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
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 you only look at your own fleeces and judge them to be superior – which we all do! That is why it is important... [read more...] 
It's Summertime and the living is easy! The lazy days of summer are upon us and if you're looking for a way to keep the kids thinking and learning (and occupied) now that school is out consider a visit to our farm. Just give us call! If we're home, we're open! We don't charge for farm visits (unless your group is 10 or more people - then it is $3.00 per person) but we do encourage a stop in the farm store where you can pick up a memento from your visit. Click here for our contact information.
We have yarn! We recently picked up our order of Sugar Hollow Farm alpaca yarn from Blue Mountain Farm and Fiber Mill in Harrisburg, PA. This yarn from our 2021 shearing (mills are running 9 - 12 months behind) is quite lovely with silk mixed in some skeins to give unexpected bursts of color! It comes in many weights and is generally anywhere from 200 to 230 yards per skein. With this order we had some of our llama fleece made into yarn as well. The llama yarn is a bit heavier than our alpaca yarn and had merino wool added to help increase softness. A blanket or throw made from llama fleece will definitely keep you warm! If you knit or crochet, or know someone who does, come check it out!
eGift cards! Want to get someone special that perfect alpaca gift, but don't know what to choose? Give him or her an eGift card to our farm store! Click here to make his or her alpaca dreams come true!
Sugar Hollow Farm Alpacas, LLC is a member of PA Preferred and Homegrown By Heroes. Of course the fiber for our yarn is grown in PA, but... [Read more...]
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Featured Alpacas
The 2022 EPDs are in! and once again our small farm of 21 alpacas has done well. We had 2 alpacas in the top 1%, 7 in the top 5%, and 7 in the top 10% for the various fleece characteristics measured. There were over 53,000 female alpacas and 29,000 male alpacas which participated in the EPD program in 2022. For clarity and brevity we are highlighting 3 of the 9 characteristics measured which we've been emphasizing in our breeding program - Fineness (AFD), Uniformity (SDAFD) and Mean Staple Length (MSL). Several of our alpacas have placed in the top 5% and 10% in other characteristics as well. Here's our list:
Georgianna of Legacy's Conclusive: Top 1% for fineness (AFD) and uniformity (SDAFD)
Poseidon Isaac's Matoskah: Top 1% for fineness 
Top 5% for Uniformity (SDAFD)
Poseidon Isaac's Matoskah - (actually top 2% but they don't have a shield for that) King Leo's Tiny Dancer VBA AMAF Nitza Sugar Hollow's Long Tall Sally Sugar Hollow's Louie Louie Top 5% for Mean Staple Length (MSL) Derwydd Accoyo Nusta Top 5% for Fineness (AFD) Matoskah's Peg of Sugar Hollow 
Top 10% for Uniformity (SDAFD)
Inspiration's Keep the Faith Snowmass Secret Ovation Jack Flash's Maybellene Matoskah's Peg of Sugar Hollow Sugar Hollow's Daydream Believer Top 10% for Mean Staple Length Sugar Hollow's Cecilia Top 10% for fineness Inspiration's Keep the Faith Snowmass Secret Ovation VBA AMAF Nitza |
Alpaca Fleece...
Alpaca Fleece Close-up, Brown
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Alpaca Fleece Close-up, White, Shorn
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Alpaca Fleece Close-up, Fawn
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