HIGHLAND COUNTY – As the winter turns to spring, thousands of Virginia wool sheep will get their annual “haircut." Sheep shearing, or the process of harvesting wool, is a centuries-old practice that ...

Emily Chamelin was still a teenager when she took up sheep shearing. She’d convinced her parents to let her raise a few sheep on the family dairy farm in Maryland, but finding someone to shear them ...

Students from a class on modern sheep farming gathered in a facility on Dal's Truro Campus in early April to assist in clipping the campus flock. The shearing of ewes and rams resulted in 750 pounds ...

Katie McRose, the founder of the traveling animal shearing business Right Choice Shearing, remembers the first time she posted a TikTok video showing off her work. It was back in March of this year, ...

From Highland pastures to global fashion, wool’s history is woven into Scotland’s identity. Wool has transformed Scotland’s landscapes, livelihoods, and legacy. Shane joins fashion historian Sally ...

Barns are big in modern design these days–do a search for the word on Co.Design alone and you’ll pull up a wealth of conversions, reinterpretations, and adaptive reuses of the traditional rural icon.

A sheep named Baarack received a much needed shearing after rescuers in Australia found the abandoned animal with more than 75 pounds of wool weighing it down. Edgar’s Mission Farm Sanctuary, an ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... A sheep shearing demonstration was held in the Ames Activity Pavilion at the National Western Stock Show on January 22, 2020. Bob Schroth, who runs annual ...