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11-Year-Old Leads Navajo-Churro Lamb Revival with First Wool Garment

5/8/2026

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Cadbury, a chocolate-colored Navajo-Churro lamb, arrived this spring, expanding the endangered breed’s revival led by a young farmer.
Eleven-year-old Izzy Hoffman raises Cadbury at Bayberry Knoll Farm in Foster.
She received the first Navajo-Churro ewe, Arizona, from the Livestock Conservancy and agreed to breed, exhibit, and make a wool garment.
Grandmother Deb Procopio teaches her to spin, dye with foraged plants, and weave the wool, calling the work sacred.

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Story summary

Cadbury, a chocolate-colored Navajo-Churro lamb, arrived this spring, expanding the endangered breed’s revival led by a young farmer.
Eleven-year-old Izzy Hoffman raises Cadbury at Bayberry Knoll Farm in Foster.
She received the first Navajo-Churro ewe, Arizona, from the Livestock Conservancy and agreed to breed, exhibit, and make a wool garment.
Grandmother Deb Procopio teaches her to spin, dye with foraged plants, and weave the wool, calling the work sacred.