Andes Alpaca Farm

We are a couple of professionals that 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 part time farm job for me (at least at the beginning), 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 fiver, we purchase 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 and specially for me to have them around to 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 into the 6th year of this business and we have grown in every way. As a business, we have now close to 40 alpacas, with more than 20 breeding females and 9 breeding males on the farm, we are active on the Studmaster Program*, and we have sold and bought alpacas as we needed. 

After a couple of years, quietly taking care of our alpacas, we decided to tell to the world about our little secret. Because we are in a very secluded area, though close to the center of town, not even our neighbors new what we had in our pastures. So we did an open farm day (along the first all over the state alpaca open farm day) and the celebration of the opening of the Andes Farm Store that carries alpaca goods from our own animals and imported from Peru and Bolivia. The success of this event was not expected; we had more than 400 people during the two day gathering. Since then we have had more open farm days with similar results.