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News 2007
Monthly Heard Health Days- Every month we do a herd health day to give wormers, check body conditioning, trim toe nails, and check basic overall health of each animal. If you'd like some hands on learning about alpacas this is your chance to volunteer! Extra hands are always welcome. This is a great FREE way to gain some experience taking care of alpacas.. Give us a call to see when our next scheduled herd health day is.
May 3rd- Shearing Day & Fiber Demonstrations- Free & Open to the public... We'll be shearing some alpacas and giving demonstrations of how our fiber is processed here on our farm. You're welcome to join in the fun or just sit and watch. 
May 10th - Felting A Hat- This hat felting workshop will be held at Atlantic Breeze Alpacas in beautiful Floyd, VA. With the Blue Ridge Mountains as our background, we'll spend part of the day learning how to make a wet felted hat and the rest of the day will be spent soaking up the wonderful amenities Atlantic Breeze Alpacas has to offer! Pamper yourself a bit this Mothers Day weekend! Registration information can be found at www.atlanticbreezealpacas.com/seminars.asp
May 24th -Open Farm Day- Come visit the alpacas, purchase some alpaca fiber products, and see fiber demonstrations from 10-4.
May 17-18th- Fiber Weekend Workshop - This two day weekend workshop is being held in Somerset, VA at Lagniappe Alpaca Farm. I'll be teaching wet felting, needle felting, skirting, carding, and more. Everyone gets to take home all the goodies they make like a wet felted hat, needle felted alpaca, felted scarf, wet felted purse and more. To see pics of some of the goodies made at a previous weekend workshop go to www.madavemialpacas.com/fiber_the works If you'd like to join us for this upcoming workshop click here to pay online. You can also download a registration form by clicking here.
June 28th-29- Weekend Fiber Workshop- Two days of felting till you drop at Liberty Alpacas just south of Columbus, OH. Wet felting, skirting, carding, needle felting, and more plus you get to take home everything you make! More information on registration will be posted soon so check back...
August 10th- Weekend Fiber Workshop- Two day marathon of felting at Atlantic Breeze Alpacas. Go to www.atlanticbreezealpacas.com/seminars.asp for more information and registration.
Sept 29-30- National Alpaca Farm Day her at Mada Vemi Alpacas! We'll be here from 10-2 answering questions, letting you get an up close look at the alpacas, and demonstrating needle felting. Here's your chance to sign up for the Alpaca 101 Seminar given the following weekend here at the farm! For more info on that see below...
October 18th & 19th 2008 The VAOBA Alpaca Expo- The Virginia Alpaca Owners and Breeders Association will be holding it's 2nd annual Alpaca Show at the Deep Run Hunt Club in Manakin Sabot Virginia just east of Richmond. This is open to the public and free of charge. Expect to see about 500 alpacas competing for ribbons, free seminars throughout the weekend, and alpaca farms from all over the east coast. The VAOBA members will have a farm store set up featuring our alpaca products for sale so bring the checkbook and get some of that holiday shopping done while you're there! Check it out at www.VAOBAexpo.com !
Mada Vemi Alpacas
Dawn Dolpp
125 Tommy Carter Rd.
Axton, VA 24054
Dawn@MadaVemiAlpacas.com
804-365-7949
434-770-1972
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