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We are lucky enough to live in a beautiful area of Dartmoor in the hamlet of Ponsworthy. We live on a small hill farm which has been in my family for as far back in time as we can trace. Ponsworthy is near the village of Widecombe in the moor, famous for its fair and Uncle tom Cobley. My brother manages the farm in the traditional way raising beef cattle. There are about eighty acres in all and a combination of pasture and woodland. Although we live on the farm we are not involved in the day to day running of it. We have a small landscape gardening business within our local area, which enables us to live and work on the moor.

Five years ago we decided to widen our interests and develop a small herd of breeding Alpacas. This has been a very interesting and enjoyable experience which we are continuing to develop. You can read more about them and our experiences on our Alpaca website
Very often in life one thing leads to another in our case Alpacas lead to Llamas. As we live in such a beautiful part of the country we thought that walking llamas on the moor would be a lovely way to spend time. We have so many walks on our doorstep and we can pack up lunch which our llamas will willingly carry along with all the necessary waterproofs etc. We enjoy this experience very much and thought that we would be able to offer this opportunity to visitors who come to the moor as well as generate some income.

After many hours of talks with National Park officials, Landowners and several dozen letters to farmers and local commoners (individuals with rights to graze their animals on the common areas of the moor) we are now in the privileged position to be able to operate a llama walking business on Dartmoor. One of the problems was we wanting to call ourselves Dartmoor Llama trekking, but everyone seemed to think we would be riding the llamas this resulted in us calling ourselves Dartmoor Llama Walks We believe that we are now the only llama Trekking business within the National Park.

We first brought two trained trekking llamas, these were soon joined by two young llamas which we have trained to go out on walks. About a year latter we purchase two more young llamas to complete our trekking team. We have since retired one of the original llamas as he was not suitable for walking with people on the open moor, and we have lost one of our young llamas who suffered a ruptured spleen. We now have a core of 4 llamas. We offer a personal service to our visitors and share our love and knowledge of the moor. We would like to add to our numbers in the near future as this would allow us to have the opportunity to have larger groups if required and to rest animals as necessary. To this end we now have two female llamas giving us the opportunity to breed and train our own llamas. We also train our young male Alpacas to walk as part of the trekking team. Steve Weymouth