College Shears Sheep, Donates Wool to Charity
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The college has donated about 500 pounds of wool shorn from Cal Poly Pomona sheep to a nonprofit that helps provide blind people jobs making blankets.
Over the summer, workers at college’s sheep unit sheared about 60 sheep – Suffolk-Hampshire crosses and Dorset Advantages – to collect the wool, which went to Ojai-based nonprofit Wool for Worthy Causes.
Wool for Worthy Causes collects wool from small farms across the country that would otherwise wind up in landfills. It donates them to state-sponsored or charitable organizations that hire disabled workers to process them into blankets and other products. The nonprofit collected Cal Poly Pomona's wool in early September.
The College of Agriculture donated enough wool to make about 100 blankets, according to Ray Sarna, Wool for Worthy Causes’ director.