Farm to Feet
Merino socks knit in Mount Airy, North Carolina from an entirely American supply chain.
🇺🇸 Made in USA
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Where Farm to Feet products are made
American-spun yarn arrives at the Mount Airy plant and is knit into socks there. Nester Hosiery, the parent, runs state-of-the-art knitting, finishing and packaging equipment on the same site and employs over 200 people.
The merino is grown by American Sheep Industry ranchers, scoured into clean wool top by Chargeurs Wool in Jamestown, South Carolina, then spun by Kent Wool in Pickens, SC and National Spinning in Burlington, NC. Farm to Feet publishes the names.
The company takes the claim past the fibre: the nylon and elastic in the sock and the materials in the packaging are domestically sourced, which is the part most “American-made” apparel quietly skips.
The 100% American supply chain claim, the named suppliers and the Mount Airy manufacturing address are all published by Farm to Feet on farmtofeet.com. No founding year is published on the company’s own site, so the “Since” line is omitted rather than guessed.
The story
Most socks sold in the United States as American-made are knit here from imported yarn. It is a legal and common practice, and it is also the reason the phrase has lost most of its meaning in the category. Farm to Feet was built specifically to close that gap — the brand’s stated mission is an all-American recipe: US materials, US manufacturing, US workers.
The company sits inside Nester Hosiery in Mount Airy, North Carolina, a performance sock manufacturer with more than 200 employees and a long run in a region that used to be full of hosiery mills and now mostly is not. Farm to Feet is the line where Nester decided to prove the whole chain rather than just the last step.
That meant going backwards from the knitting machine: finding American ranchers, an American scouring plant, American spinners, American nylon and elastic, and American packaging — then publishing all of it, supplier by supplier, so the claim can be checked by anyone who wants to.
Why they matter
A sock is a small object with a long supply chain, and almost every link in it left the United States decades ago. Rebuilding one end to end is genuinely difficult, which is why so few brands attempt it and why the ones that do tend to publish the details. Farm to Feet is a working demonstration that the chain still exists if a manufacturer is willing to pay for it.
The economic effect is not abstract. Every step of that chain is a job somewhere specific: a ranch, a wool-processing plant in Jamestown, spinning mills in Pickens and Burlington, a knitting floor in Mount Airy. Buying the sock funds all of them, not just the last one.
The company is also a member of the Conservation Alliance and works with outdoor advocacy organisations — a reasonable position for a business that depends on sheep, land and people who want somewhere to walk.
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Frequently asked questions
Are Farm to Feet socks made in the USA?
Yes. Farm to Feet states that its socks are made with 100% American ingredients, produced, processed and knitted by US workers in US companies, and knit at its Mount Airy, North Carolina facility.
Where is Farm to Feet located?
At 1546 Carter Street, Mount Airy, North Carolina — the same site as its parent, Nester Hosiery.
Who owns Farm to Feet?
Farm to Feet is a division of Nester Hosiery LLC, a US manufacturer of performance merino wool socks employing more than 200 people in Mount Airy.
Where does the wool come from?
American merino grown by American Sheep Industry ranchers, processed into wool top by Chargeurs Wool in Jamestown, South Carolina, and spun by Kent Wool in Pickens, SC and National Spinning in Burlington, NC.