Do you wear clothes?

Use sheets?

Walk on rugs?

This workshop is for YOU.

Meet LindaDee’s fiber family of colorful sheep and how they mow & fertilize her lawn.

Sink your hands into bags of gourmet wool that will knock your socks off (or could become your future socks, scarves, sweaters).  Take home your very of wool sample, courtesy of LindaDee's sheep.

Learn how to read labels and harvest tips on how to look for and purchase sustainable clothing that reflects your land stewardship values. 

Take home a resource guide filled with information about textiles, fibers & clothing. 

Check out LindaDee's fiber shop!

A shocking 62.5% of textiles go to landfills, and 19% are incinerated. Your clothes and curtains are entwined with our environment, our economy and our health. Don’t miss this reveal of what’s behind the curtain of greenwashed fibers & fabrics. What is “slow fashion”? fast fashion? fiber farming? Wrinkle free, flame retardant, moth proofing—are they safe? Are organic cotton and wool really organic? Toxic baby clothes? From Victoria’s Secret underwear to rayon shirts to organic home knit sweaters—Come explore the ins and outs of Fiber Farming & Friendly Textiles.

5% of workshop fee goes to Heartland Threads Fibershed, a local non-profit, providing your take home reading materials.

Baabaa black sheep!

Workshop fee:  $45.00 (Adults 18+)

BONUS: Registration includes a free copy of the book Renewing the Countryside: WISCONSIN Stories of Sustainable Living, Working & Playing (a $26.95 value) will be made available to every couple, household or family participating in this workshop (one free copy per address).

For more information on other Soil Sisters Aug. 5-7 weekend workshops, culinary events, lodging and more, see www.soilsisterswi.org

Soil Sisters Event Policies:

• This is a workshop designed for adults 18 and older and everyone needs to have their own paid registration. If childcare is an issue and you need to bring your children in order to attend the workshop, please let us know in advance.

• All Soil Sisters events will be fully outdoors with space for social distancing. Masks are not required.

• Dress for the weather. Bring sunscreen, sun hat and good walking shoes.

• Leave your pets at home as these are working farms with other animals.

• All Soil Sisters event tickets are non-refundable.

About Linda Dee Derrickson
LindaDee has worn many hats in 70+ years: UW grad, Peace Corps, Broom Street Theater, Linda’s Lakeside Grocery, Sunporch Cafe & Art Gallery, Dane Co. business Woman of the Year, treaty rights activist, witness for non-violence, B&B innkeeper, teacher, master gardener, town treasurer, political activist and regenerative farmer for nearly 30 years. She brings all that to her classes at Bluffwood, a 15-acre organic sheep/wool farm. When not tending sheep, spinning wool, or teaching, LindaDee bounces around her riotous gardens belting out original songs. Sheep mow lawn, soil flourishes, diversity reigns, hobbits lurk & miracles happen. In 2020, covid didn’t stop her activism. She founded Heartland Threads Fibershed, (heartland threads.org) a non-profit organization promoting local, natural fiber and creating awareness of the detrimental health, environmental, and community consequences of synthetic fiber consumption.

About Bluffwood Landing Farm
Bluffwood Landing Farm is an organic homestead in the Driftless of South Central Wisconsin – 25 miles south of Madison, between New Glarus and Monticello. Located on a woodsy bluff near the Little Sugar River, Bluffwood is home to 4 breeds of endangered heritage sheep (Jacobs, Tunis, Gotlands and CVM/Romeldales). Animals on this farm are lovingly cared for with organic/biodynamic principles of herbal, homeopathic & spiritual wellness. There’s a harmonious blend and nurturing of wild and tame eco-systems of gardens, livestock, birds, insects, rocks, forest, pastures, worms, fungi, bacteria and microbes – all interwoven in an intricate bio-web of eating, pollinating, composting, soil building, living & dying that makes this a sustainable, regenerative farmstead.

Soil Sisters is an award-winning project of the non-profit Renewing the Countryside, bringing together women championing local food, community building, sustainable and organic agriculture and vibrant rural communities for collaboration, networking and cooking up change. The founding Soil Sisters in southern Wisconsin organize the annual Soil Sisters event the first weekend in August, the largest women-farmer led event of its kind in the country. Since 2012, the Soil Sisters open their barn doors and farms for various workshops, culinary events and more.