I am a pediatrician in a small mountain town in Arizona (Show Low). I got into goats a couple of years ago, but really started learning things from my friend Wendy (a science teacher PhD) and her daughter Hazel (they run Witch Hazel Dairy). Currently I have 10 goats, 2 girls in milk (Whimsy is a LaMancha and Star is a Nubian). I’m looking forward
Beltane Farm in Lebanon, Connecticut
It’s a crazy scene at Beltane Farm this time of year – there are baby goats everywhere (they call it March Madness!) There were 80 born in the last month! Fortunately, you can go there any Sunday afternoon in April or May to see the baby goats, sample their cheeses and tour the farm. Beltane is located at the start of a dirt road in
Eleridge McCracking in Shelbyville, Tennessee
Eleridge McCracking and his wife have been very busy lately, helping their goats give birth. (It’s that time of year.) So, we’re grateful to him for taking the time to answer a few questions: How did you get started making cheese? I am a retired electronics engineer. Me and my wife, Mary, live in Shelbyville, TN, about 45 miles due south of Nashville. We moved
Red Gable Cheese Workshops
Red Gable Cheese Workshops is located in Sparta, Tennessee-a small community located on the scenic Upper Cumberland plateau approximately an hour and a half from Nashville, Knoxville and Chattanooga Tennessee. On her 33 acre farm, Karen teaches artisan cheese making utilizing both goat and cow’s milk along with raising a dairy goat herd. I had to interview Karen by e-mail because Tennessee is a little
Meibao Nee in California
Meibao is the owner of One Goat Creamery in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada. The name pretty much sums it up because Meibao has one milk goat. From the milk of her one goat, T.T., she is able to make 9 – 10 pyramids, about 10 oz each, per week. Background For 23 years, Meibao had a bed and breakfast and owned and ran
Dandelion Hill Farm in Sheffield, MA
Melissa and Peter Martin have been raising goats and growing their own food for over 26 years, ever since they discovered that one of their 4 children couldn’t digest cow’s milk. A neighbor gave them some of her goat’s milk, their daughter drank it successfully and that was the beginning of a new life for the family. They immediately bought their first goat. Now the
Barbara Crudale in West Kingston, RI
Why do they call it a “hobby farm” when it’s so much hard work? A hobby is an activity you do at your leisure and raising goats is not that! Fortunately, Barbara and her husband have 4 sons to help with their hobby farm while they work full time, raise and milk a small herd of goats, tend a vegetable garden, gather honey from their
Noreen O’Connell in Milford, New Hampshire
Butternut Farm Last December, we had our 35th Anniversary Essay Contest and Noreen O’Connell was one of our entrants: How Cheese Making Has Changed My Life 6 years ago we got our first Alpine does from a friend. Two became 6 and 6 became 14, and, as you know, herds grow exponentially. What are we going to do with all this milk? I bought several