Andre's Alpacas

We made the drive from London to visit Andre's Alpacas. In our group, two of us are knitters/crocheters/weavers and I want to start to learn to spin my own yarn, so I figured going for a visit to my former math teacher's alpaca farm was a great place to start. It also seemed like a fun thing for my little grandson to do, so we invited him and his mommy too.

What a treat! Henry and Karen couldn't have been more accommodating as they fielded the hundreds of questions that we posed with patience and an impressive breadth of knowledge. They were great, but the real fun was the alpacas. Henry took us right out into the fields where we could interact with them and they were just lovely animals. They had lots of cria for us to fawn over and the little ones were just the right size for my grandson to pet. I challenge you to find anything cuter than a baby alpaca. Henry and Karen have halter trained one-year-olds that we were allowed to take for a little walk and this is when we really got to see the alpaca personalities. We were all quite taken with them.

They also have a store full of alpaca wool products with everything from clothing, to duvets, to stuffed animals (for my grand children), to yarn (for me and my friend), to roving (for me to spin). Alpaca wool is so soft that it was hard for us to restrain our spending. So we didn't, really.

If you want to visit with the alpacas and learn all about how they are bred for color, how they are sheared, what they eat, how they all poo in the same spot (seriously, they do that), how the wool is used, and any other crazy alpaca question you can think of, Andre's Alpacas is a great place to visit.

Thank you so much, Henry and Karen, for a really terrific day.

Lovely spontaneous visit in which we were kindly shown their new store and were able to buy some wonderful unusual alpaca ‘stuffies’ (animals) for our grandchildren, warm soft hats, and a great sweater. The alpacas were grazing off in the meadow and looked very sweet. Certainly well worth a visit!

Henry and Karen are the nicest people ever. They let us in the field with the alpacas and then we were able to walk them! We bought some nice socks and a toque. Would definitely recommend