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oMe cArpinteriAnS inVeSt in the Stock MArket, While otherS hAVe DiScoVereD the “huGGAble


inVeStMent” thAt liVeS JuSt up the


roAD—the AlpAcA. Canzelle Alpacas, located off Foothill Road, is home to 150 alpacas who spend their days nibbling on grass shoots and the occasional orange. Meanwhile their


frothy fleece grows long and dense each winter, the real life equivalent of money growing on trees. “I just love them. I can’t get enough of them,” said


Carol-Anne Lonson, one half of the team behind Carpinteria’s thriving alpaca farm. The other half, Hazel Lyons, is Lonson’s 85-year-old mother. Together, Lonson and Lyons have transformed a


20-acre ranch into a Shangri-la for the two-toed, mop topped, long necked, long legged ungulates whose ancestors hail from the Andes of South America.


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