We Took a Year's Wool From Our Off-Grid Karoo Farm to Auction

Far From Everything

Far From Everything

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We followed our wool from our remote Karoo farm all the way to a wool auction in Port Elizabeth, South Africa — through testing, grading, and classification, right up to the moment it went under the hammer. Along the way we found out exactly what makes one bale of wool worth more than another, and just how much history and international trade is actually tied up in something as simple as a bag of wool. My father-in-law has been farming sheep here for 30 years. Today, all of that came down to one number.

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