How Wool Is Grown In Montana
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- čas přidán 25. 06. 2024
- Duckworth is an American clothing company that takes pride in source verified products, animal welfare, community involved industry and wearing wool. Their products are designed with hard work, sustainability and quality in mind. The Helle family value excellence in the treatment of their livestock and the product they provide. They understand that happy, healthy, well cared-for animals are the only way to succeed in lifting a smoldering source of sustainable clothing from the ashes. Duckworth is committed to revitalizing the wool manufacturing communities in the US in lasting ways to bring you a product that has never left the nation's shores. If you’re interested in helping to make ethical wool the way of the world, check out their store below. 🤘🏼
Huge 'thank you' to Dave, ( / dead.west ) for all of the sick drone footage.
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0:00 Intro
1:25 Fiber Country
2:30 San Antonio to Bozeman
3:15 Interwoven Community
4:45 Shearing Shed Buzz
5:24 Smoke-o and Chutes
6:17 Shearing Some Sheep
6:56 Rouseys Take Charge
7:21 Let’s Talk Quality
8:43 Natures Technical Fiber
9:35 My Take on Crew Shearing
9:58 Lanolin and Nicks
11:42 Designer Sheep
12:25 History of Rambouillet
13:22 Searching for Cold Stress
13:54 How We Keep Sheep
14:39 4 Tracks, 3 people, 2 dogs, 1000 Sheep
15:55 A Natural Migration
16:24 Mountainous Meals
18:21 What Needs to be Done
19:09 Herding a Hierarchy
20:50 Sharing Traditions
21:51 Classic Clothing
22:13 Weaving a Reputation
23:22 Maverick Mountain Made
24:16 Washed in the Springs
25:10 This Isn’t the End
WOW, that's PBS quality information! Great job and glad to see you pop up in my YT feed! 🥶🖤🔔👍🏻❤️
Katie smiling during the whole trip like it's her own personal Disney World 🥰😅
Ewe know it!
As a handspinner since 1973 who loves helping shear, skirt a fleece and take it home...this was a total treat!! I wish I could be there too!!!!!
Sending you all love, success, health and peace in this year 2024♥️‼️( and always actually!) Bless ewe all!!!
I agree they look like they are having fun ✌️🙂
I'm a Montanan, and I live in my duckworth clothes in the cold months, love to know my clothes come from here and are ethically manufactured. I also grew up working on sheep ranches, and I appreciate you mentioning the Peruvian shepherds. The whole wool industry in this country rests almost exclusively on their shoulders, and they are also subject to a lot of abuse by less ethical ranchers, so I always like to see them get their flowers.
You and your wife are so amazing! The world is disconnected from nature. The history...our history is important. Thank you for this I love watching your videos❣️
Totally agree with you ✌️
I'm glad you explained about the lanolin because I wondered about shearing sheep in winter. ❤
Lanolin is a superb skin ointment!!!
@@Cricket2731It is! Especially for me with Sjogrens disease and eczema. Lanolin is fantastic. It's also a great chap stick!
Such a great video!!! PBS needs to get you a show. This was as good if not better than anything I've seen on PBS. Really looking forward to the next one.😊
I always enjoy your videos but today's was much different. I liked even more than your usual sheering videos.. you're interaction with those guys from the sheep farm, showing us how they work and live, how they care for their animals... Are all things weed never know otherwise. I thoroughly enjoyed the lesson. Thanks so much.
This honestly felt like a Discovery/ National Geographic documentary episode. So well made. More episodes pls very entertaining.🎉
Katie and Darian, this video was spectacular as well as informative... I've always looked forward to your videos, you outdid yourselves on this one. Loved it!
Thank you!
Agreed!
Trip of a lifetime! When y’all were peeling that wool back - oh, my gosh! Just beautiful!
Thanks for sharing, Darien and Katie, and a super big thanks to the Helle’s and the entire Duckworth team!! 🐑 ❤
That was very interesting. Thank you for showing us this part of the agricultural industry. It's so very easy to get caught up in our own little world and put on clothes without knowing where the product comes from 😂❤
Wow, that sheering operation looks like a Temple Grandin design. Not sure she ever addressed sheep, but it's very similar to her cattle designs. Keeping the critters calm. Thank you so much for showing us the Duckworth operation. It makes me feel good to know. I'm a retired dog trainer so seeing the happy working dogs was a bonus happy.
Temple Grandin is phenomenal.
The dogs. Some people who are keeping LGDs but who didn't come from these cultures tell each other that you shouldn't play with the dogs, but all cultures who have these dogs treat them like family members. Like you see in this video.
Lovely production, Katie & Darien. Can't wait to see the next installment, hopefully from Scotland with Cammy.
You bet it is!
I miss your shorts but this long documentary is really awesome, well-produced and high quality 👏🏻
I'm so glad to have a longer video from you! This one was such a treat. Katie your narration style is so entertaining....you were made for this!💜
Thank you for showing Montana and its hardworking ranchers!
Love this informative format! As a wife of a poultry farmer in Japan I think it is great you are showing people the “behind the scenes” take on wool.
I’m looking forward to more.
It was great going on a roadtrip with with you! You mixed in a little fun, adventure, hardwork, hard play and history.
What an excellent video! Thank you so much much for bringing this subject into the light for those of us who have no direct access to agriculture!
Fantastic video! You guys are a great team. I hope that younger generations seeing your amazing work will see the value in it for themselves and our planet as a whole. Excited to follow your adventures! 🌎🐑❤🐑🌎
Katie & Darian! This vid is awesome and all encompassing! A real & worthy docu-series in the making! So glad to see you getting a break from work. Be safe!
❤Montana
I like how Duck Worth takes such good care of their sheep.
I was raised in sheep country. We had bum lambs we fed, they stayed in our kitchen in the beginning. I love everything about sheep. They have a big part in the Bible, represent people. Thank you so much for this video. You two are good sports for rolling in snow!
Great vlog! I had no idea there were still so many sheep in the USA. Nice to know about Duckworth and their heritage.
Thank you for the history and animal husbandry lessons, I loved this video very much.
Loved learning about this operation! I hope you make a series out of this 🧡
I would love to see videos like this made on every aspect of agriculture and distributed to every school. There are so many kids and adults that have no idea where their food comes from. They would be amazed to see where some of the clothes they wear come from.
Where are you from? Don't they have Agrultural Education there?
This is an amazing new series! I cannot wait to meet who you visit next! 🎉
Videos like this make me proud to be an American.❤
A generation is classified as 25 years so it's more like 125 years if we are talking 5 generations xxx I love your videos and your work. You and your wife work so very very hard and are always learning and keeping currant. Great job xxx
This was freaking awesome! Loved it! ❤
You’re a great spokesperson for Duckworth: I paused 5 minutes in to go do some Christmas shopping on their website! This is a great direction to take your channel. I’m looking forward to more.
Outstanding video!!! I hope it goes viral! I learned some stuff and was absolutely tickled with your ag positive message. I also picked up another wool brand to support. Y’all are just awesome! Keep up the great work!
If such informational videos were available in the '70s and '80s, many of our lives would have been completely different. We would have seen the wider view of the world earlier, had seen the wonders and possibilities and chased them. Thanks kiddos!
Bravo!!! What an amazing video! I hope we get to see more!
Really WONDERFUL video! I watched several parts more than once.....I watched on my 15 1/2 inch laptop computer..put it on full screen and had a great time...I will watch the whole thing again for sure...and at the end a teaser for I believe it was SCOTLAND! This is my new fascination and it all started with watching videos about Border Collies , a dog I have always loved to watch in action at the fairgrounds each year. I went to the dog videos to get my mind away if possible for a few moments from the horrific situation in Israel and because of so much hatred NOW on the planet. Those dog videos led me to Sean the Shepherd and then !!! to Right Choice Shearing...I can hardly begin to say how mesmerizing the shearing has been, plus all I have learned...The videos are calming yet upbeat and informative and actually fun! I want to know more about the young woman shearer... (I'm elderly and haven't learned her name yet...) I also want to encourage my children who are middle aged, and my 20 something grandchildren, to use more wool in their clothing...My son recently bought some ultra pricey all year wool under wear and shirts and he is sold. This comment is going off in multi-directions...sorry...I am a big fan and a surprised one at that!
Like this past September had anyone told me that I was going to be a big-time video fan of a very tatooed Lesbian sheep shearer I would have laughed and told them NO WAY! :) But tonight I'm looking forward, like a groupie for goodness sakes ! to seeing the video, a long, long one I hope...of your Scotland experience ?? ...Oh be still my heart... maybe you will go to NZ!!!! But Scotland will be a thrill enough (HUGE) for me...please go see Sean the sheep herder and his wife, they are young and totally INTO their Border Collies and sheep! Oh! reading the earlier comments, got your name! Hi KATIE! Greetings from a genuine fan of your beautiful shearing and the awesome videos you give to us. XOXO GrandmaLinda in CA
Two other CZcamsrs to check out are Sandi Brock, she raises sheep in Ontario Canada. Her channel is Sheepish Me. And Cammy Wilson, The Sheep Game, from Scotland. Cammy is both a shepherd and a sheepshearer.
I really got lost in this video. Fascinating, informative and so much to learn and know about sheep ranching. Loved it. Thank you.
That was amazing. I can't wait for the rest of your series. I'm going to look for some more Duckworth products.
I know you don't feel your shearing is as pristine as some of those other guys there, but your skill and passion for helping the tiny backyard farms is so crucial. One by one you're helping to reconnect people to the land and what nature has to offer.
Absolutely brilliant video .. a real pleasure to watch
Thankyou for providing the back story and history of the sheep
Really awesome job ❤
What a terrific post! Thank you for educating us. Stay well, you two. 💜
Thank you for your work. A lot of people don’t realize how much ranchers love their livestock on a personal level. I mean yes, some are culled for meat, but in ethical settings, it’s always the animals that are at the end of their wool, milk, or egg laying years. I always to appreciate the animals for anything they may provide. Thank you for your work!❤
Wool is an AMAZING fibre. The elasticity, insulating capacity (wet and dry), breathability, is unmatched in any synthetic, or even any other natural fibre.
Hope you get to experience kivwit(sp). It's musk oxen fleece, and it is AMAZING.
Yaayyy!!! Thank you SO MUCH for making this informative video! I’ve been a spinner and knitter for several years now, including buying fleeces directly from the shepherds. It’s a very direct, organic experience, even buying a raw fleece at a fiber festival. You can easily learn about the living conditions and feed of the sheep, and thus the land it lives on. It’s hard NOT to make a connection between yourself and the bigger web of life when you do that. Folks reading this, there is a thing called a fibershed, which is a particular area that your wool or other organic fiber comes from. Local is good. Support any local shepherds you can find! 🙏
Ohhhh, Raboullet is so soft to spin! I love these videos showing different aspects of the world if wool!
This was an excellent video. Thank you for taking the time to make it.
Absolutely love this video!!! Thank you for all the information y'all are putting out there!!
Love this video! I'm hoping it's a series! You have always been a wonderful teacher in your videos.
Outstanding video Ladies!! Love y'all and stay safe on the travels. Looking forward for more. ❤😊
Thank you for showing us this great American story!
Thank you so much for sharing. I love watching your adventures and learning about shearing and all that goes with it. 😊
This was an incredible video. I learned a lot! I’m really interested in sustainability and repairing the disconnect that has occurred between people and the earth. I think this kind of community approach is vital to our future. It was so powerful that John talked about how the land has been and will be here; we’re privileged to cooperate with nature and create things while we’re here. That stewardship perspective is what our big corporate monopolies have lost. When all we think about is cheaper products (quantity over quality and exploitative labor) to make CEOs richer, we damage our relationships with other humans, with animals, and with the earth. Duckworth has their priorities right!
Hi to both of you. I love watching your videos. Even this type, an informative video like this would normally be quite boring, not your though. You both present a fun way of getting the information across to us in your own unique style. As always your sense of humour makes it more interesting with amazing camera footage from an a amazing camera woman who can capture some great shots.
I still think you should write a book about your amazing journey together from childhood until now and what you both think the future holds. With your brilliant sense of humours and fun it’s a sure winner xx ❤️
What a wonderful video! Thank you so much for taking us on this trip with you! It’s a great opportunity to become educated and to appreciate the beauty of these places, people and processes. Thank you. I’m excited to see where you go next! After thawing out back home! Keep up the great work.
What great video, on So many levels. Great to see both of you, such a lovely couple ❤
Great video quality almost a movie 😊
🏴 love fae Scotland
Haste Ye Back 🏴
Awesome video Katie...I ❤ 🐑 ❣️❣️
What a awesome series!
Awesome video Katie and Darian! It’s fun to see y’all out of your normal territory checking out different operations and spreading VERY important information on the wool industry!
This is fantastic ❤ I’m going to love watching these videos. You two are absolutely wonderful. I’m a bit of a history buff, so, this is going to be so exciting. Well done, you!!! Plow forward ladies🥰🥰🥰 I’m so proud of you. 🤩🤩🤩
It's so cool to learn more about sheep. They are interesting and have been vital to human development.
Watching you shear these pristine beauties was epic! I loved seeing all the hard working LGD’s in this vid. They do so much to help protect the herds with big smiles on their faces! The ski’ing and hot springs looked great. It makes me want to visit! I had heard of Duckworth but it’s nice to learn it’s a family business with care taken in every step of their process. Happy sheep, Happy family! Lol. Watching you with your wonderful smile zipping along doing your thing was really great. You are bringing much needed information on the American agriculture! Right on. You keep doing you. I’ll keep watching! 🤟
This is an amazing production! Y'all did a great informative video and I enjoyed every second of it. Thank-you from Biloxi, Mississippi ❤❤❤
I so enjoy watching this video. Thank you so much on the learning about sheep and wool!!
By far one of my favorite videos from you so far! Your love and passion for not only your wife, but your animals in your care is amazing! And as someone who has reached the double nickel number of years, I’m learning a lot from you to Younghans, so thank you for not only keeping me entertained while I’m convalescing, but also, I’m keeping the smiling!
The entire video was brilliant. I was thrilled to learn so much about the wool industry especially that the Duckworth company uses Peruvian men as shepherds! Bravo to the family for hiring them, it’s a thankless job in many ways but the hardy men are happy to do it. I swear by wool having Shetland grandparents I need say no more. Thank you for a brilliant video. 💕👏💕👏💕
I enjoy all your videos. This one was great. I loved every single minute of it. Looking forward to the next one❤
This was wonderful! I’m so glad you are doing this!
Thanks for putting Duckworth out there. I'm in Florida, I work outside, so I'm always on the lookout for the next great base layer that'll keep me (relatively) cool, dry, and comfortable. I've been noticing that my polyester stuff isn't making the cut, so I'm going to go to wool. It's better for the environment, for me, and for our ranchers. Keep up the good work!
This was so interesting and informative. The Helle family, Peruvian shepherds, terrain and sheep of this area in Montana were just spectacular! ❤❤❤
I love this episode! So much information and history on the sheep industry in Dillon.
I grew up just over the mountain range in the background- the Rocky Mountains/ Continental Divide. It was amazing to see you there!
This was a great reminder of a trip my sister and I took to the Henry Ford
Museum and Greenfield Village. While in the village they had a walking tour called from sheep to shirt! They had other walking tours to enjoy as well! Thanks for sharing your experience and reminding me of my past. God bless
This is such an important documentary. I hope this gets more views. I am hoping we can create a movement that focuses on ETHICAL, environmentally conscious NATURAL FIBERS!!! It would make such a positive impact, the more i learn the more that seems to be true
This exmontanan now Texan enjoyed this a lot. I’ve traveled over those mountains in February and you had good weather.
The people are great. The weather isn’t all the time
Fun, informative video! Excellent work!
wool can be highly sustainable!! good quality fiber that has been treated well will last and last. it's about lifestyle choices. it's very difficult, because societal trends right now are very much about consuming. it's cliché, but we really can all start making small choices toward more sustainable and longer lasting items.
I thoroughly enjoyed this!
I teach children of farmers and agricultural workers. In my area we deal mostly with produce. Near and dairy. It’s nice to learn about other facets of agriculture. The video was very nicely done!
I love this video. Thank you
I have never been involved in BIG agriculture. But small farms.
And you are right agriculture is being forgotten by much of the population
But I would add that honestly agriculture is being attacked. And its really
quite scary what the powers that be would have happen to animal farming
if they get their way.
For example, the cows must go because the produce too much carbon.
What a lie. Look at what they have done to the Dutch farmers!!
I love that you are bringing awareness to people in an easygoing and
friendly way. We need more people like you and your wife.
You called sheep "people "!!!
I like that 😊
Thank you so much for this series of you do about wool fibre production! And highlighting operations that do agriculture in an ethical way. Especially in developed countries we’ve diverged so much from growing and raising sustainable natural fibres-making, wearing, and wasting a staggering amount of entirely synthetic, petroleum-derived garments on one hand, and the huge amount of waste and environmental damage and mistreatment of animals in the world of industrial agriculture and factory farms on the other-that people just aren’t familiar with what sustainable agriculture even looks like, or the kickass properties of natural fibres like wool or linen.
Educational content like this matters, and hopefully will lead to more people shifting away from fast fashion and embracing farms and businesses built on sustainable and ethical natural fibre, like this one. But if people don’t know what the alternatives to fast fashion are, or what sustainable agriculture looks like, they can’t make that choice. So, again, thank you for all the fantastic videos you folks make about wool, on top of being wonderful shearers who do such a great job handling these animals 💜
Wow 😳❤. Great presentation 🎉. Thanks for sharing this with me and everyone else 🙏❤❤❤❤❤. Hello from Indiana USA and this 62 year old lady.
I learn alot from you and enjoy your shearing. In middle school we went to farm and when they sheared the sheep they made them bleed and said it was normal and didnt hurt the sheep. You dont cut them and do way better! Bless you!!!
Oh i waa hoping you would have one of these (educational documentary type vids).
I discovered your shorts, and then clicked on your longer videos, and here it is!
You are an absolute dream and a true natural beauty, I didn't even think of this as an occupation, you have really presented something unique and special to your viewers.
You're one of a kind my dear!
This is awesome. Thank you so much for sharing and caring. I'm 77 and learned alot today. R. From Danville, Virginia ❤
I laughed, I cried. Incredible! I'm so impressed by your passion. I loved this SO much. Thank you, I can't wait until the next one.
You do a great service with this video. You take great pride in your career, your community, and its history.
I love watching you shear and this was the perfect compliment to what you do. Being a handspinner since 1973 lets me enjoy videos like this even more. Thanks for sharing
Thank you for taking us along this was super neat to see ! As a Canadian the cold isn’t a stranger here either !
Great vid! Looking forward to more of these!
WOW! Just wow! I can NOT wait for more ! Thank you Ladies for teaching me more about agriculture, something I feel we all should understand!
You made a great film here, it's a joy to see you bring your channel along. I hope you're really proud of the work you've done. I recently saw some Duckworth gear and the hand was marvelous. Now that I know what the company is all about I'm putting that hooded pullover on my buy list next timeI see one. Gorgeous and sustainable 😍 and can't wait for your next documentary.
What an awesome opportunity, thank you for sharing!
As a spinner & weaver, I'm especially happy to hear that the US still produces wool. I'm hoping the US will produce more of its own fiber, but we'll see. Thank you very much for this interesting insight into wool production. You guys are the bomb!
Wonderfully done! I went to Montana State University in Bozeman, and loved seeing the area again. Blessings to all!
OMG... You are a great teacher Katie! I would love to see shearing in person. Keep up the GREAT work. 😊❤
What a cute and wholesome family! Thank you for putting up the effort, showing the world around in the world of sheep❤❤
Them fibers wowzers some beautiful stuff. Can’t wait for your next adventure, missed watching y’all. Tfs ❤😊
Thank you for sharing this with the wirld! More people need to understand how we lived before modern technology! ...and you both did awesome!
I’m loving this. Highlighting places that we normally people that are not in the industry is amazing. This is a good documentary. Can’t wait to see where your going next