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Old Website…New Stuff!

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This is the “unforgivable sales entry”! Sometimes we just gotta do it.

Just a quick entry this morning. I have done some work on our website (it seems as though the new website will never be done) and added more of our products to the store. You know our goats milk soaps and lotions make wonderful gifts! For you gals and guys with more mature skin, our Nourishing Cream is the Bomb..it’s even great for your face (and it’s cost a lot less than department store products) not to mention it’s all natural and paraben free.

OK, done with the sales pitch Blog entry. Hope everyone has a wonderful day!

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Interesting To Listen To

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This is a Blog Post from ” All Things Goat” that I found to be interesting listening. Hope you enjoy it as much as I did.


Cashmere Goats: Mongolia

Sunday, September 20, 2009

Mongolian goat farmers have seen the price of Cashmere plunge after years of high prices driven by the West’s seemingly insatiable desire for luxury.

Many of the farmers, including Dalantai Khatanbaatar, have taken out loans to get by but can’t pay them back without selling the livestock that sustains them in the first place.

Like 40 percent of the country’s population, Khatanbaatar is a herder. With 250 sheep, 80 cashmere goats and 50 horses, Khatanbaatar regards himself as middling-poor and now he’s struggling to pay back his $350 loan.

“Before I used to buy lots of bags of flour and rice to stockpile over there. Now you see it’s empty,” Khatanbaatar says of the storage space in his ger. “We cannot eat any less. We don’t eat too much anyway.”

And with winter looming, it’s likely that the worst is still ahead, as National Public Radio reports in this story.

Thank you Naimhe Jeanne (Nee-Vah Jeen) and Martha Ann – “All Things Goat” Blog for sharing this.


If you check out the Event Page of my Blog you will see that I am preparing for this evenings “Ladies Night Out” at Ashwood Gardens & Nursery. So I suppose I should get back to work!

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Just Chatting!

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Every year with the excitement of getting ready for events, we are always met with some of the same questions and logistics problems while preparing. It seems like each year the truck gets smaller! We never can quite get all of the necessary display stuff, products and the handtruck in at the same time. I honestly don’t know where all of this stuff comes from (could it be that I’m working my butt off making it?)..it seems to grow over night. Luckily, most of the events that we do are local, so we can drop off and run back to the farm to pick up more if need be. Did I happen to mention, everything seems to get heavier too? I know, I know, goats milk soap and lotion are heavy but fiber arts aren’t, unless I’m carrying a sheep!  This getting older thing is definitely not for whimps!

This year, to make matters a little more tedious, my Mother is ill and has been in and out of the hospital. Being an only child seems to make it a little worse on me because I have no one to share responsibilities with, so I am spending a lot of time looking through the windshield. I am thankful that she only lives about an hour from here. She is at home now and I am recruiting her to help out with the packaging process. I though her helping might make her start to feel a bit better and I think I’m right. She normally works 8 hours a day 5 days a week and the really cool part about this..she’s 76! So being at home or in the hospital sick just about drives her crazy (and takes me right along with her!). I am hoping that this time, after almost 12 months of ups and downs, the Doctor’s have finally gotten it right.

So if you see or hear little from me over the next month you’ll know that I am running the roads, making product like crazy, taking care of Mom and doing events. If you’re driving down the road and happen to see a black F-150 that looks like it should be included in a “Pluggers” comic, blow your horn and say hi!

If you’re local, think about coming out and seeing us at some of the Events we have coming up..would love to see you! Check out the Events Page to see what’s happening between now and Christmas.

Cheers All!