This time of year is all about cria and many more have arrived since the last newsletter. We now have [...]

The pace of births is accelerating with nine girls and four boys born already. Two arrived on the Summer Solstice, [...]

Tuesday was shearing day, a success, with all 85 alpacas looking clean and lean now that their fleeces are off. [...]

Last week was Devon County Show when finally, post Covid, it returned to its normal time in May. This meant [...]

Great excitement here as the new mule arrives, one amazingly versatile farm vehicle. Our old one that we bought in [...]

At long last our Shepherd’s Hut, the Alpaca Hideaway, is open for business. We have had four sets of guests [...]

Exhaustion reigns, honestly we are dead ducks after a weekend at the British Alpaca Society National Show in Telford, followed [...]

When you read this, Chas and I will be stood up at the British Alpaca Society National Show at the [...]

Last weekend we were at Unravel in Farnham, that was a bit of a blast from the past, in that [...]

This is the time of year when we sort the wheat from the chaff and decide which of our weanlings [...]

From snowy Northumberland to snowy Devon last Friday, at the end of our short holiday. Probably colder in Devon although [...]

It is still unbelievably wet here. We’ve had to move any alpacas that were down in the valley up to [...]

Happy Christmas to you all and thank you for your custom in 2022. Watch out for our next newsletter in [...]

Dry at last, no rain here for several days so we are all drying out and although we have had [...]

It has been a sad week as Alice, our black cavapoo, our constant companion for eleven years, has had to [...]

It is remarkably warm and unremarkably wet here so all sorts of funghi are erupting in our fields. There is [...]

It is good to be home at our beautiful Devon farm to take in the big views and stand around [...]

Great to be back home after a weekend at Yarndale in Skipton. This show was a bit weird with the [...]

This has been the most momentous time with the death of The Queen and the accession of King Charles. I [...]

Sadly, our oldest alpaca Jules has died. He was 21 and a great character, loved by all who met him. [...]