life... on the farm: Frosty morning

Sunday, October 31, 2010

Frosty morning

This morning I woke up to a light frost covering everything outside, including the alpacas. Our thermometer shows a low last night of 25*F. Most of the alpacas choose to sleep outside, they don't seem one bit bothered by the frost on their backs.

Here is Victoria and Snickers' frosty backs (with Lucy's head in the background):

It's much harder to see the frost on the lighter colored animals, here is Latte and Sancha:

I knew it got cold last night. After getting home from taking the kids trick or treating, Spot got loose. I had to chase him down the driveway in the dark. Thankfully he wasn't too hard to catch this time, but it was sure was dark and cold out there.

This morning he was very sweet and apologetic:

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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.