Maple Hill Manor's Suri Alpacas
SPRINGFIELD, KY – After being laid off from their corporate jobs following 9/11, Todd Allen and Tyler Horton embarked on an agriculture adventure in central Kentucky: They purchased a 150-year-old antebellum mansion known as Maple Hill Manor in Springfield and began raising alpacas and llamas and operating a Farm Stay bed and breakfast inn. To celebrate their 10-year anniversary, Maple Hill Manor is offering incentives, including “Buy 1 Alpaca/Get 1 FREE Special” and a 30% discount on a Kentucky Farm Stay vacation. Click into Maple Hill Manor’s website, http://www.maplehillmanor.com, and see details of these two specials, the amenities of this luxury-level bed and breakfast inn and special events, including a June 19 workshop on raising alpacas.
Alpaca incentives
To celebrate its 10th year in the alpaca business, Maple Hill Manor is offering a number of incentives to those interested in starting their own alpaca herd, including start-up assistance and ongoing education and mentoring. Discounted start-up packages, low financing terms, including lease-to-own options and generous guarantees, plus free transport of any female alpaca purchased – along with a free breeding to any of Maple Hill Manor’s champion bloodlines – are also offered. If purchased by June 30, 2010, Maple Hill Manor is offering a Buy 1/Get 1 FREE Special.
30% discount on farm stay
Receive a 30% discount for a 3-to-5 night stay, plus receive a discount on a Starter Alpaca Herd with Maple Hill Manor’s “Stay, Work and Learn on a Kentucky Farm Stay.” Learn how to raise and care for alpacas. Actively help with daily chores while learning about alpacas’ luxurious fiber and its many uses and working with the fiber.
Alpaca events
Maple Hill Manor’s innkeepers work with several local artisans who make scarves, shawls, hats and gloves, blankets and other garments and gift items available for consignment in the inn’s Fiber Farm Store. They also work with local spinners and a local mill to make yarn and roving, as well as local and nationally known fiber artists for the inn’s annual fiber workshops, open farm day celebrating National Alpaca Farm Day and Holiday Historic House Tour & Alpaca Fiber Farm Store Holiday Bazaar.
Events are posted at http://www.maplehillmanor.com. The next workshop, scheduled from 1-5 p.m. on Saturday, June 19, focuses on getting started with raising alpacas.
Visit Maple Hill Manor and see all the incentives and discounts currently being offered to celebrate the 10th anniversary of this working inn, where an expansion to construct an Agritourism Fiber Education Center & Event Barn is now underway. Click http://www.maplehillmanor.com/
ABOUT MAPLE HILL MANOR
Maple Hill Manor was one of the first 10 farms in Kentucky to start raising alpacas and has grown into the largest purely Suri Alpaca and Llama Breeding Program in Kentucky and features a Fiber Farm Store. The award-winning inn is listed on the National Register of Historic Places and is a Kentucky Landmark Home. A working farm, it is set on 15 acres in the heart of Kentucky's Bluegrass Region, an hour southeast of Louisville and an hour southwest of Lexington. The home is considered one of the best preserved antebellum homes in the Commonwealth. Visit http://www.maplehillmanor.com
MEDIA CONTACT: Todd Allen
Maple Hill Manor/http://www.maplehillmanor.com
alpacas@MapleHillManor.com
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