Farming is the way we choose to live.
We enjoy and raise our alpacas for fleece or fiber. Our farm is managed by just the two of us. We sell our beautifully spun yarns and our natural farm produced goods. Minimizing our footprint, our yarns are spun in Maine both by us and Aroostook Fiber Mill. Each alpaca's fleece is hand sorted and tumbled by Anne, once a year, before it is crafted into yarn. It is important for us as a working farm for our visitors to understand how we create our yarns, and where the yarns come from. Our fibers don't leave the state of Maine... from our farm's spinning wheels or from the mills wheels, to your hand, all our yarns are local and sustainable, raised here in our backyard.
Alpacas are unique with their elegant, gentle and graceful, quiet nature. They produce one of the finest and most luxurious sustainable fleeces in the world, prized for its natural beauty and warming, silky softness. Alpacas are environmentally friendly requiring limited water to clean their lanolin free fleece and they tread softly on the ground cover. They eat about 2% of their body weight daily. They LOVE the Maine climate, which reminds them of the climate of their native South American Andes Mountains.
Come by the farm and see for yourself! All are welcome. 😊
Our studio and gift shop is filled with all natural yarns from our alpacas, both hand spun here on the farm and mill spun in Maine. Since all of our fiber is used for our yarn, we carry Altera Alpaca socks made in the U.S. from U.S. Alpaca Farms, that we wear and enjoy throughout the year. We create some small quantities of our own alpaca accessories knit or woven by Anne. We carry unique hand knit and woven alpaca clothing from Peruvian Link, based in Amherst, Maine and Lima, Peru. They support local artisans in Peru and we are proud to carry mostly hand knitted items to support their efforts. We hand craft and enjoy our own natural soap and body butter, a light nourishing salve that is wonderful for dry skin. It is also available for sale in small batches. Book a visit via our website app BookWhen. We provide farm tours by appointment during our open hours for you to meet and learn about our alpaca farm lifestyle. We offer different alpaca experiences on our farm including educational events and alpaca treks as well as private tours bringing you into the alpaca paddocks. Have some time to share a special occasion with us? Contact us to design your own event!
How did it all begin? Mike wanted to move to Maine to enjoy the peaceful ocean environment and Anne wanted to farm to get outside and enjoy nature, the rest is our story we are happy to share. It started as a spreadsheet somewhere between CT and Maine, perhaps over the Merrimack River stuck in traffic on 495 South in 2010. We wanted to make a career change and slow down a bit...changing life's course from our 30 year careers in urban education and firefighting. Basically, Mike wanted to move to Maine and Anne wanted to farm.
At this point in 2021, we own twenty-four alpacas, three spinning wheels and lots of glorious, naturally colored fiber that is shorn once a year from our small alpaca herd. Our farm life includes our feral kitty, Lester, who helps with our mice patrol. We lost his buddy Milton in 2019. Our farm dog, Louie, is a Catahoula Leopard Hound mix. He came as a rescue, via Louisiana. We recently brought home a rescue friend for Louie, a small mix breed hound we named Baxter. They are learning how to share the farm and Louie is busy teaching Baxter how to interact with HIS alpacas and chickens! We introduced chickens to our farm in 2016. We have 10 free ranging hens and one rooster, Mattie, who looks after his girls with pride! Our hens provide us with beautiful fresh brown, white, green and blue eggs. The chickens have a job to do protect our alpacas. They eat the ticks, slugs and other bugs.
We enjoy an active farm lifestyle while relishing in the slower pace of life with the alpacas on our farm, family and community/volunteer involvement. We are members of the Maine Alpaca Association, Maine Farm Bureau, New England Alpaca Owners and Breeders Association, Alpaca Owners Association, and locally: Southport Island Association, Southport Fire Department and Southport Memorial Library. We look forward to sharing our farm with you!
Anne and Michael
We enjoy and raise our alpacas for fleece or fiber. Our farm is managed by just the two of us. We sell our beautifully spun yarns and our natural farm produced goods. Minimizing our footprint, our yarns are spun in Maine both by us and Aroostook Fiber Mill. Each alpaca's fleece is hand sorted and tumbled by Anne, once a year, before it is crafted into yarn. It is important for us as a working farm for our visitors to understand how we create our yarns, and where the yarns come from. Our fibers don't leave the state of Maine... from our farm's spinning wheels or from the mills wheels, to your hand, all our yarns are local and sustainable, raised here in our backyard.
Alpacas are unique with their elegant, gentle and graceful, quiet nature. They produce one of the finest and most luxurious sustainable fleeces in the world, prized for its natural beauty and warming, silky softness. Alpacas are environmentally friendly requiring limited water to clean their lanolin free fleece and they tread softly on the ground cover. They eat about 2% of their body weight daily. They LOVE the Maine climate, which reminds them of the climate of their native South American Andes Mountains.
Come by the farm and see for yourself! All are welcome. 😊
Our studio and gift shop is filled with all natural yarns from our alpacas, both hand spun here on the farm and mill spun in Maine. Since all of our fiber is used for our yarn, we carry Altera Alpaca socks made in the U.S. from U.S. Alpaca Farms, that we wear and enjoy throughout the year. We create some small quantities of our own alpaca accessories knit or woven by Anne. We carry unique hand knit and woven alpaca clothing from Peruvian Link, based in Amherst, Maine and Lima, Peru. They support local artisans in Peru and we are proud to carry mostly hand knitted items to support their efforts. We hand craft and enjoy our own natural soap and body butter, a light nourishing salve that is wonderful for dry skin. It is also available for sale in small batches. Book a visit via our website app BookWhen. We provide farm tours by appointment during our open hours for you to meet and learn about our alpaca farm lifestyle. We offer different alpaca experiences on our farm including educational events and alpaca treks as well as private tours bringing you into the alpaca paddocks. Have some time to share a special occasion with us? Contact us to design your own event!
How did it all begin? Mike wanted to move to Maine to enjoy the peaceful ocean environment and Anne wanted to farm to get outside and enjoy nature, the rest is our story we are happy to share. It started as a spreadsheet somewhere between CT and Maine, perhaps over the Merrimack River stuck in traffic on 495 South in 2010. We wanted to make a career change and slow down a bit...changing life's course from our 30 year careers in urban education and firefighting. Basically, Mike wanted to move to Maine and Anne wanted to farm.
At this point in 2021, we own twenty-four alpacas, three spinning wheels and lots of glorious, naturally colored fiber that is shorn once a year from our small alpaca herd. Our farm life includes our feral kitty, Lester, who helps with our mice patrol. We lost his buddy Milton in 2019. Our farm dog, Louie, is a Catahoula Leopard Hound mix. He came as a rescue, via Louisiana. We recently brought home a rescue friend for Louie, a small mix breed hound we named Baxter. They are learning how to share the farm and Louie is busy teaching Baxter how to interact with HIS alpacas and chickens! We introduced chickens to our farm in 2016. We have 10 free ranging hens and one rooster, Mattie, who looks after his girls with pride! Our hens provide us with beautiful fresh brown, white, green and blue eggs. The chickens have a job to do protect our alpacas. They eat the ticks, slugs and other bugs.
We enjoy an active farm lifestyle while relishing in the slower pace of life with the alpacas on our farm, family and community/volunteer involvement. We are members of the Maine Alpaca Association, Maine Farm Bureau, New England Alpaca Owners and Breeders Association, Alpaca Owners Association, and locally: Southport Island Association, Southport Fire Department and Southport Memorial Library. We look forward to sharing our farm with you!
Anne and Michael