Latest Show Results

March 2015, Kumeu show, great competition with more black entries than any other colour so it was great to come away with two 1st, two 2nd, a 3rd and a 4th place positions.

November 2014, Waikato show, Cuesta Harrier (jointly owned with Sunset Alpaca Stud), won champion black huacaya.  Our other three entries came away with two 2nd's and a 3rd.

June 2014, One of our stud males, Cuesta Harrier (jointly owned with Sunset Alpaca Stud), won best black huacaya fleece in the BAFINZ (Best alpaca fleece in NZ) competition.


12th April 2014, a good day with one of our intermediate girls winning champion black female huacaya at the North Island Colourbration.

Jenny and Martyn Ellwood-Wade farm about 100 huacaya alpacas on a farrm overlooking the Hunua Ranges, close to Clevedon and half an hour from Auckland airport. Our main focus is in breeding a line of high quality, fine, soft handling and lustrous jet black alpacas. We welcome export enquiries.

We have some other colours bred both for their fibre and for use in our black breeding programme. We offer a full support alpaca sales service, Cuesta Care, in our local area. Alpacas are the perfect animals for the lifestyle block owner but we warn you they are addictive!

Cuesta Weave wholesales beautiful woven alpaca products to a number of outlets and offers a commission weaving service specialising in using alpaca yarn.  We have an on farm shop selling Cuesta Weave products made by Jenny and a range of other carefully selected alpaca products.

We host farm tours for small parties, tailored to individual requirements. See our Farm Tours page.

Visit  Alpaca Box, our online shop for all sorts of gorgeous alpaca fibre products including scrumptious woven wraps, throws, scarves, baby blankets exquisite hand knitted items and baby gear.