Alpaca Manure is Great For Your Garden

Alpacas are ruminants having three stomachs, which makes them able to digest their food very efficiently.  You do not have to wait to use alpaca manure in your garden, it won't burn your plants, just spread it over and let the rain soak it in.  The manure has high levels of nitrogen and potassium which makes it a great fertilizer.  It also has low odor and breaks down quickly due to it being low in organic matter.
 Contact Lavender Hill Farm if you're interested it trying alpaca manure in your garden!   

Alpaca manure resembles small beans, similar to goat or deer droppings.

This manure is great for your garden!

We have spread composted alpaca manure over this area of the field.  

You can see it is a dark, rich color.

This year we grew three kinds of tomatoes, eggplant, broccoli, zucchini, pickling 

and salad cucumbers, celery, basil, strawberries, catnip, chives, jalapeno, 

bell, and banana peppers in the garden. The sunflowers come back every year, 

then are replanted in rows in the back.

 This is the first year we had success with broccoli! 

This tomato plant was damaged by tomato hornworms.

  It's amazing how much and how fast they can eat your plants.  

You have to find them and remove them from your plants

 if you want to get any tomatoes.

This is a tomato hornworm.

A mix of fresh veggies.

Another days harvest!

This was the first year we grew celery.  It's small, but tasted great!

We made poppers with the jalapenos from the garden!