ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT
Say Hello to the Herd at Green Gable Alpacas When Janet Ogilvie founded Green Gable Alpacas, she was already hoping the Tyne Valley farm would entertain guests.
“I didn’t know anybody in PEI back then,” she explains, “so I put up a sign in the driveway that said ‘visitors always welcome.’ I thought it might be nice to meet people.” Tourists and locals soon arrived in droves. Last year, the farm received some two dozen guests daily. “I meet virtually every visitor who comes to my property,” Ogilvie says. Her mother and sister also help out on special occasions, such as Open Farm Day (when guests arrive by the hundreds). Ogilvie founded Green Gable Alpacas in 2010, after personal tragedy spurred the MBA graduate and single mother to reinvent herself on
Words by Rebecca Spinner Photos: Buffie Boily Photograpphy
114
www.pei-living.ca SUMMER 2018
Made with FlippingBook - Online magazine maker