Our herd is composed of alpacas with heritage from all three South American countries. Although we bred most of our girls in the early years, once we reached about 30 alpacas, we slowed down the breeding business and are now primarily a fiber farm business, producing fleeces for roving and yarn and selling finished alpaca products. Some of the alpacas who make yarn for us are shown below. We send fleeces from the rest of the herd to the New England Alpaca Fiber Pool and buy back wonderful products like socks, gloves, mittens and scarves, that we sell here and at the Fryeburg Fair.
Our Best Yarn Producers
Foss Mtn Pennies from Heaven
Pennies is an appaloosa and her few brown spots blend seamlessly with her beige base coat during processing at the mill to produce a creamy yarn. See pictures of our yarn on the ‘Alpaca Products’ page.
Galaxy’s Cracklin Rosie – is she silver or rose???
Cracklin’ is light silver grey, but shows some rose gray too. She has very beautiful, very fine silver fleece. She is a sweetie, and is our go to girl for the demos with the llamas and alpacas at the Fryeburg Fair. She does the obstacles well! Her yarn certainly looks silver grey and is a great seller!
Foss Mtn Moonlight Lady
Moonlight Lady is a dark chocolate brown. Her fleece has remained very soft even as she has aged. We take her fleece and blend it with a lighter fleece, like Pennies’ or Troubadour’s, to make a beautiful tweed.
Foss Mtn Troubadour – another appaloosa
Troubadour is big and beautiful and has passed on his wonderful spots to two of Queenie’s daughters, Pennies from Heaven and Athena. He and his daughters have awesome fleeces! As with Pennies, the brown spots blend with the light fawn base coat to produce a fawn yarn with very faint marbling. His fiber, as he has aged, as still remained fine enough for yarn. Due to it’s light color, his yarn can be dyed a variety of nice colors.
Foss Mtn Purple Rain
‘Purp’ has the most beautiful and soft fiber that actually looks lavender. He doesn’t produce all that much, so we blend his rose gray fleece with his half brother Guns N Roses.
Foss Mtn Tupelo Honey
Tupelo Honey has medium fawn fiber that is just a shade lighter than her sire Sammy. We generally blend her fleece with Troubadour or Pennie’s fleece to make a very pretty ‘twist’ yarn or a heathered yarn that looks like tweed.
FossMtn Athena
Athena was the last cria born on our farm. She was the result of an accidental breeding and we were so happy to see her brown nose and tiny spots, because we knew then that her Papa was our gorgeous Troubadour! She has grown to be a big girl, who is very bonded with her full sister Pennies. Her yarn is beautiful and quite white, as she has very few spots on her blanket area.
