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About Heartland Farm
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 HAPPY NEW YEAR! VISITORS TO THIS SITE! We are excited about 2009 because we believe this will be a great year for the alpaca industry! We will soon be getting alpaca throws made with our fleece and made by Pendleton Mills in Oregon!
And the world fabric conference will be held with the national alpaca show. I think this is a good time to invest in alpacas. Look over our wonderful list and contact us!
Alpacas have added a great ambience to our Farm, which has existed since November 1987 as a place to visit and make a retreat, or just relax! Visitors who come now usually head first to the barn to check out the Alpacas! We started with a foundation herd of just three alpacas in November, 2003: Marshfellow, Sarendipity, and Miss Daisy. Now we have a herd of fourteen. (2008)
Heartland Farm is a ministerial project of the Dominican Sisters of Great Bend, Kansas, situated 14 miles west of Great Bend. It is home for an intentional ecumenical Christian community of adults and families who believe in and work for an interdependent healing of the earth and care of persons. Through education, retreat work and our volunteer program we offer opportunities for others to expand their knowledge, skills and hands on experience in eco-justice. Heartland Farm started in 1987 with three Dominican Sisters and one married couple and their three children. Guests, folks who want to make a retreat, and volunteers have always been welcome here. In 2003 the first three alpacas came to Heartland Farm to add a new dimension to our ministry. Their gentle, humming ways, beauty, wonderful fleece and inquisitive nature have "added value" to our Farm! We spin their fleece, sell roving and yarn and knitted and crocheted garments. We have two straw bale buildings on the Farm, one of which is a hermitage and the other an art studio with a pottery, and the spinning room. We also have a large organic garden. We have a four bedroom guesthouse. Come to visit us sometim |
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| Additional Farm Photos: (click to enlarge) |
| Fleece building | alpaca yarn | Ashwani | Visiting! | | | 
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Since we have started with alpacas in late 2003, we have had nine crias born here. We expect five m ore in 200(! Each birth is a great and wonderful experience for us! Mr. Darcy was born April 2007, out of Miss Daisy. Victory is his sire, a wonderful gentle herdsire. A special little female made her appearance the day before National Farm Day, Sept 7, 2007. She is out of Trissie Wimbush and Victory. On her second day of life she was visited by over two hundred people who entered a contest to name her! The name Dinah won out and Dinah she is, full of vitality and vigor. In May of 2008 Miss Daise, our wonerful and prolific dam gave us a gorgeous cinnamon brown female, Earlene (see came earlier than we expected, but is healthy!) Then, Ciena, an Axion Jaxson daughter, the first female born on our farm, gave birth to Elonzo - a superb brown male on August 29th. He will be wowing the judges in 2009, we are certain! See photos on our photo page. |
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| | | | | | Additional Contact Information: | | | | The website address listed is our weblog, which we keep updated. Please visit us there! | | | | | | 
| | Breeder Biography
In the five years we have had alpacas here at Heartland Farm, we have successfully bred 11 of our animals and have done four outside breeding's with our herd sire. Two of our animals have had stillbirths, six times our dams gave us males, and three times female crias. We are still waiting for the 50%/50%! In 2009 we have five bred females to give birth - maybe we will achieve a greater percentage of females!
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