life... on the farm: End of the hiatus

Wednesday, November 3, 2010

End of the hiatus

After a bit of an unplanned fiber hiatus, I got myself back at the spinning wheel to finish up a skein of Rosco's fiber. I'm eager to knit this up into a scarf, but I fear J will snatch it up before I have a chance to do that.

2 comments:

Ertman-Trowbridge Family said...: Yay! You got some spinning done!

Hide it from the hubby; then you'll get to knit it yourself. ;-); November 4, 2010 at 7:56 PM
oak haven alpacas said...: the sad things is this is the same skein I started back when you visited. I hadn't done anything since then. I do need to hide it, quick too!

Cara; November 5, 2010 at 11:09 PM

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.

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