Women Behind Wool founders Penny Ashby and Skye Manson
Meet the women behind Women Behind Wool, Skye Manson of the Manson Podcasting Network and Penny Ashby, designer and founder of Lady Kate which sells beautiful jumpers made of 100% Australian merino wo...
26 Apr 202244min
Pip Smith's wool and the farm to fabric cycle
Pip Smith and her husband Norm run a holistic fine merino operation near Wellington in NSW and they absolutely love the fibre they produce, they believe in their wool and are proud of how they manage ...
4 Jul 202130min
Australia's first professional wool classer Anne Cooper
Anne Cooper believes she was the first professional female wool classer to work in shearing sheds along the eastern seaboard of Australia. As she recounts her story with Skye, she recalls how disrupti...
27 Jun 202130min
Kelly Dowling is a woman of all trades when it comes to wool
There isn't much in sheep and wool production that this woman can't do! Kelly Dowling runs a 30,000 head superfine merino wool operation in partnership with her Mum, Dad and Brother at Dalton near Gun...
20 Jun 202134min
Jess Webb has done the numbers and wool's future looks brightest
Before buying her familys farm near Uralla, Jess and her husband crunched the numbers and found that wool had the most exciting and financially beneficial future. They did not get into wool for emotio...
6 Jun 202126min
Joanne Howarth's innovative wool packaging for the food industry
In a former life, Joanne Howarth, the now CEO of Planet Protector Packaging used so much polystyrene packing she felt like she was single handedly destroying the planet. She set about finding an alter...
30 Mai 202128min
Dr Meredith Sheil should be in the Wool Industry Hall of Fame
You may not know Paediatrician, Dr Meredith Sheil but she should be a household name in the Australian wool industry. Dr Sheil is the inventor of TriSolfen, the topical anaesthetic and antiseptic solu...
23 Mai 202144min
Catriona Rowntree is wool's best PR agent
Catriona Rowntree doesn’t have a background in the wool industry but has a genuine love for the fibre and her enthusiasm for wool is endless. So much so that after seeing a daggy TV story on the wool ...
16 Mai 202136min
