We’ve always been kind of circumspect whenever folks have asked us about our kids and their involvement with the farm. Yes, the kids may have in the past shown flashes of interest in the farm and it’s management but not what one would call a real passion. Something which we were ok with. We felt…
On days like this one I realize that there will be very little time to sit and write down anything worthy of your time. Unless of course you enjoy punch-drunk brain drivel. In any case I renamed my Twitter account @CCNFAlpacas (it was CCNFVT before) to make it a bit easier for alpaca folk to…
The Arena and Main Barn are slowly but surely starting to empty out as we begin the process of sending roughly half of the herd out to pastures away from the buildings themselves. From my office window in fact I can see our rather small group of yearling males happily munching on almost 10″ of…
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…
It is done! After shearing 76 alpacas yesterday we got that yearly chore whipped out in 3 days total, which means that tomorrow (when we had a tentatively scheduled day #4) we don’t have to get our game faces on again. I have nothing but admiration for those folks that shear for a living. Yes,…
Somehow the grass looked even greener this morning when I drove up to the Arena to do cria check at 6AM. I’m not sure if the farm missed us while we were away this weekend but we definitely missed it. Of all the hotels we’ve stayed at in Syracuse over the years — first while…
