We now offer classes on fiber art. Ask about our studio rental.
About Us
Style
Want to feel something soft? We have imports from South America, plus our own team of artisans provide unique styles of accessories and decorations. Nowhere else will you find our hand crafted alpaca hats an dwe have shoulder dragons.
We also have the warmest loveliest alpaca socks ever! Made in the USA, they are soft, durable, hypoallergenic, antibacterial, and just plain fabulous!
What we do
Our missions is to provide hand crafted, unique artistic products, that delight the heart, warm the body, and tickle the imagination. We want to provide you with an authentic ranch experience with connection to animals for relaxation, education, and fun.
About Our Ranch
Our ranch, Alpaca on the Rocks, is located near the small town of Weed in northernmost California. Open for visitors on Saturdays and Sunday, and weekdays by appointment, we have 14 alpaca along with mini-donkeys and horses, a mini-mule, assorted cats and dogs, and 3 Kune Kune pigs and Icelandic Sheep.
You may not be familiar with alpaca fiber. It is very soft, warm, and hypoallergenic and so gives a special character to the whole range of standard apparel and accessories. We offer a sampling of hand-crafted alpaca products: scarves using traditional weaving methods like peg looms, knit hats in natural and hand-dyed colors, and related items such as original artwork. For those experienced in working with fiber we carry rovings, batts, and the raw fiber itself.
A belated introduction here– I am Nancy, the owner, and I specialize in needle felting, a technique that changes a ball of fluffy fiber into a dog portrait, a textured landscape, and the occasional purple dragon with green wings.
We welcome visitors. Meshell, my Sales Manager, is a great tour guide as well as our resident wire wrap jewelry expert. Ours is a small ranch, one that will allow you a closer look at the daily routine, the necessary chores and tasks that keep us moving. Jamal the Ranch Foreman will tell you, there is the hay that needs parcelling out, water troughs that need filling, a garden that needs tending (the rosemary bush is overdue for a trimming- Dashiell attends to that).
There are the sounds - the odd hummings of the alpaca, the constant hooting of doves, the off and on braying of donkeys. There are the sights of the country life that surrounds us, the cattle and sheep of the ranch behind us, and the horses grazing in the meadow across the road.
And a final and impossible to miss addition to the sights and sounds for you to take home - the solitary 14,179 foot Mount Shasta presiding calmly over its domain.