Lavender Hill Farm

05/30/2026

It’s a wild and crazy Friday night in the barn! 🐐🐶🥛🤣

05/27/2026

Very. Carefully. Eat. The. Thistle! 🐐

05/18/2026

It was another fun weekend out with the goats at the Northern Classic. Overnight camping left the kids and goats cranky but they worked through it. All the kids did well in Showmanship and King, one of our little Train Station buck kids, brought home another pair of banners at just 8 weeks old! 🤯

05/10/2026

A great day for a goat show in Elroy, WI for the Mother’s Day Meat Goat Bash! We had a multi-banner day with some fantastic competition and great time with goat friends!

05/08/2026

This kid has a goal and you’d better bet he’s grinding to get there! 🐐

05/07/2026

Chicken nuggies have arrived!
Thanks to the always amazing team at Sunnyside Hatchery for the special delivery! 🐥😍

05/04/2026

From the show ring to the stage, today our family embodied “divide and conquer”! The boys headed to the UW Pioneer Showdown to show a few goats 🐐 while the girls headed to the auditorium with their costumes, hair, makeup & ballet slippers. 🩰 It was a beautiful day for both events and the boys raced back in time for Mr. Lavender Hill to make his dancing debut on the big stage with Pyper for Daddies & Dancers. 🕺What a wonderfully full and fulfilling day!

05/02/2026

True words and big responsibilities. Bring your best so the next generation can be better.

Just beyond the fence line…

Where shavings dust the air and the morning hums with blowers and clipper blades, they are watching.

Shuffling boots. Hands too small to hold much more than a halter. Eyes wide enough to believe that every part of this life is possible for them, too.

They stand there longer than anyone notices. Quiet. Learning. Studying the way you brush the hair forward like it means something more than just brushing hair forward.

Because it does.

They do not see the long nights yet. They do not feel the weight of the losses. They only see the lights, the gate swing open, and the moment the names of older brothers and sisters are announced and applauded.

And they are memorizing the rhythm of it all.

Just beyond the fence line, they are inching closer to the open gate. One day, the halter will fall into their hands, and the weight of responsibility will settle onto their shoulders just like it did for the siblings they followed.

They will carry the tone of this place forward. Not because someone told them to. Because they watched you do it first.

So step gracefully and boldly through the ring like someone is learning from you. Stand in the backdrop like someone is measuring themselves against your courage. Work in the quiet like someone is building their future from your example.

The next generation is already loaded into the holding pen. Whether they know it yet or not, what you show them now is shaping what they believe is possible here.

04/27/2026

We had a G.O.A.T. of a weekend. Friday we provided a class of goats for the state FFA judging contest. Saturday Fynnley and Pyper had the great opportunity to learn from Maddie Clemens at the fitting clinic put on my the Minnesota youth. Sunday we started off the goat showing season at the UWRF Block and Bridle Prospect Weekend. Thanks to all of the hard working people that made the past three days happen for our livestock youth!