Alpacas

What do Naked Farmers wear in winter? Wool of course!

Alpaca fleece is light with incredible thermal properties, keeping people high in the Andes of Peru warm for centuries.

We sleep with our heads on alpaca pillows, under alpaca doonas and keep warm in alpaca beanies, ponchos, jackets and jumpers.

Dave is our wonderful shearer who comes once a year for a huge day of shearing. Ged manhandles the animals (alpacas are shorn on a table with an old sock over their mouths to catch the regurgitated grass for the spitters!). Sophie sorts and grades the fleece into huge bales which are then transported to central NSW to be spun into fine wool for knitting.

The coarser fleece from the older animals, is used on farm as insulation in various building projects, or as compost.

We sell a selection of practical and beautiful alpaca products in our shop. Join the wool revolution, rebel against microfibre mass production, and enjoy the feeling of organic, natural fleece.