The love for pygmies quickly became a family affair. What started with twin brown agouti wethers, Thing One & Thing Two, has blazed a trail in our journey of turning a hobby farm into raising NPGA registered pygmy goats. There is nothing that can’t take the stress out of a bad day like walking to the barn to engage our herd or watching the new kids bounce all over the farm. Our sons show pygmies w
ith 4H in addition to other 4H projects. We also compete at NPGA sanctioned shows. The people we’ve encountered along the way with the OPGA have been a wealth of information, support, and more than welcoming. We take pride in the health and welfare of our goats and other animals on the farm regularly testing and administering preventative care along side our veterinarian for disease and illness. Our hobby farm includes chickens (both meat and layers), guineas, turkeys, the market pigs every couple of years, boer goats, a vegetable garden, cats, dogs, a fair won gold fish, and occasionally the neighbors horses who think the grass is greener on the other side! Why Patchwork Farms? Well, leaving our military family behind we moved back to our home state, Ohio. We decided to get a small piece of property, that just happened to have a small barn where the previous owners kept a horse. Utilizing materials we had accumulated from projects we began to turn the structure into a goat barn adding a birthing stall and quarantine stall. Once we started breeding, for NPGA standard pygmies, we realized we needed a herd name. As we sat upon the patio deck watching the boys play ball in the yard we realized everything seemed to be patched together from the odds and ends of something else and so we became Patchwork Farms. If you’re local you may also hear us referred to as Patchwork Farms and Rescue, it’s a running joke because on any given morning we can wake up to find we’ve accumulated ducks, cats, chickens, and even a hedgehog. Count your blessings and always remember it’s the little things that matter most in life.