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--- ATTENTION  CURRENT  MILK  CUSTOMERS ---
At this time we are requesting you call at least 48 hrs in advance of goat milk pickup.
For more information, call Carol.

The season has ended for sheep milk production, but should start again in March.

We will also be freezing milk for upcoming baby goats that are scheduled to arrive.
The health of our herd is priority one... Healthy dairy goats start as healthy kids.

  *** FOR SALE ***  

Click here for more info.
We have very few dairy goats remaining.
Breeds:  French Alpine, Alpine-Saanen and Nubian-Saanen cross.

For more info call Carol: 320-220-3235.

We have butcher goats currently for sale.
We also have 2 ram lambs.  Others available.

Our Herd

We bought our first eight goats in 2007 in order to provide healthy, raw milk for our growing family, but quickly discovered that meat goats are not the best choice for milking.  When we had the opportunity to buy milking goats from a neighbor, we jumped at it.

Our first milking goats were a French Alpine (Lucy) and Toggenburg/Nubian Cross (Annie). One of the conditions of the sale was we had to accept the mother of the crossbred into our herd.  She was a 15 year old purebred Toggenburg, named Lacy (who we now call Granny).  An old Toggenburg can grow to be 8-12 years of age, so this gal was really, really old.  We fell in love them all instantly.  And that's how it started.

At any given time (from early spring into summer) we have kids on the ground, running and jumping about.  If we don't have kids to sell, we have friends that do.

If you've never milked a dairy goat, you will truly be surprised that most dairy goats love to be milked.  If they are used to being milked at 4:00PM, they'll let you know if you are a few minutes late.

Homesteader's Dairy Creed

Sheep's milk is best for cheese
Goat's milk should be drank and
Cow's milk is used for butter

Our Goat Kids

Kids are raised on colostrum and goats milk.  We drink our milk raw, so healthy goats are very important to us.

We sell lots of doelings and bucklings.  We know what we are doing.  If you want to raise bucklings as meat goats, we have a source that will need 400-500 butcher goats this fall.

Help us to loosen raw goat milk sale restrictions

Today, I took it upon myself to make a move to change the law.  As some of you know, Carol went to St. Cloud to retrieve the farm's newest addition - a milking Saanen-Nubian doe.  We have had quite a few requests for more raw goat milk so we took it upon ourselves to add another doe to our herd of hand milked dairy goats.  With this in mind, I wrote my State Representative, Al Juhnke, who also happens to be the Chair of the Agriculture Finance Committee.  Here is the email/note I sent him.

Mr. Juhnke

I grew up on a dairy farm during the 60's-80's and have seen the systematic destruction of the small family farm due to corporate farming practices, subsidized by out-of-date, state/federal farm incentive programs and aided by institutional marketing practices and mega-contract processing plants that seem to incubate the monthly recalls of what should be "healthy" foods.

I have also seen the ground-swell movement of small and micro-farms enjoying modest success selling direct-to-customer, be they somewhat suppressed in efforts by current laws that thwart the efforts of individuals to choose what is best for their families. These same laws limit the efforts of the small/micro farm to let potential, health conscious customers know what they have for sale.

To read more click here...

Contact Information

Contact	Phone	Farm Position
Carol Radtke	320.220.3235	Dairy Manager/Owner
Richard Radtke	320.220.2235	Farm Manager/Owner
Madison Radtke	N/A	Goat Herder/Daughter