There is a great sense of community between the alpaca breeders in this part of the world and no better example can be found than today's adventure.

One of our number is farming on her own and has quite a challenge ahead of her getting the alpaca farm into shape. So one of her alpaca farming neighbour asked if it would be okay to bring over a working party of fellow alpaca farmers and make some serious progress.

She accepted the offer and about 8 of us arrived on Saturday morning; we strimmed fence lines , cut down trees, hauled off old tin sheeting repaired gates and burnt a small mountain of brush wood.

Everyone had a great time and our host enjoyed seeing her farm slowly start to take shape.... sometimes its easy to get caught up the view that we are all in competition to sell alpacas....when there is a bigger picture and we can all work together to create a viable industry.

Adrian Stewart