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Backyard Industry

Wool Gathering

Special | 7m 32sVideo has Closed Captions

Backyard Industry's Lisa Bralts learns all about the springtime ritual of sheep shearing.

Cathe Capel owns Seven Sisters Farm in Sidney, Illinois. The premises are small, but the presence of sheep on the farm is HUGE. Why? Wool. And Backyard Industry's Lisa Bralts learned that there's no better place to learn more about where the wool in your hat or sweater came from than to a) learn from a master and b) actually have a hand in the annual springtime ritual of shearing the sheep.

06/03/2014 | Rating NR

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Backyard Industry is a local public television program presented by WILL-TV

Backyard Industry

Wool Gathering

Special | 7m 32sVideo has Closed Captions

Cathe Capel owns Seven Sisters Farm in Sidney, Illinois. The premises are small, but the presence of sheep on the farm is HUGE. Why? Wool. And Backyard Industry's Lisa Bralts learned that there's no better place to learn more about where the wool in your hat or sweater came from than to a) learn from a master and b) actually have a hand in the annual springtime ritual of shearing the sheep.

06/03/2014 | Rating NR

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