Our Fiber Focused Farmstead
We met our first alpacas in 2018 and pretty much instantly fell in love with these amazing, wonderful, unique creatures. I have always been an avid crafter and crocheted and knitted items regularly. We "joke" that our whole alpaca journey started with a quest for "free" yarn.
But we were hooked. We spent the next three years researching, planning and developing out our acreage to be able to provide the best home for our future alpacas. We had our four females join our farm November of 2020. We got the added benefit of getting to experience our first cria as Chip came along with our Bit of Honey as a tag along until he would be weaned in the early Spring. You could say that Chip really sold us on our alpaca journey, watching that little guy tear through the pasture and annoy all the adults, we need breeding and improving the breed standard was definitely in the future.
Unlike a lot of alpaca farms, we came into alpacas post the alpaca boom. We want to focus on fiber. Learning about it's qualities and all the skills and steps necessary to be as self sufficient as we can. We sheared our ladies ourselves in the Spring of 2021 and have learned all about fiber processing from start to finish. We hand process all our fiber and spin it ourselves into yarn. We can then use it to knit or crochet or weave that yarn into a finished product.
We hope to be able to share the wonders of the fiber arts with visitors when we open our farm to tours and visits starting in the Fall of 2021! Please contact us to schedule a visit!
Fiber Focused Farm
We’re a new fiber focused farm located just outside of Jefferson, IA. We were founded in 2018 by my partner Ben and myself, Ellen. We currently have four alpacas and one llama who joined us in 2020. Our plan is to expand out from our initial herd with a breeding program focused on fiber quality. We hand-process all our fiber ourselves and look forward to sharing that process with visitors when our farm opens to the public for visits Fall of 2021.