Meet the woman who runs alpaca yoga classes on her Yorkshire smallholding
“Years later, after several different careers and the way life takes you, I was looking for a move and saw Garth Cottage up for sale. I didn’t think I would be able to afford it, but I came for a nosey. I fell in love with it and sold my business, as well as my house, to buy it.
“I had no farming experience but suddenly had 11 acres that needed looking after because it would have just got overgrown. Fortunately, we made friends with a local farmer who put his sheep on while I didn’t have anything, but after one of his sheep was attacked by a fox he suggested that what I needed was to get a couple of alpacas because they would help guard the flock.
“I’d never even heard about alpacas! But I found two for sale miles away, bought them and that was the start. I absolutely adored them. They were Amadeus and Sebastian. I got them from a breeder called Roger Mount of Snowshill Alpacas. Having fallen in love with her two it wasn’t long before Debby began moving into the species full time and concentrating on the Huacaya breed, noted for its soft, dense fibre.
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