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Battenkill Fibers provides local venue for processing fiber

Excerpt from The Bennington Banner:

Before the wholesale loss to overseas manufacturing, upstate New York had a thriving textile industry, with mills lining the region’s rivers and tributaries. With the recent renewed interest in local goods and products, area farmers now have a local venue for processing fiber from shorn sheep, goats, llamas, and alpacas. “At one point, there were 13 fiber mills located between the Battenkill’s mouth with the Hudson and East Greenwich,” said Mary Jeanne Packer. Now, there is only one — Packer’s recently opened Battenkill Fibers Carding and Spinning Mill, located at 2532 State Route 40 in the town of Greenwich. Read full story in Bennington (VT) Banner on-line.