Wednesday, November 6, 2024
Our Farm store is gearing up for a festive season with a 3-day holiday kick-off event, Friday November 15, Saturday November 16 and Sunday November 17. We will be open from 10:00 am - 4:00 pm Friday & Saturday, 10:00 am - 3 p.m on Sunday. We will be open Friday thru Sunday with the same hours every weekend until Christmas for your convenience
The farm store will be a wonderland of alpaca-made products, showcasing the versatility and warmth of alpaca fiber. From cozy read more...
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Wednesday, September 16, 2020
Due to the COVID 19 virus, we can only allow 5 visitors at a time on the farm at this time. So we are making appointment for Saturdays and Sundays for groups of not more than 5 people. And, of course masks are required, to not only protect our visitors, but Mike & I as well!
The appointments are actually working out well, as we have more time to visit with each group.We may decide to keep this in place after the COVID crisis has passed.
We have 2 new female crias that are now almost 7 wee read more...
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Friday, January 3, 2020
Snowy
I have always posted pictures of our amazing livestock guardian dogs over the years, but have not really talked about how and why we have them on our farm.
Livestock guardian dogs (LGDs) are dogs that have been bred over the years to be working dogs that help protect animals and birds from predators. They are not herding dogs. They tend to just patrol fence lines, bark at potential threats (including people) that may have come onto the property that they are protecting and will physically at read more...
Baby Sassie - 2015
Snowy, Sassie & Bella, Christmas 2017
Sassie & Bella with their alpacas
Sassie, 2019-4 yrs old
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Tuesday, December 31, 2019
The start!
This past year seemed to just fly by on the farm! We were fortunate enough to be able to finally build our new farm store with the help of lots of friends. The process started in May and we were able to open the store on December 4th and held a 2-day Grand Opening. Visitors are able to interact with the alpacas right by the store and can then see products that are made with the amazing alpaca fiber. I was so very excited to finally be able to take product out of boxes and totes and put it out on read more...
Walls going up!
Roof going on!
Almost completed
Ready for Visitors!
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Monday, November 27, 2017
NAFD 2017
Another year has gone by and with it many happy times with our alpacas along with some heartaches. It seems that time goes by so fast, probably because we are always busy.
We have three new babies this year, one female cria (Kelly) was born in July and two male cria (Smokey & Augi) were born within a day of each other in August. They are growing so fast! Our visitors during National Alpaca Farm Days in September were able to visit with them when they were only weeks old.
Howeve read more...
3 new Cria!
Star at age 3
alpacapalooza 2017
Abraxas
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Wednesday, September 21, 2016
We will be open on Saturday, September 24th in celebration of National Alpaca Farm Days. Please come visit our 3 new cria ranging in age from 3 months to 6 weeks old. They are so much fun to watch! We will also be selling alpaca products which include socks, gloves, scarves, hats, sweaters and stuffed animals. We will have a special sale going on during the event - socks will be marked down 15%!!! This sale is only for those attending our event.
I will also demonstrate the process we go through read more...
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Wednesday, October 21, 2015
Miss Molly & Snowy, October 2014
Wow1 It has been over a year since I last wrote. I can't believe how time flies by!
Lots of news on the farm in that time, but hard to remember all the happenings. Our little Miss Molly who was born on Labor Day, 2014 in now over a year old and is a wonderful little girl. I at first thought that she was a bay-black in color, but since shearing, we can now see that she is a true black. So very pretty! Can't wait to spin her fiber! Miss Molly has always been attached to our LGD Snowy. They were read more...
Silver Rose Top Secret
Beautiful sunsets this summer!
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Monday, September 22, 2014
A sad day as our two oldest boys moved to a new home. Happy for them as they are going to a farm which has 5 acres of beautiful grass, a pond and lots of area to play in. A perfect retirement home for them and a wonderful caretaker who is going to spoil them more than they are already spoiled! They are going to be companion animals to an alpaca that is a year older.
Mateo & Pedro just turned 13 years old this month and they were our very first alpacas on the farm. We got them when they were read more...
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Thursday, September 4, 2014
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Saturday, December 7, 2013
It was 12 degrees this morning at the farm. It was so cold that after Lady drank some water, she had icicles hanging from her chin!!! I was carrying 5 gallon water buckets to our upper pasture area because our hoses were frozen and by the time I got back to the house, the little bit of water in the bottom of the bucket was frozen! At least the alpacas are nice and warm! It is supposed to be colder tonight and possible snow in a couple of days. Looking forward to the warm up, but not the snow! Bu read more...
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