“Maybe someday we’ll write a book. And we’ll call it, How Not to Start a Goat Dairy.”
Just to the point of breaking...
If we want to stay a dairy we have to change things for our quality of life. A phrase we return to often is, "If it doesn't work for the farmer, it doesn't work for the farm."
Mini Documentary about Lost Peacock Creamery!
Uncle Leo (Matthew's younger brother, who lives on the farm with us, and who is going to college and studying film) made a mini documentary about the farm! And it is so good!
The truth is, we're all a little mad around here
Since our last frantic post of all the things we needed to get done before winter, things have started to slow down. We still have some big things to get done, of course. The horse shelter needs walls (it's only a roof at this point), the pasture needs to be limed, we are re-grading our driveway, re-shaping the main dairy girl's pasture to change the way the field drains into the barn…
Werk, werk, werk, werk, werk....
Our amazing people worked right alongside us for two days straight. They pounded posts, they dug fence holes, they chopped firewood, they planted trees…and they did it all with a smile on their face. At the end of the weekend we were a little rejuvenated, feeling a little less doomsday-ey…
Is this a family run business?
Friends are the family you make for yourself, and that’s exactly what we did. Our children are being raised as siblings—My mother and Matthew’s mother are grandparents to all of them. We expect the same amount of hard work from their four year old as we do ours.
In honor of my father
My father passed away last Sunday, at 3:51 in the morning, after a two year fight with stage IV pancreatic cancer…
Lost Peacock Creamery Summer Camp
Lost Peacock Creamery Summer Camp days were filled with animals, sunshine, goat cheese, and very frequent dips in the water troughs...
A little bit of an update
It's been so long since I posted I don't even know where to start. So, in no particular order, here's some facts you might want to know…
We GET to be tired.
Living on a dairy farm, and especially living on a dairy farm that makes their own cheese, is painstakingly tiring…
Spring Break Camp 2017
When Matthew and I decided to open up the farm to kids for a full week, we weren’t exactly sure what to expect…