Monday, March 29, 2010

The season starts..

No one every said it was going to be easy. However, we can cross our fingers and toes that it will never be that hard. Babies born this last week begin the second season of cheese production, farmers markets, sales and marketing, oh so fun bookwork, time juggling, milking twice a day, feeding, watering, state visits, friends visiting, family visits, truck repair, fence repair, fence building, outbuildings, gates to be put up and where do we put all the goats?
One woman with a passion for cheese and goats that began in Ohio. The love affair started out with a little Nubian named Kerra and her two babies: Thelma and Louise. A Nubian may sneak into any one's heart, with the floppy bunny ears and doe-eyed bambi looks but milking goats for a living? hmmmm. Surely no crazier than skiing for a living.
How does a summer spent outside Dayton, Ohio on a farm turn a future heart surgeon into a milk maid, you may ask? The answer simply doesn't matter. Someone said once:




1 comment:

  1. oh the joy of working with animals... and helping us people in the process.......... thanks for all of us who love goat cheese etc.. i was started on goat milk.... ha

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