Shearing took place at my girlfriends farm, last weekend, it was not ideally in the sense of it coming off a week of rain but timing is as it goes, I headed over to pick up a HUGE stuffed full bag of so much WOOL!

Once we got it out of the bag and started to pick and spread it out to dry as we have five days of warm/dry, each day i will go out and work on finding the part on each sheer that i want to use for making and selling bags of raw unclean wool for homemade wool tags locally.

I am of course very excited to use a huge amount of this wool in my own gardens, i have studies on what it can offer in terms of plant growth. There are so many studies now compared to when i started doing this, i remember at the time of my first posting on this, i could only find three studies out of EU all of them very positive, the big one was how amazing they were for tomato’s and that they were using it as a natural peat moss and how well it could feed the soil in dessert like conditions.

More efficient nitrogen utilization through wool pellet and soil inoculation – Kovács – 2024 – Agrosystems, Geosciences & Environment – Wiley Online Library

Now, you can find so many studies, in Canada, in N.A. and across the world, the bottom line is that all of them are proving what i have seen with my own eyes, they can be used in many ways in the garden and all of them can and will prove to be useful, common sense is needed.. clearly adding them to a cactus pot would not be a good idea lol

However adding them to your patio posts, YES, add them to your garden Heck YA! Raised beds, you want this big time, IN ground.. you bet!

Now if you want it machine perfect, there are more and more folks that are investing in the machines to shed the wool and then put it though a pellet making machine and i am doing some experimenting on this myself on a very small scale

If you want to do it yourself, put a post out to see if any of your sheep owning friends have wool trimmings available or if they have extra to share or barter for, if they raise sheep for fleeces for spinning and such, they will still be trimming the edges and those leftovers can be used in the gardens or pots

I will have limited farmgate sales and some local spring sales in prepared different sizes, and the good news is that the wool acts as a slow release upwards of 6 months More information on availability coming soon.