About Us
We moved to Tomolla Farm in 1983 and purchased our first Llama in 1984. Having very little experience with any large animals let alone Llamas was a little frightening at first, but we soon learned how easy it was to care for them. There were still those times when we'd camp out to watch over an expecting female. But the Llamas would wait until we had our backs turned every time to have their babies as if to tell us "Don't worry, we've been doing this for a long time without you." Up till 1986 we had just a few Llamas
but were truly enjoying the ones we had and the new friends we were making in the Llama
community. One of these new friends was Andy Tillman. It was through Andy that we put
ourselves on the "Llama Map". In our first years we teamed up with
Sue Torrey who had a gifted eye and brought us to the Andes Llama Collection and Federico. Over the years Don has been involved
with Llamas in one way or another. He's brought them to church youth groups, sat on
different committees in the ILA, but most
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That year we bought from Andy 12 of the
finest females he had ever had from the "Andes Llama Collection" These included
unique bloodlines domestically as well as from South America and England. It was through
this connection that we acquired our Trademark Herdsire Federico. It would be hard to
imagine what Tomolla would be without this Grand Male. To this day he continues to produce
Award Winning offspring. His latest Success is Tomolla's Tacoma who has taken the show
arena by storm. This brings me to some of the great partnerships we have enjoyed over the
years.
Sue also did a
great job of advertising for the farm and kept a keen eye out for other llamas to join our
herd. We later teamed up with Dick Patterson on an unknown Bolivian male named Bolero. In
1989 we got together with Jay and Tammy Call of Porter Springs Llamas and sold them half
interest in Tomolla's Prospector, a Federico son out of our farm's matriarch Periwinkle of
the Catskill line. Our biggest partnership was with Mike and Stella Lee of Storm King
Llamas. With them we created a group of animals called "The Private Collection".
This can truly be debated as one of the single greatest collections of llamas ever put
together. Sadly, the real potential of this group would never be known as the passing of
our friend Mike led to the dispersal of this fine herd. In 1996 we began looking for a new
male llama to complement our herd's South American bloodlines. We found a few other
friends who were also looking for a male of these qualifications, so a new partnership was
formed with Gary Bodine of Mt. View Farms, Ron Carr of Camp Carr Llamas, Mike Harbor
and ourselves. After some looking around we came upon a full Chilean male from the Temuco
project named Osito de Temuco. We've now seen 
noticeably as "Big Dog" helping
out at the Celebrity Llama events.
Liz has also been by his side and is
known to sneak a few kisses from the Llamas from time to time (don't tell Don). They have
also been blessed with 3 fine kids. The oldest Jason is married to Kris, his high school
sweetheart
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