It was June of 1996, not quite a year past our wedding day (more on that later), and Jen and I were in Denver, Colorado attending our first ever AOBA national conference and show. Though we didn’t yet own our first alpacas, we had purchased the house and parcel of land back home in VT…
Wow, the last few weeks feel like they took place at double speed and one result of that, is that this space has been conspicuously neglected. We went from putting the final touches on our new farm cookbook (read: immersed in proofreading and the annoying minutiae until we really didn’t feel like looking at it…
After weeks of unavoidable delay (and quite honestly, a healthy touch of procrastination), the sales listings on both our proprietary web site as well as the farm’s pages on OpenHerd are fully updated. The sun finally made a brief appearance last Saturday morning and with Max’s help (it was his job to make an occasional…
We are happily gathered (perhaps huddled, given yesterdays storm?) here on the farm with the extended Lutz clan from both Boston and NYC. Many shenanigans, all of them good! Hope everyone has a wonderful Thanksgiving with family and friends wherever you may be! Follow me on Twitter @CCNFalpacas
Random mutterings on a Tuesday afternoon: It is believed around these parts that when the Goldenrod starts to emerge on the roadsides and in the fields, that it is a sure sign that summer is winding down. Of course that’s just one sign of many. I must admit that I gave a great incredulous sigh the other…
Amidst all of the craziness of the past month, one of the coolest things we got to do, was to host the Sjøli family of Alpacajoy of Norway here at the farm during the first week of April! Laila we had met for the first time briefly last year when she and her colleague, Rolf…
