PALMER — Karen Gardner keeps sheep to support her weaving habit. At Gardner's arrival in the family's Matanuska Colony barn on a windy night a few days before Thanksgiving, her flock comes running as ...

Editor's note: J. Kevin Graffagnino is executive director of the Vermont Historical Society. He is one of several guest writers filling in while Mark Bushnell takes a break from this column until July ...

The merino conjures up images of fine micron wool and wrinkles and an imposing concrete statue in the New South Wales city of Goulburn. But in the north of NSW poor prices for fine micron wool have ...

Late-afternoon light falls soft on the rocky outcrops of Dwarsvlei farm, just south of Middelburg, Eastern Cape. It’s the end of a mild Karoo winter Saturday in June, when most country folk are ...

Improved genetic management is producing a hardier, more productive merino, without having to sacrifice wool quality In the paddocks of the CSIRO research station in Armidale in New South Wales, a ...

Simon and Sarah Paterson, of the Armidale Merino Stud on the Maniototo Plain, with their young sons Bede and Hugo. Photo: Stuff The Armidale Merino Stud at Gimmerburn on the Maniototo Plain has an ...

An icon in the shape of a lightning bolt. Impact Link Nearly every suit on the market today — especially in the high and mid-range area of the market — is made from wool shorn from the descendants of ...

Merino wool is a sustainable material when the sheep are treated well. Sheep Inc, short for Sheep Included, is transparent about its efforts to ensure their animals are: They allocate wearers a sheep ...

Among the kangaroos and kookaburras, another creature trundled through the Australian bush. Hooves barely visible, eyes mostly covered, the animal was the size of a refrigerator, the color of dirty ...

PALMER — Karen Gardner keeps sheep to support her weaving habit. At Gardner's arrival in the family's Matanuska Colony barn on a windy night a few days before Thanksgiving, her flock comes running as ...