Alpacas in Pennsylvania
Welcome to Sugar Hollow Farm Alpacas, LLC and our alpacas in Pennsylvania! We are a small family run, veteran owned alpaca farm located in Waynesboro, PA offering huacaya alpacas and alpaca fiber products, both handmade and manufactured, for sale.
Sugar Hollow breeds for yarn. Our alpacas are high quality animals with beautiful fleece, excellent conformation, and easy going personalities. You’ll find plenty of density, crimp and fineness here – take a look at Matoskah’s skin biopsy results – Ian Watt of Alpaca Consulting places him in the top four of animals he’s tested for fineness and density. Our goal is to produce alpacas whose fleece will produce soft, bright yarn of the highest quality.
Come see Kathy’s hand-woven shawls & scarves, hand-knitted baby booties, warm socks, hats, stuffed animals, and dolls – all made of alpaca fiber – at our farm store and at craft fairs in the South Central Pennsylvania area. As our herd grows, so does our stock of home grown yarn (we can tell you which animal it comes from), and we have plenty of commercially processed alpaca yarn for sale, too. Interested in getting into alpaca farming? Arrange with us to visit our farm and see what is meant by “living the alpaca lifestyle”!
Sugar Hollow breeds for yarn. Our alpacas are high quality animals with beautiful fleece, excellent conformation, and easy going personalities. You’ll find plenty of density, crimp and fineness here – take a look at Matoskah’s skin biopsy results – Ian Watt of Alpaca Consulting places him in the top four of animals he’s tested for fineness and density. Our goal is to produce alpacas whose fleece will produce soft, bright yarn of the highest quality.
Come see Kathy’s hand-woven shawls & scarves, hand-knitted baby booties, warm socks, hats, stuffed animals, and dolls – all made of alpaca fiber – at our farm store and at craft fairs in the South Central Pennsylvania area. As our herd grows, so does our stock of home grown yarn (we can tell you which animal it comes from), and we have plenty of commercially processed alpaca yarn for sale, too. Interested in getting into alpaca farming? Arrange with us to visit our farm and see what is meant by “living the alpaca lifestyle”!
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Alpaca Farm News
Following is a list of events in which we will be participating this fall. There may be changes so check back often!
Waynesboro Small Business Saturday Holiday Market - Saturday, Nov. 29 from 9:00 to 2:00 - Come to Main Street Park and support small businesses! We will have all our usual favorites for you to put a serious dent in your Holiday shopping. And don't forget to treat yourself!
Seventh Annual Holiday Open Farm - Saturday, Dec. 6 from 10:30 to 4:00 - Rain or Shine! Come to our farm and see the alpacas in their natural habitat - COLD. Then warm yourself by our fire pit with some hot chocolate and cookies, while that special someone finds the perfect alpaca gift for you in our shop! Don't forget to drop a lot of hints! Pre-Tariff Pricing!! - Seeing the writing on the wall this past spring we went ahead and placed orders to our suppliers BEFORE the implementation of tariffs. Approximately 95% of our products are priced the same as they were last year. As our inventories dwindle this fall reorders will necessarily reflect the higher prices resulting from the tariffs. Our advice is to shop early!
 September at about 4 weeks of age
We welcomed our newest cria to the farm on the morning of Wednesday, September 3. It seemed appropriate to name her after the Earth, Wind, and Fire tune "September". She is a beautiful white female out of our dam Accoyo America Tickety Boo by Snowmass Bernacelli. Putting these two together will greatly increase our EPDs for staple length as well as continuing our efforts to diversify our genetics.
The 2024 EPD calculation is complete and we have posted the results for our herd here. We had 6 of our current 21 alpacas place in the top 1% in at least one category and 3 place in more than one category! We had 11 in the top 5%, and 10 in each of the top 10% and 15%. There were over 56,000 female and nearly 32,000 male alpacas which participated in the EPD program in 2024. We are excited to see continued progress in the quality of fleece our herd is able to produce!
Due to recent problems we are seriously considering dropping our landline phone sometime in early 2026. We are removing the number from our website but will not cancel the line until we run out of our current supply of business cards which still display that number. Please contact us by call or text on our mobile numbers:
Kathy: 703-859-3810 Jay: 571-643-6867 We will post an announcement here when our landline is cancelled. Thank you for your understanding. 
Ribbons aren't everything!
There are basically four ways that one can assess the quality of alpaca fleece. The first is eyes and hands – how does it look and how does it feel? The more fleeces you get your eyes and hands on, the better you will be able to judge a quality fleece. The risk is “barn blindness,” which is when... [read more...] 
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Featured AlpacasIf you are interested in owning alpacas the two young males listed below may be a great way to start. They have the desired fleece traits to produce amazingly soft yarns and could be used for breeding as they reach maturity. If you are looking or females you will have to wait until late next year when the crias from the dams we breed this Spring will be weaned.
 Sugar Hollow Matoskah's Magic Man
Often times when an alpaca is born we can't be sure of the quality of the fleece it will have until after the second shearing. We just received the histogram report for Sugar Hollow Matoskah's Magic Man (you can see the report here) and it has proven that someone could have ended up with a real diamond in the rough had they purchased him within the last year when we had reduced his priced based on the quality of his cria fleece. The recent report from this past spring's shearing showed he has a very fine and uniform fleece with above average staple length. These are the qualities you're looking for if you want to produce high quality alpaca yarn. It has confirmed what his 2024 EPDs indicated - that his fleece is fine and uniform (EPD top 5% for AFD, SF, and %>30; and top 12% for SDAFD - see definitions for the abbreviations here) and also has the longer staple length that fiber mills prefer. Magic Man would be a wonderful addition for anyone interested in producing outstanding yarn, and possibly breeding for future generations of quality fleece producing alpacas..
Color: Bay Black Date of Birth: October 29,2023 Price: 2,000  Ready Teddy full fleeced!
Sugar Hollow Matoskah's Ready Teddy is the spitting image of his full brother Sugar Hollow's Louie Louie (who was sold in early 2024). He has tremendous fineness, uniformity and crimp. His fleece has not yet been sent to the mill but we expect the yarn from his fiber to be absolutely beautiful! He is in the top 10% of EPDs for SDAFD, SF, and %>30 and just outside the top 10% (10.21%) for AFD (see definitions for the abbreviations here). We would keep him as a breeder on our farm except that we own his sire and already have his stunning genetics. Teddy would be a great choice for anyone interested in producing outstanding yarn and possibly using him as a herdsire.
Color: Light Fawn Date of Birth: June 16, 2023 Price: 25% off. Reduced to $1,500 from $2,000  Inspiration's Keep the Faith
SOLD! Inspiration's Keep the Faith is a beautiful dark fawn with awesome fineness and handle. Her 2024 EPDs place her just outside the top 10% for both fineness and uniformity of fleece. She has produced two offspring for us - her daughter King Leo's Tiny Dancer, and Sugar Hollow's Daydream Believer who took a 2nd place ribbon in the 2022 PAOBA Fleece Showcase. Faith makes beautiful yarn and has an easygoing personality although she is a bit shy.
Color: Dark Fawn Date of Birth: May 7, 2014 Price: 20% off. Reduced to $1,200 from $1,500  King Leo's Tiny Dancer is a WONDERFUL mom!
SOLD! King Leo's Tiny Dancer produces an incredibly soft and uniform fleece which spins into wonderful yarn! We have used yarn made from her fiber in several of the handknitted items sold in our farm store. Dancer has given us two offspring and is currently bred to our herdsire Poseidon Isaac's Matoskah. Her first son, Sugar Hollow's Louie Louie, took first place in the light male class at the 2022 PAOBA Fleece Showcase. Her second son, Sugar Hollow's Ready Teddy, is the spitting image of Louie Louie! Dancer was the first cria born to Inspiration's Keep the Faith (see above) and has her mom's easygoing personality without being as shy.
Color: Beige Date of Birth: May 23, 2018 Price: 14% off. Reduced to $2,500 from $2,900  Sugar Hollow's Sweet Caroline
SOLD! Sugar Hollow's Sweet Caroline is light brown in color which can sometimes produce an aura of maroon in certain light. She got that from her grandmother AHA Sheba. Caroline is an easy breeder who has produced four offspring for our farm. Having reared that many cria her fleece is not what it once was but she still produces soft fiber (much softer than wool!) that makes nice yarn. Her daughter Layla took blue ribbons in halter at the 2017 PAOBA Breeder's Showcase and MAPACA Small Breeder's Jubilee. Caroline is one of the least shy alpacas on the farm and is very food motivated. She is eager eat grain right out of your hand!
Color: Light Brown Date of Birth: May 15, 2013 Price: 10% off. Reduced to $900 from $1,000 
Snowmass Secret Ovation enjoying the relative cool of a summer evening with some feathered friends
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Alpaca Fleece...
Alpaca Fleece Close-up, Brown
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