Conservation Through Wool

Ben and Alicia Rux
As Wyoming natives, we're accustomed to growing gardens in a harsh, arid, cold environment. We're also accustomed to growing sheep in a harsh, arid, cold environment. Over the years, as we gardened and shepherded, we realized something: these two things might be able to have a wonderfully symbiotic relationship.

How, you might ask? Sheep wool has evolved to keep the animal warm by wicking moisture away from the skin and trapping warm air there instead. The result is simple: a happy, cozy sheep that can weather even the worst of storms under the right conditions. Everyone who's ever worn a warm sweater or socks knows how important wool is to the clothing industry (and many other industries as well), but it's wool's moisture-retention capabilities that really caught our attention. You see, gardeners in Wyoming occasionally face problems, not least of which is our arid climate. To help with that, we wondered if we could take waste wool and harness its water-retention capabilities by adding it to the soil around our plants. And it worked.

Now, we're on a mission to share our all-natural, entirely renewable, organic soil addition with everyone! With a host of benefits - from increasing your soil's water retention to adding nutrients to your garden to repelling slugs - our wool pellets are perfect for any garden, especially those in arid and semi-arid climates. Preserve water, fertilize naturally, and keep pests under control with our wool pellets.