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Alpaca Tribe — 357 episodes
Do you focus on the big picture or close up?
Spring arrivals and departures in the valley
What could your lifetime journey actually be?
Slowing down to an alpaca rhythm
A half hour holiday with the alpacas
The best plan is an alpaca plan
Alpaca breakfast is my favourite meal of the day
Areas of alpaca growth
And so the alpaca new year begins
A Christmas walk with in the valley with the alpacas
A welcome from the alpacas
How alpacas can teach you to be flexible
Alpacas in the reservoir valley
A walk and talk in the valley
Catching up with visitors to the valley
Food water and mucking out - the daily alpaca chores
Have you worked out how alpacas sit down?
Fall arriving in the valley with the alpacas
What is a good number of alpacas to have?
A beautiful morning for breakfast with the alpacas
What to ignore with your alpacas
How to prepare for cria birthing season
Fond memories of cria watch and alpaca birthing season
Hunting flies and growing your alpaca herd
That was a close shave
Some alpaca jobs just need two people
Chilling in the sun with the alpacas
How to speak alpaca - or at least try
Valley update and podcast news
Alpacas get old too
A Spring/Autumn catch up with Rita Soares in Australia
An update in the valley with the alpacas
Rate limiting factors for growth
One way to help your alpacas trust you
Great opportunities to spend time with your alpacas
Providing appropriate shelter for alpacas
Creating the best expectations with your Alpacas
What alpacas need and like
Alpaca reflections after breakfast with the girls
Knowing when it is time to change tack
The holidays are over but winter work is available
Being in control is limited
Alpacas in the new year - continuity or conservation
An alpaca New Year
Holiday Greetings and being intentional
I went in search of Normal and found it
On my own in the quiet valley
My alpacas remain a mystery
Valley update in the quiet after the storm
Winter weather can always catch you by surprise
There's always something when you have alpacas
Megan's Mischief and Amelia's Feast: An Alpaca Story
Autumn With Alpacas: Pastures, Paths, and Posturing
It is good to maintain your tools and fences
Happy and healthy alpacas
Unexpected change to the alpaca feed arrangements
That seems like a lot of alpaca breakfasts
Questions people often ask me about alpacas
Alpacas seem to slow me down, in a good way
Know where your alpacas are
Alpacas are good in any weather
Alpaca Intelligence - the new AI
When you are feeling a bit lost with your alpacas
As herd animals alpacas want to be together
Your favourite alpaca colour
Watching in the valley
The challenge of predicting alpacas and the weather
Are you noticing the alpaca daily grind?
Is it better to lead or manage your alpacas?
Was your latest alpaca day ordinary or extraordinary?
A quiet start to the alpaca day
It's not over until it is finished
Back to the beginning
Shearing alpacas is always different
Walking with alpacas literally and metaphorically
Food fleece and feathers
What is it like to live with alpacas?
What could intentional interactions with your alpacas look like?
Arrivals that surprise
Alpacas have eyes that look back
Spring makes me think of alpaca births
Be even more alpaca
Hats and alpacas revisited as spring arrives
Do your alpacas notice when you wear a hat?
Learning through alpaca shows - even if you do your own
Ways to thrive with your alpacas
Chirps, Honks, and Alpacas: A Winter Day on the Farm
Ten things that make alpacas different to other animals
How to grow your herd of alpacas
It is always hard when you lose an old friend
Assumptions we make about alpacas may not be the full story
A small breeder's view of the Australian alpaca industry
Summer and Winter at the same time
Using your head and your heart
Sitting in the cold with your alpacas
Thinking of planning your alpaca year
Sounds of the season
Seasons greetings and hopes for the new year
Your alpaca questions will change over time
How to avoid stress with alpacas
Reflections down on the farm
What do your alpacas think of at Thanksgiving?
How to know if you are an alpaca fanatic
The questions spread beyond alpacas
What are the best alpaca questions to ask?
What is your favorite time? Mine is alpaca time.
Marking 250 Alpaca Tribe episodes
Paying attention to the alpacas and other things
Taking a quick alpaca holiday
Storms on the horizon but it is that time of year
Knowing when to panic
Three steps to easy Alpacas or Alpacas the hard way
Are you having an ordinary day?
Goldilocks and the three bears Bonus
What stories do alpacas tell about us?
Being seen by your alpacas
Visitors are good for everybody
Being prepared and doing the ordinary stuff
Can you see beyond the ordinary?
Returning to the alpacas
Finding an alpaca rhythm you can follow
Alpaca fleece inspiration
An alpaca journey can take you a long way
Start with what you are good at
Did you know that alpacas queue?
Catching flies and thinking how to break cycles
What to look for in an alpaca
A quick run through the shearing at a slow pace
It will be nice when we finish and the alpacas agree
What is the best way to solve your alpaca problems?
Do you find your limitations helpful?
It's just how we roll with the alpacas
I always feel grateful to have alpacas in my life
I don't always make the right conclusion about my alpaca's behaviour
Shelter for comfort but also protection and safety for your alpacas
What makes you decide this is your favourite place?
Things that will make you a better alpaca shepherd
Do your alpacas like you singing?
When do you keep doing the same thing and when something different?
A visit from winter, the vet and the feed delivery man
How do we know when we have reached the end of the story?
Similarities and differences at the other end of the world
Reflecting on where we have got to with our alpacas
What are you going to do now?
Alpaca Shepherd Skills and Jeremiah's New Arrival
Alpacas keep you on your toes on both sides of the pond
Coats for the cold weather
Taking the long view with alpacas
Are you getting back to normal yet?
Living in the in-between
Alpacas, a stable, and thoughts of Christmas
An ice skating alpaca
My priorities in the cold weather - feeding and mucking out
What would make you do it differently?
Happy Thanksgiving and First Frost
Landmarks and milestones on your roadmap
What is your road map for your alpaca adventure
That's a lot of alpaca episodes
Going to your alpacas for wisdom
Learning to read the ruffles alpacas sometimes have
Alpacas and the green gym
Boys will be boys and Hermione is inscrutable
You never know who you might meet on the path
Getting past the fear
New arrivals for the Weisman's Part 2
New arrivals for the Weisman family
When you notice something, hold it long enough until you are sure
What business are we in?
Getting closer to deciding to keep alpacas
Are all your visitors welcome?
A walk and talk with the alpacas
Is that normal for an alpaca
Having fun with your alpacas
What are your sounds of summer?
Marking time at the pace of your alpacas
But what does it mean?
What does success with your alpacas mean to you?
Alpacas and the future
A successful shearing season
Time for an alpaca haircut
Things that surprise alpacas
Talking with my alpacas
Change is here to stay
Mistakes as learning opportunities
Life Lessons I have learnt from my alpacas
Understanding traction and friction to be a better alpaca owner
Understanding your alpacas
Felting with many needles with guest Lanette Freitag
Revisiting where Alpaca Tribe started
Spring is sprung for the alpacas
Making alpaca breeding decisions can be challenging
Everything in a state of flux
Alpacas are creatures of habit, usually...
Have you noticed the alpacas in the middle?
Alpacas have family and friends too
Thinking hazard and risk assessment when you have alpacas around
Making alpaca decisions
The joy of alpaca footprints in your backyard
Beginning where we left off we travel into the new year
Talking alpacas from a vet's perspective - Part 2
Talking alpacas from a vet's perspective - Part 1
Alpaca moments that stood out in 2022
Happy Holidays with your alpacas
How Geno and Vinnie met Flip and the story had to be told
A walk on the wet side
The calm after the storm
Thanksgiving with the alpacas
Decision making and procrastination with your alpacas
The first thing you notice about alpacas
Finding your alpaca rhythm
Looking after yourself and your alpacas
Confidence for everyone
Always learning and seeing the positive as well as the problem
5 reasons for keeping alpacas
Autumn has arrived – no, really this time
A late alpaca arrival
Can you be right every time?
What does it mean
Sitting about with the alpacas
Millie the alpaca matriarch is a bit of a stick in the mud
Always keep an eye on your alpacas - you just never know
The start of cria arrivals 2021
Listening to your alpacas and yourself
Physics and keeping alpacas – make it work for you
Being more comfortable with your alpacas
A bit more confidence with alpacas
Three things you can do to build your confidence with alpacas
The sounds of breakfast with the alpacas
More talking Australian alpacas - showing and shearing
Talking Australian Alpacas
What is it like to keep alpacas?
It is nice to know when you have finished something
Hidden beneath the alpaca fleece
Sleeping like a baby... alpaca
Connecting with old friends - Jeremiah Owen in California
Settling into the rhythm of a new season
What do you know about Alpacas? Take the quiz
The magic of felting with alpaca fleece
Creating the best environment for your alpacas
Let your alpacas put some colour in your life
Don’t you just love breakfast with the alpacas
Lessons from the pandemic and weaning
Alpaca Common Sense
Are your alpacas on mute?
How do you count your alpacas?
Why keep alpacas?
Watching and waiting as Spring inches closer
Remembering where we began with our alpacas
Approaching the spring with alpacas
Alpacas and the snow
When the vegetation is at winter's low tide
Starting the New year with your alpacas
Christmas Bonus
Reviewing the year 2020
Talking to alpacas
Alpacas 101
Celebrating 100 episodes
Grass is more than green
Paka Apparel with Kris Cody
Be more alpaca
What makes alpacas so calming?
Alpacas slowing down with the season
Keeping warm in Wisconsin and beyond with Campo Alpaca
Time until you have to mention alpacas?
Season change
Understanding Alpacas
Talking behaviour with Marty McGee Bennett – part 2
CameliDynamics with Marty McGee Bennett
Cria Catch Up with Tanya Russell
Wild wind and wet alpacas
About that alpaca fleece in the corner…
That Alpaca Question
Peru Projects and growing cria
Good fences for good neighbours
Losing Lewys
Older New Arrivals
Strange Summer
Cria Watch Continues
Catching cria
Cria naming
Creative Crochet with Toft
Shearing Wash Up
Alpaca Shearing can be fun
Traceable alpaca yarn - all the way to Peru and back
My Happy Place with alpacas
Alpacas and Llamas - as pretty as a picture
It's raining, alpacas
Shearing on the Horizon
Between Two Mountains
Navigating a Difficult Alpaca Birth
Alpaca Spring
waiting and remembering
Ramblings of an Alpaca Shepherd
The day alpacas entered my life
Does anyone need an alpaca dentist?
Cria Comfort
Alpacas on purpose
Fall in love with alpacas - Steve interviewed by Tania Marien
British Alpaca Society - the CEO speaks
Making a living from alpacas
Motivation and Behaviour in Alpacas
Meeting Your First Alpaca
Getting to Know You 54
Old Year New Year 53
Alpacas at Christmas 52
Moving Farm with Alpacas Pt2 //51
Alpacas Down-Under 50
What is going on? 49
My Alpacas and Other Animals
Californian Catch Up Alpaca Style 47
Basic alpaca appraisal 46
Having alpacas in your life 45
Season Change and Welsh Alpaca Show 44
Building your alpaca business 43
Building an alpaca business in Ireland 42
Alpaca Success 41
Alpaca Vision 40
The right number of alpacas 39
Expected Alpaca Behaviour 38
37 It is all about the fibre with Bridget Tibbs-Hamilton
36 Brian Schieber of Purely Alpaca, California
35 The Critical Alpaca
34 Planning a Farm Open Day
33 time in the alpaca barn
32 Seeing alpacas through your eyes
31. Confident & Fulfilled Owners
Happy and Healthy Alpacas
Choosing our alpacas
Waiting for the expected - cria that is
Alpacas - a metaphor for life
Review of 6 months Part 2
Celebrating 25 episodes
Jenny MacHarg part 2
Jenny MacHarg of Fowberry Alpacas
Expect the unexpected
A passion for alpaca fleece with Julia Berry of Apple Cross Alpacas
Preparing for shearing
Victoria Barrett of Simply Alpaca
Selling alpaca fibre and products to crafters
Alpacappella Jewellery with Marta Kwasniewicz
Ted & Bessie - sustainable and ethical alpaca knitwear
Handling and starting well with alpacas with Julie Taylor-Browne
BAS Show Reflections by Steve Heatherington
Topical Alpaca Tips from Steve Heatherington
Jeremiah Owen of Southern California
Mike Griffiths of Greenside Alpacas
Tynewedd Alpacas in Carmarthenshire - Steve & Emma Cooper
Moving experiences with alpacas - Steve Heatherington
Knowing your alpacas - Steve Heatherington
Hannah Williams of Penrhallt Alpacas
Could I keep alpacas? Questions to answer before you buy
Nick and Jo Davies on adding alpacas to holiday accommodation
Tanya Russell on learning to cope with an instant herd
Jen Delucia on fibre
How Rowan Flindall-Shayle got involved with alpacas
Alpaca Tribe - an introduction
Alpaca Tribe - Trailer