WoolGrown is attending the Royal Agricultural Winter Fair again this year. Happening November 6 to 15, 2026, at Exhibition Place in Toronto.
We're back at the Ontario Sheep Farmers Sheep & Wool Booth on the main show floor, alongside three other Ontario makers who all work with Canadian wool. Ontario Fibreshed will also be in attendance promoting local fibre through the Wool & Fibre Trail that takes you right around the show. Whether you knit, garden, farm, or just like a good sweater, there's a wool side of the Royal worth seeing. Here's how to make the most of it.
Start at the Wool & Sheep Booth
Head to the main show floor and look for the Wool & Sheep Booth, sponsored in part by Ontario Sheep Farmers and Campaign for Wool Canada.
Four Ontario wool businesses are sharing the space;
Megan Cleland, In the Line of FibreMegan is a self-taught fibre artist from Elora who paints with wool. She builds each piece from fine layers of wool fibre, blending colours by hand until fur, feathers, and eyes take shape. The natural colours and texture give her work a warmth paint can't match. She sources her wool locally in Ontario.
Jeanette, Red Maple Homestead: A vertically integrated fibre farm and working textile studio in Ontario. Their wool is shorn, sorted, washed, picked, carded, and spun in the farm's own mini fibremill. From there it becomes yarn, rugs, blankets, and wearable wool pieces.
Romy Schill, Revolution Wool Company: Shepherdess Romy works primarily with wool from her own family farm, partnering with Canadian mills to produce finished textiles, bedding, and home goods. Yarns are dyed on-site using natural dyes.
Lindsey Weber, WoolGrown: That's me! WoolGrown produces wool-based garden and agricultural products at commercial scale, including wool pellets, certified organic wool growing felt, and washed loose wool. Produced with mixed and lower-grade commercial flock wool sourced from Ontario sheep farms.
Visit Ontario Fibreshed & See Live Spinning and Weaving Demonstrations
Head over to the Rotunda to find the Ontario Fibreshed and volunteer spinners and weavers.
This is the place to see how a fleece becomes yarn, and how yarn becomes cloth. Watch the wheels go, ask how it's done, and get your hands on the fibre. Feel the difference between a raw fleece straight off the sheep, washed wool, carded wool ready to spin, and finished yarn. These experienced and talented volunteers have spent years at their wheels and looms, and they're answering questions and offering hands on demonstration.
Ontario Fibreshed is a not-for-profit and part of the global Fibershed network. It connects the farmers, artists, makers, mills and manufacturers working with natural fibre here in Ontario, with the goal of growing, processing and using more of it close to home.
Follow the Wool & Fibre Trail
Look for the signs around the show. Each one points you to a person or business working with Canadian wool, including Wave Fibre Mill in the Northern Ontario Pavilion.
Some stops are farmers and their sheep, daily shearing demonstrations, wool businesses, and artists giving demonstrations. All of them are part of getting more Canadian wool used here at home instead of wasted. Follow the signs, stop and say hello, and see how many you can find.
Sheep Competitions & Judging
Lower East Annex Ring Schedule
Wool Competitions
Sunday Nov 15
Drop Spindle Competition 10am to 12pm
Sheep to Shawl Competition 9am to 3pm
Learn more here
Catch a Hands on With Wool Session
We're hosting Hands on With Wool sessions on the Growth Hub Stage:
- Saturday, November 14 at 4:00 PM
- Sunday, November 15 at 11:00 AM
These are a chance to talk and engage with local speakers engaged in wool. Learn more about where wool products come from, what wool can do, and what's currently happening in Canadian wool.
The conversations last year were the best part! People who knit wanted to know where the wool came from. Gardeners wanted to know what wool could do in their soil. Farmers wanted to know if there was a better market for their clip.
If you're curious about what Canadian wool can do in your garden, browse our socials, the shop and why wool to find out more!
Written by Lindsey Weber, founder of WoolGrown
WoolGrown turns Ontario sheep wool into garden products, including wool pellets, felt and mulch.