On April 15th 2014, I gathered up my daughter Tiffiny, granddaughter Pia and grandson Bradley and made a visit to La Dolce Vita alpacas to see the herd.  During that visit with the family we noticed that Wendy’s water had broken, our first baby alpaca (cria).  We were going to…

We owned a home in Boise, Idaho and the renters had moved so we schedule a two week vacation to work on the property. It was also a good time to look in the surrounding area for potential farm location.

Researching alpacas since early 1999, I knew someday I would love to have a farm and raise these beautiful animals.

don’t think I slept a wink all night. Counting alpacas instead of sheep,

We had several more visits to La Dolce Vita Alpacas and David would search out the alpaca that was born on shearing day.

While at the Norco show we made a date with Susan and Joe Attili to do a farm visit.

For the next year, we looked at property and explored all the farms that we could locally.  Each farm had something different to offer, some good some not so good.  What a shock, you could tell that some farms were passionate about their animals but there were many that it…