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About us
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After many years of flying rescue helicopter for the
Coast Guard and then privately as a corporate pilot,
Ron Sanctuary began searching for an independent
vocation that could facilitate moving his family
back to the rural life he knew growing up in New
Hampshire. He envisioned the family homestead as
the perfect setting for a working farm - a colonial
farmhouse with a picturesque old barn and acres of
fields overlooking the Connecticut River Valley.
Restoring the old home to a working farm could also
provide much pleasurable activity for his parents,
still living in the farmhouse.
He contemplated raising beef, sheep, and goats
before chancing upon the intriguing possibility
of raising alpacas.
For one who loves the pastoral life and is
inclined toward working with livestock, there is
nothing more captivating than the privilege of
working with these fascinating, deer-like
animals from South America.
He looked no further, researched the alpaca
business and became more and more enamored.
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It took only one phone call to his
sister, Jamie Page, to persuade her to
become a part of the alpaca venture.
Jamie had spent the last several years
raising and home schooling her children
and was at the moment trying to settle
on what her next endeavor would be.
Animals had always been an important
part of her life, so she was immediately
excited about this new and unique
opportunity.
She and her husband already lived
not far from the family home, with an
ideal set-up for housing the first few
years of alpacas while the main farm was
prepared. They fenced in their two-acre
field and built a small timber frame
alpaca barn next to their house in the
woods.
Shortly thereafter, the first
three maiden alpacas moved in and
Sanctuary's Alpaca Farm was under way. |
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*Note
- the dogs are not working dogs and are separated from the
alpacas by a good fence.
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Ron and Jamie, with the support of their families,
have now been raising alpacas since 2002 and are
finding it as exciting and fulfilling as they had
hoped it would be. They are fully committed to
raising healthy, strong alpacas with well nourished,
refined fleeces and to adding only the best genetics
to the growing American herd. Their small herd
reflects the realization of this commitment and
promises a bright future for, and with, the beloved
alpacas.
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