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Is Goat Milk Good in Soap?

Monday, January 23rd, 2012

You might wonder why we have chosen to capitalize on including goat milk in our natural handcrafted soap bars. Does it really make that much difference in the final bars of soap? Does it merely make our soap “sound special” or does it contribute to the goodness of our soap? Let [...]

Cleaning with Garland Goat Soap

Wednesday, September 7th, 2011

It was a lovely warm day here in Vermont, and perfect for cleaning some very valuable and necessary “things” for the business!  So here is where we find Emily, the main care taker of the goats.
Emily is very faithful with keeping up with things like this!  She loves caring for the goats and it is [...]

Kid Guessing Contest-2011

Saturday, April 2nd, 2011

It is kidding season here at Garland Goat Soap- one of our favorite times of the year! We love when all the kids (that’s the term for baby goats) are born. Have you ever enjoyed a baby goat? If not, you don’t know how cute they are!  At every birth, we have a [...]

Making Favors for a Wedding

Thursday, February 17th, 2011

This year we have been asked if we could make favors for a  large wedding!   The wedding will be taking place in June so we are already planning for it as it takes a long time to make, cure and package all the small bars!   We are using smaller soap molds in the designs of  [...]

Merry Christmas!

Friday, December 24th, 2010

Greetings,

It has been a very busy Christmas season for Garland Goat Soap of Vermont! We are all very grateful for the business that we have gotten and are enjoying the break that we have for the next couple of weeks.  The month of December was full of Christmas fairs where we sold a lot [...]

A Righteous Man Regardeth The Life of His Beast….

Tuesday, July 13th, 2010

Regarding the lives of our goats:
May 5th, our very temperamental  dairy goat Touche, gave birth to triplets. They were born in our pasture in the early afternoon on a gorgeous day. Touche dropped her kids with ease and the assistance of my sister-in-law, Kathryn.  The first was colored like her half sister, Ellie. The second [...]

Meet Two Sisters’ Dairy Goats

Monday, May 11th, 2009

All the good milk that goes into Garland Goat Soap is produced by our herd of registered dairy goats.  Some of those goats have been mentioned in previous posts. We’ve had goats ever since I was quite young; in fact, I can hardly remember not having goats! Since both my oldest and my youngest brother [...]

Goat Milk Soap for Goats!

Wednesday, April 29th, 2009

Four young ladies spent the past week with me for the opportunity to experience first hand taking care of all the goat kids and pitching in with the milking chores. Jessica, Julia, Sarah, and Hannah worked willingly and proved an excellent help…from bottle-feeding the kids, to milking the does, from washing soap molds to wrapping [...]

And the Winner is…

Tuesday, April 14th, 2009

Thank you to all you participated in our Garland Goat Soap Kid Guess Contest! We hope you had as much fun guessing as we had reading your guesses! We are delighted to announce that Kim O’Brien, with her correct guess that Wales would have triplets, two bucks and one doe, is the winner of [...]

Garland Goat Soap Kid Guess Contest!!

Friday, April 10th, 2009

It’s kidding season here at Garland Goat Soap of Maine – one of our favorite times of the year! We love when all the kids (that’s the term for baby goats) are born. Have you ever enjoyed a baby goat? If not, you don’t know how cute they are! Our doe “Touché” kidded yesterday [...]

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