Cas-Cad-Nac Farm Chronicles
News from the Farm
National Alpaca Farm Days
We are happy to announce that CCNF will be participating in this year’s National Alpaca Farm Days! We have been absent from that scene for a couple of years now dealing with other scheduled events so we are really looking forward to participating again. Though our experiences with open farm days (whether organized by AOBA…
Not all who wander are lost?
Five years ago we started an August/September tradition of taking our kids, and often some of their friends, up to the Great Vermont Corn Maze in Danville. It has never let us down. Yes, after 90+ minutes of wandering around the 10 acre field it’s often common to start getting short with one another. You…
CCNF at Weathersfield’s 250th Anniversary
So for those of you that aren’t aware, Cas-Cad-Nac Farm is in fact located in the rather large town of Weathersfield, VT. It’s a classic New England thing. Perkinsville, which appears in our mailing address is just a small village, one of several within Weathersfield, which lies some 7 miles southwest of us. However since our…
Not just another day at the park
For many years now we’ve made an effort to take our kids to at least one baseball game per season at Boston’s Fenway Park, preferably with all four of us as a family. This hasn’t generally been too hard as my dad and I have shared season tickets for the Red Sox since 1987, just…
Pictures from the baby boom
After almost 36 straight hours of rain the sun finally broke out yesterday afternoon and as I write this the farm is inhabited by many disheveled looking but quickly drying out alpacas. I was headed up to the Arena around 5PM yesterday get Majesty his second breeding of the day — a good gig if…
It’s a raining (fuzzy, four legged, 15-18 lb.) men
It’s also just literally raining at the moment as well, something which we actually need. Yes, with the due females having conspired to go on a virtual maternity strike over the past couple of weeks we knew the logjam was bound to brake sooner or later. Of course what fun would it be for that…