Family fun! Visit our local alpaca farms this weekend!
Alpaca farms throughout the region and across the nation will open their gates to visitors this weekend to show off their prized animals and promote the expansion of the growing fiber industry! On Saturday, Sept. 24 and Sunday, Sept. 25 from 10 a.m. – 5 p.m. explore Genesee County’s fascinating alpaca farms as part of National Alpaca Farm Days.
Alpaca Delights (East Bethany), Enchanted Forest Alpacas (Le Roy) and Northwoods Alpacas (Bergen) are participating in a weekend-long open house of our local alpaca farms. Visitors can pet and feed the animals, walk on trails and watch videos of alpaca shearing and turning the hair into yarn. Shop for clothing made with alpaca fiber. Some sites will have demonstrations on spinning, felting and weaving as well. Alpacas are a fun and interesting animal, which will surely create an educational experience for visitors of all ages.
Participating farms include:
Alpaca Delights
10311 Bethany Center Road, East Bethany
585-300-7419
This farm now enjoys 14 alpacas with individual personalities! Take time to visit with the alpacas and purchase made in America hand-spun yarn donated by their alpacas at their shop!
Enchanted Forest Alpacas
7463 Selden Road, LeRoy
585-768-7219
Visitors at Enchanted Forest Alpacas will have the opportunity to meet and pet the 11 friendly alpacas, inspect shorn alpaca fiber and shop alpaca products for sale on Sept. 24. (Closed if it rains.)
Northwoods Alpacas6499 N. Lake Road, Bergen
585-494-1371
Northwoods Alpacas has been raising, breeding, boarding, training, shearing and working with alpacas and their fiber for more than 11 years! They invite you to visit their scenic alpaca farm to experience first hand the alpaca farming lifestyle, whether it is to simply meet the alpacas and shop the fibers and fashions Farm Boutique, or to explore the alpaca farming business, and the rewards of alpaca ownership and investment. This weekend, (9/24&25) Northwoods Alpacas will be open (rain or shine)!
www.NorthwoodsAlpacas.com