After quitting her day job in Los Angeles and moving to Martha's Vineyard, a quiet island off the Massachusetts coast, Susan Gibbs aka MVKnits had a great idea. She started Martha's Vineyard Fiber Farm and figured out how to make a living making yarn. Why not use the local food movement's model of Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) and apply it to a yarn harvest? Shareholders pay for a share in the yarn harvest as a way to support a local farm (or in this case, a local farm supported through the internet) and in return they get weekly updates, photos from the farm, an invitation to the shearing and ultimately a share of the yarn.
Etsian Tara Young aka weirdwolf headed to Martha's Vineyard to visit Susan Gibbs and her fiber farm.
Author: etsy
Keywords: animals Barry London Community Supported Agriculture CSA Etsy Pets farming fiber farm Handmade Video Portraits island Martha's Vineyard Massachusetts MVKnits sellers sheep shepherd tara young video wool yarn csa weirdwolf charlie parr calder martin
Added: July 10, 2008
