PALMER — Karen Gardner keeps sheep to support her weaving habit. At Gardner's arrival in the family's Matanuska Colony barn on a windy night a few days before Thanksgiving, her flock comes running as ...

Editor's note: J. Kevin Graffagnino is executive director of the Vermont Historical Society. He is one of several guest writers filling in while Mark Bushnell takes a break from this column until July ...

The merino conjures up images of fine micron wool and wrinkles and an imposing concrete statue in the New South Wales city of Goulburn. But in the north of NSW poor prices for fine micron wool have ...

Late-afternoon light falls soft on the rocky outcrops of Dwarsvlei farm, just south of Middelburg, Eastern Cape. It’s the end of a mild Karoo winter Saturday in June, when most country folk are ...

Improved genetic management is producing a hardier, more productive merino, without having to sacrifice wool quality In the paddocks of the CSIRO research station in Armidale in New South Wales, a ...

Simon and Sarah Paterson, of the Armidale Merino Stud on the Maniototo Plain, with their young sons Bede and Hugo. Photo: Stuff Prefer us on Google The Armidale Merino Stud at Gimmerburn on the ...

Just 12 months ago, Australian sheepskins were worthless and being dumped in landfill. They are now in hot demand amid a surging merino wool industry.

Merino wool is a sustainable material when the sheep are treated well. Sheep Inc, short for Sheep Included, is transparent about its efforts to ensure their animals are: They allocate wearers a sheep ...

A Merino sheep like those imported by diplomat William Jarvis, propelling the “sheep craze” that swept the state. Editor’s note: Mark Bushnell is a historian and writer who lives in Middlesex. One of ...

The Merino sheep was found wandering near Canberra in 2015 with a 41kg fleece Chris the Merino sheep who made international headlines after being found wandering and barely visible under a ...