1 Year
10 Days
And
5 Minutes
To Make.
The World’s First Regenerative Alpaca Collection
Join the Regenerative Evolution:
Our Farm-to-Closet initiative is an invitation to step into the circle of regeneration — to wear your values and invest in healing, while dressing yourself in beauty too.
In partnership with the Andean Pastoral Livelihoods Initiative and Revolution Knits.
Alpacas are the newest members of the Regenerative Evolution and the stars of our latest Farm-to-Closet Collection. Each sweater in this collection is made from the softest alpaca wool, then hand spun and knit by Peruvian artisans who are all paid a living wage.
The Timeline of a Regenerative Alpaca Sweater:
Total:
1 Year
From November to November, Alpacas roam the high grasslands of Peru, grazing the flora and growing their hair.
5 Minutes
With great animal husbandry skills, the alpaqueros shear their animals - a fundamental step to maintaining animal health.
3 Days
The freshly shorn fiber is washed to remove dirt and oil, then dried in the Sun for a few days.
1 Day
The fiber is combed, brushed and combined to create a thick, yarn-like material called “tops”
2 Days
Skilled artisans twist the thick tops fiber into tight, fine yarn, using foot-powered spinning wheels.
4 Days
Hand-knitters, who are part of a cooperative in Lima, Peru, take the yarn home with them and knit it into sweaters.
The Farm-To-Closet Collection
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How Are They Regenerative?
Adaptive Management:
- Graze
- Rotate
- Regenerate
Alpacas roam the high grasslands of Peru, eat the native grasses and drink from the freshwater streams and lakes.
To ensure alpacas don’t overgraze or over fertilize the soil and waterways, the alpaqueros move them to new pastures every couple of weeks, letting the old pasture regrow and recover.
Alpacas and grasslands have a reciprocal relationship: the grass feeds the alpacas and the alpacas fertilize to increase soil health, prevent overgrowth, and increase biodiversity.
- Graze
Alpacas roam the high grasslands of Peru, eat the native grasses and drink from the freshwater streams and lakes.
- Rotate
To ensure alpacas don’t overgraze or over fertilize the soil and waterways, the alpaqueros move them to new pastures every couple of weeks, letting the old pasture regrow and recover.
- Regenerate
Alpacas and grasslands have a reciprocal relationship: the grass feeds the alpacas and the alpacas fertilize to increase soil health, prevent overgrowth, and increase biodiversity.
Peatland Restoration:
- Identify
- Restore
- Regenerate
The alpaceros we partner with steward parts of the high-grasslands that are home to peatland, a type of wetland that stores a vast amount of carbon.
Prior generations who stewarded the land diverted the peatland water, but today, the alpaceros are rebuilding the peatlands and letting nature take its course.
Peatland restoration leads to cleaner waterways, ecosystem resilience, increased biodiversity, carbon sequestration and clean water security to Peruvian cities and towns.
- Identify
The alpaceros we partner with steward parts of the high-grasslands that are home to peatland, a type of wetland that stores a vast amount of carbon.
- Restore
Prior generations who stewarded the land diverted the peatland water, but today, the alpaceros are rebuilding the peatlands and letting nature take its course.
- Regenerate
Peatland restoration leads to cleaner waterways, ecosystem resilience, increased biodiversity, carbon sequestration and clean water security to Peruvian cities and towns.
Peatland soil holds the most carbon in the world — while these special wetlands are only 3% of the Earth’s land mass, they store around 33% of the world’s overall carbon.
Reciprocity between the land, the people who tend it and ourselves.
When this initiative began, we were determined to pay not only the alpaceros a living wage, but everyone within the chain of production, including the skilled knitters who are part of a fair-trade group.
Compared against market price:
- The alpaceros have now made 25% more for their fleece
- The artisans who classify the fiber made 100% more
- The spinners have made 50% more
Meet Mario and Porfirio — each sweater is made with yarn from their alpaca farm in Tinke, Peru. Mario and Porfirio work with the land and the alpacas, nurturing mutually beneficial relationships in which everyone benefits — including the Earth. Alpacas are a part of their Quechuan identity.
The Farm-To-Closet Collection
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Heal Mother Earth.
The Dawn Dress Night Rose Lattice
Available in 18 colors
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The Aurelia Dress Midnight Floral
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The Dawn Dress Noir Daisy
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The Emma Dress Night Rose Lattice
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The Katrina Dress Noir Daisy
Available in 4 colors
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The Dawn Dress Petites Noir Daisy
Available in 15 colors
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The Dawn Dress Petites Night Rose Lattice
Available in 15 colors
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The Dawn Dress Acorn Blues
Available in 18 colors
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The Dawn Dress Night Zodiac
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The Quilted Pouch Noir Daisy
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The Dawn Dress Midnight Floral
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The Dawn Dress Sky Chamomile
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The Christy Dress Calico Blues
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The Mika Dress Ocean Seashell
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The Emma Dress Sky Chamomile
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The Dawn Dress Night Garden
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The Venus Dress Ivory Rose Lattice
Available in 2 colors
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The Christy Dress Paisley Coral
Available in 3 colors
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The Larissa Dress Pearl
Available in 2 colors
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The Emma Dress Acorn Blues
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The Marie Dress Autumn Garden Bisque
Available in 2 colors
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The Katrina Dress Extended Noir Daisy
Available in 6 colors
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The Dawn Dress Extended Noir Daisy
Available in 21 colors
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The Dawn Dress Extended Sea Spray
Available in 21 colors
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The Dawn Dress Extended Rooibos Harvest
Available in 21 colors
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The Dawn Dress Extended Calico Chamomile
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The Dawn Dress Extended Aster Indigo
Available in 21 colors
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The Antonia Dress Ecru
Available in 3 colors
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The Zuri Dress Extended Salmon Frills Poppy
Available in 3 colors
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The Dawn Dress Sea Spray
Available in 18 colors
Db 4,770,000
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Db 8,382,000
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Db 7,178,000
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The Dawn Dress Extended Noir Harvest
Available in 21 colors
Db 4,770,000
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The Dawn Dress Extended Carob Ditsy Leaf
Available in 21 colors
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The Dawn Dress Extended Night Rose Lattice
Available in 21 colors
Db 4,770,000
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The Emma Dress Extended Night Rose Lattice
Available in 12 colors
Db 8,382,000
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The Venus Dress Extended Ivory Rose Lattice
Available in 2 colors
Db 7,178,000
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The Adelia Dress Apple Harvest
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The Flora Slip (Short) Night
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When you shop Farm-to-Closet, you are actively joining the Regenerative Evolution. Each purchase helps replenish even more soil, sequester even more carbon. Plus, you’re wearing a garment with reciprocity stitched and now knitted into every seam. If you pay attention, you can feel it.
The Truth Is:
We Can Stop Global Warming.
The Regenerative Evolution: Learn More
Learn About How We Grow Our Cotton:
Regeneration is about mutually beneficial relationships — reciprocity between the land, the people who tend it and ourselves. Our Farm-to-Closet initiative is an invitation to step into the circle of regeneration — to wear your values and invest in healing, while dressing yourself in beauty too.
Frequently Asked Questions
Your questions answered:
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How does regenerative farming heal Mother Earth?
Nature is self-healing — regenerative farming fosters the plants and soil’s innate ability to build the health and resilience of their ecosystem. By using selective grazing and holistic, indigenous farming practices, farmers can revitalize soil and draw down carbon. Regenerative farming not only heals the land’s immediate ecosystem but helps heal Mother Earth from climate change.
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How did Farm-to-Closet foster mutually beneficial relationships?
As we’ve grown, we’ve come to realize that relationships are at the core of everything we do — relationships to people, to Mother Earth, and to ourselves. The alpaceros and alpacas roam the grasslands in a way that nourishes the soil for future plants and provides farmers, spinners, weavers and dyers with a living wage, opportunities for growth and education, and a method for preserving ancient practices and traditions. This in turn gave us healthy, regenerative alpaca fleece for this collection. What’s good for Mother Earth is good for us, too.
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Why is the regenerative alpaca collection so limited?
This is our first year working with this community to create sweaters. We started small with the plan to build capacities, so that we can source the all the alpaca fiber for future collections from this project. We will achieve this by investing a part of the profit from every Christy Dawn purchase back into the soil with the awareness that regeneration is a continuous practice. We are excited to improve and foster even more healing in the future!