Sustainable Fashion Week Fringe Event: The role of agro-ecological farms in growing our clothes

To celebrate Sustainable Fashion Week we are hosting a farm tour, to demonstrate how the production of natural fibres can help benefit our natural environment and to explain the benefits for both people and our ecosystem, of designing clothing made from within a bio-region. There is an important story to tell around the role of farms in growing our clothes. At Great Cotmarsh Farm we are passionate that farmers should be able to realise the value in the fibre they produce. When Katie started farming, she was determined to see the worth in her own wool clip and in 2021 launched an award-winning knitwear collection under the brand Loopy Ewes. In 2024 work on our farm around fibre will unfold further, as we are start to cultivate dye plants and James continues along his journey to set up a micro-scale veg tannery.