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Wool pots win inventions award

AFTER the success of using wool in pellet form as a garden fertiliser and pest controller to launch her business, Sherri Symons started putting her mind to other potential uses for low-grade wool 18 months ago and came up with an idea that scooped her the Robert F.Stewart Best Innovation award at Sheepvention this year.

Marketed as an alternative to plastic pots for seedlings and offering a four-to-six-week biodegradable path when put straight into soil, Sherri said her 20-year background in wool classing – “understanding all the properties and characteristics of wool and how good it is for the environment” – led to the clever innovation.

“As a progression to my Aussie wool pellets, I wanted to do more, have more products that are wool based,” Sherri said.

With her Romney-based composite flock offering a 30-plus micron wool, she still thought that despite the “general lower market price … people have forgotten about how good wool is”.

“It is perfect as it is – that 30, 32-micron wool,” Sherri said.

“You obviously don’t wear this sort of wool, but there are uses for it.

“I really hope I can do something for the industry and promotion of wool, that’s definitely my aim.

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