A alpaca farm like most living things is a work in progress improving all the time under our stewardship but never complete. Once the irrigation canal is turned off in early October all manner of work can be undertaken on the land. This year we are reseeding five of our six pastures. Improving the central access through the farm and building a bigger better poop collecting facility! We started out with raised "compost heaps" which work well but are hard to fill. So today with the help of Al Harris and his trusty back hoe we built a poop place where we can drive to the edge tip in the poop and drive away...when our customers come to buy poop we can easily shovel it into their truck...this will make life much easier.
Macario Ramirez (Mac) and I put a fence through the hay field so we can put the female alpacas on there to graze. We aren't going to get a second cutting of hay this year which is a great shame.

By Adrian Stewart