Prairie Wool

When Tara Klager traded the suburbs for forty acres in the shadow of the Canadian Rockies, she meant to raise a rare breed of sheep and maybe write about it. Then two fragments of worked stone surfaced in her pasture, and the tidy story she thought she was telling came apart in her hands.

Prairie Wool is what grew in its place: the story of a woman, a small flock of endangered Border Leicesters, and a patch of ground that holds far more than grass. Moving between the lambing shed and an archaeological dig, between the long history of wool and the vanishing tall-grass prairie, she asks what it means to belong to a place—and what we owe the land, the animals, and the people who came before.

Wry, curious, and unmistakably Canadian, this is a book about getting lost on the way to something better, and the slow, unglamorous work of finding home.

Paperback, 224 pages, 6"x9", black-and-white.
Featuring original cover artwork and several spot illustrations by Alberta artist Geneva Haley.

About the Author

Tara Klager is an award-winning writer, shepherd, and fibre producer living on an intentionally small farm on the cold side of the Rockies in Alberta. A former newspaper columnist, she is a two-time Ontario Newspaper Award winner whose writing explores rural life, agriculture, stewardship, and our relationship with the living world. She raises Border Leicester sheep and spends an unreasonable amount of time thinking about grass. Prairie Wool is her first book.

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This is a pre-order that includes a free, exclusive 5x7 postcard featuring one of Geneva Haley's illustrations from the book. Prairie Wool will be released on February 9, 2027. Your pre-order directly from Nine Ten helps our tiny press do special things like commission original artwork to complement beautiful writing with a visual style to match. Thank you so much for your support!