Newborn alpacas Chacha, left, and Churro gather with the females of the herd at Spirit Nation Alpacas in the Oriva Hills subdivision west of Gillette on June 3. Heidi Nation, who has long wanted to raise the animals, got her start when a group of them wandered onto her property in 2021. She now harvests and sells their "beans" as fertilizer.
GILLETTE - Two years ago, Heidi Nation was looking for a purpose in life.
She had moved out to the Oriva Hills subdivision in the spring of 2021 after years of living in Gillette.
"We came out here, and there was, like, nothing," said Nation, the owner of Spirit Nation Alpacas.
But even before the move, "I was in the same kind of predicament," she said. She needed something to do, she needed someone to take care of.
Then one day, Betty White, Gary Busey, Kevin Hart and Wanda Sykes walked into her yard, and her life has never been the same since.
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