About the Farm

We are a couple of professionals who wanted a vacation place in Maine, USA, and ended up finding it along with alpacas.

If we were looking for a change in our lifestyle, we really found it! Turning our steady, but stressful way of life upside down, into a more relaxed one, with a new work place for my husband, a full-time farm job for me, move to other state, new neighbors, new friends and so forth.

The internet search for a summer place in Maine led us to farms in Maine, and that to alpaca farms. Farm and alpacas together sound terrific. When at the first visit to an alpaca farm we caught the alpaca fever, we purchased five animals on the spot, not knowing how to take care of them, not having a place to keep them, not knowing how to handle them ETC.

And off we went to pursue a dream of breeding alpacas, on the road to produce the elusive perfect alpaca ande specially for me to have them around to nurture and watch them grow, have babies, take them to shows, make ourselves known in the alpaca breeders circle, joining alpaca associations across the country. That was the fastest learning experience you can imagine, but all done in a fun way, hands on experience.

We are going in our 12th year of this business and we have grown in every way. As a business, we now have one of the largest and well-known farms in Maine, home to 90 alpacas. Featuring elite bloodlines that were both imported into the U.S. and developed from within, we have 50 breeding females and a champion-caliber herdsire row, as well as maidens and junior herdsires still growing. 

With alpacas, it is still all about the end product--their glorious fiber. To showcase it, we opened the Andes Farm Store, which carries premium alpaca yarns and apparel from our own animals and imported from Peru and Bolivia. We are open during scheduled open farm events, by appointment year-round, and on weekends during the holiday season.