Green Mountain Spinnery

Beautiful place to explore, take a look in the backroom. It’s the Willy Wonka factory for wool! A tiny little shop is adjacent, with really high quality yarn and ok LYS prices.
Great selection of needles!

Everyone who works here is very very nice and willing to educate. Really interesting to explore. Beautiful wool for sale.

I visited here for a part of an on going research project about the American, wool milling industry. I made arrangements ahead of time to tour the mill and talk with some of the owners.
What a truly amazing operation. Their fibers are all sourced from the continental United States and the local wool (from the NH, MA, VT tri-​state) is scoured on the premises. The workers and David one of the owners, were friendly and were extremely excited about my project offering any assistance possible.
Yes the yarn is pricer than the craft store or even other knitting yarn brands but it is 100% worth it to support a local domestic production that is working to be environmentally and socially conscious.
I am hoping to make another visit in the future as my project progresses.

Update to say that you can order their fabulous yarn on the website,
. The service is fast and the shipping is very affordable!

This excellent spinnery will handle special orders. For me, they specially processed the wool to make insulation for my home. I cannot thank them enough for all their help with my special orders.

Warning: If you do not like sheep, you will not like this shop. The place is roiling in sheepiness, the air heavy with sheep smell.
This working Spinning Mill uses natural fibers grown in the USA, much direct from individual growers. It was delightful to have a tour from one of the worker/​owners of the coop. She brought us around to all the vintage tools used to work the alpaca, mohair, wool and organic cotton.
They were having a half off sale on past issues of various knitting and fiber magazines, many that are out of print and unavailable for purchase from the publishers. I rifled through and chose twelve. Nice score. Next I perused the wall of individual GMS designed patterns, some interesting glove, hat and sweater patterns. Easy to pick up a few of those.
If you are one of the lucky that has your own flock, you can send your own wool– 50 lbs of raw fleece or 30 lbs of scoured fleece –to be custom processed by GMS. Very few spinneries work on a small scale. They can also help in designing just the particular kind of yarn you want, given the characteristic of your flock’s fiber.
I actually attempted to ignore the wall of yarn. I have my own personal Yarn Vault in my apartment and have no business bringing home any thing to add to it. Regardless, four beautifully dyed skeins of wool and mohair called to me. The colors are lovely and the shop does not use any chemicals to bleach, mothproof or shrinkproof their yarns.
If you are a fiber fanatic like I am, don’t miss this stop when in Vermont.