
Lamb Mowers: Babydoll Southdowns in the City
Laureen introduces us to this adorable flock of lawn mowers and describes her experience with their wool.
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Laureen introduces us to this adorable flock of lawn mowers and describes her experience with their wool.

In the spring, Spin Off readers were asked for name suggestions for these cute twins. Let’s take a peek in the barn to see how Willa and Gus are doing this fall, and—of course—how their fleeces are growing!

Season 4, Episode 7: Lamb snuggles, Dorset buttons, Indiana soil, plain sewing, and spinning cotton on a charkha—these are the joys of editor Kate Larson.

During lambing season, I spend more time with my Border Leicesters than at any other time of the year.

California cotton breeder Sally Fox is most widely known for organic cottons that grow in a luscious range of tans, greens, and warm browns. Sally also keeps a growing flock of natural color Merinos roaming her Capay Valley fields—such fleecy goodness!

The fall harvest is finally finished: the crops are in, barn is full of hay, and the last group of woolly ewes was shorn.