We're a small private farm, located in Hampshire County West Virginia about 25 miles from Winchester VA. We're breeding Nigerian Dwarf goats.

OUR GOATS

History

Our herd started in 2016 with our first goats Sky, her daughter Indigo, and Partner (aka Poe) our first wether. A little over a month later we obtained a our buck Thor, followed shortly after by two more does Cashmere and Hazel. This rounded our herd out to six goats for 2016. Our original goal was to have our own supply of goats milk so in the fall we breed Sky and Cashmere with Thor. In 2017, our heard doubled in size as both Cashmere and Sky had triplets. Six kids total, 4 does and 2 bucks. We've learned so much and yet still have so much to learn.

Herd Health

We have our goats tested semi-annually for common disease and our herd has tested negative in November of 2022. We use FAMACHA scoring regularly, as recommended by this video, and selectively de-worm our herd.


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About Us

We chose the name Elementary Farm because we feel as though we are continuously learning what it means to be a farmer.

Pam

She's the real farmer here at Elementary Farm. Always making sure everyone (even us humans) are fed and well cared for in every situation. She is passionate about learning and making incremental changes to how we do things here on the farm. Always looking for what we can do next!

Bill

In 2005, after months of wearing me down, my wife convinced me we should have some chickens. "Let's have some chickens!" she said. "It will be easy." she said. In looking back on this moment I'm now convinced that chickens are the gateway drug to farming. In 2015, we moved to Yellow Spring West Virginia to start our farm. If you had told me in 2005 (or anytime before that) that I would one day be a farmer (city boy, software engineer) I would have laughed out loud and denied it passionately.