Alpaca farming is considered the greenest fiber due to the ease of its production. One animal provides five to 10 pounds of fiber and the animals consume very little food compared to other grazing ...

Alpaca fibre, often touted as the new luxury, has been on my radar a while, but as a fibre with such foreign roots, it has had to remain a distant thought. A few weeks ago however, I was fortunate ...

With one slurpy kiss, Samson the alpaca changed Diane DelDuca’s life. After retiring from the phone company in Cañon City on a Friday, the lifelong animal lover started a gig as a receptionist at a ...

The farm to table movement is picking up steam among grocery buyers, but it's not the only thing consumers can get straight from the source these days. In Berlin, at a unique shop down a country lane ...

Dixie and Julep greet everyone who drives up to the Central Virginia Fiber Mill. The two Chesapeake Bay Retrievers with their amber-hued eyes and caramel colored curly coats are the perfect match for ...

Fiber will make you say “yay” once you discover that it’s alpaca fleece we’re talking about, and that this week provides two alpaca fiber festivals in two days. On Friday, Cornerstone Farm Alpacas in ...

Richard Steffke, who once did handyman work on Grosse Ile, and his wife, Gail, a former professional race car driver, never saw it coming, but one day their lives took a turn down a road that would ...

Each kit contains two balls of alpaca yarn, knitting needles, stuffing and a knitting pattern for the alpaca toy pictured. To go into the draw, visit FARM’s Facebook page and submit a picture of you ...