Rancho Cerritos

01/01/2010: Rancho Cerritos has joined the "I Love Alpacas" Co-op."I Love Alpacas" is a national alpaca marketing co-op designed to use the powerful medium of television to increase alpaca awareness, and encourage interested parties to visit its website and then an I Love Alpacas co-op member near them! (Ilovealpacas.com)

05/1/2010: Shearing day will be May 1st. We will be shearing all our alpacas. If you'd like to visit then, please call to reserve a spot. Please understand we can accommodate only a limited number of people that day. Also, we'll be extremely busy and will not be able to accommodate guests & tours that day.

06/19/10: Introductory Alpacas Seminar: Saturday, June 19th from (9 AM - 11:30 AM). Please call or e-mail to reserve a spot. If you're interested in more information or about other seminar topics that we also offer, please call or e-mail us.

07/9-11/10: We will be at the Madison County Fair, Focus on Fiber July 9th thru 11th, 2010. Stop by our booth and visit.

09/04/10: Our seasonal farm store will open for the 2010 season. Our farmstore opens on Saturdays & Sundays only (11:00 AM - 4:00 PM). We'll be open from Saturday, September 4th and remain open through Sunday, December 19th. For any other day or off-season, please call for an appointment. (We have customers who shop all year by just calling and setting up an appointment.)

09/25/2010: Rancho Cerritos' Alpaca Farm Day and National Alpaca Farm Day. Our annual ALPACA FARM DAY Open House will be Saturday, September 25, 2010 (11 AM - 4 PM). Plan to visit to tour our farm, meet our alpacas, tour our farm store & see fiber demonstrations. Admission: free, but if you're able, donations of canned or packaged food item (s) for the Waterville Food Pantry will be greatly appreciated.

If you are unable to visit us during our alpaca farm day, you may call us to setup an appointment for a different day and time. If you have any questions, please contact us at your convenience.

Alpaca Farm Day History: The third annual National Alpaca Farm Day, on Saturday, September 26th, was another success. Many visitors came to the farm and brought a canned or packaged food for the Waterville Food Pantry. Our visitors came to our farm to meet our alpacas and learned more about these inquisitive and unique animals as well as about their luxurious fiber and the many clothing products, yarn and toys we sell in our farm store. Hand spinners bought fleece that day also to spin into beautiful yarn. The "name the baby/cria" event drew many interesting suggestions and we appreciate all the creative names that our visitors took the time to submit. A difficult decision, we finally chose "Blanquito." Thanks again to all our visitors who participated in the naming event. Some of the suggestions were so good, we've kept them to use on the next round of crias next year.

Rancho Cerritos is located at 2242 State Route 12, Waterville, NY 13480. If you would like directions please call us at (315) 841-3145 or email at rreyes@ranchocerritos.biz.

We are members of the following alpaca associations and may be used as resources for those wanting to know more about alpacas. Click on anyone of them to link you to their web sites if you wish to visit them.