June 23rd -24th 2012 From: 9:00 AM– 5:30 PM
VIP Alpaca Owner and Breeder Pass to Fiber Fest 2012
Your $99 Two Day Pass Includes:
Survival Secrets to Making Money with Alpacas
A new Presentation by Wade Gease
This comprehensive 2-part workshop includes:
Saturday, June 23rd 2012:
- 9AM – Noon
- Crash course on Fiber Sorting
- Reading into fleece
- Fineness identification
- Classification reasoning
- Strategies on utilizing your sorted fiber yield
- Noon – 12:30PM
- Lunch.
- 12:30PM – 2:30PM
- VIP tour and hands-on alpaca review
- 2:30PM – 5:30PM
- Product & Value added ideas for everyone
- Coops, Mini-mills, and direct pay-outs
- Money Making Ventures with Your Alpaca Business
- Venues
- Home Products
- Creative Marketing
- The Full Circle Business Model
- Making the farm a destination
- Tourism, rentals
- Shops and boutiques
- Bed & Breakfasts
- By-Product Sales (manure, etc.)
- 5:30PM
- VIP poolside wine tasting and hors d’ouevres reception
Sunday, June 24th, 2012:
- 9AM – 11:30AM
- One-on-one personal evaluation sessions with consultant Wade Gease – learn more on a private level pen side
- 10AM – 11:30AM
- Tax Advantages: Making the Most Out of Your Alpaca Business
Presented by Brandon Conley,
E.G. Conley – Certified Public Accountants and Business Development Advisors
- Tax Advantages: Making the Most Out of Your Alpaca Business
Perks Also Included:
- 30% off in Alpaca de Moda Boutique (restrictions may apply)
- 40 % off breeding with Herdsire
Register here for $99.00 today! >>
Wade Gease is an AOBA certified alpaca judge, judge trainer, presenter and consultant/mediator for the alpaca industry. Presently he serves on the board for the Great Lakes Alpaca Association, Judges Advisory Committee (JAC) and is the acting President of the Alpaca Fiber Cooperative of North America (AFCNA). He has been co-owner of LondonDairy Alpacas and Alpaca Threads gift store since 1997. Wade has been honored to be involved with so many different activities in the alpaca world: speaking for educational events, consulting for auctions, evaluating for private alpaca breeders and organizing private trips to Peru.
He has been involved with creating alpaca materials, alpaca product design and recently has created a new wet felting machine for home/farm use to empower ranches to make on the farm products, The Wet Felting Wizard.
Wade has been presenting informative educational seminars for over 10 years. This event will highlight his most up to date work.