I took this photograph at our friends, Terry and Cindy Labbie’s alpaca ranch, Wolf River Alpacas.
Participating in Wordless Wednesday.

September 16th, 2009 | Tags: alpaca, alpaca farm, Alpacas, Wordless Wednesdays | Category: Alpacas, The Alpaca Lifestyle, Wordless Wednesdays | Comments (5)

I am embarrassed to admit that it has been almost two years since we purchased our new (much larger) farm in Tennessee. We bought it with the idea that we would come home to Alabama, put our alpaca farm on the market, and move to Tennessee. We were hoping it would take a year or [...]

September 10th, 2009 | Tags: alpaca farm, Alpacas, Get it sold, HGTV, Mike Aubrey, Property Shop, real estate, real estate intervention, Sabrina Soto, selling the farm | Category: Moving the farm | Comments (11)

This month’s Alpaca Farmgirl Interview is with long-time Alpaca Breeder and Fiber Artist Sherry Watkins of Frostglen Alpacas. Sherry and her husband, Bill run a herd of around 80 suri and huacaya alpacas in Tennessee.
Q: How did you learn about alpacas?
A: I fell in love with an alpaca sweater in London. The feel of it was so glorious. It [...]

June 8th, 2009 | Tags: alpaca farm, alpaca farmgirl, alpaca fiber, Fiber Artist, Fiber Arts, Frostglen, interview, Sherry Watkins | Category: Alpacas, Farmgirl Interviews, Lifestyle, The Alpaca Lifestyle | Comments (1)

Alpaca farm prepares for World Alpaca Conference

This is a great video about alpacas featuring Tripp Forstner of Magical Farms (with a cameo of dad and king of their alpaca farm, Jerry Forstner) Magical Farms is home to approximately 1600 alpacas! They do alpacas on a significantly larger scale than most of us. The majority of [...]

May 30th, 2009 | Tags: alpaca farm, alpaca herd, alpaca video, Alpacas, alpacas in Ohio, Jerry Forstner, Magical Farms, Tripp Forstner, video, World Alpaca Conference | Category: Alpacas, Lifestyle, The Daily Stuff | Comments (7)

Photographs from a mobile breeding trip to Wolf River Alpacas in Mississippi. I always love going over there. Cindy and Terry Labbie are the nicest, most wonderful people!
Participating in Wordless Wednesday.

May 6th, 2009 | Tags: alpaca breeder, alpaca farm, Alpacas, birdhouse, Mississippi, roses, Wolf River Alpacas, Wordless Wednesdays | Category: Alpacas, Nature, Wordless Wednesdays | Comments (9)

Start Spinning Book Review & Giveaway

I just finished reading Start Spinning: Everything You Need to Know to Make Great Yarn by Maggie Casey, and I have to highly recommend this terrific book. It has excellent photographs and she walks you through things slowly enough that you don’t get lost.
Ms. Casey begins by answering the question [...]

May 1st, 2009 | Tags: Alpaca Breeders, alpaca farm, alpaca fiber, Alpacas, Beginning Spinning Class, Fiber Arts Friday, Giveaway, Maggie Casey, RSS, spinning, Start Spinning, yarn | Category: Alpacas, Fiber Arts, Fiber Arts Friday, Giveaways, Lifestyle, Tending the Hearth, The Alpaca Lifestyle | Comments (47)

You receive Christmas presents like this.
Meet the Super Dooper Reindeer Pooper, a toy reindeer. You lift his tail and he poops out jelly beans. My dear husband must have thought that I needed MORE poop in my life. With around 70 alpacas, 3 cats, 7 dogs, 1 rabbit, and 4 kids…there wasn’t enough poo. Really [...]

February 3rd, 2009 | Tags: alpaca farm, Alpacas, cats, Christmas, dogs, poop, Super Dooper Reindeer Pooper, Valentine's Day | Category: Lifestyle, The Alpaca Lifestyle | Comments (4)

This Thanksgiving, I find myself grateful that I have found my niche in life. An unlikely farmer, I adore raising alpacas on our ten acre farm. A former pychologist, I am so happy to be home now raising my four children. After years of struggling, I am thankful that my DH, the Artist, is now [...]

November 26th, 2008 | Tags: alpaca, alpaca farm, Alpacas, children, gratitude, sculpture, thanks, Thanksgiving, the Artist | Category: Lifestyle, Tending the Hearth, The Alpaca Lifestyle | Comments (3)

a stray cat leaves kittens in your barn. This is the type of thing that never happened to me when I was growing up in a house in a neighborhood. Random creatures taking up residence? How unusual, and fun! We once had a possum that liked to live on our porch eating our cats’ food [...]

August 29th, 2008 | Tags: alpaca farm, barn cats | Category: Lifestyle, The Alpaca Lifestyle | Leave a comment