Clifty Creek Alpaca Farm

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Clifty Creek Alpaca Farm We provide alpaca products as well as provide educational tours of the farm. They breed only a few to replace some of the older ones.

Workshops on felting and weaving are offered upon request.
Kermit and Diane (Roell) Paris started in the alpaca business with 8 registered Huacaya alpacas during the summer of 2012. Originally located at Shelbyshire Farm (Diane’s childhood home) in Shelbyville, IN ( Shelby County) they recently moved December of 2015 near Milroy, IN (Rush County). They changed the name of their business to Clifty Creek Alpacas since their property sets on the edge of the north branch of Clifty Creek. The main focus is to provide fiber and handmade yarns and products made from the fiber of their animals. They do not breed for selling purposes but do sell some of the older alpacas as pets or for fiber purposes. As of February 2016 they have 11 Huacaya and 1 Suri alpaca. Diane enjoys working with the alpacas since she has always lived around animals. She was raised on a dairy farm in Shelby County and spent a lot of time outdoors helping with the chores. Her craft ability comes from the desire to learn new things, which her mother enjoyed too as well as from being an active 4-H member. After obtaining her Bachelor’s degree from Purdue University in the area of Vocational Home Economics Education and then receiving her Master’s from IUPUI in Special Education she worked at Shares Inc. teaching independent living skills for several years. She changed careers in 1992 working for Purdue Extension as a Consumer and Family Sciences Extension Educator at Fayette, Franklin and Union Counties then in 1998 went to Decatur County as County Extension Director combined with Consumer & Family Sciences and 4-H Youth Extension Educator. In 2003 she left the profession field to become self-employed to start up an “in home pet sitting” business until moving in December 2015. Now her focus is working with the alpacas and making alpaca products. Kermit is employed with Indiana Farm Bureau as a Senior Regional Manager working as a liaison between Indiana Farm Bureau and county boards in Decatur, Fayette, Franklin, Rush, Shelby and Union counties to assist in the development and the implementation of programs and activities promoting Indiana agriculture. Surfacing volunteer leaders and assisting in the development of their leadership capacities as well as maintaining growth in Farm Bureau membership are some of his other responsibilities. He is also a registered state lobbyist for Indiana Farm Bureau. We have various handmade alpaca products available for sale. Give us a call at 317/695-8038 for more info.

Even though we are very busy spinning yarn, knitting and weaving we also like to stalk up on Peruvian handmade items too...
09/25/2026

Even though we are very busy spinning yarn, knitting and weaving we also like to stalk up on Peruvian handmade items too.

09/20/2026

Everything on that family's backs started out walking around in a pen behind the house, and she is the one who turned it into cloth. 🐑

Watch her feet. That is not sitting and spinning. That is a walking wheel, and a woman working one covered somewhere around twenty miles on her own floor in a day's spinning.

The chain of work behind a single shirt is longer than most people imagine. The sheep were sheared in the spring. The fleece was skirted of its worst filth, washed in warm water without agitating it or it would felt on her, picked apart by hand, and carded between two paddles full of wire teeth until every fiber lay the same way. Then spun. Then plied. Then washed again, dyed with walnut hull or indigo or madder, wound, warped and woven. One coverlet could represent months.

And she did every hour of that in between cooking three meals a day, keeping a garden, minding children and helping in the field.

Here is the part the household ledger never shows. That labor was not a hobby and it was not thrift. It was the difference between a family being clothed and a family being cold, and if you priced it at what the equivalent would have cost in store goods, the woman of the house was very often producing more value in a year than the farm brought in cash.

It is also why the objects lasted. Nobody throws away a coverlet somebody made out of a live animal. Those are the pieces still in families today, with a name attached, three and four generations on, long after the deeds and the tools have scattered.

She fed you, she clothed you, she nursed you, and the census listed her occupation as none.

If there is a coverlet or a hank of hand spun wool folded in a cedar chest in your family, that is the closest thing you have to her signature. 🧶

They finally went out to pasture. Clipped it off as high as I could mow the other day so hopefully if we get some rain i...
09/20/2026

They finally went out to pasture. Clipped it off as high as I could mow the other day so hopefully if we get some rain it might get more growth. We are really lacking in rain.☔ So they all have free run of the lots right now. One alpaca stayed put and other 5 in barn. Go figure.🥴

09/20/2026

I told the sheep that hopefully this is the last really hot day.🥵🐑 Eventually they may venture out to a shady area in the pasture.

Wool Wisdom: The Flock RemembersSheep remember more than we often give them credit for.They recognize familiar faces, v...
09/17/2026

Wool Wisdom: The Flock Remembers

Sheep remember more than we often give them credit for.

They recognize familiar faces, voices and routines. They learn the footsteps of the person who brings their feed, checks their water and watches over them through lambing, illness, weather and shearing.

For an animal that depends so completely upon its shepherd, consistency means safety.

A good shepherd notices the smallest changes: a sheep standing apart, a difference in appetite, an altered step or something in the eyes that simply does not look right. The health of each individual sheep, as well as the wellbeing of the entire flock, depends upon that quiet, attentive care.

And often you can see it in the flock itself.

When care is inconsistent, sheep may appear nervous, scattered or unsettled with poor wool quality. But a flock that knows a good shepherd is generally calm and well settled. The sheep gather with confidence because the person approaching them is familiar. Their healthy bodies, bright eyes and beautiful fleeces reflect the daily work done on their behalf.

A peaceful flock may look effortless, but that peace is the result of someone returning faithfully day after day, season after season.

Long before a fleece reaches my studio, it has been shaped by this relationship between sheep and shepherd, whose consistency, familiarity and trust become yet another layer of story woven into every piece I make.

"I am the good shepherd, and know my sheep, and am known of mine." John 10:14

Tree City Homeschoolers from Decatur County came this morning to learn about what we do here on the farm with our alpaca...
09/17/2026

Tree City Homeschoolers from Decatur County came this morning to learn about what we do here on the farm with our alpacas and sheep, interact with the animals and do a felted soap activity. We managed to get close to 20 cars parked in an orderly fashion, handle 40 + kids, and several adults. Have to thank my help, John and Jackie Rayichen, who are in my Home Ec Club, for helping me out.🥰

We enjoyed having everyone for a third year. So glad everyone had a great time.🥰
09/16/2026

We enjoyed having everyone for a third year. So glad everyone had a great time.🥰

Had another group from Little Stars Learning Academy come this afternoon. The weather was much warmer.🥵
09/15/2026

Had another group from Little Stars Learning Academy come this afternoon. The weather was much warmer.🥵

Little Stars Learning Academy had a group of children come this morning and visit the alpacas and sheep. They also got t...
09/15/2026

Little Stars Learning Academy had a group of children come this morning and visit the alpacas and sheep. They also got to wet felt a bar of soap to complete the morning.

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1161 East 1000 South
Milroy, IN
46156

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Friday 9am - 3pm
Saturday 9am - 3pm

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3176958038

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