February 2009; A Visit to California Cashmere Farm; A couple of years ago while on my constant quest for luxurious yarns I stumbled upon a website for cashmere knitting yarn called calcashmere.com located in Calaveras County, California. You can read the full story Farm Visit (article in PDF format) Adobe Acrobat Reader required. If you don't have the free Acrobat Reader, you can get it here.
November 2007; GOVERNOR SCHWARZENEGGER ANNOUNCED Re-APPOINTMENT of Talibah Al-Rafiq. Appointed to serve on the Calaveras County Fair Board (39th District Agricultural Association). She is the owner of the California Cashmere Company and is a member and former president of the Calaveras County Chamber of Commerce.
April 2007; Forbes Magazine Profiles California Cashmere. Golden Fleece (article in PDF format) Adobe Acrobat Reader required. If you don't have the free Acrobat Reader, you can get it here.
January 2007; The Company presented a paper "Progressions of Economic Value in Cashmere Enterprises" at the Regional Conference of Asian Cashmere Supplying Countries in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan.
December 2005; California Cashmere Company profiled in new book “Outstanding in their Fields, California Women Farmers” by Desmond Jolly, University of California Small Farm Center. http://www.sfc.ucdavis.edu/docs/publications.asp?view=7
December 2005; Soft wear Local couple sheds the fast-paced life to raise goats in the hills and reap the rewards of cashmere . California Cashmere is featured in the Stockton Record, Sunday. (12/11/05 ) http://www.recordnet.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20051211/MONEY/512110301
September 2005; California Cashmere released 100% Cashmere S-Caps, Scarves, Shawls and Custom Knitware Apparel. Create your own design or select from our great collection of patterns. Available exclusively at California Cashmere.
California Cashmere Company provides a course in "Adding Value to Farm, Ranch and Natural Resource Products" to 50 participants at the 2002 California Farm Conference sponsored by the Small Farm Center, The Center for Cooperatives and the UC Davis Department of Food Science and Technology.
The Company was featured on Califronia Heartland. California Heartland, a public television series on California agriculture, airs in all California television markets and in Reno, Nevada with national syndication. Californai Heartland is a 52-week series which looks at the people who make California agriculture a multi-billion dollar economy.
Read more about the company at the websites below:
- Cashmere Company Breeds Success (UCDAVIS Article in PDF format.) Adobe Acrobat Reader required. If you don't have the free Acrobat Reader, you can get it here.
- California Small Farm Center 's Web site at http://www.sfc.ucdavis.edu/pubs/SFNews/Vol1-2003.html
- California Heartland at www.californiaheartland.org/archive/hl_511/cashmer.htm
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