They have the second largest water bill in the town of Frankenmuth after a big restaurant on Main Street known for serving thousands of chicken dinners to tourists. They are the Zeilinger Wool Company ...

Wool production is an agricultural activity that can serve as the basis for a small business in which growing high-quality wool is the focus or as a by-product of a meat production operation, in which ...

Learn how to process wool by following the satisfying process of turning wool into finished products. Today, New Hampshire and Vermont are best known for skiing and dairy cattle, but that wasn’t ...

BROWNSVILLE — Wool that provides clothing to ward off a chill can do the same thing as a building insulation, Brownsville farmers Joel and Kay Pynch say. Along with partner Margaret Magruder of ...

FOSSTON, Minn. -- Stephenie Anderson's timing for starting a wool-processing plant here is spot-on. So says Bill Batchelder, president of Bemidji Woolen Mills, and Jim Stordahl, an extension agent in ...

The gears, belts and drums of the 65-year-old wool-processing machine began to turn, slowly at first, then faster and faster as it started singing its high-pitched song. "Ready!" Brad Strohm hollered, ...

ST. PETER — Does wool processing make you think of a beloved granny hunching over her spinning wheel by the light of a roaring fireplace? Think again. Founded in 1867, Minnesota’s only custom woolen ...

Suzanne had been a fiber hobbyist but never envisioned running a mill with Jay. The Horschler family, the former owners, ran the mill since the 1970s as a phone order business for wool hobbyists. They ...

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