In response to my Blog yesterday about naming alpacas several people have sent in suggestions which is great! At least two wanted to know why we called our farm Mulberry Alpacas. Well there is a connection I guess and here it is.

Mulberry trees and Alpacas ? what?s the connection?

In the 1850?s when alpaca fibre was first processed commercially to worsted by Sir Titus Salt, he described his new lustrous fabric as ?alpaca - silk for the price of wool??
Silk, like alpaca, is an animal fibre. Around 3,000 BC, about the time the Incas were enjoying the benefits of domesticated alpacas, the Chinese became the first people to understand how to raise and manufacture silk. The mulberry tree was cultivated to provide food for the silkworms.

There - that is the connection between mulberry trees and alpacas!

But the real answer is that we just picked the name out of thin air and Val a friend of ours came up with our logo and we loved it.




Adrian Stewart