I was really pleased to find this seller when we had to buy matresses for the kids' cots and beds. 100% natural materials apparently. We bought the beds second hand and you're discouraged from reusing the matresses so it's nice to know I should be able to deal with the eventual waste at home. Unlike the bloody car seats...
I got our one from Laura Ashley and it's made in the UK using mostly wool and silk. The options are available if people actually wanted to look. How much wool is wasted in the UK due to lack of demand now?
If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
Simple supply and demand. Despite our apparent high welfare standards in this country we're happy to allow cheap woollen goods to be imported from countries that don't share those standards. I've got smallholder friends who just throw the wool away after their flocks are sheared because they can't sell it or it's not worth the few quid they'd get for it. It's a real shame given how much this country sacrificed to fuel the wool industry. There's people working hard to promote the UK wool industry though so things may change.
If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
Many knitters are trying to support UK wool producers ... but smallholders have fewer outlets unless they can band together.
The fleeces from our small flock were added to the wool produced on a local sheep farm in inadequate recompense to the farmer who sheared our sheep for us.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
"I've got smallholder friends who just throw the wool away after their flocks are sheared "
Are they rearing for meat?
A sad situation. Hopefully they could give the wool to gardeners / eco projects instead of tossing it out.
Meat but they're rare breed sheep so they make money selling live animals too. I've had a few bags of wool from them in the past for garden use but most have no real outlet for the stuff and not much time to go looking for one.
If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
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we need a population crash.
@wild edges how so?
The fleeces from our small flock were added to the wool produced on a local sheep farm in inadequate recompense to the farmer who sheared our sheep for us.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.