life... on the farm: Walking Stick

Tuesday, August 23, 2011

Walking Stick

Even though I live in the woods and have an alpaca farm, there are still many times nature amazes me.

Last week we saw two walking sticks on the side of our house! I've seen them a couple times before, but it's still amazing to look and watch them. Zack and I noticed how their body looks like a stick, and their legs look like pine needles. Isn't nature cleaver!?

2 comments:

Lou Harmon said...: Yea it is that time of year again that the walking sticks come back...which always creeps me out....it seems I usually get one on me or very NEAR me and I sort of 'lose my cool'. lol

Take Care; August 23, 2011 at 10:22 PM
oak haven alpacas said...: LOL I do that with daddy long legs. They are fine - from a distance :)

Cara; August 24, 2011 at 1:39 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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