Our friend Claudia sold her farm and her alpaca herd is now for sale and boarded at Snowshoe Farm. She is selling six breeding females, two crias and two males. These are some very nice alpacas for sale at very reasonable prices.
The first alpaca show of the season plus a family gathering for Easter made for a very busy weekend! Aristides, our champion white male took a respectable fourth in his class. It was one of the toughest classes we’ve seen with several champions in the line-up! Just making the cut was something to be proud…
I’ve been busy this week washing, dyeing and labeling yarn to take to the Southern Adirondack Fiber Festival next weekend. Tomorrow I pack up and I drive over on Friday morning. Hopefully, the weather will cooperate and make for a busy festival. Since the weekend is National Alpaca Farm Days, the farm will be open,…
Last year I was invited to dye some of our alpaca yarn for felted pillows. I worked with Alison at woollymama fiber arts and her client who was looking for several pillows to match the colors in her rug. With surprisingly little difficulty, I came up with two colors, a red and a green, that coordinated…
Snowfield’s Halo We posted several times about our friend Sandi’s effort to reduce her herd in anticipation of moving her farm. Progress is being made and Sandi now has only one breeding female left for sale. Snowfield’s Halo is the highest quality female to come out of the Snowfield breeding program. Her lineage is a…
On Saturday we delivered three young male alpacas to their new home at Fantom Farm in Mass. The farm had two older alpacas and when one died recently, they were left with one alpaca who was looking for his companion and not happy with just his goat and sheep herdmates. The farm had been thinking…
We’re pleased to annouce that we will be boarding the New Millennium herd for our friend, Janice Spalty, as she sells the herd and closes this chapter of her life following the loss of her husband, Dar, to cancer. We know it can’t be easy for Janice to see the alpacas leaving her farm, but…