life... on the farm: Indiana Alpaca Invitational

Thursday, April 3, 2008

Indiana Alpaca Invitational

We are off to Fort Wayne, IN tomorrow to attend the Indiana Alpaca Invitational. J will assist South Haven Alpacas with showing their alpacas. They have been showing several at shows this year and it's been hard to be everywhere at once. It will be great experience for J too. I will be sitting in the audience taking notes and pictures ;) I can't wait to see Princess and Contessa (Kateri and Victoria's baby from last year), and the Buccaneer (who we will breed Kateri too this summer).

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The Adventure of a Lifetime

Our farming adventure began with the purchase of 3 alpacas in the fall of 2007. This eventually grew to an alpaca farm that birthed 23 cria. While we averaged 20 alpacas on a farm at any given time, we hit a peek of over 30 alpacas. We were involved in every aspect of alpaca farming: from breeding decisions, birthing, to attending alpaca shows, and shearing our own alpacas along with making product from their luscious fiber (hand spinning yarn and knitting product). We participated in 24 alpaca shows, and became very involved in the alpaca community.

In 2013 we added hair sheep to our farm.

Throughout this process we continued to tweak and revise our business plan. Our business plan evolved over time, and in 2013 it became clear that our goal was to raise grass fed animals for human consumption. While the initial plan was for this to go along side of alpaca farming, we slowly came to the conclusion our adventure was going to take us somewhere else.

In 2013 we began to sell off our alpaca herd to begin our new adventure with grass fed sheep and cattle.

Our adventure is still unfolding, so please, join us in our adventure of a lifetime as our journey unfolds.