At the Farmer's Markets

We will be at the Florence and Canon City farmer's markets and other craft events with our yarn, rovings, rugs and other alpaca products!

4th of July Celebration at Pathfinder Park (on Highway 115 between Canon and Florence) on July 4th

Canon City Farmer's Market:
(on Hwy 50 at the west end of Canon) Wednesdays: July 8, July 29, August 26, September 9, September 23, October 7th.

Florence Farmer's Marke: July 23rd and August 20th

Hand-woven rugs from Texas

19 beautiful handwoven, berber style alpaca rugs have arrived from Ingrid's in Texas

We send the fleece from our alpacas legs and necks to Ingrid's to get woven into these extraordinary rugs. These alpaca rugs are 2' x 3' or 3' x 5' with cotton warp and tassled fringes. They are all natural, non-dyed colors created from the fleece of our alpacas here on the farm. These are berber style rugs handwoven in Texas, very sturdy and beautiful. Custom sizes and designs can be ordered as well. All the rugs are pictured in our yarn store online.

Yarn & Rovings!

We just had two years' shearings of alpaca fleeces processed into beautiful yarn and rovings. The yarn is 100% grown on our farm, and processed at the Shepherd's Mill in Kansas, all American grown and processed. The colors are 100% natural, non-dyed, non fading as grown on the alpacas. The mill dehairs the fleeces (removing any scratchy guard hairs), cleans and spins it into a fantastically luxurious yarn...We have a range of colors from white to beiges, tans, browns, grays and blacks in lace weight, sport weight and worsted weight yarns. Come and see them at the shop! Stop by anytime or call ahead to be sure we're here.

Along with the yarn, we have had select extraordinary fleeces made into lovely rovings in a variety of colors.

Shearing - DONE!

We always breathe a big sigh a relief when shearing is done for the year. It's a lot of work and the alpacas don't like it very much either, until we're done. Then they lay spread out in the grass completely at ease taking sun bathes and luxuriating in the relief of not having five to ten pounds of fleece insulating them while the sun bakes down.

This year was especially nice. Having sold quite a few animals and with boarded animals returned to their home farms, and with females out for breedings, we were down to 11 alpacas to be sheared (from 26 last year)!

Plus, due to a problem with our original shearer we had to find a new one at the last minute, and she turned out to be terrific! Penny Jernigan from Arizona travels around with her shearing table, and did the most fantastic shearing job in our last eight years of raising alpacas! Her phone number is on our resources page, if you're looking for a shearer.

The animals look fantastic and there are very few second cuts in the fleece (which cause a problem in the yarn we have made out of it). Hurray!