Farming is the way we choose to live.
We are mid-coast Maine fiber producers selling our own farm raised alpacas’ yarn. We enjoy raising our alpacas. 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, 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.
Our alpacas feed on hay grown and harvested in mid-coast Maine. They are raised with care for the land which they inhabit, within the island community we live. Our alpacas impart their natural colors in their fiber, without the use of dyes, into twenty three shades. All our garments and accessories knit or crocheted by us are created from our alpaca yarns. Our yarns provide opportunities for hand crafters to create a unique heirloom article of clothing from our fiber animals raised in Maine. We enjoy collaborating with local sheep farmers to create small batch blended yarns, and nurture our farm community within our fibershed locale. As a purely natural product, once our yarn has reached the end of its life cycle, it may be composted back into the land.
We practice regenerative farming on a small scale. Our land use is tiny in footprint as alpacas’ do not require large pastured space, but enough space to roam and run. They are a herd animal, environmentally friendly in nature, with soft padded feet and a split lip for pulling up grass gently while leaving the roots intact. We use rotational grazing methods, even though alpacas have common dung piles. They deposit small amounts of nutrients back into the earth as they move through pastures and woodland. We practice no-till preparations for our vegetable and herb gardens with our own composted alpaca manure and recycle and reuse where possible. We create hügelkultur mounds with natural woods, grass and composed manure to aid areas of low ground or soil in need of nutrient content. Alpacas create a beautifully odor free manure that when composted can be used as nutritious top soil or a highly beneficial aid to the soil.
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. 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. If you would like to skip our farm tour and shop for a local gift only, please give us a call or email and we will set up your visit.
Our farm is located on picturesque Southport Island. Meander past the Boothbay Botanical Gardens, while heading south on Route 27, toward the oldest swing bridge in New England. Cross over Townsend Gut to the small island town of Southport. Drive the island loop, either route takes you to the village of Cape Newagen. Here you will find our farm, nestled beside the Southport Memorial Library. Our farm is a small-scale business operated by us as owners. We enjoy sharing our story about “why alpacas?” which is often asked and we love to introduce our alpacas to our farm visitors and education our visitors about alpacas. Our farm operation is a new business venture for us, since the purchase of our first two alpacas in 2011. We spent four years building our farm and business. We opened our doors in 2015, as a second and novel career change from fire and education backgrounds, and haven’t ever looked back!
All of our visits to our farm are scheduled by appointment. We offer 45 minute farm tours in our viewing pen, 75 minute alpaca treks walking your own alpaca, and various private tours and educational workshops, all provided by us as owners and farm educators. Please visit our website to learn more and book your visit with our farm via our website app BookWhen. 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 peace and quiet of Maine 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.
At this point in 2022, we own twenty-seven 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, but Raven and Ridley, two black female feral kitties have joined our team. Our farm dog, Louie, is a Catahoula Leopard Hound mix. He came as a rescue, via Louisiana in 2015. We brought home a rescue friend for Louie in May of 2021, a small hound mix breed 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 the chickens to our farm in 2016. We have 16 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, and family and community/volunteer involvement. We are members of the 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 are mid-coast Maine fiber producers selling our own farm raised alpacas’ yarn. We enjoy raising our alpacas. 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, 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.
Our alpacas feed on hay grown and harvested in mid-coast Maine. They are raised with care for the land which they inhabit, within the island community we live. Our alpacas impart their natural colors in their fiber, without the use of dyes, into twenty three shades. All our garments and accessories knit or crocheted by us are created from our alpaca yarns. Our yarns provide opportunities for hand crafters to create a unique heirloom article of clothing from our fiber animals raised in Maine. We enjoy collaborating with local sheep farmers to create small batch blended yarns, and nurture our farm community within our fibershed locale. As a purely natural product, once our yarn has reached the end of its life cycle, it may be composted back into the land.
We practice regenerative farming on a small scale. Our land use is tiny in footprint as alpacas’ do not require large pastured space, but enough space to roam and run. They are a herd animal, environmentally friendly in nature, with soft padded feet and a split lip for pulling up grass gently while leaving the roots intact. We use rotational grazing methods, even though alpacas have common dung piles. They deposit small amounts of nutrients back into the earth as they move through pastures and woodland. We practice no-till preparations for our vegetable and herb gardens with our own composted alpaca manure and recycle and reuse where possible. We create hügelkultur mounds with natural woods, grass and composed manure to aid areas of low ground or soil in need of nutrient content. Alpacas create a beautifully odor free manure that when composted can be used as nutritious top soil or a highly beneficial aid to the soil.
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. 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. If you would like to skip our farm tour and shop for a local gift only, please give us a call or email and we will set up your visit.
Our farm is located on picturesque Southport Island. Meander past the Boothbay Botanical Gardens, while heading south on Route 27, toward the oldest swing bridge in New England. Cross over Townsend Gut to the small island town of Southport. Drive the island loop, either route takes you to the village of Cape Newagen. Here you will find our farm, nestled beside the Southport Memorial Library. Our farm is a small-scale business operated by us as owners. We enjoy sharing our story about “why alpacas?” which is often asked and we love to introduce our alpacas to our farm visitors and education our visitors about alpacas. Our farm operation is a new business venture for us, since the purchase of our first two alpacas in 2011. We spent four years building our farm and business. We opened our doors in 2015, as a second and novel career change from fire and education backgrounds, and haven’t ever looked back!
All of our visits to our farm are scheduled by appointment. We offer 45 minute farm tours in our viewing pen, 75 minute alpaca treks walking your own alpaca, and various private tours and educational workshops, all provided by us as owners and farm educators. Please visit our website to learn more and book your visit with our farm via our website app BookWhen. 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 peace and quiet of Maine 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.
At this point in 2022, we own twenty-seven 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, but Raven and Ridley, two black female feral kitties have joined our team. Our farm dog, Louie, is a Catahoula Leopard Hound mix. He came as a rescue, via Louisiana in 2015. We brought home a rescue friend for Louie in May of 2021, a small hound mix breed 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 the chickens to our farm in 2016. We have 16 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, and family and community/volunteer involvement. We are members of the 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