July 12th, 2021

Black Wolf Ranch & Fiber, St. Ignatius, Montana

As members of Harvest Host, Robert and I have enjoyed visiting different businesses and meeting the owners. We loved that we chose Black Wolf Ranch & Fiber as we had never visited an alpaca farm before. Wendy is a lovely woman from Texas who turned her dream into a reality. She had wanted to live in a rural setting and decided that alpacas would do nicely as a source of income. She now owns the largest alpaca ranch in Montana with over 230 animals.

Her place is nicely setup with her home, two large barns and her mother's home on her property. The moms and babies are keep apart from the rest of the herd and her livestock guardian dogs help protect the alpacas. The morning that we left, we were given a farm tour and her ranch manager told us about how they run the ranch and explained about shearing and breeding of the alpacas.

Wendy's ranch is located right off Hwy 93 about 2 hours south of Glacier National Park. We didn't get over to the National Bison Range at Flathead Lake, but Wendy's place is very close to it.