MALTA, Mont. –Thayne and Michelle Mackey once farmed about 4,000 acres of organic grains and ran around 1,200 head of sheep up here on the High Plains of Montana just north of the Little Rocky Mountains. Then a few years ago, they gave it all up to produce eco-friendly sheep wool insulation in a transplanted 19th century mill with an eye on the expanding market for all things green and local.
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Mackeys find market, Montana just right for wool business
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Raw wool ready to be processed at Brookside Woolen Mill in Malta, Mont.
Clean wool waiting to go into the picker at Brookside Woolen Mill in Malta, Mont.
