Jo I'm not going to do your research for you. Google it lol. The conclusion is regenerative farming isn't a silver bullet to make animal agriculture sustainable.
Second hand yarns might be hard to get but second hand clothes are widely available. I imagine knitters will just have to do their best. Wool is as much a part of the fast fashion industry as any other fibre. It would definitely be better for the planet not to be breeding millions of sheep into existence. This farm looks alright but is not indicative of the wider issue.
Can you share some sources? Because I've read many scientific studies on the benefits and improved carbon sequestration of regenerative practices.
Also nothing is a silver bullet solution but that doesn't mean there aren't much better ways to do things
@@MyGreenCloset I Agree, and this farm looks ok but I think on the whole this a tiny example that is not reflective of the industry so the wider take away probably won't be to buy wool from this farm and knit their own clothes but to just buy it from a shop. I'll look put a couple of links for you. I found your channel useful for a long time and I've purchased your e-book. Thank you for that but I've unsubscribed because I don't think we're close enough to the same page any more. It's just the way it goes sometimes
This is from Oxford University