Lorien Farm is home to a small herd of gentle Huacaya Alpacas in the mountains of Western North Carolina. We love visitors and happily educate anyone that would like to learn more about these beautiful creatures, and the products they produce and inspire.
The Lorien Shop offers your favorite brands of yarn and roving such as Brown Sheep & Louet, along with local handspun yarn and our own fleeces for spinning and felting.
Below is our event schedule for 2010. Due to changes, past and future, to the farm, we haven’t filled our dance card for this year, yet. Please check back for more.
2010
Southeastern Animal & Fiber Fair – Oct. 22rd thru 24th, 2010
Jean will be teaching classes, and you can view the class list here.
>Visit the SAFF website
Location: Western North Carolina Ag. Center at 1301 Fanning Bridge Rd. Fletcher, NC 28732
Trash to Cash: Montford Community Yard Sale – September 11th, 2010
Location: We’ll have a booth at 11 Soco St. in Montford.
The neighborhood yard sale takes place at the Montford Rec Center and throughout the neighborhood of Montford.
Fiber Action Co Op’s Anything Fiber Yard Sale – August 21st, 10am – 4pm
We will have a table full of knitting and crochet book and magazines and bargain coned yarn. This is the second year for this event which will also have spinning, weaving etc demos’s. All fiber enthusiasts are welcome, no admission is charged and the event is from 10 am to 4 pm at the Washburn Center in Black Mountain. Directions are posted on the Fiber Action Co Op’s website(www.fiberaction.org) or call us.
Family Farm Tour – June 26 and 27, 2010
Location: Venezia Dream Farm at 276 Jones Cove Rd, Asheville, NC 28805
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Below was our event schedule in 2009. We will probably attend some of these events in 2010, but haven’t scheduled them, yet.
Riceville Christmas Market – December 6th, 2009 visit blog post
Local farmers, crafters and artist will gather in the Riceville Community Center for the 2nd Annual Riceville Christmas Market. We’ll be there with a plethora of our own pretty, soft handmade scarves & hats for you to purchase.
Location: Riceville Community Center - 2251 Riceville Rd, Asheville, NC 28805
Get all your holiday yarn and handmade presents in beautiful Cashiers, NC.
We are now selling our yarn, roving, felts and finished goods in the new (and adorable) Hillside Shops in conjunction with other WNC breeders. The shops are open on weekends (Fri – Sun) from 12pm to 6pm, through November 26th, 2009.
Location: Hillside Shops – 11 Pillar Drive, Cashiers, NC 28717
FREE SHIPPING sale for the entire month of September!
Purchase anything from our shop over $15, and we’ll ship it to you for free.
Second Alpaca Buyers Clinic – June 20, 2009 view flyer
- The clinic will take place at Venezia Dream Farm at 276 Jones Cove Rd, Asheville, NC 28805
- Space is limited, please RSVP by calling Star at 828.298.9100 or by email at starr@veneziadream.com
- Lunch and snacks will be provided
- Sponsored by AlpacasWNC
Alpaca Buyers Clinic – March 14th, 2009
- Put on by AlpacasWNC
>Visit the Alpacas of Western North Carolina website
Lorien Shearing May 2009
>e-mail lorien for details
Southeastern Animal & Fiber Fair Oct. 23rd thru 25th, 2009
>Visit the SAFF website
In the News:
North Carolina Signature Magazine wrote a nice artical about our farm & shop in the October issue. You can read the article here:
>Read the PDF
