life... on the farm: Blessed Holidays

Tuesday, December 25, 2012

Blessed Holidays

Happy holidays to you! At our house we celebrate Christmas but after awhile it seems Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Years and the whole season sort of blends together. I like to call it all "the holidays" or Festivus :) Whatever you celebrate I hope it is happy and well blessed.

This year three of our girls were lucky enough to go to a new farm for Christmas.

One of our original girls, Sancha:

Along with Butterscotch Bay:

And Bay's 2012 cria, Cornelia Marie (also pictured at the top):

These three girls were purchased by a new alpaca farm, just getting started. They are excited to have cria for their grand kids to halter train and enter into 4H :)

1 comment:

Kathryn Ray said...: Congratulations to the new alpaca farmers and congratulations to you for the sale. :-)

Merry Christmas; December 27, 2012 at 7:51 PM

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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.