For many years now we have made a point of supporting the AOA National Fleece Show, even more so since the show changed to its recent summer format, allowing fleeces that were shorn just months prior to be entered. This year the fleece show took place as part of AOA’s new Natural Fiber Extravaganza, which…
“…All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.” – J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring I am not a fan of back to back show weekends. In fact, I am really more whatever the opposite of a fan is. Though a condensed spring show season such…
So here are the most relevant of our results from the NAAS/NAE double show which took place the weekend after Easter. As with the previous 16 editions of the North American, the event was again held at the Eastern States Exposition Center in western Massachusetts, just a short 2 hour drive straight down I-91 for…
There are few things more obviously joyous and playful that we as alpaca breeders get to witness than the post-show pasture pronk the show team animals inevitably go on whenever we first get home from an event and they get off of the trailers and run out into their respective paddocks, often greeted by their…
What a way to go about acquiring a new truck! You can ask anyone that has survived my first 43 years on this earth: I’ve rarely been one to learn a lesson the easy way. When our farm truck experienced what were diagnosed at the time as fuel filter problems on the runs to/from the…
This past week was a bit of a crazy one here for the Lutz clan at CCNF. Two separate trips into Canada (the second of which involved hauling alpacas), one snow day for our kids, and one stubborn-ass three day Nor’Easter storm later, we are now all good though! This whole adventure had its genesis back in 2013…
