Alpaca Fiber is made into luxurious garments. Watch as sumptuous alpaca products are strutted down the runway at the 2nd Annual World Conference and Fashion Show. See more fashions in our Slideshow.

July 2nd, 2009 | Tags: alpaca, Alpacas, AOBA National Conference, fashion, fashion show, fiber, slideshow, World Alpaca Conference | Category: Alpacas, Events, Fiber Arts, Girl Stuff, World Conference | Comments (4)

Welcome to this adorable alpaca! Promenade joined us just after the World Alpaca Conference. She is from Alpacas of Alagaesia in Indiana. Leann of Alpacas of Alagaesia blogs about her alpacas and their fiber at The Fiber of Alagaesia. Leann is quite the Fiber Artist.
Here’s Promenade before her haircut this Spring. She’s called “Nade”. Rhymes [...]

June 22nd, 2009 | Tags: alpaca, Alpacas, Nade, Promenade, SCA Peruvian Magnum, World Alpaca Conference | Category: Alpacas, New Additions | Comments (1)

During the World Alpaca Conference I had the chance to stop by my friend Holly William’s vendor booth. Holly is from Lasso the Moon Alpaca Farm. She is a talented glass and fiber artist. Holly’s latest favorite is nuno felting.

Holly also teaches fiber arts classes, including needlefelting, nuno felting, and wet felting. She and her husband, [...]

June 5th, 2009 | Tags: alpaca fiber, Alpacas, felted, felting, Fiber Arts Friday, Lasso the Moon Alpaca Farm, World Alpaca Conference | Category: Alpacas, Fiber Arts, Fiber Arts Friday | Comments (5)

From now through Sunday I will be blogging live from the World Alpaca Conference. I will post some general interest items here. For people who want the nitty gritty alpaca info, you will find those posts on our Farm Business page.

June 4th, 2009 | Tags: alpaca, Alpacas, alpacas in Ohio, blogging, National Alpaca Show, World Alpaca Conference | Category: Alpacas, Events, World Conference | Comments (1)

OK. I procrastinated. (If you’ve never done that, you should probably leave right now because we may not get along very well.) I waited until only a few days before the trailer hits the road for the National Alpaca Show to begin halter training one of the alpacas that I am taking.
What? Colt, you don’t [...]

June 1st, 2009 | Tags: alpaca, Alpacas, Camelidynamics, halter training, herding tape, National Alpaca Show, proper halter fit, show, World Alpaca Conference | Category: Alpacas, Handling/Training, Lifestyle, The Alpaca Lifestyle | Comments (5)

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)