When it comes to adding livestock into your life in an effort to increase your self-sufficiency, there is one group of animals that is often forgotten: fiber livestock. The purposes of raising chickens, goats, ducks or even cattle are obvious. ...
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Making Your Own Cloth
Making and weaving your own cloth might seem like a huge project, and though it takes a bit of time and effort, the process isn’t that difficult. Many people today prefer to spin and weave their own cloth because they ...
Read More »Turning Fiber Into Yarn: The Art Of Spinning
All of the fantastic fiber you get from animals on your homestead will become beautiful yarns, batting and stuffing. At first, when you look at the wool fleece, or hair right off the animal you may wonder how that dirty, ...
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