Hello!
We started this farm because of a dream we’d had for a very long time. Years ago, we took a trip to Texas to visit family, and we fell in love with it. For years, we searched for land, and in the spring of 2025, we finally found the right property for us.
The land we purchased came with an agricultural exemption, and we didn’t want to lose it. So we each started researching what we could do to keep the exemption. I went in one direction, and my husband went in another.
At one point, we got into a discussion about goats and how they were being used to “mow down weeds.” I started looking into goats out of curiosity, and the more I learned, the more fascinated I became.
I read Raising Goats Naturally: The Complete Guide to Milk, Meat, and More by Deborah Niemann, and I was completely drawn in. I decided I wanted to start my own goat farm. I was on the track of getting goats for the agricultural exemption, while my husband was researching a wildlife exemption.
In the end, we made a compromise. We decided to move forward with the wildlife exemption because it was the better option for both us and the land. If we pursued the agricultural exemption, we would have needed more goats than we really wanted or felt we could manage. We still decided to start a small goat farm, but with only the number of goats we felt comfortable caring for.
We found three goats and decided to start our farm before moving to Texas — and here we go!