Reading: Unraveling by Peggy Orenstein, published 2023

The autho, who lives in Berkeley, tells of traveling to Sonoma to sheer sheep, process the fleece and knit a sweater. Takes place during the pandemic. Lots of interesting facts around sheep, wool, California fires, words related to spinning, 

It contains interesting facts:
- “California only has the mill capacity to process ten thousand pounds [of fleece] annually, yet the state produces three million - about a quarter of the country’s total production.”
- “there are about 90 percent fewer sheep in the U.S. than there were at their peak in the 1940s, much of that decline happening over the last thirty years.” 
- “swarf” is “ all the nasty bits: straw, dead bugs, burrs, pee, manure, flakes