A fairly typical day on the farm scooping poop and running irrigation. The alpacas look much more comfortable now they have lost their winter coats and the temperature is in the 80's.

Conditions must have been near perfect this spring for the local wildflower called vetch, which is covering the hillside behind our farm.







I spent the afternoon pulling 6 fleece samples from the bags of fleece to mail to people who are interested in buying some of our alpacas. Apart from seeing an alpaca in the flesh there really is no substitute for seeing the fleece with your own eyes.

The last 12 months have been very hard work and it was extremely satisfying to shear our younger alpacas and see the superb fleece come peeling off their backs like an avalanche. The fleece itself won't be worth a kings ransom despite what some alpaca farmers will tell you. But this year we will try selling some raw fleece on eBay and at the local farmers market. I may even get some processed into knitting yarn for my mother back in England who is a "demon knitter".

More importantly I know from the quality of the fleece that we are heading in the right direction and that the quality of our alpaca herd is improving in leaps and bounds.


Adrian Stewart