In the meantime, Bernie’s son, Drew, graduated Stacks of alpaca from college and moved north to Ottawa, Canada. He now works as a theme specialist hungary phone number library at Shopify. “My son approached me to ask if there was anything we could do with Shopify,” Bernie says. Bernie had been making his own beer at the time (called Alpaca Wiz), but it was illegal in his state to sell home brew. So, Drew suggested alpaca socks. “My sister-in-law had a store at the ranch,” says Bernie. “The alpaca socks always sold really well.”
The shorn coats from alpacas provide
a wooly fiber that can be made into products like socks and mittens. Maximus & Penelope
Each year, before the hot Missouri summers take hold, the alpacas are sheared to remove their warm wooly coats. It’s a process that takes only five minutes in each year of the alpaca’s lives, but it’s a harrowing five minutes nonetheless.
The result is win-win, though: a cooler
summer haircut for the alpacas and super choosing a language to learn for objective reasons warm fiber for producing goods. “Alpacas don’t like the summers,” says Bernie. “A lot of time they’re in the barn where we have fans blowing on them.” Bernie hoses the alpacas down in the summer awb directory to cool their bellies, and they line up like cars at a car wash, he says. “Some of them will just keep circling around to get back in line.