Woven Acres at Serendipity Farm

Woven Acres at Serendipity Farm Located in beautiful Northern Michigan, at Woven Acres each goat is part of the Weave. Join to become a Thread in our Story.
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Lovingly named after textiles and patterns, our herd helps us “Weave Culture into Cream,” crafting delicious artisan goat cheeses.

“I [saved up] for 9 months and they come out looking like HIM!” 🧡🧡🧡In all seriousness, we love redheads around here! Ora...
09/05/2026

“I [saved up] for 9 months and they come out looking like HIM!”

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In all seriousness, we love redheads around here! Orange is our favorite color. Our home is decorated in burnt orange and Ryan’s sports car has burnt orange leather seats.

Does your farm or family have a theme, color, or pattern?? Drop your photo below for a little fun in the comments ✨

09/03/2026

✨ How we Grow a Year’s Worth of Potatoes ✨

Goodness, this harvest season has been a good one. We were blessed with lots of rain this year, which isn’t so common in Northern Michigan. We are all usually fighting the droughts.

It’s a good thing too, because I TOTALLY neglected these potatoes 🙈 they were planted further away from our water source than our onions, so my lazy butt kinda let them fend for themselves 🤦🏽‍♀️

Then they got a really bad potato bug infestation, for which Neem Oil did absolutely nothing to help. I said, “oh well 🤷🏻‍♀️” and ignored them for the rest of the summer.

But before the infestation, they had tons of flowers, so I know they produced potatoes, I just knew they would be small.

And they were definitely small when we began digging them up in August. We still have the rest of them in the ground. I likely won’t pull them up until mid October when I plant the garlic in their stead.

Overall I’m thrilled with how they turned out and how much yield we got, even with my terrible effort.

Plants WANT to grow. With a little extra help, we can get great results. I’m looking forward to next year and all the things I’ll do differently. Each year we get better and better ✨

“Protect her at all costs,” is all I can think about when I look at that little face. 🥹 The reality of Traveler’s accide...
09/02/2026

“Protect her at all costs,” is all I can think about when I look at that little face. 🥹

The reality of Traveler’s accident put a lot of things into perspective for me. I realize more than ever how fragile life is, and how quickly everything can change.

But on the flip side of that, things can change drastically for the better in an instant too; so many wonderful things have happened out of the blue this year.

I’m learning to take each day with gratitude, thankful for every good thing that comes my way, and honing grace when I’m faced with the opposite.

Being human is hard. I’m learning to find peace in all the lessons. ✨

It’s that time of year when the garden is full of goodies. Almost every time we go down to do chores, we are bringing ba...
08/31/2026

It’s that time of year when the garden is full of goodies. Almost every time we go down to do chores, we are bringing back more food from the gardens to be stored for the winter.

Yesterday, we decided to pull up some potatoes to see how we did: we knew they would be tiny, bc we literally did NOTHING to help them out this year 🙈 we didn’t water, barely fertilized, and we had a potato bug infestation that I did nothing about lol I just didn’t have the mind space this year

But even so, with my least effort, and just 6ft of digging, we already had a 5 gallon bucket of happy little potatoes. I bet we have about another 100ft of potatoes to dig up, so I’m guessing we’ll still have plenty of potatoes to last us through the winter. 🙌🏼✨

kinda feels like loaves and fishes 🥖🐟

08/30/2026

✨ Romano ✨

It’s been a hot minute since I’ve made cheese. With everything that was going on with Traveler, plus the garden and gearing up for breeding season, my mind has been a little preoccupied.

I find that it’s the hardest to feel creative when I’m stressed or worried. All of my passions fall away and I’m just in survival mode. But things are slowly getting back to normal. Life is becoming peaceful again, and cheese has been on my mind more and more lately.

So this week I made a quick wheel of whole milk Romano. Romano is a thermophilic cheese, so I went with an easy TA61 culture, just to get my fingers wet again. I kept it simple, a slow temp-up, gentle stir, and overnight press. Felt so good to get back in the game. 🧀

This cheese will be ready in at least 6 months, but better after a year or two. #128, we’ll see you in a while ✨

08/27/2026

✨ This is the Good Life ✨

08/25/2026

✨ Woven Acres’ Double-Dutch Cheese Press ✨

This pretty lady finally made her way to Oregon to a wonderful dairy-goat farmer. Funny enough, they have LaManchas too. She said she has owned every breed of goat and will always have LaManchas. Same girl, SAME. 👏🏼

I’m honestly obsessed with this press. As difficult as it was to source local walnut, we did find a bunk in Petoskey, and the grain on these boards was GORGEOUS.

Ryan did a beautiful job yet again. She came together perfectly, with smooth action through the arms and pressing post.

But we need your help: we are looking to have custom stainless steel drip pans manufactured for our presses. Does anyone know where we can make this happen? We’d love to work with someone local, but happy to source elsewhere too. Small businesses preferred.

Interested in a cheese press for your kitchen or creamery? Shoot us a DM ✨🧀

08/24/2026

✨ Traveler Update #5 ✨

You GUYS!! Traveler PLAYED!!!!!

If you’ve been following Traveler’s story, you know what a huge deal this is! Since his accident, he has slept most of the time, rarely asking for pets, but always close by. He didn’t like to be left alone, and seemed to have lost his independence. He was solemn, clearly still in pain.

Recently, we switched his meds from the harder drugs to something closer to Tylenol. This made a HUGE difference in his personality. He began becoming more independent, less sleepy, and seemed happier over all.

AND THEN YESTERDAY, he played with Red for the first time since his accident while we were doing morning chores! I nearly cried! 😭 I’m so happy to see him feeling so much better! And I know Red is happy to have her brother back in action!

As for Traveler’s eye: he had his eye appointment on Friday. Basically, the pressure in his eye has not returned 😕 the likely hood that it will regain full pressure is getting lower and lower. It’s unlikely that he will have function of that eye.

As of now, the eye is still healthy, just small. As long as the eye doesn’t die completely and become infected, it is safe to stay. We are still praying for a miracle, but we accept that this may be his new normal.

Goodness, we are just so thankful that he is still here with us, and beginning to feel more like himself. We knew this would be a long road, but it feels so good to be a ways down it.

Thank you again to those that supported Traveler through this time. He wouldn’t be here without you! 🥹👏🏼✨💛

08/24/2026

✨🧅 ONIONS 🧅✨

This years onion harvest was for the books. We planted over 300 starts early this spring, and harvested over 70lbs of onions, with about 25lbs still in the field. We did have quite a bit of die out after planting, but we were still left with huge onions, and enough to last us the year.

Some tips that I’ve learned over the years for a great harvest:

1. Get your starts in as early as possible
2. Water every day
3. Mulch with straw
4. Fertilize with 25-0-0 every few weeks
5. When planting, only plant the roots and a tiny amount of the bulb.
6. Don’t cut the tops.
7. Best storage varieties: “Red Wing” and “Patterson.” They’ll last all winter if cured and stored correctly.
8. Oh, and FULL SUN. Shade doesn’t grow big onions.

What are your best onion growing tips? Did I leave anything out?

08/21/2026

I think my favorite thing about owning goats is their temperaments. They have GIANT hearts 🥹🐐💛

With most anything, you get out what you put in. Want extra sweet goats? Spend extra time with them. 10 minutes each feeding. That’s it.

I like to do chores, and once everyone is settled, happily munching on their breakfast, I’ll spend 10-20 minutes just visiting with everyone. Everyone gets pets, but also gets touched on their legs and belly. I try to desensitize each of them, so that when it comes time to trim hooves, give medical attention, I’m not fighting a fearful animal. My goats trust me and know that I’m there to help them. I’ve pulled many a goat head from a fence, and I’m never met with fear, always thankfulness. They trust that I’m there to help.

I’ve had children in the buck fence, most with horns, and my boys are gentle, respecting the children’s space. My boys are SWEET. Even in rut, I have the best boys. I can handle all of my herd without a collar or lead.

To me, it’s worth the extra time to visit with them, getting to know each one.

Husbandry isn’t just about breeding and feeding. It’s about the animals. Every single one.

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Kalkaska, MI
49646

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Monday 9am - 5pm
Tuesday 9am - 5pm
Wednesday 9am - 5pm
Thursday 9am - 5pm
Friday 9am - 5pm
Sunday 9am - 5pm

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