Kestrel Ridge Pellet Company, LLC

nourish your soil, nurture your plants

Discover the wonderful world of wool pellets! We’re so glad you’re here. Follow along on our wool pellet journey to see how we as a community can assist farmers and ranchers to promote a sustainable, healthy food system. Together, we can work with nature to nourish the soil!

Why wool pellets for your plants?

This is going to blow your mind! When mixed into soil, wool pellets:

-slowly release nitrogen, potassium, and other micronutrients essential for plant growth and health
-hold more than 3X their weight in water to help reduce how frequently you need to water
-biodegrade in 6 months

Wool pellets provide an eco-friendly and local alternative
to nurture plants of all shapes, sizes, and purposes

Merchandise

Do you want to contribute to our mission of supporting American sheep producers, but... 

Supporting the American Sheep Industry

You might be thinking “Isn’t wool better used
for clothing and yarn?” You’re not wrong, but most sheep in the Midwest
don’t grow fine wool needed for high-quality fabrics. Nevertheless, these sheep
need to be shorn every year for welfare reasons. However, their wool is often
of so little value that the price sheep producers sell it for usually doesn’t even
cover the cost of shearing. I’ve heard of producers trying to bury or burn
their wool just to get rid of it. It's disheartening because wool is truly a
remarkable fiber that took thousands of years of selective breeding to create.

Our solution: WOOL PELLETS!

We are purchasing this second-rate wool at a higher price to create a market for it and to help offset the cost of shearing for the sheep producers. We then process this wool into pellets that can easily be applied as a renewable, all-natural plant soil amendment/fertilizer.

I am fortunate to work with a sheep shearing crew right down the
road to source my wool, so all my wool comes from within a 200-mile radius of
our ranch based in south central Nebraska. I also use wool from my own sheep flock.
Sourcing local wool reduces the carbon footprint due to transportation while
ensuring money is kept in our rural economies.

Support your local sheep industry by purchasing wool pellets today!

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