Firefly Rise - Homestead on the Hill

03/28/2026

Send an alpaca to camp! What?! No. Buy an alpacagram and send a kid to camp! Check out the link on our profile for details!

12/02/2025

We said goodbye to Cyron this morning. This was him on Saturday, out enjoying the sunshine. He hadn’t been able to rise on his own for a couple days by this point but we helped him up and he tottered out to the paddock and sat and watched the world awhile. We stayed close by and an hour or so later when he made the attempt to stand we helped him back up and he tottered back to his cozy spot in the barn. It’s always so hard to say goodbye to our boys. I’m grateful that he had that one last sunny day and that we were able to share it with him.

10/24/2025

Happy birthday from Owen, ! Motley and all the fuzzbutts are wishing you a wonderful year!

10/18/2025

Cyron and the sunrise poopers.

10/09/2025

Tonight I went out after dark to give the boys their evening snack (rehydrated beets!) but I couldn’t find Dante anywhere. I finally spotted him, standing in the back pasture all alone. This is unusual but, since Dante is the guardian of the herd and the most attentive to potential threats, I went to investigate. He didn’t even turn around as I approached. He was so fixated on whatever it was that he’d heard out in the dark. So we stood there together in the moonlight until I heard it too. Then I turned my headlamp on and there they were: three sets of eyes on the fence line near the apple trees. At this point, Dante decided that I had it covered and rejoined the herd, leaving me alone with the mysterious beasties….

10/07/2025

Fuzzbutts by the light of the harvest moon! fuzzbutts

10/05/2025

October heat?! Usually the kiddie pools have been put away for the season but our two fuzziest boys (Dante and Diwali) were vying for them today.

10/01/2025

It’s October and the fuzzbutts are looking particularly cute. This month all alpacagram proceeds are going to the Humane Society Hastings Prince Edward County. Get one while they’re fluffy! (Link in bio to the alpacagram page.)

04/21/2025

It can be hard to go back to work after a long weekend but Lil’D has faith in you!

02/03/2025

11/17/2024

Yesterday our fuzzy boy Cyron managed to get out of his pasture and was spotted grazing along Shannonville Rd. Thank you to all the folks who posted on the Tyendinaga Township Neighbours Facebook group and to everyone who saw the posts and reached out when they recognized him as one of ours!

Special thanks to Amanda for stopping and encouraging him to rejoin the herd, and to our lovely neighbour Christine who kept an eye on him for the rest of the work day until we could get home and start trying to figure out how he managed to escape.