My Dream Farm - Alpacas

Last night I was in Alpaca heaven, one of my favourite programmes "My Dream Farm" was following Kierti Vaidya who was setting up a small farm breeding Alpacas.

Now anyone who has read my blog in the past will know that I am "Alpaca Mad", in fact my birthday treat last year was an afternoon with a local Alpaca Breeder, where I was very much "hands on".  I loved it.

Watching the program has made me want some Alpacas more than ever.  Maybe one day....  Here is a link to her Alpaca Farm.

To anyone who has been searching for the program site and come here by mistake, you are welcome!  Use the search box on the left to find what you are looking for....

This is one of her beautiful animals, I love the colour.  If you have never knitted with wool made from Alpaca fleece, you should try it - its much softer than sheeps wool, and no lanolin, so its not greasy to work with if you are spinning.

My Dream Farm - Mendlesham

Last night I watched this weeks episode of "My Dream Farm" and really enjoyed it.  Amazingly it was in Mendlesham, a village in Suffolk where my Mum's family have come from for generations - I even lived there back in the early 1970's for a while.

I love watching this series, trouble is it makes me even more keen on keeping some pigs.... as well as chickens and turkeys, once we move.....

There were scenes of Monty Don driving around the village, showing its character off perfectly.  Its a beautiful village, full of a real mixture of old and new buildings.


In the program a couple, Karon and Simon, had escaped the "rat race" having been luckily left some land, and they wanted to keep pigs and set up a farmshop and gallery.  The program followed their progress over the year and by the end they had achieved a lot of what they set out to do, but with much more work for the future.


Here is a link about pigs from the program.....  I love Monty Don.....
http://www.channel4.com/programmes/my-dream-farm/articles/video-a-guide-to-pigs

and here is a link to their Nursery which includes lots of videos of their pigs, including the curly coated Mangalitza pigs
http://www.stackyard-nursery.co.uk

I feel a visit coming up soon, I just have to see those curly coated pigs, they look more like sheep..... here is a picture I found of some on the internet.