White River Alpacas, LLC

The River Delivers

We want your business today and tomorrow

About Us

Phone:417-859-5046

E-mail: stacy@whiteriveralpacas.com

That’s why we offer that “down-home” friendly atmosphere when you visit our farm.  We’re not into high pressure sales.  We want to find the right alpacas that fit into your business plan. We offer alpacas with highly recognized, marketable and proven genetics. And if we don’t have it, we will find it for you.   

Our 2 Friends 2 Farms program offers a brokering service for our customers that allows us to meet your selection criteria so you can meet your business goals.

To contact us:

White River Alpacas, LLC is owned by Terry & Stacy Heydt.  Both of us have come from “Corporate America” and firmly believe that honesty, integrity and superior customer service is the most important aspect of any business.  We here these words all the time.  But these just aren’t words to us, they are a standard of excellence and we’ll try our best to live up to them. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Through our 2 Friends 2 Farms program, information is available to you through a wide variety of educational seminars and fiber art workshops. 

· Why Buy Alpacas in December See why December is one of the best months to purchase alpacas.   If you’ve been thinking about buying alpacas, this seminar could save you money this year. 

· How to Build Wealth with Alpacas With the declining stock market, and the state of international financing and lending in jeopardy, many people are looking for investment alternatives.  Alpacas have made the front page of the Wall Street Journal and the New York Times.  Even with the declining dollar and fall of the stock market, alpacas are still holding their value and sales are strong.  Find out what experts in the field have to say.

· Alpaca Selection Tactics* Not all alpacas or farms are created equally.  Don’t be deceived by “fire sale”, volume discount pricing or year-end sales.  Discover how to select the alpaca that is right for you, your business and your financial goals without having to haggle.  *Receive a $500 Voucher just for attending this seminar.  When you’re ready, use it for the purchase of an alpaca or breeding.

 

· Tapestry Weaving – create a sampler using a variety of tapestry techniques on an 8 x 10 tapestry frame loom.  Discover the unique results of incorporating and blending various fibers

 

· Fun with Fiber & Felt – this 2-session full day workshop offers the basics of creating felted items.  Part 1 will be learning the properties of wet and needle felting.  Part 2 will be designing with fibers and creating finished products.

 

· How to Skirt an Alpaca Fleece – discover the unique properties of alpaca fiber and learn how to properly skirt an alpaca fleece for your own use or mill preparation.

 

· How to Skirt a Show Fleece—discover how to compete in the alpacas shows with your fleece.  See the score card and how the fleeces are judges and learn to skirt to win.

 

· Weaving on a Rigid Heddle Loom – this full day workshop teaches how to direct warp this easy to use 2-harness loom.  There will be time to weave and complete a small project.

 

· Square & Triangle Weaving – learn the art of weaving with one continuous strand of yarn.  Discover how to incorporate small shapes into big designs.  Small looms allow a project to be completed in one day.

 

· Make It Take It – this workshop is designed to provide attendees with new skills in fiber arts on a small scale.  Attendees have access to tools not normally provided at other workshops. 

 

· Talk the Talk – in this ½ day class, you will learn how to communicate with the 5 most common fiber art industries.  This class teaches the buzz words and the fundamentals of each industry.  If you want to talk the talk, market your yarns or just learn more about the knitting, crochet, spinning, felting and weaving industry, then this class is for you.

 

· Carding – discover the basics of carding in this full day workshop.  Plus, you will learn how to blend fibers and colors for dramatic results.  A must for every spinner or felt maker enthusiast.

 

· Out of the Bag & Beyond

 

· Basics and Beyond

 

· From the Bag to the Bank

 

2 Friends 2 Farms

Helping Small Farms Grow

For us, it’s not a one-time sale.  We want to develop a personal and business relationship with our customers.  We want your business today AND tomorrow.

As individuals running a business we strive to have or be:

· Integrity - the quality of possessing and steadfastly adhering to high moral principles or professional standards

· Knowledgeable - possessing or showing a great deal of knowledge, awareness, or intelligence

· Foremost - a partner who will put your interests foremost; most importantly, or in the most important position

· Honest –morally upright; never cheating, lying, or breaking the law

· Respectable – morally above reproach; in accordance with accepted standards of correctness or decency

 

As a business we believe in offering:

· Value - an amount expressed in money or another medium of exchange that is thought to be a fair exchange for something

· Worth - the worth, importance, or usefulness of something to somebody

· Importance - to regard somebody or something as important or useful

· Prominent - most important or well known; ahead of all others

· Premier - first in importance, size, or quality

· Diversity - a variety of something such as opinion, color, or style

· All-Inclusive - including or encompassing everything that is expected or appropriate

·            Comprehensive –

·            Inclusive - covering many things or a wide area

·            Including all - including everything, so as to be complete