Of course, one of the main interests that brought us to the alpaca lifestyle is the incredible fiber! That, coupled with Gwen's passion for needlework, from knitting to tapestry to crocheting, made creating a farm store focussing on specialty and exotic yarns an obvious extention to our ranch efforts.

Echo Valley Fruit & Fiber is a place where you can come, wander, feel, experience and enjoy a wide variety of very high end, natural yarns – not just alpaca – and immerse yourself in the joys of creating with your own hands. We carrying specialty and exotic yarns from nature such as buffalo, yak, possum (from New Zealand – different than our possums in the States), silk, and bamboo.

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The showpiece yarn we will carry is “Natural Echoes™”, which is yarn that has been grown, sheared, spun and wound into wondrous yarn cakes and skeins right from our very own alpacas. It would be fun for you to visit in the spring during shearing season and feel the fiber as it is freshly shorn. It is so warm, so soft. There’s nothing like it! We’ll post on Twitter (www.twitter.com/EchoValleyFiber) when we have our shearing schedule in place and you’re more than welcome to join us.

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New crafts will be introduced and taught – among them how to spin using 15th century technology (a wheel or a whorl), hand weaving, and felting. But we’ll take them one at a time and try not to overwhelm any of us! Once we have all the supplies in place, we will be having knitting classes at least once a month, and an evening during the week where you can come and knit with others, if you like company.

So, welcome to Echo Valley Fruit & Fiber. And where does the “fruit” come in? We’ve had numerous people ask that question. The next step we are working towards is planting the “right” kinds of fruit in some of our beautiful acreage so that your destination becomes even more multi-faceted. Echo Valley Fruit & Fiber will always be a work in progress . . . creating what you like and enjoy doing in the atmosphere and most welcoming place you could want to do it!