Yes, Snowshoe Farm sells alpacas, but we also offer a variety of products made from our alpaca fiber in our online farm store. In the spirit of the season, we are offering – for a limited time – free shipping to our customers (sorry – only in the USA). Use coupon … Read More
Snowshoe Farm will be selling our alpaca yarn and roving at two events in August. Tomorrow, August 9, we will be at the Summer Buy Local Market at the State House in Montpelier, VT. The market hours are 3 to 6:30pm. The weather forecast looks great, so come out and … Read More
Yes, we do have some options for local and sustainably created clothing. We recently had the pleasure of meeting Hannah Regier, a Vermont-based fiber artist. Hannah produces knit hats fashioned from Vermont wool and alpaca fibers, hand-dyed with farmed and foraged plants and knit on a vintage knitting machine. We’re … Read More
Use coupon code FREE-SHIP to get free shipping to all US addresses through May 8. We’re expecting more yarn to arrive from the mill soon and our dye pots will be busy. And we just finished shearing, so we have a lot more of our beautiful alpaca fiber to send … Read More
Use the coupon code SHIPFREE to get free shipping from Snowshoe Farm Alpacas through the end of February. We offer alpaca and alpaca blend yarns, roving, felting fiber, beads, patterns, needles & hooks and dyes. All alpaca fiber is from our Vermont farm. Yarn and felting fiber are available in … Read More
Snowshoe Farm is offering free shipping on all products from our online yarn shop through December 31. Use coupon code SHIPFREE. VermontAlpacaYarn.com lists alpaca yarn, roving and felting fiber as well as dyes, needles & hooks and free patterns. All alpaca fiber used in our products is grown on our Vermont farm. We … Read More
This is a busy time of year for Snowshoe Farm! October is when many people start knitting for the season, especially if they’re making holiday gifts. We have a series events on October weekends which started with the Vermont Sheep & Wool Festival. What a great weekend we had! Next … Read More
Recently I was asked how early we can assess the quality of an alpaca. I’ve been asked this question before and I usually reply that we generally wait until after the cria’s first “real” shearing (not the shearing that happens a few weeks after birth) and see how the fiber … Read More
Snowshoe Farm will be participating in the Summer Buy Local Market on the Vermont State House lawn on Wed, Aug 10. We’ll have a great selection of alpaca and alpaca blend yarns for sale in both natural and hand dyed colors. We’ll also have washed & picked alpaca felting fiber … Read More
We’ve had a number of inquiries as to why we don’t show prices on the three yearling alpacas we have listed for sale. Often, we don’t bother to list our younger alpacas for sale until they are a bit older. For the most part, we just like to wait and … Read More