Harmony Hill Ranch Alpacas - Designs in Harmony

01/23/2022

2022 is the beginning of our first full year without our herd. The barn is empty, the tractor and trailer sold. We miss the hums and warm snuggles with each of our herd. We are blessed that they are settled into homes with luscious pastures and loving humans! Thank you to all who have supported us over the years, and become lifelong friends!

07/16/2020

The farm is on the market! Only 9 alpacas remaining for sale. 6 males and 3 females. Two of the females are bred for September crias. Message for info.

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MLS # 1544417 – Beautiful little hobby farm with 15 acres. Close to Boyceville & Menomonie. Home was built in 2001 w/over sized attached garage. Insulated shop 30x45, beautiful 36x50 barn w/8 ft awn...

05/15/2020

Grass is always greener on the other side of the fence ;) Atreyu made a clean break to the new grass under the fence, followed shortly by Comet. Glad they are good boys, easily haltered and returned to their pen.

02/26/2020

Retirement from alpaca farming draws closer, we have listed our remaining herd on our Openherd farm page. ** link below**

We take pride in assuring that each of our clients understand alpaca care basics, and are willing to provide the love and care eac⁹h of these alpacas deserve.

Though we are retiring and the farm will be sold, we will continue to provide support, including follow up visits and farm sitting for our clients.

UNTIL March 17 we are offering a 10% discount on multiple purchases!

https://www.openherd.com/farms/523

Dreamweaving for Tomorrow, Alpacas Raised With Love

01/01/2020

As retirement from alpaca farming draws closer, we are listing our remaining herd on our Openherd farm page. ** link below** We still have several to add to our sale pages including bred females and herdsires. They will be added this week. We take pride in assuring that each of our clients understand alpaca care basics, and are willing to provide the love and care each of these alpacas deserve.

Though we are retiring and the farm will be sold, we will continue to provide support, including follow up visits and farm sitting for our clients. We have loved every day spent with these incredible animals and will miss them greatly, but the client network we have developed over the last few years gives us confidence and comfort that all will be well for our herd in their homes.

https://www.openherd.com/farms/523

Dreamweaving for Tomorrow, Alpacas Raised With Love

12/27/2019

Rehomed! UPDATE - AS SPRING DRAWS NEAR, IT IS TIME TO MOVE THESE BOYS ONTO A NEW HOME. TOGETHER THEY HAVE AROUND 20 # OF PRIME BLANKET FLEECE BETWEEN THEM. WE ARE REDUCING THE PRICE FOR ALL 5 FOR $300. MESSAGE US OR CALL (LEAVE A DETAILED MESSAGE AND WE WILL RETURN YOUR CALL) We are getting closer to moving on into complete retirement from farming. We still have some wonderful fiber males available. Jules, Dante, Snitch, Valor and Frankie deliver beautiful white blankets that are turned into gorgeous yarn each year. They would be an excellent investment for either a starter herd or to add to your existing herd. To the right buyer, all 5 can be purchased for $300. Either PM or call to check them out.
See pictures in comments.

10/03/2019

Emma finally delivered....a beautiful girl. Last cria from Sir Locksley! Her is her first photo

10/02/2019

We welcome Comet and Lady's Ladybug!

10/02/2019

Lady delivered a beautiful little girl with the help of Auntie Shell today. We welcome Lady and Comet's Ladybug

09/26/2019

Firefly and Desi2 are growing! Firefly has decided that grain is good :) Three weeks old and the earliest for a cria to start on grain at Harmony Hill!

09/24/2019

"It is that time of the year again...it's Rob and my annual open farm days. This year is extra special to us because it will be our LAST year!!

Yes, you heard that correctly. After much thought and consideration we have decided this will be our last year farming and raising our alpaca herd. The farm and herd are ALL for sale.

Swing by, September 28th & 29th from 10am-5pm, to check out everything our little slice of heaven has to offer. It is located in a convenient location, just over an hour away from the Twin Cities Minnesota region. A short scenic drive from a major interstate for an easy commute to Hudson, Stillwater or any of the Metro areas. If you are looking for an quiet piece of paradise with big city access, this the spot for you!

At our open farm days we will be available to answer your alpaca questions and have gorgeous alpaca made products available for purchase. Items such as hats, socks, yarn, raw fleece and rovings too name a few. Many which are homemade.

We are sad to be ending our era of alpaca farming but very excited to begin out next chapter. We look forward to helping someone new begin theirs next chapter on the farm. We will continue to educate our alpaca buyers (as it is a true passion to assist others) after the selling of our farm & herd.

It is a difficult to even begin to put into words how much our many alpaca friends mean to us during the years we have had the farm. We hope that many of you will be able to come celebrate and reminisce with us, September 28 & 29th, as we reflect back on our years on the farm. We are looking forward to seeing everyone old and new at the end of the month at the Open Farm days. ❤"

Photo by Joelle Julian Photography — with Joelle Julian Photography.

09/12/2019

The little ones are growing rapidly! Cria games are late afternoon and evening with races and pronking. Our little girl has a name...she's our little "Firefly". She loves to fly around the pasture and pester the moms and moms to be.

09/11/2019

Our Lil'Miss has bonded with her biological Mama :) She is nursing from both Mamas and gaining weight. She loves both of her Mamas. Lucky little girl

09/07/2019

Lola's little guy is a firecracker! Here he is running the pasture at 18 hours old. Going to be fun trying to catch and weigh him today, but with this much energy, he's undoubtedly getting plenty to eat ;)

09/07/2019

More cria fun yesterday!! Lola decided to get in on this whole labor excitement. She progresses onto lazily attempting to deliver her first cria. She tried to deliver just like her mom did...laying down. Silly Lola! After a great deal of human assistance her baby boy arrives & is a stunner! Up walking under 10 minutes, nursing in 25 minutes and motoring all over the pen. Talk about a go-getter. I wonder what fun the farm has in store for us the rest of the weekend?

09/07/2019

Who needs the Great Minnesota State fair, when we have our own rollercoaster...right here at Harmony Hill!

Two days ago our 1st fall cria came. She is an adorable girl of striking black color. We noticed our girl, Penny, was laboring while we were cleaning the barn. We were happy that she had delivered so smoothly or so we thought…

We shuffled Penny and cria into the barn to do all the after delivery farm stuff like nursing,getting the legs under the cria, ect, but Penny still seemed to be laboring. Well, that was a new one for us but we knew (after this many years farming) to always expect the unexpected. A quick call to our vet and shortly after the vet's arrival we discovered Penny had a breech baby. Wait..what?! Twins and one was breech! Ok, that was a new one for us. Sadly, after much effort the breech cria did not make it. Enter Kiana the day after Penny's "twin" delivery. Humming away, very attentive to the new cria, very sweet. We of course assumed she was just being a sweet hormonal expecting mom...ah, NOPE! Kiana had quietly given birth to that beautiful black cria the day before that we all thought was Penny's.

So here we are trying to transition the new black beauty to Kiana (who has an abundance of milk ready for her) but so far no such luck. At this point we are just going to keep Penny, Kiana, and the cria together. Both Kiana and Penny seem quite content to co-parent together. The cria is very happy to have two attentive moms with lots of good eats for her. Everyone wins!

What a interesting, odd, magical rollercoaster this fall cria season has begun with! Remember to come out to Harmomy Hill Saturday, September 28th and Sunday, September 29th 10am until 5pm to see what else can happen on the farm within that time.

09/07/2019

Time flies!

Braylon and Mr. Fuzzles did it again! Grand Champion in the Costume Contest of the 4-H Lama Category at the MN State Fair two years in a row! We are so proud!!! Thank you Braylon and Nancy!

08/31/2019

Last day for us at the MN State Fair... prep begins for Farm Days- Open House, last weekend in September. Hope to you see you!!