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Wildcat Canyon, A School That Keeps Sheep

Erin Axelrod at work with friends and family. Photograph by Paige Green Words by Siri Thorson, Photographs by Paige Green At Wildcat Canyon Community School in El Sobrante, California, the classroom...

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Dyeing to Save the Great Salt Lake: Utah’s High Desert Fibershed Finds a...

Words by Melanie Martin, photographs provided by High Desert Fibershed Utah A 100+ degree July day might not be the ideal time to get out your stockpot and start brewing up some dye in your...

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Climate Beneficial Agriculture in Practice at Stemple Creek Ranch: Recapping...

Loren Poncia shows attendees of the Climate Beneficial Ranch tour what healthy soil looks like. Words by Cassandra Marketos, Photographs by Paige Green Loren Poncia had been waiting for the rain.  A...

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It Takes One Black Sheep: Growing Microbes at Triple F Ranch

Words by Navit Reid, Photography by Paige Green Richard Felipe had a hunch things could be different. As a fourth generation farmer, he’d spent his life doing things the way his father had done them,...

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Agriculture Is Culture: A Recap of the Flock Together Festival

Preparing for the Flock Together Festival. Words by Ren Lezeu, Photographs by Bronte Edwards On a pleasantly overcast Saturday, attendees of the 2nd Annual Flock Together Festival gathered at the...

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Fiber, Dye, and Community: A recap of Fibershed’s Spring Market

The Fibershed Spring Market gets underway at the Learning Center. Words by Ren Lezeu, Photos by Noelle Gaberman Eager gardeners, dyers, and fiber enthusiasts made their way to the Fibershed Learning...

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Old Crop, New Tricks: How Golden State Linen Is Reviving American Flax

Sandy Fisher and Durl Van Alstyne, founders of Golden State Linen. Words by Siri Thorson, Photographs by Paige Greene There’s a real magic to linen, and it only deepens over time. Softening with every...

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How Splendid Took Climate-Beneficial Cotton From Farm to Finished Product

  One of Splendid’s new Climate Beneficial Verified Cotton t-shirts. For many brands, it’s easy to have an interest in locally-grown, climate benefitting fibers. It’s actually taking the leap to move...

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The Future of Soil-Regenerating Cotton: A Tour with Bowles Farming Company...

Attendees of the Bowles Farm Tour get a feel for Climate Beneficial Verified cotton. Words by Cassandra Marketos, Photographs by Paige Green This fall, we brought 67 people, including teams from some...

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Climate Beneficial™ Holiday Shopping Guide

The holidays have a way of pulling us back to the basics: what we use, what we value, and who made the things we reach for every day. Within Fibershed communities, those answers always start in the...

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Indigo Field Notes 2025

Location: Fibershed Learning Center, Point Reyes Station California Three Northern California Fibershed members & producers, Craig Wilkinson, Rimiko Berreman & Heather Podoll, have...

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Creative Innovation: Melding Old and New Textile Technologies

New textile innovators like Mango Materials offer sustainable alternatives to petroleum-based polyester by developing PHA polymers–biodegradable, bio-based polyesters produced by microorganisms....

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What We Can Do to Make California’s Responsible Textile Recovery Act Better

Natural fibers, dyed clothing, and yarn on display at Fibershed’s annual Dyer’s Market. Photography by Paige Greene. California is taking a bold step toward tackling one of the most overlooked parts of...

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Why truly regenerative cotton isn’t cheap

Across the world, organic farmland is estimated to account for just 2.1% of total farmland. It accounts for less than 1% in the United States. And these low numbers have stayed troublingly static,...

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The Natural Dye Handbook by Heidi Iverson

Written by Stephany Wilkes. Photography by Paige Green. Available now I recently sat down for a conversation with brilliant natural dyer, artist, creator – and now author – Heidi Iverson of Honeyfolk....

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Sheep, Soil, and Stewardship: The Mahoney Family’s Living Legacy

Written by Stephany Wilkes. Photography by Paige Green. Ryan Mahoney’s family arrived in Rio Vista, California in the 1870s, not long after the Great Flood of 1862 dumped ten feet of water in 43 days....

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From First Fleece to Future Fiber Systems: Training the Next Generation of...

Newly shorn sheep enjoy the feeling of fresh air and sunshine at the Hopland Research & Extension Center (HREC) in Mendocino County Shearing School (left); Lake County school group (right). Written...

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The Myth of Textile Recycling: Q&A

Q&A by Daniel Saavedra This summer, Fibershed teamed up with Dr. Emily Oertling from California State University, Sacramento’s Fashion Merchandising and Management program to offer a dynamic...

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The True Value of Restorative Fiber—Why Climate Beneficial™ is an Investment...

Written by Rachel Witte. Photography by Paige Green. Sustainability certifications have become the default mechanism for demonstrating environmental progress in the fashion and fiber industries....

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What is in my children’s clothes?

Written by: Connie Gaudio & Emily Oertling Edited by: Fibershed Photography by: TM Photo Co. As a mother, I want what’s best for my family. Even before my son arrived, I had his first outfit...

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