Our story is about the farmer and the flight attendant. For almost 20 years Elden and Ronelle have been enjoying the good life at Token Creek Alpacas. Ronelle is a retired flight attendant with a major U.S. airline and is no longer is flying to the far parts of the world. A typical day now revolves around tending her gardens, caring for her chickens and cats, tossing around hay bales and cleaning up after the herd.
Meanwhile, Elden is marketing alpacas, fencing, building shelters, mowing pastures, harvesting hay, birthing crias and tending to their herd of alpacas, chickens, and four barn cats.
The Alpaca Journey
We’re often asked how we began our alpaca journey. It was a full page ad Elden saw in an in-flight magazine on a flight tp Dallas Texas back in the late 90’s The ad was about breeding and raising alpacas and it peaked his interest. Wanting to learn more, Elden tore out the ad and stuffed it in his briefcase to look at it again later. He called the contact number provided and received basic alpaca information in the mail. That information started his search to fulfill his quest for knowledge on all things alpaca. He and Ronelle attended shows, visited alpaca farms on each on each coast as well as many in between and learned everything they could. Their daughter Ashlee even wrote a middle school report on alpacas. The family was hook.