Confessions of a Reluctant Alpaca Farmer

With a little help from the internet, I gave myself the DIY farming experience of a lifetime

Suri alpaca babies Pinot and Asti. Photos: Fiona Cameron Lister

“What a lovely day to become an alpaca farmer,” Hilary said to me six years ago as she got ready to unload her trailer in the March sunshine. She’d driven to my home in Tuscany, Italy, from neighboring Umbria, where she once kept a…