About Us
"Love Them Alpaca's"
Our ranch is operated by Richard and Robin Vasquez (that's us).
We became interested and involved in Alpacas just a short time
ago. We live on 20 acres in Gilroy, California. Years ago the
entire valley was made up of beautiful orchards. Our land was a
prune orchard planted and taken care of by my father Melvin
Silvera. It was a sad day when you could not longer profitably care
for an orchard and the beautiful trees were pushed over and
burned. The land has been leased out for various row crops for
the last 15 years. The lease was not renewed and it was our
decision to take the land back and make it into a thriving working
ranch again. Neither of us knew a thing about farming or row
crops. Richard's knowledge was pretty strong in the area of cattle
and horses. I on the other hand am a big animal lover so eating
cattle I raise and feed was out of the question. We talked
seriously about horses but it seemed to be a big endeavor that
would take us years to get started properly. We then came across
alpacas and we have been on a roller-coaster ride since then. We
were married in December of 2005 and five months later have a
working alpaca ranch with 23 alpacas and two guard llamas.
Richard still maintains his full time outside job as a commercial
electrician and I am semi-retired from financial planning. I now
spend most of my days as a full time alpaca rancher.
Call us to schedule a visit 408-842-5233 or 408-710-0676
We became interested and involved in Alpacas just a short time
ago. We live on 20 acres in Gilroy, California. Years ago the
entire valley was made up of beautiful orchards. Our land was a
prune orchard planted and taken care of by my father Melvin
Silvera. It was a sad day when you could not longer profitably care
for an orchard and the beautiful trees were pushed over and
burned. The land has been leased out for various row crops for
the last 15 years. The lease was not renewed and it was our
decision to take the land back and make it into a thriving working
ranch again. Neither of us knew a thing about farming or row
crops. Richard's knowledge was pretty strong in the area of cattle
and horses. I on the other hand am a big animal lover so eating
cattle I raise and feed was out of the question. We talked
seriously about horses but it seemed to be a big endeavor that
would take us years to get started properly. We then came across
alpacas and we have been on a roller-coaster ride since then. We
were married in December of 2005 and five months later have a
working alpaca ranch with 23 alpacas and two guard llamas.
Richard still maintains his full time outside job as a commercial
electrician and I am semi-retired from financial planning. I now
spend most of my days as a full time alpaca rancher.
Call us to schedule a visit 408-842-5233 or 408-710-0676
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