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Everyday Life on a Small Vermont Farm
Life on our small Vermont farm is hands-on, seasonal, and always changing. Here, we share what that really looks like at Wiggly Goat Farm—from daily routines to the bigger rhythms that shape how we live and work.
Farm life is more than caring for animals. It’s the full picture of running this place day to day—managing time, tackling projects, and adjusting to whatever the season brings. While our animals are part of that story, this category focuses on the broader experience of living and working on the farm.
In these posts, you’ll find the in-between moments as much as the work itself—how the days unfold, how plans shift, and how everything comes together over time.
We’re also in the middle of improving the farm—caring for the land, removing invasive species, restoring the barn and home, and designing and creating future gardens. We’ve developed a process for creating high-quality compost from our animals, which we’re now using to enrich the soil in areas we envision for vegetable and flower production. It’s all happening step by step, shaped by the condition of the property and what we uncover along the way.
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Continue Reading: Welcome to Things We LoveLearn how Wiggly Goat Farm in Vermont began—from a few goats and handmade soaps to a growing farm business rooted in animals, fiber, and small-batch goat milk products.
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Continue Reading: Connect with Wiggly Goat FarmVisit Wiggly Goat Farm in Vermont—shop handmade goat milk products, explore fiber goods, meet the animals, and experience life on a small working farm.
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Continue Reading: Winter Work on the Fiber FarmWinter might look slow on a fiber farm, but behind the barn doors there’s spinning angora, dyeing yarn, felting wool, and planning for spring.
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Continue Reading: Shearing Day: The Ultimate Spa Experience for Our Woolly Friends!Shearing day is a bit like a luxury spa day for our sheep, alpacas, llamas, and Angora goats! All year long, our fluffy friends grow thick, cozy coats. But unlike many animals, they don’t naturally shed—meaning they need a little extra help to stay comfortable and healthy. That’s where our talented “fiber stylists” come in; Siri Swanson of Yankee Rock Farm shears our Finnsheep and Angora goats, while Ron Miller of Snowshoe Farm Alpacas trims up our alpacas and llamas. Juniper’s Spring Spa Treatment We’re lucky to work with professional shearers who are true artists and animal lovers. With gentle…
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Continue Reading: Wiggly Goat Farm on the News!Life in Panton, Vermont, is quiet, simple, and deeply rooted in the land. With just 646 residents, our little town has plenty of dairy farms, hayfields, and cows—but no main street, no post office, and no traffic light. So you can imagine our surprise when NBC5’s Lauren Granada and cameraman James Sarfaty reached out to feature Wiggly Goat Farm on their news segment “This Is Our Home”. On a blustery, snow-filled Vermont day, they made the trek down our winding back roads to visit our farm. We may be off the beaten path, but we like to think we’re well…
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Continue Reading: A Snowy Day of Cheese Making Magic at Danz Ahn DairyThis past Friday, as snowflakes twirled outside, I found myself in the warm, cozy cheese room of my dear friend Julie’s micro dairy, Danz Ahn Dairy, in Orwell, Vermont. Julie fits the true definition of a turophile—that’s someone who loves cheese and knows a great deal about it! Julie and I met at the Shelburne Farmers Market a couple of summers ago, our booths side by side, and quickly became fast friends over our shared love of goats, cheese, and all things farm-life. While I’ve dabbled in cheese making before—crafting small batches of goat cheese in my own kitchen for…
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Continue Reading: Connecting!I just love the personal, authentic connections I’ve made while turning my long term hobby—raising farm animals and creating products—into my second career. My business seems to be growing in the most wonderful way…one really nice person at a time. One of those people is Suzanne. She’s a school nurse, who raises goats and sheep herself, and met me in October while attending my talk “How to Start a Fiber Farm” at the Vermont Sheep & Wool Festival. We met again when she came to our farm for a Barn Visit on a very chilly Christmas Eve. We ended up…
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Continue Reading: Mixed Up FarmingI love raising animals on our small farm. But when you raise a mix of farm animals, and keep them all until old age, then you’ve got some issues to work out. How to house them, how to feed them, how to entertain them, and most of all how to help with old-age. Many small farms don’t choose to deal with geriatric animals. Birthing and caring for newborn goats, sheep, llamas, alpacas, chickens, or rabbits is fun, and it’s easy to find lots of information to help. So is caring for healthy prime-of-life animals. But geriatric animals tend to be…
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Continue Reading: Wild Aster FlowersThis time of year, I love finding asters growing in the most unlikely places around our farm. Did you know they’re the official flower of September…the birth month I share with my husband and little grandson? Asters have a long, rich history and symbolize love, faith, and wisdom. Originally native to parts of Europe and Asia, asters can be found growing, in a variety of colors, all over the world. They thrive in lots of different growing conditions—even ones that other flowers find intolerable. It’s their ability to grow so easily that has them often referred as weed-like plants. But…