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Ruth MacGilp's avatar

This is so well researched and simply explained, thank you for all the important work you do :)

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Tanita Hecking's avatar

Thanks, Ruth! Can only give the compliments back to you and the work you‘re doing!

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Lavinia Muth's avatar

Thank you, dear Ruth!

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blorrainesmith's avatar

Excellent deep dive into wool! Thank you for this, dear Crisps! As a long-time sustainability practitioner, and an even longer time handspinner (ja, ich spinne doch! 🤪) I appreciate the complexity you're helping us see here.

One of the related threads (no pun intended!) that compels me these days is the increase in land stewardship and interspecies/intercropping production models, as an important counter to the growing awareness of overgrazing and soil depletion. I think there's a great deal of room for responsible -- even regenerative* -- wool in that context.

There's no "perfect" example of course, but I find the resources mentioned within the Fibershed community to be helpful breadcrumbs on the trail. https://fibershed.org/

* These kind of terms (responsible, regenerative, etc) make me a bit itchy, but since we're using written English language, I'll work with the tools at hand.

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Lavinia Muth's avatar

Lorraine, du spinnst doch! But in my perception in a good way ;)… And you are totally right, there are a couple of different traditional ways of maintaining and even regenerating soil health within sheep husbandry from rotational grazing via manure management and terracing and contour plowing via “modern” or “adopted” ways like precision grazing, agroforestry and silvopasture systems!

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blorrainesmith's avatar

Indeed! So much great stuff going if we could just get the harmful profit-only business models out of the way! 🌱

PS I'm sorry to hear you weren't feeling well. Glad you were able to bring this to the word, and I hope you're both feeling better!

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Tanita Hecking's avatar

Thank you for your great feedback, Lorraine, and for the well wishes!

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Chaani Srivastava's avatar

How beautifully articulated and organised - truly informative.

Tanita and Lavinia - Take a bow!

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Tanita Hecking's avatar

Thank you!

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Sustainable Fashion Forum's avatar

Welcome back! :)

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Tanita Hecking's avatar

Thank you!

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