We are proud to present CCNF Pristine Lahaina, the first of two young females we have consigned to the upcoming Parade of Champions auction to be held June 3rd & 4th in North Salem, NY at Little Creek Farm/Snowmass Alpacas! You can obviously read the longer-form description of her and her story on our Openherd…
Our son, Sam, is working his way towards becoming a full-fledged commercial pilot, with over 500 hours already logged in the cockpit of various planes but when he’s home from college and has some time on his hands, he also likes to play around with his drones and do a little amateur movie making for…
Day 1 of shearing 2012 is in the books and we ended up doing a nice round 70 alpacas today. Only 137 to go! Below is the video I shot this morning of Futurity Judges’ Choice winner, CCNF Elixir, getting shorn. Minus a blip just before the blanket gets finished it’s pretty much start to…
So I confess that posting this was mostly an excuse to try the new Youtube plugin that Terry Miller helped me install the other day. Hopefully more heady material will follow in the days and months to come. Nonetheless as the footage below can attest, our Toyota Prius — which we originally bought post-Katrina because…
Days like today on the farm quite literally make you happy to be alive! Perhaps it’s partly still the affect of post-shearing euphoria — as in “naya, naya, naya: we don’t have to do that again for 12 months” — but with the birds making their spring symphony, a wonderful breeze, 60 degrees, and nary…
Warning: this has ZERO alpaca content. This is what happens on vacation when you repeatedly take 9 and 12 year olds out to lunch with little more than their mother’s digital camera and a few hampster-shaped erasers. Though their father is grateful for the opportunity to further his video editing “skills” I don’t think Pixar…
