Welcome to the podcast for alpaca people!

In this episode, I invite you to think a bit more about making decisions while keeping your alpacas and some of the things I had to respond to this week.

This includes:

• Do you need to do it now?
• How are you? How are they?
• Is it leaning in the right direction?

Let me know your decision-making process so we can all learn together to be better alpaca shepherds.

I hope you have a good week.

Thanks for listening, and I hope you enjoyed it.

You can contact me by email - [email protected] - or leave me a voicemail from your browser.

Alpaca Tribe is hosted and produced by Steve Heatherington of Waterside Voices.

Welcome to the podcast for alpaca people!

In this episode, we hear Jeremiah tell his story of the new arrival on their farm.

I also consider some foundational skills for alpaca shepherds.

We need to know specifics such as moving alpacas; holding an alpaca steady without wrangling or strangling; and trimming toenails so they think they have had a spa-treatment pedicure. But underlying those are my suggested foundations of:

1. How to make decisions.
2. Noticing and understanding what you are seeing.
3. How to learn.

What would you include as foundations?

Thanks for listening, and I hope you enjoyed it.

You can contact me by email - [email protected] - or leave me a voicemail from your browser.

Alpaca Tribe is hosted and produced by Steve Heatherington of Waterside Voices.

Welcome to the podcast for alpaca people!

In this episode, we catch up with my old friend Jeremiah Owen in California. We swap notes on a few things and get to hear what his biggest learnings have been this last year.

Thanks for listening, and I hope you enjoyed it.

You can contact me by email - [email protected] - or leave me a voicemail from your browser.

Alpaca Tribe is hosted and produced by Steve Heatherington of Waterside Voices.

Welcome to the podcast for alpaca people!

In this episode, we talk about those subtle interactions between alpacas - and us!

Some people like people-watching, but I prefer alpaca-watching.

There is also a catch-up on what has been happening with the girls.

Thanks for listening, and I hope you enjoyed it.

You can contact me by email - [email protected] - or leave me a voicemail from your browser.

Alpaca Tribe is hosted and produced by Steve Heatherington of Waterside Voices.

Welcome to the podcast for alpaca people!

In this episode, we recognise the need to take a long view of almost everything to do with alpacas. They live a long time for livestock; they have a long gestation; the single cria a year means breeding decisions take a long time before you can judge success and repeat or vary for the next round.

We need to think in seasons and years rather than weeks and months.

It is a different timescale and rhythm but has its advantages.

Thanks for listening, and I hope you enjoyed it.

You can contact me by email - [email protected] - or leave me a voicemail from your browser.

Alpaca Tribe is hosted and produced by Steve Heatherington of Waterside Voices.

Welcome to the podcast for alpaca people!

I find myself craving normal in this episode, but it might have to wait a week. Don't get me wrong, I like special but plain food and less sugar, along with some routine, is all I want right now. The holidays are over but we haven't quite got back to normal. How about you?

Thanks for listening, and I hope you enjoyed it.

You can contact me by email - [email protected] - or leave me a voicemail from your browser.

Alpaca Tribe is hosted and produced by Steve Heatherington of Waterside Voices.

Welcome to the podcast for alpaca people!

In this episode, I am thinking about how we live in the in-between. Between holidays, extreme weather and what may be coming in 2023. We do what we can, what we need to, and plan for better times - though for many it is too early for planning for better times, we just hope for better times.

I have also included a clip from a Carbon Sessions episode from the Carbon Almanac Collective, a project I am involved in. Here I am part of a roundtable talking about climate and weather.

Take care, and see you next year!

Thanks for listening, and I hope you enjoyed it.

You can contact me by email - [email protected] - or leave me a voicemail from your browser.

Alpaca Tribe is hosted and produced by Steve Heatherington of Waterside Voices.

Welcome to the podcast for alpaca people!

In this episode, I imagine that stable and that baby, but with some of my alpacas around too. Who would be the first to advance and check out the new arrival? I think I know. What do you think?

Hoping your celebrations of the season and the year-end are full of love, thankfulness and hope for the coming year. Enjoy old Christmas memories and make new ones too.

Happy holidays everyone!

Thanks for listening, and I hope you enjoyed it.

You can contact me by email - [email protected] - or leave me a voicemail from your browser.

Alpaca Tribe is hosted and produced by Steve Heatherington of Waterside Voices.

Welcome to the podcast for alpaca people!

In this episode, I remember some winter stories, particularly Hermione and her Bambi impersonation.

In the cold weather, it is good to be indoors with a hot chocolate. Take care of your alpacas and yourself in the challenging weather, and see you again soon.

Thanks for listening, and I hope you enjoyed it.

You can contact me by email - [email protected] - or leave me a voicemail from your browser.

Alpaca Tribe is hosted and produced by Steve Heatherington of Waterside Voices.

Welcome to the podcast for alpaca people!

In this episode, I muse on keeping the alpacas fed and watered and keeping me warm via mucking out.

Feed prices continue to rise - over the last year, hay went up by 15% and feed-wheat by 40%. (Source: https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/animal-feed-prices). It works it's way through to the bags of feed and bales of hay we need to buy.

Stay warm, stay well and if you can, spend some time with an alpaca.

Thanks for listening, and I hope you enjoyed it.

You can contact me by email - [email protected] - or leave me a voicemail from your browser.

Alpaca Tribe is hosted and produced by Steve Heatherington of Waterside Voices.