Integrate cloth that heals into your practice.
about fiberhouse
In partnership with fellow farmers, artists, designers, fiber folks, and scientists, we explore soil-to-soil practices that connect holistic land management, place-based learning, and carbon farming with handcraft. Fiberhouse Collective was founded by artist, researcher, and educator Nica Rabinowitz. Fiberhouse Farm is currently run by Nica, her partner Justin, and a team of animal land stewards.
Mission: We create cloth that heals. We pasture-raise and rotationally graze merino sheep, pigs, and chickens, offering regenerative fiber, food and educational programs.
Vision: Fiberhouse is more than a farm—it’s a living laboratory. We are cultivating a place-based textile hub that holds space for residents, students, and collective gatherings. We model regenerative textile and food systems while providing goods and garments, yarn, and pasture-raised meats, eggs and breeding stock.
FARM + LIVING LABORATORY
canvas cabin
studio + residenceThis is 8-sided structure is designed by Red Sky Shelters and houses our textile studio and visiting residents
pups + outhouses
compost managementAthena is looking bigger these days as our onsite guardian along with house pup Bodhi
merino sheep
on rotationAs part of our stewardship plan we rotate sheep to clear kudzu and knotweed and improve pasture
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pigs
rootingPigs are also on rotation, rooting kudzu and knotweed and clearing future pasture
kitchen garden
food + colorWe grow plants to eat, to dye with, and for home grown medicine
cover crops
mandrake radishWe broadcast seed after the sheep, pigs, and chickens move through paddocks to add plant diversity and improve soil health
Fiberhouse residency program
Through the Fiberhouse Residency we hold space for individuals interested in creating cloth that heals with us on our homestead in the Blue Ridge Mountains. Residents have access to about 20 acres of land to wild harvest and a place to stay while they develop a collaborative project. We support two residents each year - one in the Spring and one in the Fall.
Residents host a workshop or worktrade in exchange for their stay.