The temperatures in northern New England have been fairly rude for the past month. Amongst other things, it has meant that the sartorial choices of those of us that work the farm have tended to be long on comfort and short on style, though the cold has not been entirely devoid of redeeming qualities. Parasites…
I have finally got the write-ups done on two of our young up and coming Herdsires: Defiance, who is homegrown and his 1st cousin, Spirit Wind’s Maestro, whom we acquired from Karin and Jerry Young at Spirit Wind Farm & Fiber Studio. Big…
Our extreme gratitude to Peter and Susan Goodwin of Fosters Trail & Alpaca Farm for their purchase of our female, CCNF Honeysuckle, as well as to Casey Ashline and Gary Henderson of Keva Ranch Alpacas and Tim and Kristin Quinlan of Connoquin Alpacas for their joint purchase of CCNF Fortuna, both this past weekend at…
1. Fortuna, lot #54, is the daughter of our prepotent Herdsire, CCNF Royal Ring of Fire. The unique thing that many folks don’t tune into but which we have always known, is that key to the Ringo kids’ quality, is not just that he has Royal Rose and Hemingway in his pedigree but also his…
I love the idea of being one of those people who is always getting their work done in a timely manner and not pressing up against any deadlines. Yeah, well…it’s something to aspire to anyway, right? As it is, I’m sitting here in my office on Tuesday night printing out marketing materials for our females,…
The wee Lutz clan landed late yesterday afternoon in Boston, along with our friends that had been with us for the past 10 or so days in the British Virgin Islands onboard our chartered sailboat. Though it’s always a bit shocking to go from 85 degrees and sunny to the heart of winter, at least…
