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Women Behind Wool
by Manson Podcasting Network
Women Behind Wool is a podcast about the women of the Australian Merino Wool Industry. Join your hosts Skye Manson and Lady Kate Knitwear's Penny Ashby as they introduce you to CEO's, researchers, TV hosts, shearers and shed hands alongside those who're cooking, cleaning, mustering, drenching and helping to bring up the next generation of wool growers in our country.
Episodes
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Penny and Skye back to say goodbye and thank you!
Sorry guys, we've been a bit MIA but we are here now to round out the 2022 season of Women Behind Wool and to say a big fat thank you for listening and supporting this project of ours. In this chat we revisit what's been achieved to-date and get excited about what's to come in 2023. While we wait...
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Innovation in wool fabrics with Woolmark's Julie Davies
This week our guest is Julie Davies, General Manager for process innovation and education extension at the Woolmark Company. Her work is largely involved in product development and also education, mostly of people along the supply chain, so the likes of garment manufacturers, textile dyers and...
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The women behind the Haddon Rig merino empire
Today we interview Sally and Olivia Falkiner from Haddon Rig merino stud near Warren in central west NSW. Sally met her husband George Falkiner at Haddon Rig as a backpacker and never left. Sally and George were married and had four daughters and so this story is all about these women have worked...
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Kristen Frost: 5th generation stud breeder, 1st generation wool writer
Visit the sheep pavilion at any local show around Australia and there’s a fair chance the punters know Kristen Frost (nee Williams) of Thalabah Stud at Laggan on the NSW southern tablelands. If it’s not for her work re-birthing the family’s stud operation, then chances are they’ve read her…
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Shearer Emma Billett used to be the only female in the shearing shed, but now that's changing
Emma Billett is a 32 year old shearer from central west New South Wales. She never intended to be a shearer but found she loved the atmosphere and the physicality of working in the shearing shed on her family's farm near Nevertire. One day, a colleague asked if she wanted to give shearing a go…
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Vanessa Bell on what fresh eyes can achieve for Merino wool
Vanessa Bell is the founder of Vanessa Bell baby blankets, bespoke 100 Australian Merino Wool baby blankets, knitted with care over 3 months by an expert team of hand knitters. Vanessa's blankets are one-off pieces that have been sold all over the world. Vanessa didn't grow up on a Merino farm…
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Author and Merino farmer Maggie MacKellar uses beautiful writing to educate the masses
Maggie MacKellar is an author and writer who lives with her partner Jim on a fine wool farm on the east coast of Tasmania. As a child she used to love spending time on her grandparents sheep farm in central west NSW but they were vastly different sheep, they were Dorsets, Poll Dorsets and Black...
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Australia's #1 female shearer Cathy Wendelborn
Cathy Wendelborn is arguably the best female shearer to have existed in the world. This year she was the first female to be inducted into Australia’s Shearing Hall of Fame. Cathy was a self-taught shed and competition shearer who shore sheep in all Australian states (except NT) for 21 years. She...
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Women Behind Wool founders Penny Ashby and Skye Manson
Meet the women behind Women Behind Wool, Skye Manson of the Manson Podcasting Network and Penny Ashby, designer and founder of Lady Kate which sells beautiful jumpers made of 100% Australian merino wool. Both of these women, who are the greatest of friends, grew up on fine wool farms in the...
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Pip Smith's wool and the farm to fabric cycle
Pip Smith and her husband Norm run a holistic fine merino operation near Wellington in NSW and they absolutely love the fibre they produce, they believe in their wool and are proud of how they manage their farm to get the best for their animals. These guys are holistic farmers, who don’t mules...
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Australia's first professional wool classer Anne Cooper
Anne Cooper believes she was the first professional female wool classer to work in shearing sheds along the eastern seaboard of Australia. As she recounts her story with Skye, she recalls how disruptive it was to have a women in charge of the shearing shed in this time. Shearing contractors and...
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Kelly Dowling is a woman of all trades when it comes to wool
There isn't much in sheep and wool production that this woman can't do! Kelly Dowling runs a 30,000 head superfine merino wool operation in partnership with her Mum, Dad and Brother at Dalton near Gunning in the NSW southern tablelands. Not only is Kelly a classic no-fuss high achiever - she's is...
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Jess Webb has done the numbers and wool's future looks brightest
Before buying her familys farm near Uralla, Jess and her husband crunched the numbers and found that wool had the most exciting and financially beneficial future. They did not get into wool for emotional reasons, but because its future was the most viable of any sutiable agricultural pursuit in...
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Joanne Howarth's innovative wool packaging for the food industry
In a former life, Joanne Howarth, the now CEO of Planet Protector Packaging used so much polystyrene packing she felt like she was single handedly destroying the planet. She set about finding an alternative for food packing in Australian, preferably one that was natural. After researching all…
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Dr Meredith Sheil should be in the Wool Industry Hall of Fame
You may not know Paediatrician, Dr Meredith Sheil but she should be a household name in the Australian wool industry. Dr Sheil is the inventor of TriSolfen, the topical anaesthetic and antiseptic solution used on lambs at lamb marking in a huge number of Australian sheep farms. What this woman…
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Catriona Rowntree is wool's best PR agent
Catriona Rowntree doesn’t have a background in the wool industry but has a genuine love for the fibre and her enthusiasm for wool is endless. So much so that after seeing a daggy TV story on the wool industry, she was compelled to call Australian Wool Innovation and offer her services to help...
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Three generations of women on one farm
Hidden away in the hills of southern New South Wales near Bookham, is a female farming operation to behold. At 'Kingslea' three generations of women from the Spittle family are working to keep the family's longstanding wool farming dream alive. Caroline Spittle is in charge, at the age of 87,...
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What is Women Behind Wool?
Welcome to Women Behind Wool an initiative shining a light on the female faces of the Australian Wool Industry. Hosted by Lady Kate Knitware's Penny Ashby and podcaster Skye Manson this podcast and short film series tells you the stories of women achieving great things in wool. You will meet…
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
Women Behind Wool is a podcast about the women of the Australian Merino Wool Industry. Join your hosts Skye Manson and Lady Kate Knitwear's Penny Ashby as they introduce you to CEO's, researchers, TV hosts, shearers and shed hands alongside those who're cooking, cleaning, mustering, drenching and helping to bring up the next generation of wool growers in our country.
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Women Behind Wool is a podcast about the women of the Australian Merino Wool Industry. Join your hosts Skye Manson and Lady Kate Knitwear's Penny Ashby as they introduce you to CEO's, researchers, TV hosts, shearers and shed hands alongside those who're cooking, cleaning, mustering, drenching and...
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