Lancashire has one of the world’s top alpaca herds and demand is rocketing for the quality fibre produced by shearing these fascinating creatures. Even the great Italian fashion house of Versace is producing some evening gowns using cloth woven from animals kept at Blackberry Alpacas in Laneshawbridge near Colne.
Harvey and Claudeen Brown farm 250 acres and they’ve been in the alpaca business for just over a decade. The couple – Claudeen is from Clitheroe and Harvey originates from the Cotswolds – decided to sell their engineering company and looked for a small farm where they could look after their horses. They ended up in Oswaldtwistle.
‘It sounds a bit corny but we wanted to get back to nature and we loved every minute of it,’ says Harvey. ‘At the same time, we wanted to find a way of making a living but it’s incredibly difficult to do that with a small farm.
‘Then, I got talking to a friend in haulage. He was transporting two alpacas to Italy. I was astonished to discover these top-grade stud alpacas were each worth between £13,000 and £18,000.’
この記事は Lancashire Life の September 2019 版に掲載されています。
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7 日間の Magzter GOLD 無料トライアルを開始して、何千もの厳選されたプレミアム ストーリー、9,000 以上の雑誌や新聞にアクセスしてください。
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