One hundred years old and still running. That's the 1916 Davis & Furber carding machine, known as The Card, at The Green Mountain Spinnery, a worker-owned cooperative in Putney that produces and sells ...

The used machine from North Carolina weighs 15,000 pounds and required two days to change just half its 10,000 needles. It now sits in an old barn attached to a store on the main highway in Valley ...

With wool selling for only 10 to 70 cents a pound, sheep farmers say it makes more financial sense to burn or compost it rather than pay to clean, bag and transport it to the Lower Mainland, then ...