About Us

	Trudy is married to Cory McCall. They have four children Kaitlyn, Jace, Leathan and Tess. They live forty kilometres northeast of Lloydminster. Trudy has been involved in agriculture and livestock production her whole life. She studied Biology at the University of Saskatchewan and has her Animal Health Technician Certificate.
T 'n' C Farms has completed a new alpaca barn next door to the McCalls. It has a fibre studio and living quarters for Cathy in the loft. Cathy has been a knitter all of her life. In the spring of 2000 she attended an InternationalAlpaca Judging School in Peru and subsequently qualified as an International fleece and halter judge for huacaya and suri. Cathy is also a certified halter and fleece judge under the AOBA system.		Cathy,Kaitlyn,Trudy Leathan,Cory,Jace
With Cathy's lifelong interest in fibre arts combined with Trudy's agricultural background, we began to look for a new venture we could do together. After exploring many possibilities from elk to ginseng we stumbled upon alpacas and found they were perfectly suited to our needs. Easy to care for and family friendly with an exquisite fleece for an end product harvested without slaughter convinced us that alpacas were for us. In the spring of 1996 we bought two bred females and a male and we are now well on our way in the alpaca business. We have learned many things about alpacas in the past few years. We have learned that alpacas really are a low maintenance animal relative to other livestock but still require a lot of attention. We have learned that bags of alpaca fibre rapidly accumulate even if you only have a few animals. We have learned that an industry in its infancy has some growing pains and thanks to some hard work from many individuals, progress is made. Perhaps most importantly we have learned that many of the people we have met through alpacas have become life long friends. We are committed to the alpaca industry long term and both work very hard to strengthen the industry as a whole. Cathy is a member of the communication committee of Alpaca Canada. She is also on the industry committee for the Natural Fibre Centre and Test Lab which is being developed at Olds College. Trudy is a past member of the Board of Directors for the Canadian Camelid Fibre Co-operative, Ltd. She is on the show committee for Alpaca Canada. We are both involved in organizing the Lloydminster Fibre Fair. For more information on these events, go to the coming events section.