FINGER LAKES ALPACAS

Our Story

Polly and Ken Michaelis started their alpaca adventure in 1996. They lived and worked in Albany, New York and met their first alpacas at the Alpaca-Llama Festival at Saratoga Springs. That set off the next series of events.

Polly was a law librarian in her former life. For those of you familiar with librarians, they’re a slightly different breed of human. If you give a librarian a personal research project, they can, and will, head overboard. That happened here. Research, farm visits, reading, more farm visits and, drum roll please, three years later, the first alpacas were purchased.

Part of the game plan was going “home” to the Finger Lakes Region. Polly and Ken had always intended to move back home: Polly is a native from Skaneateles and Ken was a very happy transplant. The fates interceded and in 199 Ken was offered a position at a correctional facility being built near their dream location. Within a month, they’d sold their Albany home and found a small farm in Weedsport. Two months later, the first animals arrived.

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