Lothal Valley Farm

Lothal Valley Farm A small farm located in Olympia, WA selling chicken and duck eggs, pastured pork, produce and more!

First attempt at making goat's milk Ricotta cheese yesterday went...OK. it's not good but it's edible. I think next time...
06/23/2026

First attempt at making goat's milk Ricotta cheese yesterday went...OK. it's not good but it's edible. I think next time I'll have addressed the process issues that went wrong.

That's measuring in thousands of volts. So 9,900+ volts. I bet those naughty wandering pigs will stop wandering tonight ...
06/22/2026

That's measuring in thousands of volts. So 9,900+ volts. I bet those naughty wandering pigs will stop wandering tonight when I move them to that pen.

06/21/2026

Working some butter with a pair of butter paddles to remove the buttermilk. Mine seems softer than butter I've seen worked in other videos. Unsure why.

PSA: The age of ensh*tification intensifies thanks to AI search. People searching for various farm things like livestock...
06/18/2026

PSA: The age of ensh*tification intensifies thanks to AI search. People searching for various farm things like livestock are being shown random farms in the top results that aren't relevant. I'm frequently getting calls now about turkeys, geese etc people are trying to buy who search for it and our farm shows up as a top result locally, even though we don't have those things and shouldn't have any associated metadata that the search bots would have found while crawling our site/social media. AI be hallucinating like crazy.

When I search in my mobile Chrome browser I get a few sponsored hatcheries, then us, then more hatcheries and Facebook groups. When I looked on desktop a couple of weeks ago I saw a lot of little farms like us pop up. Sorry for the future disappointment folks.

Just made my first [successful] batch of GOAT BUTTER last night. I definitely need some better equipment for getting the...
06/12/2026

Just made my first [successful] batch of GOAT BUTTER last night. I definitely need some better equipment for getting the buttermilk all out. I made regular and some with minced garlic scapes.

But... Beth, why is it white and not yellow?
Well, cow's milk has beta carotene in it from their diet, and depending on what they're eating and breed and genetics it will be some shade of yellow. The more green grass/pasture they are eating, the more yellow it should be generally. *But* big commercial companies will also dye their butter to make it more yellow sometimes, so that every batch looks the same.

Goats meanwhile fully breakdown the beta carotene in their digestive track and convert it to vitamin A so you don't get that yellow milk or butter.

3 gallons of milk through a cream separator to get about 24 ounces of cream. Then after churning and squeezing out the buttermilk we probably got two 4 ounce sticks' worth of butter. Next time I'll remember to weigh it.

It's been a busy few weeks clearing and prepping so we could get the field cross fencing done. We had to split and move ...
06/11/2026

It's been a busy few weeks clearing and prepping so we could get the field cross fencing done. We had to split and move a 3 to 4 ton boulder in the way. Now we've got a nice space to be our buck pen and the wetland fenced off. The local birds are already enjoying their new perch.

This magnificent swallowtail has been hanging out in the greenhouse lately
06/05/2026

This magnificent swallowtail has been hanging out in the greenhouse lately

The October group of pigs decided to bust into our little forest that eventually I want to make into a pen.
06/02/2026

The October group of pigs decided to bust into our little forest that eventually I want to make into a pen.

If I dissappear in the next couple of weeks then the Duckweed here probably overtook everything and ate me 😂 . Picked ...
05/29/2026

If I dissappear in the next couple of weeks then the Duckweed here probably overtook everything and ate me 😂 . Picked some up today from a local water garden place to try my hand at multiplying it. Apparently it makes a really high protein animal feed, especially when dried, on par with soy meal. I'm hoping to dry and store a bunch for winter when the grass isn't growing much or if, heaven help us there isn't commercial feed available with everything going on this year.

Our first figs ever appearing on my mystery fig tree in a pot.
05/27/2026

Our first figs ever appearing on my mystery fig tree in a pot.

Address

8448 Delphi Road SW
Olympia, WA
98512

Opening Hours

Monday 8am - 8pm
Tuesday 8am - 8pm
Wednesday 8am - 8pm
Thursday 8am - 8pm
Friday 8am - 8pm
Saturday 8am - 8pm
Sunday 8am - 8pm

Telephone

+19713765725

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