Parham Farms

10/06/2025

Many thanks to Chambless Game Totes for the awesome prizes at the first annual Tennessee Outdoor & Gun Show this weekend at the McNairy County AG Event Center. Ken was lucky enough to win two of the prizes raffled to benefit the Carl Perkins Center for the Prevention of Child Abuse. He came home with a new handcrafted bridle leather belt and a seminole watertite protective case.

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04/10/2025

Tell your kids that releasing ballons can kill horses and cows - please just stop! What seems like a precious moment to you can be the death of an animal.

02/09/2025

Mr. Parham and I have finally struck it rich!!! We currently get about 20 of these every day!!! But seriously, we’re sharing the bounty with our neighbors and local friends. If you know someone in the Ramer/Selmer area who is suffering from food insecurity, please drop me a message with an address and we can drop off a care package with farm fresh, free range, eggs every week or so.

08/18/2023

Dear Friends, we all know there
are not enough hours in the day to accomplish all you need to do. And we all know that the cost of everything just keeps going up, up, up. And lastly, we all know that we’re not getting any younger or more physically capable. When all these realizations come together, it’s time for some life changing decisions. Well, we’ve made some. Parham Farms has discontinued breeding and sales of any livestock. Likewise we are also discontinuing the sales of goat milk soap.

I’ve seen the price of oil and shipping for oils that I use to make soap increase so much that it drove the price per bar up to what I consider a ridiculous price. I cringe at the notion of charging $7 per bar. Pricing like that hurts sales too. I tried and tried to keep our soap affordable, and its just become an unsustainable small business. Meanwhile there are large operations with more affordable offerings or a large customer base willing to pay more. I’ve not tried Dr. Squatch but I’ve had some friends say that they love it and for $5 per bar, it’s a good price for a real soap vs a detergent (body wash and most bars are detergent based).

There are also lots of small businesses still selling soap. I believe Mammy’s Soap Co. here in Selmer TN is www.mammyssoapco.com Their soap runs $9 per bar. They do have some goat milk options.

I have some things I’ll be selling, fragrance oils, soap molds, unused 8oz and 16oz amber bottles with black flip tops from SkS packaging, unused 8oz and 4oz jars with lids. I’ll be going thru things and listing them here on the Parham Farms page as I phase out. I may make a few more batches first just to use up what milk and oils I have and give myself and my family a good supply of soap.

Mammy's Soap Co is committed to quality handcrafted bath and body products made in small batches fresh daily for "every body". We also offer safer, environmentally friendly products for your home. We believe in giving back, and therefore, all profits from our Pet Shampoo bars is given to help a loca...

05/29/2023

Sorry we aren’t posting much. We’re here, still doing all the things, AND enjoying having our daughter, son-in-law, and a grandson as next door neighbors and BIG HELP around here.

02/25/2023

Results are in!! No surprise, Embark says Snoop is a FEROCIOUS (see photos) Pitbull mix AND that his parents are both
American Pit Bull Terrier mixes.

However Snoop’s DNA only includes 4 breeds:
American Pit Bull Terrier
Boxer
American English Coonhound
Mountain Cur

His sire’s sire is an American Pit Bull Terrier
His sire’s dam is a Boxer

His dam’s sire was an American Pit Bull Terrier
His dam’s dam was a cross between
American English Coonhound/
Mountain Cur

Also Snoop has quite a few relatives on embark, including half siblings. Most of whom reside in Northern Illinois.

02/01/2023

Edit to add: on 2/10 Snoopy’s swab kit was scanned in at the embark lab. They said it may take 2-4 weeks.

Many of you know, but some of you don’t - we have a new family member. We met him during the deep freeze at Christmas, when he wandered into our yard. We saw his prints for a couple of days in the snow but didn’t see him until it thawed. We managed to find his owner and learned more about why he had escaped. We offered to pup-sit or even adopt him should the owner need to rehome him. Three weeks later we got the call - he was ours if we wanted him. We could not say no. So, meet Snoopy. We’ve decided to do the Embark test to see what they say Snoopy is made up of. Who wants to guess? The person with the closest guess wins 3 bars (my choice)of Parham Farms Goat Milk soap. List the breeds you think he is a cross of, starting from the most to least. Here are your clues, along with photos: He has been with us since 1/22/23. Snoopy is:
a quick learner;
already closely bonded to us;
22.5” at the withers;
65 #;
vet says about a year old;
equally athlete and couch potato.
We will accumulate the contest entries here on this post.