#118 How To Know If A Sheep Is Happy - Interview with Pam and Andre Christie-Smith
Pam and Andre Christie-Smith farm in 6th generation on their sheep farm Kleiheuwel Trust in South Africa. In this episode, they share insights into their everyday farm life of running a sustainable an...
19 Nov 202050min
#117 The Value of Improving Sheep Genetics - Interview with Mark Ferguson
Mark Ferguson is an Agricultural Geneticist specialised in sheep and other natural fibre animal breeds. Mark is also the host of the Head Shepherd podcast. On this show, Mark and Elisabeth talk sheep ...
4 Nov 20201h
#116 Custodian of Land and Animals - Interview with Richard Daughertyrty
Richard Daugherty is a South African wool grower based in Australia. He and his wife Sarah and their two children farm on Balala Station west of Uralla since 2011. Richard is highly committed to regen...
24 Sep 202059min
#115 How Merino Sheep Can Thrive in Europe - Interview with Lesley Prior
Lesley Prior successfully breeds merino sheep on her farm near Devon in the UK. Something many sheep farmers never thought possible. In this Wool Academy Podcast interview, Lesley shares her vision of...
10 Sep 202042min
#114 It's never over until it's over - Interview with Dr. John Parkinson
In this Wool Academy Podcast episode, Dr. John Parkinson shares insights about the wool textile recycling industry and his new old recycling business iinouiio.
27 Aug 202056min
#113 How to develop coarse wool product applications
In this Wool Academy Podcast episode, Sustainability Wool Industry Expert and Journalist Tone Skardal Tobiasson shares insights into the different wool research projects she helped develop and coordin...
13 Aug 202059min
#112 When Wool Prices Collapse
The Covid-19 pandemic has lead to a strong decrease of coarse wool prices. What does this mean for the little Flock Wool Trading Company who just collected its first container of Albanian wool ready f...
31 Jul 202040min
#111 Lean Methodologies and the Minimum Viable Product
In this video, you can listen to Evan Thomsen and Elisabeth van Delden from Flock Wool talk about how they applied the lean methodologies and the concept of a minimum viable product to their wool trad...
30 Jul 202032min
