Homegrown Cashmere
- Feb 10
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Date: October 10, 2025
By Adrienne Martini of MDK
When Christine Hulse retired from her job as a school counselor in Cooperstown, New York, she didn’t intend to start Clean Cashmere. External Link. Opens in new window., an all-American cashmere collective. And yet, here she is.
It started simply enough: she and her husband bought a small piece of land 20 years ago and liked the manageability of smaller farm animals. Cows and sheep require too much space and labor, which Christine knew from her time in 4-H as a kid. But goats? Especially cashmere goats? There was her answer.
“These goats were so majestic and the fiber was so amazing. And I saw a purpose,” she says.
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