life... on the farm: Old Friends

Saturday, November 6, 2010

Old Friends

We were excited to run into 2 animals that were born on our farm, but now reside on other farms. Both of these animals came out of our girl, Sancha, so they are half-siblings.

Lightning only left our farm a couple of months ago, though he seems to have grown since we last saw him:

Lily left our farm in March, so it's been quite awhile since we've seen her. She's changed a lot! She looks a lot like her mother.

Her owners showed us a color banner that she won! We are so impressed with such an accomplishment. She came from our farm, so that gives us bragging rights on this:

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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.