Please welcome Ethan Sager, of Again and Again Farmstead!

Welcome Ethan!  Your operation seems to have a lot of similarity to Anna from Longway Homestead here in Manitoba.  In addition to pellets and other sheepish products, they do workshops on natural dyes.

Beth Borchers wrote:I am so excited to have found permies.com! What an amazing resource. I love learning and oh my gosh there is so much to learn here!
Until today I had never heard of wool pellets. Using every bit of an item is one of my core beliefs and this certainly fulfills that!
I've read everything from the links that you've shared here and I'm so looking forward to the possibility of trying them with soil blocks, as well as in soil but I don't have land yet so, it'll have to be soil blocks for now!
Last year I learned about using hemp bedding as fertilizer and used it for growing Market flowers! They were beautiful.
This is going to be fun 😍

A neighbour of Anna partnered with her this year and created small cubes of wool batting (I think) to use for plant starting (an alternative to peat pots).  It's a neat idea but I start too many seeds for that to be economical for us.

Other hair was mentioned in another post...our standard poodle makes a lot of that.  We have a bag that I'll be taking out to the acreage soon.  Some will be used in compost, some left out and about for birds to use in nesting, and some will get buried in a hugelkultur I'll be building this spring.

Derek Thille wrote:Welcome Ethan!  Your operation seems to have a lot of similarity to Anna from Longway Homestead here in Manitoba.  In addition to pellets and other sheepish products, they do workshops on natural dyes.

A neighbour of Anna partnered with her this year and created small cubes of wool batting (I think) to use for plant starting (an alternative to peat pots).  It's a neat idea but I start too many seeds for that to be economical for us.

Other hair was mentioned in another post...our standard poodle makes a lot of that.  We have a bag that I'll be taking out to the acreage soon.  Some will be used in compost, some left out and about for birds to use in nesting, and some will get buried in a hugelkultur I'll be building this spring.

Hi Derek, it's true we're not the only farm making wool pellets or dye starts. I'm sure there are many more. My favorite is WoolGrow Australia. Sherri is doing an amazing job innovating with her wool and getting the wool message out there. She also makes wool pots similar to the one you describe your friend makes in addition to other useful wool garden stuff.

WoolGrow Australia

Many thanks for joining us Ethan and being super helpful with your advice!

Reminder to everyone that today is the last day to make your winning posts elsewhere in the small farm forum.

Congratulations to our winners!

Cris Fellows
Erin Cross
Barbara Simoes
Timothy Norton


Winners, please keep an eye out on your email inbox for an email from the Homestead to arrange the shipment of your wool pellets!

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Thank you so much, Ethan, for hanging out with us this week, and for helping answer so many questions about small farms!

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For those of your bummed that you did not win, here's a handy-dandy link to buy them online and support this awesome farm

Thank you so much Ethan for all the great posts you made this week! I know much more about uses for wool beyond spinning than I did before.

Congratulations to the winners - have fun with this unique material!

Thanks for all the great questions everybody!

For all of you didn't win, but still want to try some wool pellets; you can use the discount code PERMIES on checkout, which reduces the flat rate shipping to just $5.

Treat your garden to some Wool Pellets

Happy growing!

Thank you, Thank you, Thank you!  I'm so excited to have won...that almost never happens.  I am most grateful to both Ethan S. and this site.  I get so much out of it almost every day.  Please know that you're appreciated!

Congratulations, Cris, Erin, Barbara, & Timothy!! (I'm kinda jelly!)

Thank you so much, Ethan, for a great week of excellent information and friendly education!