Our Story
Many moons ago, my husband and I bought a cozy log cabin with a beautiful bit of land on the outskirts of Hanover, Pennsylvania with the dream of building ourselves a little homestead. We took to homesteading like fish to water and soon we had a sprawling garden and a little orchard with far too many things in it and more chickens for eggs than one family could possibly need....so we started selling the excess. Jams, veggies, dozens of eggs, a few chicks in the spring...AND WE LOVED IT! Being able to produce our own food AND give our local community a source for fresh produce, preserved goodies, and eggs was, and still is, a great joy to us. So, when a dear friend asked us why we didn't have goats for milk, we really didn't have a good answer for her! Up went the fence, up went the barn and we were gifted with 4 pregnant boer does. We fell in love immediately. I mean, full disclosure, goats are a lot of work, and due to their big personalities and penchant for shenanigans can be a GINORMOUS pain in the...well... you know, but I would not trade it for anything. We learned a ton those first few years about goats, caring for livestock, love and working as a team, plus more than most people ever want to know about the birthing process ;-) A year later we added Kiko does. Kikos are a meat breed with a dairy background. Because of that dairy influence they produce much more milk than our boers did....gallons of it...daily. We are homesteaders, and that means waste is a capital sin.