Women Behind Wool
Women Behind Wool is a podcast about the women of the Australian Merino Wool Industry.
Join your hosts Skye Manson and Lady Kate Knitwear's Penny Ashby as they introduce you to CEO's, researchers, TV hosts, shearers and shed hands alongside those who're cooking, cleaning, mustering, drenching and helping to bring up the next generation of wool growers in our country.
- Update frequency
- every 7 days
- Average duration
- 32 minutes
- Episodes
- 18
- Years Active
- 2021 - 2022
Penny and Skye back to say goodbye and thank you!
Sorry guys, we've been a bit MIA but we are here now to round out the 2022 season of Women Behind Wool and to say a big fat thank you for listening and supporting this project of ours.
In this chat w…
00:16:42 |
Tue 26 Jul 2022
Innovation in wool fabrics with Woolmark's Julie Davies
This week our guest is Julie Davies, General Manager for process innovation and education extension at the Woolmark Company.
Her work is largely involved in product development and also education, m…
00:35:28 |
Tue 14 Jun 2022
The women behind the Haddon Rig merino empire
Today we interview Sally and Olivia Falkiner from Haddon Rig merino stud near Warren in central west NSW. Sally met her husband George Falkiner at Haddon Rig as a backpacker and never left. Sally and…
00:42:03 |
Wed 08 Jun 2022
Kristen Frost: 5th generation stud breeder, 1st generation wool writer
Visit the sheep pavilion at any local show around Australia and there’s a fair chance the punters know Kristen Frost (nee Williams) of Thalabah Stud at Laggan on the NSW southern tablelands. If it’s …
00:32:16 |
Tue 31 May 2022
Shearer Emma Billett used to be the only female in the shearing shed, but now that's changing
Emma Billett is a 32 year old shearer from central west New South Wales. She never intended to be a shearer but found she loved the atmosphere and the physicality of working in the shearing shed on h…
00:42:53 |
Tue 24 May 2022
Vanessa Bell on what fresh eyes can achieve for Merino wool
Vanessa Bell is the founder of Vanessa Bell baby blankets, bespoke 100 Australian Merino Wool baby blankets, knitted with care over 3 months by an expert team of hand knitters. Vanessa's blankets are…
00:35:52 |
Tue 17 May 2022
Author and Merino farmer Maggie MacKellar uses beautiful writing to educate the masses
Maggie MacKellar is an author and writer who lives with her partner Jim on a fine wool farm on the east coast of Tasmania. As a child she used to love spending time on her grandparents sheep farm in …
00:36:59 |
Tue 10 May 2022
Australia's #1 female shearer Cathy Wendelborn
Cathy Wendelborn is arguably the best female shearer to have existed in the world. This year she was the first female to be inducted into Australia’s Shearing Hall of Fame.
Cathy was a self-taught s…
00:29:53 |
Tue 03 May 2022
Women Behind Wool founders Penny Ashby and Skye Manson
Meet the women behind Women Behind Wool, Skye Manson of the Manson Podcasting Network and Penny Ashby, designer and founder of Lady Kate which sells beautiful jumpers made of 100% Australian merino w…
00:44:53 |
Tue 26 Apr 2022
Pip Smith's wool and the farm to fabric cycle
Pip Smith and her husband Norm run a holistic fine merino operation near Wellington in NSW and they absolutely love the fibre they produce, they believe in their wool and are proud of how they manage…
00:30:58 |
Sun 04 Jul 2021
Australia's first professional wool classer Anne Cooper
Anne Cooper believes she was the first professional female wool classer to work in shearing sheds along the eastern seaboard of Australia. As she recounts her story with Skye, she recalls how disrupt…
00:30:07 |
Sun 27 Jun 2021
Kelly Dowling is a woman of all trades when it comes to wool
There isn't much in sheep and wool production that this woman can't do! Kelly Dowling runs a 30,000 head superfine merino wool operation in partnership with her Mum, Dad and Brother at Dalton near Gu…
00:34:04 |
Sun 20 Jun 2021
Jess Webb has done the numbers and wool's future looks brightest
Before buying her familys farm near Uralla, Jess and her husband crunched the numbers and found that wool had the most exciting and financially beneficial future. They did not get into wool for emoti…
00:26:51 |
Sun 06 Jun 2021
Joanne Howarth's innovative wool packaging for the food industry
In a former life, Joanne Howarth, the now CEO of Planet Protector Packaging used so much polystyrene packing she felt like she was single handedly destroying the planet. She set about finding an alte…
00:28:29 |
Sun 30 May 2021
Dr Meredith Sheil should be in the Wool Industry Hall of Fame
You may not know Paediatrician, Dr Meredith Sheil but she should be a household name in the Australian wool industry. Dr Sheil is the inventor of TriSolfen, the topical anaesthetic and antiseptic sol…
00:44:34 |
Sun 23 May 2021
Catriona Rowntree is wool's best PR agent
Catriona Rowntree doesn’t have a background in the wool industry but has a genuine love for the fibre and her enthusiasm for wool is endless. So much so that after seeing a daggy TV story on the wool…
00:36:38 |
Sun 16 May 2021
Three generations of women on one farm
Hidden away in the hills of southern New South Wales near Bookham, is a female farming operation to behold. At 'Kingslea' three generations of women from the Spittle family are working to keep the fa…
00:36:41 |
Sun 09 May 2021
What is Women Behind Wool?
Welcome to Women Behind Wool an initiative shining a light on the female faces of the Australian Wool Industry.
Hosted by Lady Kate Knitware's Penny Ashby and podcaster Skye Manson this podcast and …
00:07:17 |
Thu 29 Apr 2021
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