Our key partners own their own herds of goats, all of which live in controlled areas in Inner Mongolia.
As such they are fed a diet that is much more nutritious than they would have were they to roam wild in the Mongolian Plains.

Goats grow the deep downy fleece to protect against Mongolia’s severe cold winter, temperatures fall as low as -40А, but in the Spring they naturally shed their cashmere fiber before the extremely hot, dry summer begins.

The cashmere fiber is not sheared from the goats as with sheep, but gently combed out in a harmless (in fact helpful) process. It’s called the ‘clip’ in the trade.

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