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Happy New Year from our flock to yours!
01/01/2025

Happy New Year from our flock to yours!

12/25/2024
12/23/2024

In the drought-ravaged western U.S., farmers are using wool to conserve water and replace synthetic fertilizers.

Happy Black Friday and Shop Small Saturday! Take 20% off your order, no code needed. Also, free shipping on orders over ...
11/29/2024

Happy Black Friday and Shop Small Saturday! Take 20% off your order, no code needed. Also, free shipping on orders over $75.
https://cottonwoodcreekwool.com

Happy Thanksgiving from our family to yours! We are thankful for many things this season, but we are especially thankful...
11/28/2024

Happy Thanksgiving from our family to yours! We are thankful for many things this season, but we are especially thankful for the kindness and support we have felt from our customers and community throughout the last year.
To show our appreciation we will be running a sale over the next few days, so keep an eye out!

Happy Thanksgiving from our family to yours! We are thankful for many things this season, but we are especially thankful...
11/28/2024

Happy Thanksgiving from our family to yours! We are thankful for many things this season, but we are especially thankful for the kindness and support we have felt from our customers and community throughout the last year. To show our appreciation we will be running a sale over the next few days, so keep an eye out!

We are grateful to have a stupendous event like the Wyoming Sheep and Wool Festival in our backyard! We want to thank ev...
07/15/2024

We are grateful to have a stupendous event like the Wyoming Sheep and Wool Festival in our backyard!
We want to thank everyone who made the weekend possible, and a special thank you to everyone who continue to support us.

We are set up at the Wyoming Sheep and Wool Festival! If you are in the Thermopolis area this weekend, be sure to stop ...
07/13/2024

We are set up at the Wyoming Sheep and Wool Festival! If you are in the Thermopolis area this weekend, be sure to stop by and say hello.
🐑 Sale Reminder 🐑
20% Off through Sunday. The discount applies to all purchases made at the festival or on our website.
https://cottonwoodcreekwool.com

🐑 Come see us at the Wyoming Sheep and Wool Festival at the Hot Springs County Fairgrounds in Thermopolis, WY. The festi...
07/12/2024

🐑 Come see us at the Wyoming Sheep and Wool Festival at the Hot Springs County Fairgrounds in Thermopolis, WY. The festival starts today and runs through Sunday. Admission is free, and it is a great event for anyone wanting to learn more about the sheep industry.
We are running a 20% discount for the weekend on all wool pellets purchased at the festival AND on the website. No discount code needed.
https://cottonwoodcreekwool.com

07/11/2024
Come see us in Thermopolis!
07/07/2024

Come see us in Thermopolis!

(Thermopolis, WY)—The second annual Wyoming Sheep and Wool Festival will take place Friday, July 12, through July 14 at the Hot Springs County Fairgrounds in Thermopolis. The annual event, organized by the Wyoming Wool Growers Association, celebrates all aspects of the Wyoming sheep industry and i...

Happy Father’s Day from Cottonwood Creek Wool! We are blessed to have some great dads in our lives.
06/16/2024

Happy Father’s Day from Cottonwood Creek Wool! We are blessed to have some great dads in our lives.

06/10/2024

A few steps and tips as you garden with wool pellets! Don’t forget to adjust your watering schedule to avoid over watering due to the water retention of the pellets.

06/09/2024

An important aspect of ranching is effective waste management. 307 Soil Company capitalizes on a routine process of cleaning corrals with our Refresh and Grow mixes. Cottonwood Creek Livestock is my family’s ranching and farming operation. We have added value into our operation with Cottonwood Creek Wool, founded and operated by my mother, Alicia Rux, as well as 307 Soil Company. Cottonwood Creek Wool repurposes our waste wool from shearing sheep while 307 Soil Company has a handle on waste management with our Grow and Refresh soil mixes. The average sheep produces 3 lbs of manure per day at Cottonwood Creek Livestock, leaving plenty of inventory! Sheep byproducts are a great tool in nutrient management due to its organic fertilizer properties. Sheep manure contains protein, organic acids, cellulose, aliphatics, and so on. It also contains a higher percentage of organic matter compared to other livestock manure. By utilizing the byproducts of sheep production, 307 Soil Company and Cottonwood Creek Wool are adding value to the thin-margined world of livestock producing agriculture.

Today, we are remembering and honoring those who served. We are lucky enough to have a notable museum in our area that d...
05/27/2024

Today, we are remembering and honoring those who served.
We are lucky enough to have a notable museum in our area that documents these sacrifices. If you are going through Dubois, Wyoming on a road trip this summer take some time to stop at the National Museum of Military Vehicles.
https://nmmv.org

“Looking ahead, the Ruxes envision a future where wool pellets play a pivotal role in economic resilience for fellow she...
05/22/2024

“Looking ahead, the Ruxes envision a future where wool pellets play a pivotal role in economic resilience for fellow sheep ranchers, while simultaneously helping restore grazing lands.”

Thank you to the Western Landowners Alliance, and Christina Wernikowski for highlighting our wool pellets in the latest edition of On Land.

The voice of stewardship in the American West

05/19/2024

Neat article in the On Land Magazine about cottonwoodcreekwool. Give it a read if you get a chance!

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We are lucky enough to have some return customers, and we asked one of them what she learned going into her second planting season using our wool pellets. 1. Be sure to mix the pellets in with the soil. Although sprinkling the pellets on top of soil does help, working them into the soil proves to be more effective. 2. Be ready to cut back on watering.Without pellets she was having to water every other day. With pellets, depending on temperatures and wind, she can go two or more days without watering.

A few steps and tips as you garden with wool pellets! Don’t forget to adjust your watering schedule to avoid over watering due to the water retention of the pellets. #woolpellets #gardening

You have to keep your head on a swivel around this place. #wyoming #agriculture #woolpellets #wyomingwoolgrowers #wyomingwoolinitiative #sheep

Wool pellets are a great way to improve the micro-ecosystem that is your garden! 🌱 #woolpellets #wyomingwool #sustainablegardening #garden2024 #wyomingwoolinitiative #wyomingwoolgrowers

Some would say they are napping experts. Jokes aside, our Livestock Guardian Dogs, lovingly referred to as management, spend most of the night on patrol helping to keep the sheep safe from predators. So, when we see them catching a little shut eye we let it slide. #wyoming #livestockguardiandog #sheep #woolpellets #wool

Nothing like some quick Saturday morning cardio with the lambs! You may be wondering why they have numbers on their sides in different colors of paint. This is how we track which ewe they belong to. The color indicates if they are a single, twin, or triplet. Red is for singles, blue is for twins, and green is for triplets. #Wyoming #lambs #woolpellets #cardio

Nothing like some quick Saturday morning cardio with the lambs! You may be wondering why they have numbers on their sides in different colors of paint. This is how we track which ewe they belong to. The color indicates if they are a single, twin, or triplet. Red is for singles, blue is for twins, and green is for triplets. #Wyoming #lambs #woolpellets #cardio

Appreciation is the word that comes to mind as we near the end of 2023. 🌻Appreciation for you, and our ever-growing community of support. 🌻🌻Appreciation for the work involved in taking a business plan written out on paper to a product in the hands and gardens of our customers. 🌻🌻🌻Finally, appreciation for the opportunity to sustain and grow in a place like this. We are excited to see where that appreciation takes us in 2024. Thank you for your support in 2023!

🌱Test Plot Update! If you’ve been following along over the summer, we placed our wool pellets in test plots in different environments around the ranch. Our first update is from the irrigated pasture. It was interesting to see the difference in quantities of pellets made in each situation. 🐑One of our favorite points about this experiment is that it takes place in a location where our sheep graze during the year. The sheep eat the grass grown on the field (assisted by the wool pellets) which helps them to grow wonderful wool coats to keep them warm in the winter, and then they are sheared in the spring prior to the lambing season. Their wool is used in different products, including pellets. After they give birth to their lambs, they are all turned out on the fields again, and the cycle starts over. #wyoming #woolpellets #wool #agriculture

Happy Father’s Day!
Happy Father’s Day!

Happy Father’s Day from Cottonwood Creek Wool! We would like to highlight one particular dad who wears many hats. He’s the cow boss (or at least we will let him say that today), spreadsheet expert, and in-house rangeland technician. Most importantly, he’s a good dad. #Wyominglife #Agriculture #fathersday

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