Like most ranchers, wool growers who produce fleeces for the handspun fiber market spend a lot of time mending fences, pitching alfalfa and cleaning out water troughs. They also spend hours washing ...
BEAVER VALLEY — It is a crisp February morning and Jennie Watkins is standing in the old barn on her 10-acre farm off Beaver Valley Road. An avid hand spinner and knitter, she is looking over her ...