Wool pellets are a superb and all-natural amendment for soil, providing both fertilizer and moisture retention to the soil and the plants/trees growing in it. People have also found it to be an excellent slug repellent when applied as a mulch.
USE: We recommend using about 1 lb of pellets per about 10 sq ft of garden space. Or, about ½ cup per gallon of soil. It can be stirred into the soil or in the soil you will be putting into the hole where a seedling is to be planted. It can also be applied as you would apply any mulch on top of the soil.
Custom Wool Pelletizing Services
We offer custom wool pelletizing services. We can turn your waste wool into pellets for your garden or for you to retail to others for gardening.
Turning your waste wool into pellets is an excellent way to use what what would otherwise be thrown away. It is sustainable, renewable, and good for the environment. We can pelletize any kind of wool that you have no use for: dirty skirtings from the legs, neck, rear, and spine; wool that is too short or has a break in it and therefore can’t be processed to roving or yarn; low-quality wool or very scratchy and rough wool…any waste wool!
Minimum order size for wool pelletizing is 5 lbs. There is no weight-loss during pelletizing, so you get back the same weight that you submit (unless we have to remove wool because it doesn’t meet qualifications – see below).
Preparing Your Wool to be Pelletized
You do not need to skirt or clean the wool you submit for pelletizing. Hay, tags (poop), grass, and other vegetable matter are fine. However, you need to be sure there are no rocks, hoof trimmings, branches/sticks, bailing twine, or any other debris in it that could hurt the pelletizing machines.
Yes:
- Dirty, raw wool
- Hay, grass, thin-stemmed plants
- Poop (reasonable amounts of dry droppings)
- Felted wool
- Short wool and second cuts
No:
- Scoured or washed wool (it must be raw and dirty)
- Rocks
- Hoof Trimmings
- Branches/sticks, thick-stemmed plants
- Excessive poop or wet poop
- Bailing twine, lead ropes, metal, other non-natural debris
- Wet wool
- Wool moths or other parasite infestations
- Moldy wool
We reserve the right to reject any wool for processing. We reserve the right to remove unacceptable portions of the wool sent for processing. We also reserve the right to charge you a debris fee if we find debris that could damage our machines, or a disposal fee if we have to throw away wool you submit because it is unsuitable for processing.
Prices
Processing Costs:
$4/lb wool
$5/lb alpaca or mohair, plus the cost for blend
*Alpaca and mohair must be blended 50/50 with wool to be pelletized. You can provide the blend, or you can buy it from us.
Packaging Costs:
No Packaging (free) – If you are picking up your pellets in-person (by appointment only) then you have the option of providing your own packaging. If you choose the “no packaging” option you will need to provide your own containers/bags for the pellets when you come to pick them up. We will pour them from our bins into your packaging at pick-up and there will be no packaging fees.
Boxes ($0.50/lb) – These boxes are cardboard and thus are re-usable and recyclable. They are the optimal size and shape for retail and are ready for you to add your personalized label to them.
Sizes:
1 lb boxes
5 lb boxes
15 lb boxes (this is the most cost-effective way to ship pellets)
Pelletizing Services Request Form
Please use the form below to submit a request for pelletizing services. We will email a response within 2 business days with instructions on how and when to submit your fiber.
***If you are submitting fiber for pelletizing services AND other services (such as yarn, roving, batts) then do not fill out this form, instead fill out the form on the reservations page.
