Janet raises colored angora goats, Jacob sheep, and naturally colored Cormo/Romney sheep at Catawampus Farm in Minot, Maine. She and her husband, Kevin Coulter, run a small fiber mill, offering carded rovings, batts and corespun yarn production for other small farms and fiber artists.
Raised in a family with a history of remarkable fiber artists, the “wool gene” re-awakened in her in 2005, when she wandered through the fiber booths at the Common Ground Fair and fell in love with the yarns and products available. She went home and learned to knit. The following year, she took up handspinning, bought her first raw fleece, and the rest is history.
Janet sits on our Board of Directors and brings to Maine Fibershed the perspective of a small fiber mill owner, a fiber farmer, and a fiber artist. She wants to help invigorate the Maine Fiber Farm and Small Mill industries, expanding resources, connections, and opportunities for Maine fiber production and sales.
