life... on the farm: Selling Fiber

Sunday, March 2, 2014

Selling Fiber

Our farm shop has a LOT of alpaca fiber for sale - a lot!! At this point our move date is March 22, and I can't take this fiber with me.

The shop is here: oakhavenalpacas

The 50% off coupon is: movingtime

This is what I do. I find the specific fiber the person has purchased. I pull it out onto the skirting table:

There I shake out dirt and skirt out big debris. I also take out any yucky fiber (the technical term for chest hair or other coarse fiber). Notice the dirt under the skirting table and the skirted out fiber:

I put the fiber into bags for shipping:

I weigh it, making sure to put a little extra in there:

Here are bags ready to be put into a shipping package and sent:

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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.