Mid-Atlantic Alpaca Association: MAPACA

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Welcome to the Mid-Atlantic Alpaca Association and home of the MaPaca Jubilee!

BACK BY POPULAR DEMAND!
Alpaca Auction to be held at
the 2012 MAPACA Jubilee!
Make plans now to join us ringside at the Jubilee Alpaca Auction which will be held Saturday, April 28 at 6pm... more

MAPACA now provides our members with emergency help when unfortunate events occur at their farms. To use this service, simply LOG IN to the member section and click on the “Submit MAPACA 911 email request” link. After completing the form and clicking “Submit for Approval,” a member of the MAPACA Board will review your request before emailing the membership.

Please remember that MAPACA 911 is for EMERGENCY situations only. MAPACA 911 can not be used for sales/marketing or for general discussions of alpaca related topics.

ALL NEW stores are now live!
Place classified advertisements for alpaca farming-related products and services... more

MAPACA Newsletters
Available On-Line:
Archived PDFs of every MAPACA newsletter can be found in our Archives section... more

Now posted: Winter 2012

Kit Hower's Girl Scout Interest Group, The Paca Patrol, continues to draw more and more fans since their performance at the 2010 Jubilee! Word made it all the way to the David Letterman Show about the girls and their dancing alpacas!

Martha Stewart airs alpaca segment:
On Friday, October 22, 2010, The Martha Stewart Show aired a variety of scenes shot at Faraway Farm Alpacas in Yorktown Heights, NY including feeding and care, shearing, and the creation of an alpaca garment from fleece to finished product. Faraway Farm’s owners, Leda Blumberg and Steve Cole were interviewed about alpaca history, breeding, fiber characteristics and what it’s like to raise alpacas. Faith Perkins, of Quarry Ridge Alpacas, demonstrated carding, spinning and knitting – and she created a garment for Martha to wear on the live portion of her show... link

Camelid Veterinarian Continuing Education Program: The Board of Directors of MAPACA, a non-profit organization, has allocated $10,000 to support continuing education for camelid veterinarians in the MAPACA region via Camelid Veterinarian Continuing Education Grants during 2010... more

The Mid-Atlantic Alpaca Association (MAPACA) is a cooperative group of alpaca owners and breeders in the Mid-Atlantic states of Delaware, Maryland, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and West Virginia. Through the cooperative efforts of our members, we promote and support the alpaca community via networking, quarterly meetings, seminars, surveys, a newsletter, this web site, and various shows including the internationally acclaimed MAPACA Jubilee (April 27-29, 2012). For more information, please contact any board member or click here.

MAPACA Jubilee Admission is FREE and open to the public!

What’s the MAPACA Jubilee all about?
Check out the below videos of last year’s show!

Click the following link to view the 2011 Jubilee results. Or see photos of the event in our Shutterfly PHOTO GALLERY.

The 2011 MAPACA Jubilee in 5 minutes or less…

Above is a very compressed view of the 2011 MAPACA Jubilee held in Harrisburg, PA April 8th, 9th & 10th, 2011. These images provide but a glimpse of the hundreds upon hundreds of man hours that go into producing a show of this scope. While some of the work being done here is paid labor, the majority of it is not. Volunteers, too dedicated for their own good, provide the backbone of services that bring this alpaca show to life. This event celebrated the 15th Anniversary of the MAPACA Jubilee, but it's beginnings very humbly began under a tent in a nearby pasture in 1993.

The 2011 show housed over 1,000 alpacas from the entire East Coast. Over 100 Volunteers and a handful of staff worked for months to bring together alpacas and fiber enthusiasts to celebrate this milestone in alpaca shows and wonderful alpaca fiber.

A Special Thanks to our Premium Sponsors of the 2012 MaPaca Jubilee!