Follow Our Blog @ or visit our NEW forum We moved here to our current mini-farm in September 2009. We are located less than 10 minutes from downtown Huntington, WV, and we are less than 20 minutes from Ohio and Kentucky. "There is a living God; He has spoken in the Bible. He means what He says and will do all He has promised." - Hudson Taylor, a missionary to China I am originally from West Virginia, and my husband is originally from Clearwater, Florida. When we met, he had no idea that he would eventually end up on a small farm out in the country in West Virginia, but here we are. I think he enjoys it more than I do, but we both have the same goals and enjoy how and where we live a great deal. We have three young son and hope to allow them to grow up with traditional values and useful knowledge that so many kids are not able to acquire these days in this society. In the midst of greater tragedy than most people could ever fathom, we have also had some blessings along to way that have allowed us do what we currently are here, and you can learn more about this and our farm's name on it's page HERE. We started out with a pony and some Pygmy goats at our first house back in 2007. My husband became interested in Dairy goats, and we purchased 1 Nubian doe, 1 doling and a buckling in the spring of 2008. I had grown up having horses and riding, and eventually, my husband also became very interested in Arabians, and when the chance came up to purchase not only a fantastic Arab mare, but also a SE Arab filly and then an SE Arab Stallion, we jumped at the chance to raise a breed of horse I'd only dreamed of having as a child reading "The Black Stallion" series by Walter Farley. So our herd began, and we have since added more goats of dairy breeding and decided to raise Miniature Nubians, Kinder goats and Nigerian Dwarf goats, and we were able to purchase a very nice Jersey calf to raise occasional heifers later on. We love being able to meet people along this journey, and we are thankful for the advice and help we've gotten from people who are also living a similar lifestyle or raising animals like we are. We would love to talk to you if you're interested in learning from us or have been doing this longer than we and have anything we might learn from you! As a note: I am a 14 year ova-lacto vegetarian; however, we DO support raising your own animals and getting away from commercially slaughtered and raised animals. I personally just choose to not eat meat, but we plan to raise some livestock for food in order to provide our family, other than myself, with humanely raised meat. If you can abstain from meat, awesome, but if not, PLEASE BUY only human raised meats, and humanely gained eggs and dairy when you can! "Then God said, "Behold, I have given you every plant yielding seed that is on the surface of all the earth, and every tree which has fruit yielding seed; it shall be food for you; and to every beast of the earth and to every bird of the sky and to every thing that moves on the earth which has life, I have given every green plant for food"; and it was so" Genesis 1:29-30
We hope to learn to make goat and cow cheese, butter and goat soaps and lotions soon, and I'm glad to have gotten contacted by lots of nice folks locally and further away that we will be able to learn from!
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