Congratulations Unity College Graduates!

Over the past year we have seen a growth of involvement and interest from students at Unity College. Thank you, to those of the graduating class of 2011, that spent valuable time and energy volunteering at our farm!

Congratulations!

Happycrafter207

One of our RentAlpaca participants, Lori, has a wonderful crafting blog. In her most recent podcast, she talks a bit about her most recent visit to Northern Solstice to visit the alpacas.

Lori represents some of the wonderful diversity we have in our RentAlpaca program. From future farmers, animal lovers, fiber enthusiast and everything in between. Lori certainly falls within the fiber enthusiast category. She is a talented knitter, with a wonderful blog and podcast that document her crafting adventures.

Check out Loris blog Happycrafter207

To listen to her talk about her visit to Northern Solstice and other fun adventures click here

(Click the Pod button to the left of Episode 13)

Splenda & Kevyn

"Forget wearing purple. When I’m 80, I’m going to adopt an Alpaca!" - Erin Heffernan

One of our renters Anne and her daughter Mary sent us this wonderful article written by one of Anne's daughters, Erin.

 "By definition, an Alpaca is a domesticated, longhaired South American animal of the camel family, related to the llama and similar in appearance. An Alpaca may be in the camel family and related to the llama, but the handsome gene is all his.

My cousin, Mary, of Winterport, Maine, took her mother, my Auntie Anne, of Newburgh, Maine, to an Alpaca farm for her 83^rd birthday -- with her walker. Osteoperosis was no match for her on this day. But, who would have guessed she would adopt an Alpaca? Maybe my cousin, Mary, a woman with a magnificently eclectic thought process. Auntie Anne’s Alpaca is a female named Marylou, and she is exquisite.

Marylou lives at the farm, and Auntie Anne has unlimited visitation. Marylou would not have fit in Auntie Anne’s apartment, and she would probably alarm her neighbors in her senior apartment complex."

                                                                                            -Erin Heffernan



To read the full article, click here.

Anne & Sonni

Mary Lou

We are  thankful to have such incredibly talented and creative renters that have truly become part of our alpaca family.

Northern Solstice on WABI - 5 News

WABI - 5 News came for a visit this past weekend.  

Northern Solstice Alpaca Farm

Unity - During the Christmas holidays Unity's Northern Solstice Alpaca Farm offered folks a chance to rent an alpaca.

As part of Earth Day they are inviting renters into the farm to spend time with their alpacas.

"We very quickly took in over 50 renters. We've stopped it at around 53 or 54 because we really want to give our renters as much quality time as possible."

Alpaca farm owner, Robin Fowler says they've received great feedback.

To read the full story and see the video 
Click Here

Visitor Photos!

Maria brought her grandson Connor to Northern Solstice for a visit this week.  She graciously shared her wonderful photos of her visit with us and gave us permission to share them with you!

Thanks Maria!


Maria purchased a mini Archimedes stuffed alpaca for Connor a few months back.  Connor brought mini Archi with him to meet the real Archi.

Maestro - Archimedes - Laelia

Hamilton & Archimedes

Sonni giving Meg a nose nuzzle

Connor & Meg visiting with Laelia & Maestro

Archimedes beings to pronk

Time for a trim, Sonni

Sonni meeting mini Archi

Looks like the babies are getting ready to do some rolling

Ahhh - happy alpacas

Laelia loves making new friends

Connor meets the girls & babies

Connor saying goodbye to Laelia

North American Alpaca Show

We had a wonderful time at the North American Alpaca Show!  Thank you all for your support and well wishes.

Laelia took 5th place in the dark fawn class - Shown by Ari Leach

Archimedes took 4th place in the multi class - Shown by Corry Pratt

The show girls!

Evelyn Townsend - Ari Leach - Corry Pratt

Ari giving Laelia a pep talk

Laelia & Ari accepting the 5th place ribbon from the judge, Amanda.

Maestro was placed in the largest class - he had some stiff competition

Maestro waiting patiently to be judged

All of that traveling makes Laelia hungry

When the alpaca you are showing uses the show ring as a bathroom -- smile!

There was a huge turnout from Maine Alpaca Farms

Created with flickr slideshow from softsea.

Today we begin the work of getting all of the gear packed to go to the North American Alpaca Show in Springfield, Mass. http://www.naalpacashow.com/ Archie, Lia and Maestro will all be competing in their first alpaca show and this is a BIG one. As you know, our farm is also The Alpaca Center of New England, an educational organization and a proud sponsor of the North American Alpaca Show. We will have a large display set up for the Alpaca Center of New England as well as the Maine Alpaca Association. It will be exciting! Attending one of these large Alpaca Shows is just amazing whether an alpaca owner or just a big fan of alpacas. There will be pictures posted on facebook as we capture the 3 days of events so stay tuned for all of the excitement!

It's show time!

We can't believe it is already time for our first Alpaca Show of the year!

Next weekend Robin, Corry, Ari & Meg will be attending the North American Alpaca Show with the three crias.  Laelia, Archimdes and Maestro are all ready for their very first show.

Are we ready? That is the real question!


Wish Lia, Archi and Maestro good luck!

Archi

Lia

Maestro

Follow our Facebook that weekend (April 2nd-3rd)  for updates and pictures from the show.


To read more information on the event click here.

A reciept you can finally care about!

We are constantly striving to provide our customers with outstanding service and products.  Recently we have upgraded our credit card system. 

We are now using Square!

Square allows us to accept MANY credit cards, we are no longer limited to only Visa & Mastercard!

Square gives us flexibility, we will be able to accept credit and debit purchases at trade shows and other events!  No more cash only or finger pinching machines!

We can send your receipt to your e-mail account or directly to your phone. No more worrying about digging through your bag to find your receipt, you'll have a copy on your computer within seconds of your purchase. 

What will your receipt look like?

Lost your receipt? No problem, print out another one!


Do you like to have a paper receipt in hand after purchase? We understand! We are in the process of updating our register so you will have a choice.

You  hear us talking about Alpacas being GREEN, now our business is joining the revolution.  

Paperless receipts save energy and expenses.