1-4PM Friday DEC 23 – OPEN FARM HOLIDAY EVENT Welcome to the neighborhood! Come see us and meet the goats. Are you a holiday shopper hold-out? Did someone just make the list (naughty turned nice?) ? Every Christmas stocking needs a handcrafted bar of goat milk soap. Made locally (next door!!) right here on the farm. Come meet the goats behind the soap and sample some farm cheeses and craft brews while they last. Donations appreciated. All...

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I’ve lost the ability to generate my undercoat of cashmere after 5-6 years in the desert southwest… or so it seems as the first near freezing temps hit Charlotte. Luckily my goats are more prepared to survive the cold than I am. brrrrr… but there are still a few things to help them get through the season safely. As I packed up the summer clothes, busted out the hoodies, the woolies and the booties… my mind wandered to the...

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Charlotte Area Know Your Farms TOUR September 2014 WISH WE HAD ACRES – STEELE CREEK RD & SHOPTON RD W Come meet the bearded ladies behind the goat milk soap at Atherton Market. Park in the back pasture and walk through the old pole barn. Feed the goats, count the chickens and pose for a photo op! Take the 20 minute tour of the grounds to identify seasonal medicinal plants. Enjoy herbal teas, farm chow, sample goat cheese while it...

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It is not a day you look forward to. Particularly the first time. I am fortunate that my husband is clinical and that science aids in a clean, direct approach. By clean, I only mean the cut. There are still a mess of feathers in the yard that will take time to flutter away or return to the earth. We decided to use a simple implement and gravity. We saved everything. Nothing was wasted, thanks largely to Auryn, our big dog. Blood was cured and...

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We are mere days from culling our first home grown broilers. And it’s kind of a BIG DEAL. We took the advice of a friend to try Cornish Cross. I am not impressed. Well, by literal definition, that is not entirely true, it has affected and deeply influenced me, just not positively! The purpose of raising our own meat birds was, like many things on our farm, designed to reconnect us with our food source to gain better understanding and...

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Heirloom turkeys, Black Runner and Magpie Ducks, Lionhead Bunny, raised bed gardens with hand-painted signs, chocolatee mousse birthday cake, bobbing for apples, cornhole, chicken handling, goat feeding, Great Pyrenees livestock guardian dog, photo ops in the hay barn, and hide-outs in the bamboo thicket… A good time was had by all. My cousins on the Blair side of the family, now the Custers by marriage, brought a slew of kids and parents...

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