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About Our Family Farm
One evening in 1998, as the eldest Lai child flipped through a Martha Stewart magazine from boredom, she unknowingly came across an article that would change her family's life. When her parents finally arrived home, she brought the magazine to her parents, opened to a dog-eared page and showed her parents what she had stumbled upon. The article was about the gentle, adorable, and fun-loving alpaca. To the oldest, besides the incredibly soft fiber, what was the best thing about them.
"They're so smart they poop in piles!"
And it was that one article that spawned the Lai family's interest in this curious "alpaca" creature, eventually creating the Rhode Island Alpaca Farm - a family run business, inside and out.
Starting the farm in 1998, Anna and David Lai were enthusiastic and busily improving their farm while learning about and falling in love with, their handful of alpacas. However, in 2000, after a serious automobile accident, the farm was put on hold as the family spent much needed time to recover.
And as many families do, they pulled together, the two parents and their four children, to put the wheels in motion and continue with the farm. The eldest child assists with marketing efforts, the second child works with yard work (building overhangs, corrals, etc), the third child began as a care-taker of the animals and now assists with marketing efforts and paperwork, and the youngest with care-taking of the alpacas and yard work.
On behalf of our family - welcome to our farm! |
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