Typically, sheep are shorn once a year. This means that the wool is clipped from the animal, producing a bundle of wool that is called a fleece. Several fleeces are bundled together, bagged, and then ...

Two-thirds of the wool produced by a flock of sheep at Bare Ranch, a large ranch in Northern California, is now going to The North Face. The ranch was the first to adopt a so-called “carbon farm plan” ...

Regenerative wool: it's the new green buzzword in the fashion industry – but can wool ever be fully sustainable? While building their fledgling fashion brand, environmentally minded Edzard van der ...

Ask someone for a fact about New Zealand and chances are they’ll likely say, “There are more sheep than people.” It’s true, with 30 million sheep to 4.4 million humans, so it is little wonder that ...