Programs

Chesapeake Fibershed is organizing and developing essential economic and social connections between rural and urban communities to advance the vital role that soil-to-soil fiber systems play in generating lasting prosperity with positive effects for our regional economies, global climate, and the health & diversity of our ecosystems.

We currently are engaged in outreach, surveying and mapping our region’s assets, and building a producer directory. We encourage the involvement of all engaged in growing, producing, and marketing products from natural plant and animal fibers.

Our Current Projects:

A first educational, promotional, and marketing tool is our Product Checklist, available to those in our fibershed. See the Product Checklist page for more information.

Sustainable Cloth: From Farm to Home and Closet Our first annual challenge project to make a fibershed textile. The challenge runs from 10/2021 to 10/2022. Find out more here.

Fibershed Mapping Program: Complete our survey so that we can map all the fiber related resources with the Chesapeake Fibershed. Find out more here.

Coming soon:  Certified Producer program!!