Welcome to the New York Carbon Farm Network Hub
The New York Carbon Farm Network is an interdependent group of small brands and independent designers who want to source Climate Beneficial™ fibers from farms that are implementing Carbon Farm Practices on their lands. Our Carbon Farm Network is organized as a purchasing cooperative, where designers work collaboratively to source fibers and make yarns for the commercial production of textile products.
Our Carbon Farm Network provides Carbon Farm Planning to our collaborating farmers through our Climate Beneficial Fiber Partnership, a project of the USDA’s Partnerships for Climate Beneficial Commodities program. This five-year national partnership will invest more than $18 million directly with wool and cotton growers in nine states, with a focus on small and historically underserved producers. The New York Carbon Farm Network is proud to be New York’s regional partner for this program.
Each year in late September, New York Textile Lab holds a Carbon Farm Tour at Little Creek Farm Alpacas in North Salem, NY. Designers and textile artists are invited to dig into healthy soil and learn about Climate Beneficial™ verification established by our nonprofit affiliate, Fibershed. Our Carbon Farm Planner gives a tour of the farm and a talk about Carbon Farm Plans, which are practices that are developed and used on the farm to pull carbon out of the air and store it in the plant matter and the soil. Throughout the day, visitors network and learn from innovators in the agricultural and design industries who are actively working to shift our textile production systems to regenerative models. Climate Beneficial textiles are on display and there is a Q&A panel to discuss strategies to help us grow a textile industry rooted in social and environmental equity.
